fix(aria-usage): ARIA in HTML is an amended REC, not an April 2026 one - #177
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The page said ARIA in HTML "became a W3C Recommendation in April 2026". Its publication history says otherwise: first Recommendation 9 December 2021, then republished as an amended Recommendation roughly every few months since — 7 April 2026, 15 April 2026, and now 11 August 2026. Pinning a date in prose or in the source title is the underlying bug, because it rots within weeks. Dropped the date from the source title, corrected the sentence, and added a short paragraph on why the undated /TR/html-aria/ URL and the spec's own change log are what to read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What changed
ARIA — first rule of ARIA:
ARIA in HTML (W3C Recommendation, 15 April 2026)→ARIA in HTML (W3C Recommendation). The URL is unchanged and still resolves./TR/html-aria/URL and the spec's own change log rather than a snapshot.updated.Why now
W3C published a new amended Recommendation of ARIA in HTML on 11 August 2026 —
https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/REC-html-aria-20260811/. That is the second revision since the date this page pinned, which is what surfaced the underlying error.The publication history shows: first Recommendation 9 December 2021, then amended Recommendations on 27 Sep 2022, 21 Dec 2022, through 2023–2025, then 7 April 2026, 15 April 2026, and 11 August 2026. April 2026 was one republication among many, not the date it reached REC.
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Status
Unchanged —
recommended. Nothing normative moved; this is a factual correction plus a durability fix so the citation stops rotting every few months.Changelog
No entry, deliberately — flagging for a call. This corrects a factual claim rather than changing what the spec says, which reads as "not loggable" under
CLAUDE.md. The wrinkle is that the existing entry2026-07-31-aria-in-htmlrepeats the same wrong date in public. Happy to add a shortchangedentry correcting the record if you'd prefer that over leaving it.Checks
npm run build,npm run lint,npm run format:checkall pass. No page count or category change.🤖 Generated with Claude Code