<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello webkit-dev,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m starting to work on implementing the Accessibility Object Model. This effort aims to create a JavaScript API to allow developers to modify (and eventually explore) the accessibility tree for an HTML page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m going to implement the first two phases:</div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">1. Modify the semantic properties of the accessibility node associated with a particular DOM node.</div></div><div class=""> This phase will explain and augment the existing capabilities of <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-1.1/" class="">ARIA</a>.</div><div class="">2. Accessible actions support.</div><div class=""> Directly respond to events (or actions) from assistive technology. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Explainer:</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/WICG/aom/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md" class="">https://github.com/WICG/aom/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md</a></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Spec:</div><div class=""><a href="https://wicg.github.io/aom/spec/" class="">https://wicg.github.io/aom/spec/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bugzilla:</div><div class=""><a href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179255" class="">https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179255</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Nan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>