Re: Request for Resolution: Publication of new SVG Accessibility draft specs (was: Agenda requests, 30th June 2016 telcon)

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:15:00 +0200, Amelia Bellamy-Royds  
<amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote:

> To confirm for the SVG Accessibility folks, this resolution was approved  
> at
> last week's telcon:
>
> https://www.w3.org/2016/06/30-svg-minutes.html#resolution01
>
> ...and now that I look at that again, the resolution text has got it  
> mixed
> up about which one is a FPWD (should be the Graphics Roles AAM) and which
> are new drafts (SVG-AAM and ARIA Graphics Module).  I hope that doesn't
> affect the intent!

Please publish both…

cheers

> On 29 June 2016 at 12:48, Amelia Bellamy-Royds <
> amelia.bellamy.royds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The SVG Accessibility Task Force would like to publish draft
>> specifications & needs a resolution from the main SVG working group (as
>> well as from the main ARIA working group).
>>
>> Nikos: Can we add this to the agenda for tomorrow?  If anyone has any
>> questions, I can answer them then.  Or anyone can reply to this email  
>> with
>> questions or concerns.
>>
>> There are 3 documents:
>>
>>    - SVG Accessibility API Mappings. This is the spec that defines how
>>    native SVG features should be exposed to the operating system  
>> accessibility
>>    APIs and therefore to assistive tech.  It essentially defines the  
>> default
>>    ARIA behavior of SVG.  There have been a number of fixes and  
>> clarifications
>>    since the last working draft, in response to feedback from  
>> implementers.
>>    We have also changed the default role mappings to use new  
>> graphics-specific
>>    roles.
>>
>>    - Current Editor's Draft  
>> http://w3c.github.io/aria/svg-aam/svg-aam.html
>>       - Previous Working Draft (from last November):
>>       https://www.w3.org/TR/svg-aam-1.0/
>>
>>       - WAI-ARIA Graphics Module.  This defines 3 new graphics-specific
>>    ARIA roles, so we don't have to call everything in SVG a "group" for  
>> lack
>>    of a better term.  There haven't been any major changes since the  
>> last
>>    working draft, just some general clean-up.  The main change is that  
>> the
>>    SVG-AAM now uses these roles!
>>
>>    - Current Editor's Draft http://w3c.github.io/aria/aria/graphics.html
>>       - Previous Working Draft (from last December)
>>       https://www.w3.org/TR/graphics-aria-1.0/
>>
>>       - Graphics Accessibility API Mappings.  This defines how the new
>>    graphics roles should be exposed to the accessibility APIs.  This  
>> will be a
>>    first working draft, and it is currently incomplete. We are  
>> consulting with
>>    people who work on the various APIs about how best to describe  
>> complex
>>    graphics in each API; they may need to introduce new roles in their
>>    system.  Nonetheless, the task force agrees that having at least a  
>> rough
>>    draft published will help move things along.  It also means that the
>>    updated versions of the previous specs can be published without  
>> having
>>    broken links to a non-existent spec!
>>
>>    - Current Editor's Draft
>>       http://w3c.github.io/aria/graphics-aam/graphics-aam.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 June 2016 at 00:33, Nikos Andronikos <
>> Nikos.Andronikos@cisra.canon.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please add any agenda requests for this week’s telcon to the wiki
>>> https://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/WG/wiki/Agenda
>>>
>>> Or add the ‘on agenda’ label to a GitHub issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Nikos.
>>
>>


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