ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C
Find out about the activities of the ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force (known as the APG Task Force) and how you can contribute to its objectives.
Objectives
The APG Task Force develops the WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, which:
describes considerations that might not be evident to authors from the WAI-ARIA specification alone, and,
-recommends approaches to make widgets, navigation, and behaviors accessible using WAI-ARIA roles, states, and properties.
Work statement
To learn about the focus, scope and deliverables of the task force, see the
APG Task Force Work Statement
Current work
The APG Task Force supports the deliverables of the
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group
For details of the current work, see the following:
APG Task Force wiki
APG milestones
APG projects
Contribute to the work
The APG Task Force welcomes input from individuals and organizations around the world on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide.
Contribute without joining the task force
You can contribute to the work without being a member of the task force:
Draft WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices:
Review and provide feedback on drafts that are still being developed.
Open WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices issues:
Comment on or propose solutions for open issues.
Published WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide:
Let us know if there is a new issue with any of the practices in the guide.
Comment or raise a new issue in the
APG GitHub repository
or
email the task force
Note:
This email will go to a publicly archived mailing list).
Become a participant in the task force
Joining the APG Task Force enables you to participate fully in the development of the work and influence the deliverables. You and your organization will also be listed as contributors, where appropriate.
Being a participant involves commitment to support the work of the task force in the following ways:
Engage actively in the work using the task force’s communication channels.
Keep up with weekly tasks and the progress of the work — for example, via the minutes of past meetings, mailing list discussions, and GitHub issue comments.
Give your input promptly, when it’s needed.
To become a participant in the APG Task Force, you must first be a member of the ARIA Working Group. See
Instructions for joining the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group
Once you are a member of the ARIA Working Group, email the
W3C Staff Contact for the APG Task Force
to let them know you’d like to join the task force.
Note:
As a participant in one of the ARIA Working Group’s task forces, you can choose to focus your time exclusively on the task force deliverables and you do not have to contribute to the working group’s other activities.
Task force participants
Chairs
Current participants
Communications
Calendar of meetings
Minutes from previous meetings
Mailing list archive
Publications
The APG Task Force develops and maintains the
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
for the ARIA Working Group.
Contact the task force
If you have a question for the APG Task Force,
email the task force
Note:
This email will go to a publicly archived mailing list).
Alternatively, you can email the
W3C staff contact
Please share your ideas, suggestions, or comments via e-mail to the publicly-archived list
wai@w3.org
or via GitHub.
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