continue aria.js work #2501

Continuation of #2408

• review questions & TODO items noted in the code comments
  • 35 TODOs...
  • editorial: update aria.js comments #2755 (3 TODOs)
  • unify rdef/sdef/pdef rewrite (5 TODOs) => editorial: [aria.js] unify and simplify rdef/sdef/pdef rewrites #2763
  • fix inherited roles in properties characteristics tables (1 TODO) => editorial: fix inherited roles in props characteristics tables #2756
  • move renderIndexGlobalStatesAndProperties() to pre-processing (2 TODOs) => editorial: [aria.js] populate global states&props lists in pre-processing #2766
  • ...
• revisit
  • Editorial: Advance the heading level for Notes #2363 / aria.js running too late aria-common#92 => editorial: move def container rewrite to preprocessing step #2761
  • modernizing aria.js aria-common#104
  • [aria.js]: "abstract role" not added to index #2549
• roleInfo work
  • editorial: reformat roleInfo.js #2620
  • update roleinfo editorial: update roleInfo.js (manually) #2624 / JSON roleInfo.js is not updated #2234
  • automate updates of roleIfno
    • editorial: CI for roleInfo.js #2625 / Automate update or roleinfo.js aria-common#31
    • replace (broken) automatic update on main with something that works => editorial: fix roleInfo.yml #2654
  • clean up automation
    • replace eval() hack => editorial: [aria.js] generate roleInfo after respec runs #2769
    • turn roleInfo.js into proper JSON
    • avoid prettier in PR checks
    • remove "manual process" from aria.js (i.e. the entire require block at the end) => editorial: aria.js clean-up #2745
  • consider add versioning information roleinfo.js unversioned aria-common#71
  • (not actually aria.js) fix aria-current is missing in "6.6 Taxonomy of WAI-ARIA States and Properties" #1823 => editorial: update Taxonomy of WAI-ARIA States and Properties #2823
  • fix Missing role=presentation for "Name from prohibited" #2073 => editorial: fix synonymous roles #2820
  • fix [aria] Request: Provide the ARIA “Characteristics” data as JSON or in some other machine-readable form #2445
• refactor into ESMs (if respec allows it)
• review other JS files (e.g., aria-child.js, resolveReference.sj) to prepare their refactoring (with shared modules)
• consider alternatives to using class names as JS hooks (cf. [aria.js]: "abstract role" not added to index #2549)
• replace rdef/pdef/sdef with respec definitions and rref/pref/sref with respec references