Know your Standards

Updated 21/11/2023

Regularly people link to or quote from some outdated version of a specification. This can be confusing and detrimental to understanding, if the information is no longer correct or relevant.

Below are listed some references to Web Standards which should remain relevant and up to date for the foreseeable future.

• WCAG – https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/ This URL should always point to the latest published version of WCAG, currently 2.2
• WCAG 3 – https://w3c.github.io/silver/guidelines/ Latest editors Draft
• ARIA –  https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/ This URL should always point to the latest published version of ARIA, currently 1.2
• HTML – https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ This URL should always point to the latest multi-page version of the HTML Standard
• ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) Home – https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/ This URL should always point to the latest published version of the ARIA Authoring Practices
• ARIA in HTML –  https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aria/ This URL should always point to the latest published version of ARIA in HTML
• HTML Accessibility API Mappings –  https://www.w3.org/TR/html-aam/  This URL should always point to the latest published version of HTML Accessibility API Mappings, currently 1.0
• Core Accessibility API Mappings – https://www.w3.org/TR/core-aam/
  • In the case of this spec I would be looking at the latest editors draft as the latest published recommendation is years old and implementations have moved on Core Accessibility API Mappings Editors draft – https://w3c.github.io/core-aam/ This URL always points to the latest editors draft, currently a W3C Candidate Recommendation Draft 02 November 2023.

This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights
All three of them
Number one
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a crime
Unless it was done
By a policeman
Or an aristocrat
Oh, know your rights
And number two
You have the right to food money
Providing of course
You don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation
Know your rights
These are your rights
Hey, say, Wang
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Number three
You have the right to free speech
As long as
You're not dumb enough to actually try it
Know your rights
These are your rights
Oh, know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
Ha!
It has been suggested in some quarters
That this is not enough
Well
Get off the streets
Run
Get off the streets

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