

When submitting feedback, please consider issues in the context of the companion documents.

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group seeks feedback on any aspect of the specification. Plans to advance past Candidate Recommendation when the Candidate Recommendation Exit Criteria have been met. Some features are marked as at risk due to concerns around implementation and testing challenges, and could be removed if testing does not document sufficient implementation. A history of changes to WAI-ARIA 1.2 is available in the appendix. The Working Group targets January 2022 to complete the testing process and produce the implementation report. This is a Call for Implementations the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group requests that initial implementations be submitted by 4 January 2022.

Since the previous Candidate Recommendation, the following substantive changes have been brought to the specification: This is a Candidate Recommendation of WAI-ARIA 1.2 by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group of the Web Accessibility Initiative. Publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found This section describes the status of thisĭocument at the time of its publication. This document is part of the WAI-ARIA suite described in the WAI-ARIA Overview. This version adds features new since WAI-ARIA 1.1 to improve interoperability with assistive technologies to form a more consistent accessibility model for and. 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 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. James Craig ( Apple Inc.) (Editor until May 2016)Īccessibility 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. Richard Schwerdtfeger ( Knowbility) (Editor until October 2017) Shane McCarron ( Spec-Ops) (Editor until 2018) W3C Candidate Recommendation Draft 08 December 2021 More details about this document This version: Latest published version: Latest editor's draft: History: Commit history Implementation report: Latest Recommendation: Editors: Joanmarie Diggs ( Igalia, S.L.) Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2
