Minutes from February 21, 2006 team b meeting

February 21, 2006 Team B Meeting Minutes
Attendees:  John, Loretta, Roberto Scano, Bengt, Becky

Ben has asked us to add a line to the status of each technique which has 
been approved and add "Ready for XML" to the status section.

John believes all of the 1.3.1 HTML techniques except for the new ones 
from Yvette have been accepted.

Add strong and em and blockquote techniques to the 1.3.1 list (will exist 
in both 1.3.1 and 1.3.3).
ACTION: Becky to add the links in 1.3.1 - DONE.


Loretta proposes removing the "Failure due to including hierarchical lists 
in simple text content" technique.  Due to the fact that we have not 
worked through the issues for text lists enough to dive into this.  Group 
agrees - this failure will be removed.

Discuss "Using semantic elements to mark up structure" technique. Concerns 
about the testing procuedure - will people understand what "semantic 
function" means. ACTION: John to email Yvette and ask for a definition of 
semantic function and possibly some references. Bengt will send some 
references to the team b list. 

Discussed, "Failure due to using the pre element to markup tabular 
information". Added the <pre> and </pre> to the example.  Group agrees 
this is ready for survey. 

Will survey technique, "Using the p element".

2.4.5
Agree to remove, "Providing a meaningful name to identify frames." as a 
sufficient technique. 
Discussed, "Using the title attribute of the frame element".  Agreed to 
remove it from 2.4.4, leave it in 2.4.5 and keep it in 2.4.3 and add it to 
2.4.6. 

Will propose, "Failure do to image and text links with the same href 
attribute in different table cells with identical alt and link text." 
technique. This will close issue 226.  ACTION Loretta to write this 
failure.

Discussed, "Providing alternate text for images in links" techniques. 
Issue was raised that using just the alt attribute does not help visual 
users, since Firefox does not display the alt attribute on mouse over. 
Firefox displays the title on mouseover.  Added this to the Assistive 
technology section.  Group agrees to survey this technique. 

Group agrees that, "Providing alternative text for the area element," is 
ready to survey.

For each technique being surveyed we will add the date of the survey into 
the status section. 

Discussed, "Supplementing link text with the title attribute." Team B is 
concerned that this SC now allows "click here" links as long as the text 
near each "click here" fully describes the link.  Thus, don't quite know 
how to address this technique. Will leave technique as is.  Updated the 
test section.  Group agrees to survey this technique. 


Discussed, "using inline definitions" technique.  Group discussed 
Christophe's suggestion to rename this technique  to "providing defintions 
in context" but decided to keep the current technique title. We felt that 
inline was an understood term and was adequately discussed in the 
technique itself. 

Group agreed to survey the 1.3 technques that have not yet been surveyed 
and to re-survey the updated ones. 


Becky Gibson
Web Accessibility Architect
                                                       
IBM Emerging Internet Technologies
5 Technology Park Drive
Westford, MA 01886
Voice: 978 399-6101; t/l 333-6101
Email: gibsonb@us.ibm.com

Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2006 20:08:38 UTC