aria.js running too late

[pkra]

It seems aria.js is running too late, causing an issue with heading levels, cf. https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/4436.

[pkra]

Trying to read up on things. It looks like aria.js // ariaAttributeReferences() intentionally runs after respec.

On the one hand, e.g., the ARIA spec has ariaAttributeReferences in the respecConfig's postProcess array:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/blob/60f526c0a93575a2f3194d85dfd70f1eaf2991d1/index.html#LL145C39-L145C39

If I move it to the preProcess array, we get the correct headings.

But I don't know if post-processing was intentional. git says @jnurthen might remember -- w3c/aria@613eacf.

Then there's also

aria-common/script/aria.js

Lines 797 to 800 in b3b7981

	respecEvents.sub('end', function (msg) {
	if (msg == 'w3c/conformance') {
	ariaAttributeReferences();
	}

which git blame also says @jnurthen might know - do you remember if this was intentional?

[pkra]

As noted in today's meeting, we should try to refactor the code and move the heading-generating code so that it can be done in pre-processing.