fix(accessibility): "Using ARIA" is a discontinued draft — cite the ARIA in HTML REC - #138
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W3C marked "Using ARIA" (/TR/using-aria/) a Discontinued Draft on 24 February 2026, and it lists four rules, not the five the page claimed. ARIA in HTML reached W3C Recommendation on 15 April 2026 and is the normative answer to which roles are allowed on which elements. - Swap the discontinued draft for the ARIA in HTML Recommendation. - Correct "five rules" to four; keep the accessible-name requirement, attributed to WCAG rather than to that list. - Add a short paragraph on the element-by-element conformance table. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…#143) The changelog records when *this spec* changed, not when the world did, so `date` is the day the entry lands on main. Three entries kept the date their PR was authored (28th, 28th, 30th) though all three merged on the 31st. - Re-date tdmrep, mcp-handshake and websub to 2026-07-31, renaming each file so the stem still matches. All three went live under an hour ago, so the GUID churn this causes in the changelog feed is as small as it will ever be. - Add a `changed` entry for ARIA in HTML reaching Recommendation and "Using ARIA" being discontinued (#138). - Add a `changed` entry for the expired aipref attachment draft (#131). That one was merged unlogged; it rewrote what the page says about the topic's standing, which is not a citation repair. - Record the dating rule in CLAUDE.md, including why renaming a live entry is not free: the filename stem is `entry.id`, which is both the `<li>` anchor and the feed's `#`-link. Deliberately not logged: #122 (worked-example callout gained a sentence; the recommendation did not move) and #141 (plumbing, and the hub is not live — fold it into the WebSub entry when D1 is provisioned). Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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src/content/spec/accessibility/aria-usage.md:https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/with ARIA in HTML. The page keeps four sources.## Why it matterson the element-by-element conformance table, with three verified examples:role="button"on<a href>is permitted;<textarea>accepts no role other thantextbox;<input type="hidden">accepts noroleoraria-*at all.Why now
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recommended. Nothing about the platform contract moved — this is a citation-accuracy and factual-accuracy repair, not a promotion.Notes
SKILL.md/ digest work.npm run buildpasses; the pre-commit skill-drift check is green (164 pages, 10 categories).CLAUDE.md— more than a typo fix (a factual claim in the body changed), less than a substantive rewrite. Flagging rather than deciding: say the word and I will add achangedentry.🤖 Generated with Claude Code