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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 3, 2014 5:07PM

I understand your points, and those documenting the standards are aware of and do understand this problem as well, which isn't helped by the proliferation of outdated, half-correct, and incorrect data distributed across the web regarding ARIA that is publically accessible for all developers.

If I may ask, did reading the training guide at
http://whatsock.com/training/
help at all? A little bit?

This was written to educate standard developers with a background in HTML and JavaScript with little to no knowledge of ARIA, for the purpose of breaking down these concepts into sensible primary topics in order to make learning how ARIA works, and how it can be used properly, easier for those developers unfamiliar with ARIA that make up the majority worldwide.

In order to ensure the highest level of accuracy possible, and so as not to add to the prolific amount of bad ARIA advice globally, this was a collaborative effort with W3C PFWG members in order to ensure that this would be true before it was released publically.

Since I'm still in the process of fine-tuning the details, please let me know where anything is unclear and I'll be happy to clarify and expound the sections where this occurs.

Best wishes,
Bryan