WAI-ARIA 1.1, Accessibility API Mappings, and WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices updated Working Drafts

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published Updated Working Drafts of:

• Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1
• Core Accessibility API Mappings (Core-AAM) 1.1
• Accessible Name and Description: Computation and API Mappings 1.1 (AccName-AAM)
• SVG Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 (SVG-AAM)
• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 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. The Accessibility API Mappings describe how user agents should expose semantics of content languages to accessibility APIs across multiple content technologies, including languages incorporating WAI-ARIA as well as features specific to HTML and SVG. WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices recommends approaches to help web application developers make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. These documents were previously published by the Protocols and Formats Working Group. SVG-AAM is jointly published with the SVG Working Group.

Learn more from the call for review e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).