Weekly Resolved & Rejected Bugs Report

Hello Everyone,

Since the last report we have had:

5 WONTFIX bug resolutions. Details are in section 1.
1 NEEDSINFO bug resolution. Details are in section 2.
1 FIXED bug resolution. Details are in section 3.
1 ASSIGNED  bug resolution. Details are in section 4.
2 NEW a11y bug reported. Details are in section 5.
2 ESCALATED BUGS. Details are in section 6.

14 total NEW a11y bugs existed on November 12, 2010. A November 12 NEW
bug snapshot is at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/New_A11Y_Bug_Snapshot_20101112

A backlog of 77 a11y bugs on the HTML5 Spec await task force decision
of whether to apply the a11ytf keyword or not. Details are in section
12.

Details are as follows.


1. WONTFIX BUGS:

1.1 Bug 10066: "replace section 3.2.6 with the alternative spec text
provided (ARIA)" reported by Steve Faulkner.
Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Ian's Rationale: "there is no problem here"
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_activity.cgi?id=10066

1.2 Bug 10642: "No alternative text description for video key frame
(poster)" reported by Everett Zufelt.
Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Ian's Rationale: "The request here is just cargo-cult accessibility
and would not actually improve the life of any users, while costing
authors in wasted time and effort."
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10642

1.3 Bug 10661: "use an ISO 639-2 specified language for HTML5
documents" reported by Gregory J. Rosmaita.
Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Ian's Rationale: "there is no problem here"
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10661

1.4 Bug 10723: "Support for media fragment URIs in relevant HTML5
elements" reported by Silvia Pfeiffer.
Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: "I'm closing this on the basis that it's out of scope for
the HTML spec and should be handled by the URI and video format
specs."
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10723

1.5 Bug 10903: "Provide an introduction to wai-aria in the wai aria
section of the spec" reported by Steve Faulkner.
Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Ian's Rationale: "The chairs never got around to resolving their side
of this, so I'll just close this without change. This will likely end
up being done as part of that issue anyway."
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_activity.cgi?id=10903


2. NEEDSINFO BUGS:

2.1 Bug 8716: "Replace img Guidance for Conformance Checkers with
Suggested Text for Short Text Alternatives" reported by Laura Carlson.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8716
Status: Did Not Understand Request
Change Description: no spec change
Ian's Rationale: "I don't understand. Could you elaborate?"
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=8716


3. FIXED BUGS:

3.1 Bug 9471: "Introduce declarative markup to associate timed text
resources with media elements" reported by SSilvia Pfeiffer
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9471
Status: Accepted
Change Description: It's big.
Ian's Rationale: "I did what the chairs asked me to do.
no check-in provided."


4. ASSIGNED BUGS:

4.1 Bug 9452: "Handling of additional tracks of a multitrack
audio/video resource" reported by Silvia Pfeiffer.
Ian's comment: "It's way too early to do multitrack.."
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9452#c6
Maciej's comment: "I think implementers are at the point where we are
ready to add support for descriptive audio and the like, whether or
not it's in the spec (in addition to captions and text-to-speech
descriptive audio). It would be helpful if the spec gave guidance on
how to do that implementation work."
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9452#c7


5. NEW BUGS:

5.1 Bug 10660: "use < and > and not &#8592; and &#8594; to indicate
previous and next" reported by Gregory J. Rosmaita.
This  week Ian marked this bug WONTFIX. Gregory reopened it. Ian then
reset it to being "NEW".
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10660

5.2 Bug 11279: "The 'assigned access key' section doesn't seem to know
if it's a definition or a requirement. Should probably be rephrased to
more correctly use RFC2119." reported by contributor@whatwg.org.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11279


6. ESCALATED BUGS:

6.1 Bug 10642: "No alternative text description for video key frame
(poster)" reported by Everett Zufelt was escalated to HTML WG ISSUE
142.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10642
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/142

6.2 Bug 10963: "Table prohibited from being used as a layout aid"
reported by Rich Schwerdtfeger was escalated to HTML WG ISSUE 130.
Change proposals are due by December 10, 2010.
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=10963
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/130
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Nov/0161.html


7. "A11yTF" KEYWORD BACKLOG:

We currently have 77 HTML5 Spec bugs awaiting task force decision of
whether to apply the a11ytf keyword or not.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Bugs_Awaiting_A11yTF_Keyword_Decision

One bug on document "HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text
alternatives Bugs" awaits task force decision. Michael(tm) Smith is
editor of that document.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Bugs_Awaiting_A11yTF_Keyword_Decision#HTML:_The_Markup_Language_Reference_Bugs_Awaiting_Decision

One bug on document "HTML Working Group Decision Policy" awaits task
force decision. Maciej Stachowiak, Paul Cotton, Sam Ruby are the
editors of that document.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Bugs_Awaiting_A11yTF_Keyword_Decision#HTML_Working_Group_Decision_Policy_Bugs_Awaiting_Decision

No bugs on document on the document "HTML5: Techniques for providing
useful text alternatives Bugs" await task force decision. Steve
Faulkner is editor of that document.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Bugs_Awaiting_A11yTF_Keyword_Decision#Text_Alternatives_Techniques_Bugs_Awaiting_Decision


8. RELATED REFERENCES:

Weekly Resolved and Rejected Bugs Reports Archive
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Weekly_Resolved_and_Rejected_Bugs_Reports

A11y Resolved Bug Comparisons:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/html5bugchart/

New Bug Snapshots
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/New_A11Y_Bug_Snapshot

Backlog of Bugs Awaiting "A11yTF" Keyword Decision
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Bugs_Awaiting_A11yTF_Keyword_Decision

"A11yTF" Keyword Criteria (Draft)
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/KeywordCriteria

Bug Status Table:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs#Bug_Status_Table

Escalating a Bug to an Issue:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Bugs/Escalating_a_Bug_to_an_Issue

Accessibility Change Proposal Status Table:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Accessibility_Change_Proposal_Status

Best Regards,
Laura

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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Saturday, 13 November 2010 15:56:17 UTC