Minutes from User Agent Teleconference for 29 May 2008

Minutes:
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/29-ua-minutes.html

Actions:

ACTION: JS Add "Flow" to glossary

ACTION: JR to Edit 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0072.html to 
remove "horizontal"

ACTION: JA will go through UAAG2 and look at places concerned with 
revealing alternates

Full Text:
Printing in a user agent
JA: No commenting yet on succes criteia...
... Then some work on "passive reflow"

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0117.html

And the SC: 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0072.html

DH: Defintion of flow looks fine

<scribe> ACTION: JS Add "Flow" to glossary [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/29-ua-minutes.html#action01]

JA: OK on to the printing success criteria

<scribe> ACTION: JR to Edit 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0072.html to 
remove "horizontal" [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/29-ua-minutes.html#action02]

JS: Key thing is to say "appropriate with the language"

JA: I think if you review it...most of the text is in the flow defintion 
so this can be simplified

JR: OK

<jeanne> "Print Scale: If a print from viewport feature is provided,

<jeanne> the user has the option of printing using the viewport's scale 
settings

<jeanne> such that the user agent should attempt to *passively reflow* the

<jeanne> content into the horizontal dimensions of paper. If passive 
reflow is

<jeanne> not possible, more than one sheet of paper will be required 
horizontally.

JA: Then were we say the reflow is not possible, the same

DH: ok...but looks like I need to get on irc
... OK with basic requirement

<jeanne> JS: Ok

3. Establish a process for how UAWG determines success criteria level 
forUAAG2
JA: Brought up by Kelly...
... Looked at WCAG2...
... In UAAG1 my rememberance is just that it was thrashed out in 
group...if something would "really" cause problems it was an A
... Barrier to some is AA
... Nice to do become AAA

JR: Explains the WAI 1.0 vs 2.0 levels

So Level A...no work around for user

DH: What do you mean by "barrier" at level AA

JA: Level AA is nuanced thing...if don't do it...things are difficult 
but not stonewalled

JR: Points out that "reasonably be achieved" usually comes into it

JA: We should try to harmonize with WCAG

JR: ATAG not fully worked out yet
... I suggest UAAG harmonizes with WCAG
... Reads from 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20080430/conformance.html

"Understanding Levels of Conformance"

DH: Any one concerned about testable by machine or human
... Concerned about machine testing

<AllanJ> JR: explains machine testing,

JR: Thinks that UA context would mainly be human testing

JA: WCAG thinking about accessible content testing
... Don't think we could do this in UA

<AllanJ> JR: talking about accessibility of web application

<AllanJ> ... tools can inspect the web application

<AllanJ> ... UAAG has requirement to provide a "list of link"

<AllanJ> ... not sure a machine can do this, but a human can determine 
if list is available

JR: Would think a couple people for ac ouple weeks could test a browser

oops that was JR

JA: So WCAG fully baked?...
... Don't know if we will creat an "Understanding UAAG"...
... Maybe for our own internal use we can use the 13 page version...
... We should inform our discussion of levels from WCAG's 13 page 
version...but when we actually write UAAG2's conf section we'll try to 
be shorter

4. Future directions
JA: We have the"Keyboard access" thing...
... But think that needs more work;...
... Then we have the UA and video peice

DH: WHat meant by video?

JA: Right now video treated as plugin...we talk about passing control...etc.
... In HTML5 video will become more native...so more issues come up: 
captions, text track
... Our placeholder text needs to be cleaned up
... I was thinking the browser should provide a standard widget set 
around video

DH: Yeah...if its native it shouldn't be on screen readers to handle the 
scripting
... Prob a pretty hot topic

JA: Yes

<AllanJ> JR: ALT issue, give background.

<AllanJ> ... a request for feedback to XTECH and HTML5 from UAWG

JA: So from user agent...we're going to reveal to user agent what's 
important...
... Up to HTML5 to decide how to store what's important...

<AllanJ> JR: doesn't want ambiguity in the HTML5 spec.

JA: And in HTML5 there is a cascading layer 
thing....legends...containing imgs etc.

<AllanJ> JR: don't think a big deal. @alt to be alternate representation 
of the image, e.g. image of iceberg, @alt - iceberg floating in ocean, 
<legend> if it uses the same language

<AllanJ> ... then only reveal one, if they are different then reveal both

JA: This is a screen reder repair issue...alt="" is decorative, no alt 
triggers repair

<scribe> ACTION: JA will go through UAAG2 and look at places concerned 
with revealing alternates [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2008/05/29-ua-minutes.html#action03]

DH: Maybe I will try and get James Craig involved.

JA: Great...there's process things to do.




Cheers,
Jan




Jim Allan wrote:
> User Agent Teleconference for 29 May 2008
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Chair: Jim Allan
> Date: Thursday, 29 May 2008
> Time: 2:00-3:00 pm Boston Local Time, USA (19:00-20:00 UTC/GMT)
> Call-in: Zakim bridge at: +1-617-761-6200, code 82941# for UK use
> 44-117-370-6152
> IRC: sever: irc.w3.org, port: 6665, channel: #ua.
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Agenda:
> 
> 0. Regrets, agenda requests, or comments to the list
> 
> 1. Choose a scribe
> 
> 2. Printing in a user agent
> 	- open proposal for new success criteria	
> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0072.html
> 
> 	- open proposal for definition of 'passive reflow'	
> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0117.html 
> 
> 3. Establish a process for how UAWG determines success criteria level for
> UAAG20. 
> 	From WCAG 2.0 -
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20080430/conformance.html#
> uc-levels-head 
> 	From ATAG 2.0 - http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#intro-org-sc-levels 
> 
> 4. Future directions: We currently have 2 additional items that need
> resolution
> 	a. Keyboard access controls visibility. Accelerator keys, shortcut
> keys, and their presence in the user interface.
> 	- Open proposal - 
> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0042.html
> 
> 	Does this proposal take into account the issues that we've raised so
> far, and does it align with terminology that we've been discussing?
>   
> 	b. UA and Video - we put place holder text in the working draft.
> Need to review issues and craft success criteria if necessary.
> 	- current summary -
> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008JanMar/0047.html
> 	- Jan's comments
> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008AprJun/0087.html
> 
> 	Please send your suggestions on current UAAG20 mappings, proposed
> success criteria, or other comments to the list.
> 
> 
> Jim Allan, Webmaster & Statewide Technical Support Specialist
> Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
> 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756
> voice 512.206.9315    fax: 512.206.9264  http://www.tsbvi.edu/
> "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Jan Richards, M.Sc.
User Interface Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
Faculty of Information Studies
University of Toronto

   Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca
   Web:   http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
   Phone: 416-946-7060
   Fax:   416-971-2896

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