ARIA Contribution

There are a number of ways non-participants in the ARIA WG can contribute to the work. If you wish to be an active contributer, however, you should join the Working Group.

Public comments

The ARIA WG accepts public comments on publications on the public-aria list. This is primarily used for input on formal publications.

Github issues and pull requests

Technical work is done in a set of GitHub repositories. Work on a given feature may take place in several repositories, and follows the ARIA Working Group Work Flow. Repositories maintained by the ARIA Working Group include:

w3c/aria for Accessible Rich Internet Applications;
w3c/core-aam for Core Accessibility API Mappings;
w3c/accname for Accessible Name and Description Computation;
w3c/dpub-aria for Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module, now developed by the Publishing Working Group;
w3c/dpub-aam for Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings;
w3c/graphics-aria for WAI-ARIA Graphics Module;
w3c/graphics-aam for Graphics Accessibility API Mappings;
w3c/svg-aam for SVG Accessibility API Mappings, now developed by the SVG Working Group;
w3c/html-aam for HTML Accessibility API Mappings, now developed by the Web Platform Working Group;
w3c/css-aam for CSS Accessibility API Mappings, with the CSS Accessibility Task Force;
w3c/aria-practices for WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices, with the ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force;
w3c/aria-at for Assistive Technology ARIA Experience Assessment, with the ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group;

A GitHub account is required for the following functionality. In addition to using the comments list described above to submit input, you may:

Mailing list discussions

If you would like to monitor the work of the ARIA WG and contribute on-line, you may subscribe to the following mailing lists. You will not be considered a formal participant but may comment and contribute. The ARIA WG uses the following mailing lists:

public-aria@w3.org - Working Group discussion list; public archive; public can post; inquire to subscribe (public-aria archives).
public-aria-practices@w3.org - discussion list for Authoring Practices Task Force; anyone may post or subscribe (public-aria-practices archives)
public-aria-test@w3.org - Public discussion list for people working on ARIA testing; anyone may post or subscribe (public-aria-test archives).
w3c-wai-ig@w3.org - Announcements only Working Group activities; public archive; anyone may post or subscribe (w3c-wai-ig archives).