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+title: PatternFly Elements 3.0
+tagline: Newer, Better, More Accessible
+description: Announcing the next major release of PatternFly Elements with more components and better accessibility.
+tags:
+- blog
+---
+
+This week we are pleased to announce the availability of PatternFly Elements
+3.0. This includes the release of our three main packages
+
+- [`@patternfly/elements@3.0.0`][pfe3], our web component library implementing
+ PatternFly design
+- [`@patternfly/pfe-core@3.0.0`][core3], utilities for web component authors,
+ used in PFE and [RHDS][rhds]
+- [`@patternfly/pfe-tools@2.0.0`][tools2], utilities for web component library
+ maintainers, e.g. dev server configuration, unit test helpers, etc.
+
+These releases include commits from Anuj Singla, Benny Powers, Brian Ferry,
+Gautam Krishna, Guy Bedford, Ivana Rodriguez, Luke Dary, Mark Caron, Michael
+Potter, Nikki Massaro, and Steven Spriggs. Thank you for your
+contributions!
+
+## Accessibility
+
+A lot of deep thought, careful testing, and hard work went into accessibility in
+this release. In particular, the leadership of our Principal Engineer for
+Accessibility Nikki Massaro and our Producer for Accessibility Greg Gibson were
+critical to designing elements which serve all of our customers.
+
+### Roving Tabindex
+
+One of the key insights in this release cycle was that when it comes to creating
+accessible controls, there is often more than one way to achieve sufficient
+results. We relied heavily on Nikki Massaro's `RovingTabindexController`
+(RTIC) when developing new elements like `` as well as
+when updating existing elements like ``. We ship controllers like RTIC
+in our pfe-core package. Controllers are bits of shared functionality which can
+plug in to any element and provide features like accessibility patterns or
+positioning floating elements.
+
+This release revises RTIC's developer ergonomics, making it useful
+even in framework components like React, not just in web components. The roving
+tabindex pattern allows end users to skip over complex controls like listboxes
+or tab groups when navigating a page by keyboard. The user only has to "tab
+into" the complex control once, and they can "tab out" immediately if they wish
+to continue down the page. If they want to navigate within the complex control,
+they can do so using the arrow keys.
+
+### Cross-root ARIA
+
+One of the major challenges faced during this release cycle was in adapting
+complex components and design patterns to the use of Shadow DOM and
+Form-Associated Custom Elements. As of this writing, there is yet no
+comprehensive cross-browser method for associating an element in one root (i.e.
+the main document) with an element in another root (i.e. a shadow root). An
+example of where this matters is in the case of dropdowns. In order to assistive
+technology to correctly announce the type, state, and availability of dropdown
+controls, the browser's internal accessibility tree must associate the button
+which toggles the dropdown menu open and closed with the listbox element that
+contains the dropdown actions.
+
+In the case of dropdown, we wanted to offer our users the ability to slot in a
+custom toggle element to the dropdown control, but if we did so, then the menu
+(normally located within the shadow root of the dropdown) could not effectively
+be associated with the toggle. Our solution in that case was to require users
+who customize the toggle to also slot in a menu element, so that they both live
+in the same root.
+
+We eagerly await the specification and implementation of cross-root ARIA in web browsers, and
+our engineers continue to participate in the specification efforts at the Web
+Compoonents Community Group.
+
+### The importance of manual testing
+
+In a perfect world, browser vendors would implement accessibility specs
+immediately, completely, and uniformly; and assistive technology vendors would
+implement direct translations of the browser's internal accessibility tree to
+the end user. Of course, we don't live in such a world. During the development
+process, we rely on the browser's accessibility developer tools to understand
+how our complex controls appear to AT, and we write the majority of
+our unit tests as assertions against that tree ("When I click the toggle, expect
+the listbox to appear next to it in the tree").
+
+We've seen again and again that just because something looks good to the
+developer when they inspect the AX tree doesn't mean that all users will be able
+to use it. We were fortunate to have the time, care, and expert testing skills
+of our Accessibility Producer Greg Gibson during this development cycle.
+Developers often ask us how to automate accessibility testing. Our answer is
+always that automation can only get you so far. Cross-browser, cross-platform,
+manual testing is essential to ensure the widest reach for your products.
+
+## New Elements
+
+PatternFly Elements 3.0 continues the work started in 2.0 to bring the design
+and user experience into line with the PatternFly React v4 library. Behind the
+scenes we also expended quite a lot of effort to align our Elements internal
+implementations and external apis more closely with the pattern fly react
+library. We are looking forward to continuing this work towards pattern fly for
+both in terms of implementing components that we don't have yet as well as
+closing the future parity gaps and ensuring greater compatibility with the
+existing pattern fly library.
+
+We've added several elements to our collection in this release:
+
+- `` - A shortcut that allows users to quickly navigate to the
+top of a lengthy content page.
+- `` - Allows users to place an image in the background of
+your page or area of a page.
+- `` and `` - Used to communicate a value or a set of
+attribute-value pairs within workflows that involve filtering a set of objects.
+- `` - Presents a menu of actions or links in a constrained space
+that will trigger a process or navigate to a new location.
+- `` - Enables users to select one or more items from a list.
+- `` - Used for entering a paragraph of text that is longer than
+one line.
+
+Select and dropdown in particular, because of their accessibility requirements,
+were a major effort this release.
+
+### New Features
+
+We also added features and made changes to elements released in previous
+versions:
+
+- `` gets `helper-text`, `error-text`, and `validate-on`
+attributes, and now supports the native `pattern` and `placeholder` attributes.
+- `` now acts itself as a button, and doesn't contain a `