My Interop 2027 Picks

Interop 2027 is gathering votes and the deadline is 19 November 2026. For the second year now, Firefox made a page to let you rank your Interop 2027 choices. Which I’ve now done. I narrowed it down to fifteen, though getting there was oddly difficult. It seems the top three are really what matter, but I’ll share all fifteen with some tiny amount of context for each. Mine Ranked. ariaNotify(): Because years of watching developers get live regions wrong (arguably because companies aren’t employing screen reader users in critical roles) coupled with confusion about exposure and support, makes me hopeful this new approach will help close some of those gaps. The ARIA Working Group put in a bunch of effort to spec ariaNotify() (from an early odd proposal), so I look forward to broad support. HTML focusgroup attribute: I’ve shared my opinions on focusgroup, so I am hopeful for better outcomes for users, while simplifying keyboard patterns for authors (and hopefully less scripting). Shadow…

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