Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1 First Public Working Draft; Core-AAM and WAI-ARIA 1.1 updated Working Drafts
The Protocols and Formats Working Group today published a First Public Working Draft of Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1 (AccName-AAM) and updated Working Drafts of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 and Core Accessibility API Mappings (Core-AAM) 1.1. WAI-ARIA provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements. It is designed to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content, particularly web applications. Core-AAM describes how user agents should expose semantics of content languages to accessibility APIs across multiple content technologies (including much of WAI-ARIA) and serves as the basis for other specifications to extend the mappings to specific technologies. AccName-AAM describes how user agents determine names and descriptions of accessible objects from web content languages and expose them in accessibility APIs. Learn more from the call for review e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).