WAI-ARIA

WAI-ARIA
Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications
AbbreviationWAI-ARIA
StatusW3C Recommendation
Year started2006; 18 years ago (2006)
First publishedSeptember 26, 2006; 17 years ago (2006-09-26)
Latest versionWAI-ARIA 1.2: W3C Recommendation
June 6, 2023; 15 months ago (2023-06-06)
Organization
CommitteeARIA WG
Editors
  • Joanmarie Diggs
  • James Nurthen
  • Michael Cooper
  • Carolyn MacLeod
Former editors
    • Shane McCarron (until 2018 (2018))
    • Richard Schwerdtfeger (until October 2017 (2017-10))
    • James Craig (Editor until May 2016 (2016-05))
Domain
Websitewww.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/

Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) is a technical specification published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that specifies how to increase the accessibility of web pages, in particular, dynamic content, and user interface components developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies.

In the 15 September 2008 working draft, SVG 1.2 Tiny added support for WAI-ARIA.[1] On 20 March 2014, WAI-ARIA 1.0 became a completed W3C Recommendation.[2] 14 December 2017 saw the release of WAI-ARIA 1.1.[3]

  1. ^ "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification". www.w3.org. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  2. ^ "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0". www.w3.org. Retrieved 2023-05-09.
  3. ^ "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1". www.w3.org. Retrieved 2023-05-09.