ARIA WG Meeting at TPAC 2017

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group will meet at the Technical Plenary (TPAC) 2017 in Burlingame, CA during the week of 6 November 2017. See the overall meeting page for conference, hotel, and travel logistics.

Remote Participation

Remote participation is available via WebEx.

Agenda

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Minutes of 9 Nov 2017

08:30: Set up
09:00: ARIA 1.1 Post-Mortem
10:15: Modifying workflow to better meet targets and ensure mappings support feature intent
11:00: Better coordination and interaction with user agent and AT vendors
12:00: AAMs as "living standards" (or something functionally equivalent) under the W3C? (Related discussion)
13:00: Lunch
14:00: ARIA and SSML
14:30:AOM presentation and Q&A
15:30: AOM and ARIA Next(s)
16:30: Possible solutions to the "AAM problem"
18:00: Adjourn

Friday, 10 November 2017

Minutes of 10 Nov 2017

08:30: Set up
09:00: Prep for joint meeting with Web Platform WG re Web Components
09:45: Scope for ARIA.next and Graphics modules
10:45: Break
11:00: Joint meeting with Web Platform WG re Web Components
12:00: Lunch
13:00: Graphics, Graphics AAM, and collaboration on SVG AAM
14:00: Authoring Practices Task Force
15:00: Personalization Task Force
16:00: CSS Task Force
17:00: Re-chartering, identifying candidate deliverables, setting achievable milestones
18:00: Adjourn

Notes, etc.

AOM and ARIA next:
- https://wicg.github.io/aom/
- Current status: AOM Phases 1 and 2 are implemented in Chrome behind a flag, and Apple and Mozilla are planning to begin implementation this fall.
- Regarding role and property parity with native host languages: AOM would like ARIA to define the roles and properties, and AOM phase 1 will simply provide an alternative programmatic way to define them.
- Regarding Web Components: AOM thinks their work can be immensely helpful here as AOM Phase 1 provides a solution to the problem of IDREFs crossing shadow DOM boundaries.
- Regarding modification of states and properties via platform accessibility APIs: This is AOM Phase 2. The ARIA Working Group should look at the existing AOM spec prior to TPAC. The groups need to determine if we're on the same page here.