In Firefox 75, we intend to enable ARIA annotations by default. Summary: This adds two new ARIA roles, a new aria-description attribute and expands aria-details. These changes are needed to support screen reader accessibility of comments, suggestions and other annotations in published documents and online word processing scenarios such as Google Docs, iCloud Pages, and MS Office Online. This is not currently possible without resorting to live region hacks, which are not as reliable as semantics and do not work well with Braille displays. As a result, screen reader users have non-optimal support for collaboration features of online word processors. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608975 Standard: Incorporated into ARIA 1.3 editor's draft. Explainer with links to pull requests: https://github.com/aleventhal/aria-annotations Platform coverage: desktop Preference: None. Because this simply exposes new values to accessibility clients using existing accessibility APIs, we do not anticipate any problems. DevTools bug: None. Both the DOM inspector and accessibility inspector will reflect this new information without any additional work. Other browsers: Chrome shipping enabled by default in version 82: https://chromestatus.com/feature/4666935918723072 web-platform-tests: None. ARIA WPT is still somewhat of a work in progress and hasn't been updated for ARIA 1.2 yet, let alone 1.3. We will have Gecko tests, though. Secure contexts: Not restricted to secure contexts, consistent with the rest of ARIA. Is this feature enabled by default in sandboxed iframes?: Yes; has no impact on sandboxed iframes. Link to standards-positions discussion: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/253 How stable is the spec: The spec is straightforward and has been reviewed and approved by stakeholders across the accessibility industry. We do not anticipate any fundamental changes.
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