Report from the AUWG 25-27 April 2007 F2F in McLean, VA

This is a report of the AUWG's progress at our recent F2F.

Judy, Michael: I'm cc'ing you due to the important document coordination 
steps taken at the meeting, most important of which is moving ATAG 2.0 
to the same multi-priority level structure as WCAG.

Agenda: http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2007/apr2007_meeting.html#agn


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Day 1: 25 April 2007
Participants: Jutta Treviranus (Chair of group), Jan Richards (Acting 
Staff Contact), Greg Pisocky, Tim Boland, Barry Feigenbaum (by phone)

- Agreed to reformat Guidelines as WCAG has done, with 3 levels of 
success criteria per guideline (ATAG used to use the term checkpoint)

- Agreed on proposal to allow Benchmarks other than WCAG 1.0 and 2.0

- Agreed to rename benchmark to "Web Content Accessibility Benchmark" 
from "Content Type Specific WCAG Benchmark".

- Agreed to reworking of "PRINCIPLE A.1: Authoring tool must facilitate 
access by assistive technologies" to include "Guideline A.1.1 For the 
authoring tool user interface, ensure that Web-based functionality is 
accessible."

- Reviewed and updated all guidelines for "PRINCIPLE A.2: Authoring Tool 
User Interface must be Perceivable", "PRINCIPLE A.3: Authoring Tool User 
Interface must be Operable" and "PRINCIPLE A.4: Authoring Tool User 
Interface must be Understandable"

- Decided "Guideline A.3.3 For the authoring tool user interface, permit 
author control of time limits." should be rewritten to reflect WCAG changes.

DRAFT AFTER DAY 1:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2007/WD-ATAG20-20070425/WD-ATAG20-20070425.html


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Day 2: 26 April 2007
Participants: Jutta Treviranus (Chair of group), Jan Richards (Acting 
Staff Contact), Greg Pisocky, Tim Boland, Barry Feigenbaum (by phone)

- Agreed on new form for "Techniques" links to reduce document length.

- A new guideline "Guideline B.2.5 Assist authors to communicate the 
accessibility status of content" is suggested and agreed upon with 
tentative success criteria.

- Reviewed and updated all guidelines in "Part B Support the production 
of accessible content".

DRAFT AFTER DAY 2:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2007/WD-ATAG20-20070426/WD-ATAG20-20070426.html


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Day 3: 27 April 2007
Participants: Jan Richards (Acting Chair, Acting Staff Contact), Greg 
Pisocky, Tim Boland, Barry Feigenbaum (by phone)

- Reviewed and updated all guidelines in "PRINCIPLE A.1: Authoring tool 
must facilitate access by assistive technologies".

- Clarified partial conformance levels by clearly enumerating the six 
options.

- Decided against allowing conformance without any checking and repair 
functionality.

- Reworded the interface with WCAG 2.0 due to changes in that document.

- Approved all other Conformance section rewordings - mostly editorial.

- JR and TB to look at adding a disclaimer.

- Reviewed and updated the entire Glossary.

DRAFT AFTER DAY 3:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2007/WD-ATAG20-20070427/WD-ATAG20-20070427.html


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Cheers,
Jan

Received on Monday, 30 April 2007 18:04:06 UTC