[math-on-web] a11y TF meeting minutes, 2017/04/10

Hi everyone,

below are the minutes from the a11y task force meeting this week.

Best,
Peter.

# math on web CG -- a11y TF

* Updates.
  * Peter: continued work on deep labels
    * more examples
    * more focused on SVG but should
    * more recordings by Thursday, expect to confirm the validity
    * one problem: tables mathJax svg vs commonthml
      * ARIA 1.1 table-related roles should help
  * Peter: also got an update from Jason Meryll
    * where he described their work
    * ACTION: ask Jason to make it public
      * then reference on website
  * Volker: from last CG meeting: hacked around with speech API
    * prosidy support via SSML in speech synthesis API
    * several tests
    * no SSML support
    * though VoiceOer had some specialized markup (see minutes)
    * working on next few examples
* Peter: role=math
  * not much feedback from CG outside of a11y TF - which may have been
obvious
  * Volker: at w4a a11y hackathon, nobody even knew the role existed
  * Peter: fun fact: James Craig mentioned that the role was derived from
image role (which makes sense given the time)
  * Peter: from MathJax end, we could delay until we get to working on
turning deep labels into something for production
  * Peter: given Daniel's comments from last TF meeting, maybe the groups
recommendation should be to deprecate role=math.
  * ACTION: ask CG for a recommendation
    * point out that there are features that would help but that role-math
serves no purpose
* Volker: some people are opposed to aria-labels
* Peter: new roles in ARIA 1.1
  * e.g., table related roles
  * e.g., roledescription
    * Kevin: could be used to specify role='Math'
      * Peter: right, argument to say that role is no longer necessary
        * but also reversely: role='math' with roledescription='physisc'
could argue "against" Daniel's concern.
* Volker: will post some examples