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From: Jennifer Sutton
Date: Jul 14, 2016 10:38AM

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Subject: WAI-ARIA 1.1 Authoring Practices replaces older resources
Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 13:50:34 +0000
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:50:36 -0400
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Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The ARIA Working Group has "retired" a couple draft WAI-ARIA 1.0 support
resources: Authoring Practices and Primer. This has been done to avoid
confusion from older resources that are no longer being developed and
provide outdated guidance. The content of those older documents in this
publication has been removed and the Status section directs readers to
the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1
<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/>. They are listed on the
index of Technical Reports <https://www.w3.org/TR/> as "retired", as
opposed to Working Drafts or Notes. Content that is still relevant from
the older resources has been migrated to and updated in the WAI-ARIA 1.1
Authoring Practices.

While the main WAI-ARIA specification is targeted primarily for user
agent (browser, etc.) implementers, WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1 is
primarily for content authors. It provides guidance to help web
application developers make widgets, navigation, and behaviors
accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties. It describes
design and interaction patterns to provide a consistent user experience
when authors implement widgets using WAI-ARIA. The appendix provides
introductory information about how WAI-ARIA is used to make custom
widgets accessible to accessibility APIs.

If you still use the 1.0 resources, you should update your references to
the new WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1
<https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-practices-1.1/> to ensure you are
following the latest advice. This document is under active development
and is expected to be finalized as a Working Group Note to support
WAI-ARIA 1.1. The ARIA intro page <https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria>
contains more information about WAI-ARIA and its supporting resources.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for
your comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
Rich Schwerdtfeger, ARIA WG Chair
Michael Cooper, ARIA WG W3C Staff Contact