WAI Action items

     I'm most interested in the phonetic issues, since we developed the 
     SSIL standard used in the access industry.  However, since I'm not as 
     dedicated to this concept as say, someone like T.V. Raman is, you may 
     want to have the most optimistic view put forth, and then reality 
     folks like me commenting.  
     
     Also, I want to understand the non-W3C issue before jumping into this, 
     since this seems to be an important issue to W3C folks.
     
     Jim Fruchterman


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Subject: WAI Action items
Author:  dd@w3.org
To: w3c-wai-wg@w3.org
Subject: WAI Action items at Internet
Date:    5/30/97 2:44 PM


Hello all
     
Here's the list of action items from the May 22nd WAI technical 
meeting.
     
Now is the time for the Working Group participants to show their 
resource commitment ! (vs. the Interest Group participants).
     
I'd like to come up with an individual assigment sheet within the next 
week or so and I encourage people to discuss details of the work under 
each item on the list (before or after signing up their name).
     
Not being assigned to an item doesn't mean you're out of the WG, of 
course, since there are less action items than list participants :-)
     
I'll list the items and briefly describe the work to be done and ideas 
where to start from (we can discuss exact source materials url later - 
note that the meeting minutes and the WAI list archives are obvious 
sources of information, so I won't mention them below).
     
Each item has a code name for quick future reference.
     
Roughly, I'd like to set a dead-line of end of June for this work.
     
I'd prefer to have only one person's name per item rather than several 
but if people are confident too many cooks will not drop the soup, 
that's fine with me.
     
Here we go.
     
     
- Cougar
     
  It's about making a summary what's new in HTML cougar that is of 
  interest for accessibility and should be considered in the upcoming 
  Markup guidelines work.
     
  Source materials: Most recent HTML spec
     
- LongDesc
     
  One document is the requirement for the dlink (ex dtag) 
  functionality (pointer to long descriptions, non-invasive, now, 
  etc). Another is a document showing a solution with Dlink and css, a 
  solution with Object, etc. 
     
  Source materials: D-tag description at Trace and WGBH.
     
- ICADD
     
  Requirement document on HTML (convention or other) for the support 
  of ICADD DTD functionality in HTML (missing IPP/BPP)
     
  Source materials: ICADD site. 
     
- XML 
     
  Requirement document on XML DTD and documents. Reserved name space 
  for Accessibility attributes and describe a process by which new XML 
  DTDs would have to comply.
     
  Source materials: XML area page (not sure one needs member access here).
     
- Phonetic
     
  Requirement document for Phonetic support in HTML. Another document 
  is a report on IPA suitability and what the speech synthesizer 
  vendor supports.
     
- ACSS
     
  Requirement document about which CSS/ACSS attributes should be part 
  of a minimum accessible user profile where the user-agent can take 
  precedence over the author setting and still have the UA be CSS 
  compliant. Also provide exmaples of ACSS files.
     
  Source materials: ACSS draft.
     
- DOM
     
  Review of DOM spec. See if there are specific Accessibility 
  requirement, both on the DOM work and on its usage (guidelines/usage 
  kind).
     
  Source materials: DOM page 
     
- MATH
     
  Review of Math markup spec. See if there are specific Accessibility 
  requirement, both on the MATH work and on its usage (guidelines/usage 
  kind).
     
  Source materials: MATH page (probably the W3C member site)
     
- HTTP
     
  We need a requirement document about thing that an end-user would 
  want to say to a server in terms of local capacity or 
  preferences. We need to map that onto the HTTP1.1 spec and see if 
  anything is missing.
     
  Source materials: HTTP 1.1 specs.
     
     
     
Next week I need to come up with a clear answer on the
issue of non-W3C-member WAI WG participant access to the W3C member 
site (access to most recent spec, to WAI member site with action 
items, etc) and the visibility of our work and the interest group 
list.

Received on Monday, 2 June 1997 21:54:18 UTC