References

Normative references

These are cited normatively by the specification (clause 6.1). A dated reference means that edition applies; an undated reference means the current version applies.

• IETF RFC 2119, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. rfc/rfc2119
• W3C, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2. TR/WCAG22
• W3C, Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2. TR/wai-aria-1.2
• WHATWG, HTML, Living Standard. multipage
• Design Tokens Community Group, Design Tokens Format Module 2025.10. 2025.10/format
• NIST, FIPS 180-4, Secure Hash Standard. upd1/final
• IANA, Media Types registry. media-types/media-types.xhtml

Informative references

These inform the specification without creating requirements (clause 6.2).

• W3C ARIA Working Group, ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG). ARIA/apg
• W3C, ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, pattern index. apg/patterns
• Putnam, C., Rose, E. J. and MacDonald, C. M. (2023). "It could be better. It could be much worse": Understanding Accessibility in User Experience Practice with Implications for Industry and Education. ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, 16(1), 1-25. 10.1145/3575662
• GOV.UK Design System, Accessibility. accessibility
• W3C Design System Documentation Community Group. community/designsystemdocs
• Open UI Community Group. community/open-ui
• Pickering, H. and Bell, A. Every Layout: Relearn CSS layout. every-layout.dev
• Pickering, H. (2014). Axiomatic CSS and Lobotomized Owls. A List Apart, 21 October 2014. axiomatic-css-and-lobotomized-owls
• W3C WAI, Understanding Success Criterion 1.4.10: Reflow. Understanding/reflow.html
• W3C, Techniques for WCAG 2.2. Cited in clause 22.6: C31, C33, C34, C38, G206, G224, G225, SCR34. WCAG22/Techniques
• Braille Institute, Atkinson Hyperlegible font. freefont
• Ecma International, ECMA-376, Office Open XML File Formats. Part 2 is the Open Packaging Conventions, compared in Annex A. standards/ecma-376
• ISO/IEC 29500-2:2021, "Office Open XML file formats — Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions", fourth edition, August 2021. standard/77818.html
• Ecma International, ECMA-388, Open XML Paper Specification, first edition, June 2009. The source of the statement quoted in Annex A that the OpenXPS packaging requirements extend those of OPC. ECMA-388_1st_edition_june_2009.pdf

Project documents

• AFDS specification, version 1.0.0 — docs/AFDS-SPECIFICATION.md. Normative for all four Parts.
• Colophon of decisions — docs/COLOPHON.md.
• Open Questions and Research Agenda — docs/OPEN-QUESTIONS.md.
• Component Design Frameworks and the Assembly Problem — research/COMPONENT-FRAMEWORKS.md.
• Design systems research note — research/DESIGN-SYSTEMS.md.
• Portable representations research note — research/PORTABLE-REPRESENTATIONS.md.
• Sample package — afds-sample/.