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The Accessibility Object Model (AOM)

This effort aims to create a JavaScript API to allow developers to modify (and eventually explore) the accessibility tree for an HTML page.

Editors:

• Alice Boxhall, Google, aboxhall@google.com
• James Craig, Apple, jcraig@apple.com
• Dominic Mazzoni, Google, dmazzoni@google.com
• Alexander Surkov, Mozilla, surkov.alexander@gmail.com

Details

Read the Explainer

Read the Spec - note, not up-to-date

Can I Use AOM in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox today?

Interactive Slide Deck (for Chrome)

Tic-tac-toe demo (for Chrome)

Accessibility (ARIA) Notification API

Note notification-api.md is outdated. For the up-to-date explainer of this initiative, please click here.

This effort aims to create a JavaScript API to allow developers to initiate notifications that confirm user actions (not necessarily tied to direct UI changes).

Editors:

• Sara Tang, Microsoft, sartang@microsoft.com
• Doug Geoffray, Microsoft, doug.geoffray@microsoft.com
• Alison Maher, Microsoft, almaher@microsoft.com
• Travis Leithead, Microsoft, travil@microsoft.com
• Daniel Libby, Microsoft

Details

Read the Explainer