[math-on-web] a11y TF meeting minutes, 2018/07/30

Hi everyone,

Here are the minutes from the first meeting of the accessibility task force
this week.

Best,
Peter.


# Accessibility TF meeting, 2018/07/30

* present: Peter, Joanie, Charles, Steve, Kevin
* regrets: Volker

* getting started: recap a11y workshop
* Charles: I was working on a blog post and followed up with Sina on
video&audio from workshop "Room 4"
  * but got sidetracked
  * were there any other?
* Peter: I did one on custom aria attributes (Joanie's suggestion that we
didn't get around to)
  * I plan one for Volker&David
  * workshop report at https://aimath.org/pastworkshops/webmath.html
* There's https://github.com/w3c/mathonwebpages/issues/35
  * https://github.com/zorkow/AIM-Workshop/issues/13
* Joanie: I did some more triage
  * aria#659 (SSML) crossed out b/c APA meeting decided to incubate this
    * so should be happening but not in ARIA land
  * aria#660: what roles do we need to support math
    * possible tasks: do we need roles/states/properties and if yes, which
ones?
  * this could be a major work item for this task force
  * we don't have anything but math role but that's is useless
    * maybe add something for fraction/numerator/denominator
* Charles: so if we had fraction roles that would work automatically for
MatHML
* Joanie: we'd probably need a separate spec, a Math AAM
  * that would be a spec that would tell the a11y APIs
  * then it would be independent of markup format
  * I'd work with whoever is tasked to write a spec-like thing

* Peter: ACTION the minutes should reflect that there is need for people to
work on this

* Peter: about aria#765
  * that's a big missing piece I think
  * Joanie: I'll keep an eye on this
  * Peter: anything else we can do?  searching for more use cases?
  * Joanie: there's the ruby test example from my co-chair
  * ETS may have examples as well
* Charles: aria#767 is that personalization?
  * Joanie: I commented that I don't think it is
  * Charles: so personalization perhaps later
* Charles: the others we discussed at workshop?
  * Peter: in AIMworkshop#13, further down
* Joanie: things like live region just need implementation, no real spec
work
* Joanie: Jim Nurthen targeted braille input for ARIA 2.0
  * that may seem far away but we have to be realistic in scope, since W3C
timelines are what they are
* Charles: we have a direct interest via our editor
  * Joanie: member reps should be vocal
* Peter: thinking about default walkers for ARIA grid or tree like ARIA
table
  * [communications breakdown]
* Charles: how would we proceed with roles/states/properties?
  * Joanie: start with a list
  * then we can start discussing these with WG
  * take spec template
* Charles: can as CG work with respec?
  * Joanie: I'd say don't worry  about it right now.
  * Charles: would need a math person for this
* Joanie: will be two specs due to mappings
* Dani: also interested
* Charles: can we use the next meeting for this?
  * sounds good.