Update api.Permissions.permission_accessibility-events status and Chrome 131 removal#25860
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Spec: https://wicg.github.io/aom/spec/phase2.html#privacy-concerns Co-authored-by: Dominique Hazael-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
Source: https://chromiumdash.appspot.com/commit/41da4aa10c42b36665b50c076274ab0dff0261e3 Co-authored-by: Claas Augner <495429+caugner@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
This updates the status for
api.Permissions.permission_accessibility-eventsand shows its removal from Chrome.Test results and supporting details
Thanks to help from @dontcallmedom in the WebDX chat, I learned that this permission was part of a now-deprecated Accessibility Object Model (AOM) Phase 2 specification. This is no longer the case; see the contemporary AOM spec and its phase 2 specification for comparison.
Because the originating spec is not in good standing, I wasn't able to add it to
spec_url. I've still marked this feature as deprecated and non-standard track. The linter obliges us to set it to non-experimental, too.Thanks to @caugner in #25854 (comment), I learned that this feature has been removed from Chrome 131 (commit). Given the text of bug 369945541, I think it's likely that this was always behind a flag, so—removal is an option here—but I don't think it's worth the time to go find out if this is true, since this feature will get removed in November 2026 anyway.
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api.Permissions.permission_accessibility-events- What is this? #25854