aria-in-html and using-aria WDs

[daniel-montalvo]

We've been asked by the W3C Project Lead about two old working drafts: aria-in-html and using-aria.

I propose that we:

• [Done] redirect aria-in-html to using-aria.
• publish a Discontinued Draft of using-aria, as all of this is in other documents and using-aria is no longer maintained.

If I don't hear any objections i'll be publishing a Discontinued Draft of using-aria early 2026

[stevefaulkner]

@daniel-montalvo

If I don't hear any objections i'll be publishing a Discontinued Draft of using-aria early 2026

I would like to update/clean up the current draft as while it still includes some important content (rules of aria for example) that should be preserved, there is other content that should be re-written/updated/removed. Sara Soueidan has shown an interest recently with helping to do this

[SaraSoueidan]

Yes! I'd love to contribute.

[scottaohara]

@daniel-montalvo should aria-in-html redirect to using aria - or redirect to the actual "aria in html" spec?

@patrickhlauke had raised this issue back n 2023 about this as well.

[daniel-montalvo]

Hi @scottaohara @SaraSoueidan @stevefaulkner

Thanks for your quick response to this.

Based on these comments I've taken a closer look at these two repos:

• https://github.com/w3c/aria-in-html/
• https://github.com/w3c/using-aria/

ARIA-in-html says in its index.html

[MOVED] Using ARIA

The editor's draft of Using ARIA is published from a new location because its development has been moved to a new repository. Please submit issues and pull requests on the new repository.

This page may automatically be refreshed with the Using ARIA document at its new location 30 seconds after it was loaded.

@stevefaulkner I assume the intent back in the day was to work in the "Using ARIA" document entirely from w3c/using-aria repo. Is that correct?

/TR/aria-in-html redirects to /TR/using-aria based on This ask from xiaoqian back in 2017.

However, based on @scottaohara and on w3c/html-aria#471
/TR/using-aria is the wrong destination for the redirect, and /TR/aria-in-html should indeed redirect to /TR/html-aam

If we all agree, I think we should be able to change this. Would you all say that is what should be done?

[patrickhlauke]

However, based on @scottaohara and on w3c/html-aria#471
/TR/using-aria is the wrong destination for the redirect, and /TR/aria-in-html should indeed redirect to /TR/html-aam

this confused me just now. where did html-aam come from in this discussion? a typo?

i think https://www.w3.org/TR/aria-in-html/ should redirect to https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/
leave https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/ where it is, no redirects to/from it

[scottaohara]

agree with @patrickhlauke, aria-in-html should redirect to html-aria, not html-aam.

i think @daniel-montalvo's reference to html-aam is maybe a typo? We just talked about this today in the ARIA editors' call.

[daniel-montalvo]

@patrickhlauke @scottaohara

Discussed in the 10 Dec editors meeting

sorry for the above typo.