Minutes for Teleconference on 11 February 2016

Automated WCAG Monitoring Community Group
Teleconference 2016-02-11, 16:00 - 17:25 h (CET)

Participants: Frank, David, Birkir, Wilco (chair), Annika (scribe)

ITEM 1: Action items
See updated list in the wiki [1].


ITEM 2: Next meeting date
The next meeting is on Thu, 2016-03-03, 1600h CET.


ITEM 3: Invite on feedback & participation from tool vendors
Wilco: Suggest to appoint 1-2 participants in auto-wcag to contact tool 
vendors.
Frank: Good idea.
Wilco: Working at deque. Currently implementing some auto-wcag test in 
the deque tools.
Birkir: Most tools do only automated tests. Are they interested in 
auto-wcag (semi-automated tests)?
David: What are the goals of auto-wcag?
Wilco: yes, we cover HTML 5 and mobile accessibility.

List of tools and experts:
* AChecker[2], not contacted yet, not participating in auto-wcag.
* deque aXe [3], participating in auto-wcag
* Tingtun checkers [4], participating in auto-wcag
* SiteImprove [5], not contacted yet, not participating in auto-wcag
* Tanaguru [6], participating in auto-wcag
* Fangs (Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox, hasn't be updated in a 
while, no ARIA support), participating in auto-wcag
* Funka (Do they have their own tool?)
* Functional Accessibility Evaluator [7]
* HTML_CodeSniffer [8]
* TotalValidatorPro [9]

Wilco: Are there other accessibility experts that we could approach?
David: Karl Groves. I could contact him.

Decision: Which vendors/experts should we talk to:
* deque (Birkir)
* Tingtun (Annika)
* SiteImprove (Wilco)
* AChecker (David)
* Tanaguru (Frank)
* Karl Groves (David)

Annika: Invite them to look at the tests and sent feedback on the 
auto-wcag mailing list. And maybe join the group.


ITEM 4: Auto-WCAG workflow
Wilco: suggest do move to github.
David: github works well for other groups. For longer texts / wording 
discussion google docs could be useful.
Wilco: don't see a need to use google docs.
Bikir: how much work it the migration from mediawiki to github?
Wilco: will look into it.


ITEM 5: Review SC2-4-7-focus-in-viewport [10]
Comments by Frank and Annika.
Wilco: ok, the test case will be updated and finalised.


ITEM 6: Review: SC2-2-2-pause-stop-hide
Will be discussed in the next meeting.


ITEM 7: SC1-4-1-a [11]
Frank's comments.
New version to be discussed in next meeting.


ITEM 8: Auto-wcag 2016 workshop
Wilco: Where can we hold a 1-2 day workshop in 2016? Maybe in Germany?
Annika: will look  into it.

ITEM 9: Final thoughts
None.


REFERENCES:

[1] 
https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/index.php?title=Action_items&oldid=2363
[2] http://achecker.ca/
[3] http://www.deque.com/products/axe/
[4] http://checkers.eiii.eu/
[5] http://siteimprove.com/
[6] http://www.tanaguru.com/en/
[7] http://fae20.cita.illinois.edu/
[8] http://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/
[9] https://www.totalvalidator.com/tools/protool.html
[10] 
https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/index.php?title=SC2-4-7-focus-in-viewport&oldid=2343
[11] https://www.w3.org/community/auto-wcag/wiki/SC1-4-1-a

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