Minutes: MathML core meeting on 2 March, 2002

Attendees:

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   David Carisle
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   Neil Soiffer
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   Brian Kardell
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   Rob Buis
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   Bruce Miller
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   Murray Sargent



Agenda:
https://github.com/mathml-refresh/mathml/issues/8#issuecomment-593063040



The meeting was recorded:
https://benetech.zoom.us/rec/share/_sZOd4jMpm1OXInz4mXdBJQHMYS8T6a803QY8vRexK7-TDjghH86Qe2onzRgK3Q

Minimal minuteing for the call today -- mostly just a summary. Listen to
the recording for details.
CSS issues

General discussion - everyone is in agreement that we want to make sure
that the 'right' things happen by default, and also that we don't want to
go super out of the way to stress that every property in CSS *has* to work
in with every MathML element, and we're willing to specify whatever
implementers feel is necessary.  We agree that the answers might differ for
<math>, the container elements (mrow, mfrac, etc), and the token elements,
and that's ok.

We went through the first of the CSS issues and updated their status,
closing some of them and adding/removing labels as appropriate.
Other issuesTabIndexBrian pointed out a weird bit of HTML history that ‘a’
without an ‘href’ has tabIndex=0, but is not focusable. If we followed
that, then all mrow and leaf elements would pick up that behavior. If they
had an ‘href’, then they would also be focusable. Neil is concerned about
how that plays with screen readers. ‘a’ without ‘href’ is likely very
uncommon now, but mrow/leaf elements without href would be common, and
stopping at each element would be bad. He will check to see what NVDA and
JAWS do with the ‘a’ case. Brian to with check with Joanie to see about
Orca.