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– DRAFT –
ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force

18 February 2026

Attendees

Present
Adam_Page, CurtBellew, Daniel, Jem_, jongund, jugglinmike, Matt_King, Siri
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
jugglinmike

Meeting minutes

Setup and Review Agenda

https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/wiki/February-18%2C-2026-Agenda

<Jem_> https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/wiki/February-18%2C-2026-Agenda

Jem_: Next meeting: March 4

Jem_: I will not be present at the next meeting

Jem_: Any requests for change to agenda?

jongund: Can we set aside some time to review color contrast?

Matt_King: Sure. Not during this meeting, though

Publication planning

Jem_: It's ready!

Matt_King: I saw that Remi added a lot of stuff to the branch that are not content changes

<Jem_> https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/milestone/40

Matt_King: I added a summary of the content changes

Matt_King: and I did a preview to make sure that those content changes are present

<Jem_> w3c/wai-aria-practices#452

Matt_King: There are 15 commits. Two are content, and everything else is the stuff that Remi did

Daniel: We're taking over; we just weren't sure of how things were in the past, but now we know

Daniel: Now that we're carrying over the content changes, we're doing our changes along with the content changes

Daniel: We'll be changing our process moving forward to keep these things separate in the future

Matt_King: Great. I think it's ready to go

Daniel: We'll publish what we have. What about the other things in the milestone?

Matt_King: I'll move those to a new milestone

PR 3412: Change dialog title heading elements from H2 to H1

github: w3c/aria-practices#3412

Matt_King: I took a quick look at this but didn't submit a review

Matt_King: I think we need someone to review this visually to determine whether or not we need to also make CSS changes

Jem_: I can do that

Matt_King: This impacts the headings inside the dialogs

Matt_King: e.g. the dialog for "Add Delivery Address"

Siri: Also "Verification Result"

Matt_King: And one with a heading that reads "End of the Road"

Jem_: I checked with the tag inspector and it is indeed H1

Matt_King: If I were to merge this today, do we want to add it to the release we've already prepared?

Daniel: I'm fine with that

Matt_King: I'll take another look at the actual diff before I merge it, but I'll plan to merge it

<CurtBellew> +1

Matt_King: Remember that this is not motivated by an accessibility concern. Rather, the generation logic is picking up H2 elements and inserting them into its table of contents.

Siri: Can we add a note to explain why we have made this change?

Siri: We usually don't use H1 elements like this

Matt_King: That sounds like a new issue: an issue discussing whether or not we recommend using H1 elements within the dialog pattern

Daniel: My initial impulse was to use H3 elements because those dialogs exist within specific sections

Daniel: We eventually stepped away from that justification, but I do agree that this would be good to discuss in a new issue

PR 3387: Clarify guidance for Focusability of disabled controls

github: w3c/aria-practices#3387

Matt_King: This is Adam_Page's pull request

Matt_King: I'm in the middle of reviewing it

Matt_King: I've already made a couple suggestions in the pull request. I hope they're good! It was kind of hard for me to review my own suggestions in the GitHub UI following some recent changes on that site

Matt_King: I was trying to soften up some of the language a bit more, and I have an idea for one more suggestion along those lines

Matt_King: It would be nice to get some other perspective on this pull request

Adam_Page: I've read your feedback, and I agree with all of it. I committed all the changes you suggested

Matt_King: There's a paragraph that reads, "In the APG, our examples have adopted the following" with a list of two items (the second having a bunch of sub-list items). Those two list items are worded in a definitive way. I'm thinking of aligning the wording of those list items with the wording of the text that precedes them

Jem_: I appreciate the directness of that wording

Matt_King: But the feedback is that we want to make sure the optionality is clear to readers

Adam_Page: I understand what you're getting at. There's an important rhetorical difference between "we did this" and "the reader should do this", and this change kind of mixes those two stances

Adam_Page: I'll take another pass with that in mind

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All speakers: Adam_Page, Daniel, Jem_, jongund, Matt_King, Siri

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