APA Archives

Past Announcements

APA WG meeting at TPAC: The APA WG will meet face to face Monday and Tuesday, 6 and 7 November 2017, at the Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Meeting in Burlingame, California. See the TPAC meeting page for agenda, logistics, and remote participation.

Current work:

As of October 2020, the ARIA WG is engaged in the following work:

• Reviewing W3C publications for accessibility considerations, and providing input on accessibility issues.
• Updating the Framework for Accessible Specification of Technologies checklist.
• Exploring technologies that impact accessibility, including media, augmented and virtual reality, real-time communications, web of things, and verifiable credentials.
• Preparing Personalization Semantics Content Module for Candidate Recommendation, and exploring the need for new attributes in HTML.
• Peparing a Pronunciation Technical Approach for First Public Working Draft, and exploring the need for new attributes in HTML.

During the past year, the WG also published:

• RTC Accessibility User Requirements.
• XR Accessibility User Requirements.

Face to Face meeting at TPAC: The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group will meet 22 and 23 October 2018 in Lyon, France at the Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Meeting (TPAC).

Face to Face meeting at TPAC 2016: The APA WG will meet face to face on 19 and 20 September 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal as part of the Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) meeting. See the APA meeting page for details. Please register by 2 September 2016.

Knowledge Domain in RQTF: The Research Questions Task Force has been reviewing published research relating to APA's Issue #9: "Knowledge Domain Abstraction", including accessibility of mathematics on the web. Our growing bibliography and findings are gathered on the RQTF wiki page on Domain-specific notation.

TPAC 2020:

For TPAC 2020 the Working Group is participating in joint meetings with the CSS WG, the EPub 3 WG, the Immersive Web WG, the Time Text WG, the Silver TF, the Web of Things WG, and the Web Real-Time Communications WG. Agenda and logistics for these meetings is in the APA TPAC 2020 page.

In addition, the APA WG has prepared two video demonstrations for TPAC:

• Pronunication Matters
• Web Support for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

2015-10-22 - APA WG created: The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group has been created. The Protocols and Formats Working Group is extended until 3 December 2015. The groups will temporarily operate in parallel but all participants must join the APA WG to continue work on non-ARIA projects.

2015-10-29 - Face to Face meeting at TPAC 2015: The APA WG will meet face to face on 29 and 30 October 2015 in Sapporo, Japan as part of the Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee (TPAC) meeting. See the {@@old URI} APA meeting page for details. Please register by 7 October 2015.

2015-12-03 - Media Accessibility User Requirements Working Group Note: Media Accessibility User Requirements has been published as a Working Group Note by the Protocols and Formats Working Group. For information on this publication, see the MAUR Note blog post.

2017-12-07 - Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis First Public Working Draft: The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force has published a first public Working Draft of Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis. It explores user needs for people with cognitive or learning disabilities and identifies where additional web content authoring guidance is needed to help authors meet these needs. This information is important to new guidance being added to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. Please comment by 16 January 2018.

2018-10-09 - Spoken Pronunciation Task Force created: The APA Working Group has approved formation of the Spoken Pronunciation Task Force. The objective is to identify ways to provide for proper pronunciation in HTML content when using text to speech (TTS) synthesis. More information is in the blog post APA Announces Pronunciation Task Force.

2018-10-18 - Personalization TF published 4 documents:

The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group has published two updated Working Drafts for Personalization Semantics Explainer 1.0 and Personalization Semantics Content Module 1.0 and two First Public Working Drafts (FPWD) for Personalization Help and Support 1.0 and Personalization Tools 1.0 in total 4 documents from Personalization Task Force.

• The Personalization Semantics Explainer 1.0 adds new section for Help Needed on Implementation and the Task Force is looking for advice on choosing an implementation mechanism. See our Pros/Cons discussion Comparison of ways to use vocabulary in content.
• The Personalization Semantics Content Module 1.0 updates values for properties and formats the example's code.
• The Personalization Help and Support 1.0 lists examples of the personalized help and support properties. This is an extension of Personalization Semantics Explainer 1.0.
• The Personalization Tools 1.0 lists examples of the personalized tools properties. This is also an extension of Personalization Semantics Explainer 1.0.

Please comment by 22 November 2018.

2018-12-11 - Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities: The Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group have published a First Public Working Draft of Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities as well as an updated draft of Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis. The Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities gives advice on how to make Web content and Web applications usable for people with learning and cognitive disabilities. It was previously an appendix to Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis. Please submit comments by 14 January 2019.