Respec: w3c/conformance end event is not being published in ARIA spec

[jnurthen]

Important info

• URL to affected spec: https://w3c.github.io/aria/
• ReSpec version: Click the ReSpec pill (e.g., 20.0.1): 24.4.4
• [] I did a "hard refresh", but it's still busted.
  (not sure what this means)

Description of problem

What happened (e.g., it crashed)?:
ARIA specific scripts are not running.
For example https://github.com/w3c/aria/blob/master/common/script/aria.js - the events end and end-all do not seem to be called.

But what I was expecting?:
The end and end-all events to fire and the script to run

[saschanaz]

The quick fix is to add explicit id="conformance" to the conformance section.

2122 caused this where the module won't publish an end event when there is no explicit id conformance assigned.

cc: @marcoscaceres

[jnurthen]

Thanks - that has fixed the issue. If it is too hard to fix in respec then issuing a respec error if the section is missing would be fine. At least it would be easy to find and resolve the issue.

[marcoscaceres]

We should see about fixing some of the aria scrpit to move off the old ReSpec events model. We have a lot of legacy code in ReSpec just to support the aria specs, and it’s a bit of a burden as we deprecated those events about 3 years ago.

[jnurthen]

@marcoscaceres if there is someone who can help us I'd be happy to try to make this happen. The folks who wrote the code are not involved any more and I don't think any of us fully understand everything that is going on so some help would be appreciated.

[carmacleod]

@marcoscaceres Do you have a "migration guide" for how to "move off of the old ReSpec events model"?

The only "event-ish" thing I see documented in the current ReSpec wiki is: https://github.com/w3c/respec/wiki/respecIsReady
Is respecIsReady similar to the old "end" or "end-all" event, or is it something else entirely?

Note that the ARIA specs currently use the following ReSpec events:

• respecEvents.sub ("start", function () {...});
• respecEvents.sub ("save", function () {...});
• respecEvents.sub ("end", function () {...});
• respecEvents.sub ("end-all", function () {...});

[sidvishnoi]

@carmacleod The events are not documented as they're implementation details. We'll slowly deprecate them in favor of well defined APIs (https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/1976).

respecIsReady is practically same as the "end-all" event.

"start", "save" and "end" events don't exist anymore. For "start-all", use preProcess. and for "end-all", use postProcess.

The order is:

1. "start-all"
2. ...immediately followed by preProcess
3. Run core plugins..
4. postProcess
5. ...immediately followed by "end-all"
6. ...immediately followed by respecIsReady and done.

Me and Marcos are not fully available this month, but I'll be able to help more at the end of the month.