#ARIA is an #accessibility technology that allows to annotate the DOM of a document to map elements into recognized components for assistive technologies. The current set of roles is pretty widely supported across a number of browsers and assistive tools. w3.org/WAI/ARIA/1.0/CR/imple…
TPGi @TPGinteractive
6 Feb 2018
The @W3C has published an updated Working Draft (WD) of the #ARIA Graphics module w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/ and the associated Graphics Accessibility API Mappings (AAM) w3.org/TR/graphics-aam-1.0/
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The #ARIA Graphics module adds a few additional recognized roles to help annotate complex graphical content, e.g. labeled diagrams or interactive graphics. w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/ The ARIA Working Group is seeking feedback in its repo github.com/w3c/graphics-aria… on these new roles.
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The Graphics Accessibility API Mapping translates these new roles into the various platform-specific #accessibility APIs w3.org/TR/graphics-aam-1.0/ Feedback in the repo github.com/w3c/graphics-aam/… is sought, including on the correctness of the proposed mappings.

Feb 7, 2018 · 2:57 PM UTC
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