Re: [WAI CC] WAI Coordination Call, Meeting Reminder, March 23 2022, 18:00 UTC (2pm Boston)

Hi Judy, all,

Regrets for today, though I can provide some input from CSUN (and an update about the minutes from the LE call we had the week before CSUN)...


// 1/3: Meet-ups, authoring tools and semantics delivery mechanisms

I really enjoyed meeting Rachael, Chuck and several other people from WAI, including Lionel who's one of the Personalization TF chairs. As part of one of our meetings, we found out about some work from academia that may relate to Personalization, called the Easy Reading project [1] from some long-term academic colleagues of mine (whom it was also lovely to re-meet). The EU project is actually one that may be familiar to several WAI members (as W3C was a member) and also involved Prof. Klaus Miesenberger's team from Linz. We had an interesting conversation with Klaus about the allocation of responsibilities (in terms of making content accessible) between content authors, AT (such as the one developed in this project) and guidelines such as WCAG.

Feedback arising from our talk about the Personalization TF's work (which was essentially our TPAC 2021 talk, introducing people to the spec and seeking feedback) was largely very positive, but that same topic, of the burden we're [optionally] placing on authors by asking them to mark up their content with our new attributes, came up. It's something we're aware of, and continue to work on. One way to lessen this burden would be to have authoring tools that guide the content author in adding these extra semantics that we're proposing, so it's much easier for them to do so.

Bringing it back to what could be relevant for the WAI call: In, IIRC, Personalization or APA-plan this week, we discussed how we might lessen that authoring burden. One way would be to look into harmonising our approaches for delivering semantics across specs, so complementary specs, could have similar delivery mechanisms. This could make both hand-authoring, and machine-based authoring, simpler. It's a long-term thing, but seems like something that could be discussed/tracked on the WAI calls at some point? (HT Janina for the idea of tracking this in some forum, long-term.)


// 2/3: XR

I also met several people who're working with XR (from the XRAccess [2] group within the XR Association (XRA)). I gather there's a lot of collaboration (and overlap in terms of membership) between W3C and XRA. It was good for me to become more aware of those connections, and meet some of the people working on this. I also met, though the XR folk, a company that may be interested in our Personalization work, and discussed with a couple of the XRAccess people how Personalization's work may be useful in XR too.


// 3/3: W3C LE call minutes

Finally: we're still working on the minutes for the LE call. We addressed your immediate concerns, Judy, straight after the meeting (in conversation with Léonie), but then it became apparent that the W3C IRC web client had accepted lines longer than the Scribe script would accept when creating the minutes, so some of the minutes got cut off. Janina sent me the IRC log, which I am going to use to fill in the minutes—I just wasn't able to before CSUN.

Best regards,


Matthew

[1] https://www.easyreading.eu/
[2] https://xraccess.org/

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On 23/03/2022, 16:00, "Judy Brewer" <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:

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    Dear All:

    With apologies for the late meeting reminder and agenda, we are scheduled to meet today. 


    Please note the meeting time, as we're in an in-between week on daylight savings changeover.


    The agenda is below. Please let me know if you're unable to make the meeting.


    CALL TIME: Wednesday, March 23 2:00-3:00pm EDT, 18:00 UTC <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210421T14&p1=43&ah=1>https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220323T14&p1=43&ah=1

    Zoom Videoconferencing details: 
        Zoom meeting room id: 960-166-519
        Additional details on calling are available here:
        https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_waicc 

    For any difficulties logging into the Zoom call, please request details from a *side channel* in the following IRC channel #waicc ,  or email me. 

    Previous min https://www.w3.org/2022/02/23-waicc-minutes <https://www.w3.org/2022/01/26-waicc-minutes> 
    AGENDA: 

    agenda+ Scribe, rssagent, any agenda additions? (Please put present+ in IRC)
    agenda+ Updates: publication plans, announcements https://www.w3.org/WAI/cc/wiki/WAI_Announcement_Drafts

    agenda+ Checking: New work under development? Status on cross-WAI review requests?
    agenda+ Themes and trends impacting your groups from either CSUN or Axe-Con last week?
    agenda+ Updated travel & TPAC & disability-safe hybrid considerations & chair survey deadline: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/chairs/2022JanMar/0021.html


    agenda+ Promoting "What's new at WAI" page https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-cc/2022Mar/0001.html


    Talk with you soon. 
    Best, 

    - Judy

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