Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0

W3C Proposed Recommendation 6 February 2014

This version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/PR-wai-aria-20140206/
Latest version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/
Previous version:: http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-wai-aria-20110118/
Editors:: James Craig, Apple Inc.
Michael Cooper, W3C
Previous Editors:: Lisa Pappas, Society for Technical Communication
Rich Schwerdtfeger, IBM
Lisa Seeman, UB Access

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Abstract

Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup. This document is part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview.

Status of this Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This is a Proposed Recommendation of WAI-ARIA 1.0 by the Protocols & Formats Working Group of the Web Accessibility Initiative. WAI-ARIA 1.0 was published as a Candidate Recommendation on 18 January 2011. Since then the Working Group has collected implementation experience for the specification. For details about implementation experience and disposition of items at risk in the Candidate Recommendation, see the WAI-ARIA 1.0 Implementation Report. A history of changes to WAI-ARIA 1.0 is available.

The primary purpose of the Proposed Recommendation is to collect feedback from the Advisory Committee. W3C Advisory Committee Members are invited to send formal review comments to the W3C Team until 7 March 2014. Comments should be made using the Call for Review WBS form. To comment, aside from Advisory Committee comments, send email to public-pfwg-comments@w3.org (comment archive). Comments should be made by 7 March 2014. In-progress updates to the document may be viewed in the publicly visible editors' draft.

Publication as a Proposed Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

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