Agenda: March 24, 2014 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus

Agenda: March 24, 2014 WAI-PF ARIA Caucus

Time of meeting is 1:00PM EST, 17:00 UTC, duration is 1.5 hours
Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, conference 92473 ("WAIPF")

IRC: server: irc.w3.org, port: 6665, channel: #aria.

- Identify Scribe

- A huge thanks to the WAI-ARIA accessibility task force for ARIA 1.0
becoming a standard! A lot of excitement at the CSUN conference.
  - Announcement: http://www.w3.org/2014/03/aria.html.en
  - Blog Post:
http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/03/wai-aria-expands-web-accessibility/
  - CSUN Hackathon on ARIA support across browsers and ATs. (Waiting on
results)
  - Comcast is using WAI-ARIA in their set top boxes.
  - Happy Hour quote from Aaaron Leventhal at the conference: "Rich I never
thought it becoming a standard would be that big of a deal. It really is."
  - Al Gilman (former PF chair) quote on the phone: "I was so glad I
recognized this was the right horse to ride."
  - Rich: Thank you all for the special acknowledgements in the ARIA spec.
Aaron, Al, and I were surprised and honored.

OK - Back to work :-)

- User Agent Implementation Guide - Quick coordination discussion.
- Dominic Mazzoni (Google) request - Wants to form an effort to deal with
ID references from DOM to WebComponent (
http://www.w3.org/TR/components-intro/) subdom. How to handle
(process-wise).   e.g.: You can't do use aria-activedescendant to reference
an id in a descendant of a web component.

- ARIA 1.1 Meaty Issue

- Table Semantics proposal - Jon Gunderson for (Issues 3 and 423)
 - Proposal:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-pfwg/2014Mar/0071.html
 - https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/3
 - https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/423
- Issue 523 (searchbox/searchfield role):
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/523


- ARIA 1.1 Less Meaty Issues

- Issue 526 (allow non-global states to be use without an aria role) :
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/526
- Issue 561 (introduce a placeholder attribute for custom text fields):
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/561
- Issue 605 Menu item should not support the selected state
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/issues/605

References:

ARIA Test Plan Action Items:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/products/5

UAIG Open Actions and Issues:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/products/10

ARIA Test Report:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/testharness/testreport?testsuite_id=1

Use Cases for Extended Descriptions:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/wiki/Use_Cases_for_Extended_Descriptions

ARIA 1.1 Open Actions and Issues:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/Group/track/products/17

Minutes Last Meeting:
http://www.w3.org/2014/03/17-aria-minutes.html


Rich Schwerdtfeger