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 This repository maintains specifications and related publications for the Accessible Rich Internet Applications suite of technologies. This is developed by the [ARIA Working Group](http://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/). The W3C staff contact is Daniel Montalvo. Please do not provide commit access to this repository without coordination.
 
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 If you have a local clone, run the following commands to update the name of the default branch.