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With full appreciation of all the complexities and intricacies involved here, the state of these official documentation resources as they exist today isn't great.

Additionally, most initiatives aimed at improving the situation have only resulted in yet more overhead in the form of additional committees with each their own agendas and procedures, or the creation of another new deeply interconnected but otherwise completely separate sibling standard[0][1][3][4], fragmenting things even further.

I used to be quite heavily involved with some of the more meritful of those initiatives, but at some point realised that despite all the time and effort I was putting in, nothing really meaningful/impactful had been achieved or was even anywhere in sight, and it was also becoming too costly on a personal level. Guess that's my justification for having the right to post this rant :)

[0] https://infra.spec.whatwg.org/

[1] https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/

[2] https://w3c.github.io/html-aam/

[4] https://w3c.github.io/html-aria/



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