ARIA Working Group Meeting Resolutions

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This page was last updated on 8 April 2026. For more recent meetings, see an alternative view of meeting minutes.

2026

5 March: ARIA WG
- Potential heuristic standardization: how does/should event delegation play into screen readers conveying "clickable" - jcraig will start a wiki on Aria when he has time
5 February: ARIA WG
- AriaNotify Permissions Policy -- needs resolution - we should allow arianotify to be allowed by default as written in the current version.
- If time, next steps for aria-actions: aria-actions: handling focus when actions are synthetically triggered - Sara will propose the specific text change in the issue
29 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference –
- Should :target-current pseudo class also imply aria-current=true on an active scroll marker? -
22 January: ARIA WG
- Webkit landed ARIA notifty and Gecko is implementing! \o/ - We will land AriaNotify and deal with the issue about what user agents should do with notifications from background tabs in a follow up, or what note to add to help authors understand filtering, in a follow up PR.

2025

10 November: ARIA WG
- AccName vs Content - Jamie, Sarah, and ZoÃ« will meet to discuss
- Update on Open UI - we need to document what the browsers are doing, and should do, as spec, to investigate whether it is good or bad, in HTML-AAM (since it's CSS)
6 March: ARIA WG
- Resolution to move DPUB to PR now that w3c/aria#2459 has been merged? - Move DPUB to PR as the group considers adding the superclass role as an editorial change
- Does aria-atomic have real-world use cases? - deprecate `aria-atomic` in the spec

2024

8 February: ARIA WG
- Call for consensus: DPUB-ARIA 1.1 to CR - transition DPUB-ARIA 1.1 to CR https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aria-1.1/
- Call for consensus: DPUB-AAM 1.1 to CR - transition DPUB-AAM 1.1 to CR https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-aam-1.1/

2023

30 November: ARIA WG
- Charter extension - Group approves requesting a charter extension
1 June: ARIA WG
- Recommendation Status - Group agrees to request advancement of ARIA 1.2 to REC
19 January: ARIA WG
- Open ARIA PRs - Merge #1494 and file a follow up issue

2021

13 May: ARIA WG
- [Meaty topic for next week](https://bit.ly/3y8QboT) - no meetings next thursday due to GAAD

2018

26 October: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Annotations continued - Aaron will add annotations proposal to w3c/aria github issue 749
- Charter - Accept draft charter in 2018-10-26 form, send CfC to confirm during AC final check
25 October: ARIA Meeting at TPAC 2018
- role parity background - Work will continue on achieving parity with html elements per the ARIA WG roadmap.
23 August: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- PR Reviews â can we merge the following? - we have agreement for merging 799
8 March: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- ARIA in HTML and HTML AAM reviews - ARIA WG will not perform formal review of ARIA in HTML, but some participants will submit review

2017

6 April: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- COGA Semantics to Enable Personalization: Advance to FPWD? - take Personalization Semantics to FPWD
2 February: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- something to review from Judy - will defer to APA
26 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- HTML 5 Embedded content - Create an audio and a video role for ARIA 1.2
12 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Embedded Content for ARIA 1.2 - No new role for Iframes in ARIA
- Embed Element - No new role needed for Embed
- Embed Element - No ARIA role needed for Object either
- Next Week - No ARIA role for Param element

2016

8 December: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Authoring Practices Publication - Publish workinheart beat draft of authoring practices during week of dec 12
- Authoring Practices Publication - Authroing Practices TF has group consensus to publish heart beat drafts of authoring practices until aria 1.1 is PR
1 December: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Comment from Karl Groves - Reponse to comment from Karl Groves is: In general the ARIA working group believe that if the author has gone to such great lenghts to repurpose a host language element such that they would require an ARIA role to be applied to make it accessible they should be able to. That said, we do have a provision in the ARIA spec. to address conflicts with host languanges in this section of ARIA:
6 October: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- ARIA 1.1 Readiness - Take ARIA 1.1 and advance to CR with correction to minor nits by Joanie.
23 September: ARIA Working Group
- Triage - No WAI ARIA meeting next week
8 September: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Teleconference Length - ARIA telecon will continue to begin at 12:30 Boston, but end in 1 hour
- Teleconference Length - Meeting will begin at 13:00 Boston
25 August: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- TPAC Coordination - have Michael, Rich and Janina publish a CfC on publication of HTML AAAM
18 August: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Action 2107 - accept ed. change for action 2107
4 August: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- issue-1043 - change "must" to "should" in aria details.
14 July: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- SVG A11Y pubs - Publish First Working Draft Graphics Module AAM, Heartbeat of Graphics Module and SVG AAM
7 July: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Current Survey Results: aria-roledescription, role=static/text - Put up CFC survey for members to put in a special case of option 3 that tells ATs to suppress the the role when the role description has a null value and to move the text/static role to ARIA 2.0 or to accespt option 3 and move the text/static role to ARIA 2.0
- Current Survey Results: aria-roledescription, role=static/text - Begin process of publishing a pseudo last call version of ARIA 1.1 pending the survey
30 June: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Static/Text Role - The group reinforces the decision to move the text role to ARIA 2.0, but also to write text for aria-roledescription to state how screen readers should handle the ââ value
- Joanie Updates to separator role - accept JoanieÂ´s proposal for separator
- Password role - move password to ARIA 2
- Spinbutton - accept JoanieÂ´s proposal on spinbutton
23 June: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- action 2-084 - presentational children cfc - Modify current master, partially reversing action 2071, to remove children presentation true from menuitem, treeitem, and spinbutton.
16 June: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- ACTION-2067 Write text to state the order of aria-owns ids wrt. the dom child order and sequential aria-owns ids - accept JamesN proposal modulo discussed wording changes to remove a non-RFC2119 Â¨shouldÂ¨, which will be done in a branch for review and confirmation in the CfC
- Approval to publish ARIA 1.1 Working Draft? - WG approves publishing ARIA 1.1 as pseudo-Last Call Working Draft; CfC to go out after Rich returns to give him opportunity to review; may add ednotes about open issues
- Children presentational redux - make spinbutton composite
9 June: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- ACTION-2039 Update definition of aria-autocomplete - Accept action-2039 as proposed.
- Treeitem, option re children presentational - Add editorial note to option, treeitem, and spinbutton roles that their "children are presentational" status is provisional
- ACTION-2079 and ACTION-2080 Draft Â¨host language shouldÂ¨ language for password - Accept Joanie's proposal on action2080
26 May: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- decisions - to publish ARIA 1.0 Primer and 1.0 Practices as retired
- decisions - accept proposal for action-2069
- decisions - accept proposal for action-2044 with the modification in Conflicts with Host Language Semantics concerning permanent presentational elements
19 May: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Action 2068 - Add children presentationaal true to checkbox, menuitem, menuitemcheckbox, menuitemradio, option, radio, spinbutton, switch, tab, and treeitem
12 May: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- actioin item 1747 - Accept Matt's revision for action 1743 covering changes to role=application details in the action
- action 2059 - accept Joanie's proposal and send out cfc
- Action 1624 - move action 1624 to ARIA 2.0
- action 1560 - move action 1560 to ARIA 2.0
5 May: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Action-1489 - Accept Michaelâs proposal for Action 1489 pertaining to Native Host language semantics
28 April: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- ACTION 2054 - haspopup - Accept Mattâs proposal to change aria-haspopup for action 2054
21 April: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Password CFC - dialogs launched from a combo should manage focus but need not be modal so the user can click outside the popup to close it.
- Password CFC - Pull aria-keyshortcuts proposal into ARIA 1.1 where the final text guidance is subject to revew of new APG text on aria-keyshortcuts
7 April: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- role=password - put password into 1.1 editors draft, meet with security group, communicate with AT vendors to speak rendered text
- last call draft/feature complete in june? - move issue 742 to ARIA 2.0
31 March: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- CFC for Password Role - Password role brings value even if not fully supported, UAs should map same as they map input type=password, want AT SHOULD but not MUST to enhance
- Text Role - Move role=âtextâ to ARIA 2 as the group does not believe it can address the issues well in the ARIA 1.1 time frame.
17 March: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Password Role - Accept joanie's proposal, and close action
- Computed name and role - MOve Issue 686 to ARIA 2.0
10 March: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Heartbeat Drafts - Core AAM Core Name + Description DPUB-ARIA DPUB-AAM they will be published as heartbeat drafts
3 March: ARIA Working Group
- Action 2021 - Take James' proposal to modify Joanies proposal.
- Action 1730 - Accept Michael's enhancement to the specification and add text to the term for deprecated to reference the conformance subsection on deprecated.
25 February: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- issue 1009 CFC - close 707 and action 2031
- Action 2006: Draft proposal for new aria-linktype role Joanie - DPUB link types preceed as standard roles
18 February: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- aria-details - Accept aria-details proposal with editorial change to refer to a single element.
4 February: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- aria-grabbed and dropeffect - Accept Joanieâs changes regarding the deprecation notes on aria-grabbed and aria-dropeffect with the exception that it refer to a future version of WAI-ARIA and not specifically 2.0
28 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Action 1380 & 1700 - Accept RS' text with some editorial changes so not specific to SVG image
- Article Feed Proposal - Group agrees on MK's changes. Action is complete.
- Current Actions - Close action-1632 as complete
- Current Actions - Menus and listbox will not have list as secondary superclass, but will refer to list as a related concept
- Current Actions - Remove directory as a secondary superclass of tablist
- Current Actions - Have scrollbar not subclass input as a secondary subclass
21 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Draft Decision Policy - meeting time stays the same
- Draft Decision Policy - accept action-1724 proposal
14 January: Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group Teleconference
- Group-Wide Process for Consensus on Resolutions - The group resolved that we will post the resolutions for each individual meeting to the aria admin list with a brief summary and a link to the minutes of the meeting. Members have a week to respond to CfC's as per the decision policy.

2015

17 December: Protocols and Formats Working Group Teleconference
- aria-primary action - Move Issue-624 to ARIA-2.0
3 December: Protocols and Formats Working Group Teleconference
- status of wgs, pubs - Michael will create a moderated subscription procedure and et to Rich for CfC posting
- status of wgs, pubs - Current x-tech discussions will move to public-aria at the beginning of the year
- action-1736 - Move Issue-624 to 2.0 since no proposal since logged in 2013
19 November: Protocols and Formats Working Group Teleconference
- Issues & Actions - Close Issue-504
- Issues & Actions - put Activedescendent on role application -- needs confirmation
- Issues & Actions - Close issue-427 as overcome by WAPA
- Issues & Actions - Close Issue-497 and see how things go
- Issues & Actions - Close issue-526 as completed
- Issues & Actions - Close issue-561 as done
- Issues & Actions - Move to 2.0 so we can discuss again, but may not really be an ARIA issue
- Issues & Actions - See action-1744
- Issues & Actions - Close issue-680 is done, and dumped