Confession time: I am (part of) the reason the ARIA Practices Guide looks so deceptively authoritative.[0]

@MoritzGlantz @yatil @stefan @aardrian Having seen the discussions around adding a warning note or not to "sell" the menu pattern as a navigation (initiated by @aardrian ) via GitHub discussion, I'd say: Really big

@marcus @MoritzGlantz This is a political issue, not an effort issue. You would need to convince ARIA WG that it needs to change. But it does what ARIA wants, so there is no incentive to make changes.

@yatil @marcus Okay, if one would do it the usual way of discussing it all with the community.
If one would copy the page, a group of 5 people made the changes they think must be made and publish it as an alternative version, people then can use and hate?

That may be the only way out…

@yatil Thanks for the nudge Eric. I'll look at the screensaver ASAP!

@MoritzGlantz @marcus How would that be published on the W3C site and done by the ARIA WG? That’s what gives it the credibility. Forking it will just create another resource that won’t be kept up.

@yatil @marcus It would not be published there in the first place,… maybe I am too naive to understand the reach and impact of this. But if nothing moves, what to do?

@MoritzGlantz @marcus There is nothing to do apart from complaining to the working group.

@MoritzGlantz @marcus I mean, you could help improve the tutorials, but I don’t know how that would work after W3C/WAI has dissolved the Education and Outreach WG (EOWG). They have kneecapped educational material at WAI a lot, now staff has to do it without a WG to back them up, and hence it is all slow.

@MoritzGlantz @marcus I think this is the Community Group that is supposed to continue the work on the WAI resources, but as you can see from their GitHub, there is little momentum. https://www.w3.org/community/adva11yresources/

@yatil @MoritzGlantz @marcus

I know I was dropped from the thread, but stepping in anyway to note that there is a repo for APG:
https://github.com/w3c/aria-practices/

The problem is that it’s not got many people looking at it, their focus is split, and it’s based on a lot of opinions.

So please, file bugs. Help drive the priority. If enough noise comes in, that can refocus those limited resources.