Re: AUWG Concall February 20, 2006

Belated regrets - today is Presidents Day -  a Federal holiday in the US..
Thanks and best wishes
Tim Boland NIST

PS - I will be attending the W3C Technical Plenary next week .. Is there 
anything you want me to bring up from the perspective of the AUWG?  

Quoting Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>:

> 
> AUWG Con Call
> Monday, February 20, 2006
> 4:00 pm EST
> 
> Attendees
> 
> Barry Feigebaum (BF)
> Greg Pisocky (GP)
> Jan Richards (JR) Today's Chair
> Roberto Scanlon (RS)
> Jutta Treviranus (JT)
> 
> Action Items indicated by AI:
> 
> New Topic discussion prior to regular agenda:
> 
> Relationship between ATAG and AJAX and other content technologies that
> are rich, web apps with the look and feel of desktop apps.
> 
> BF: I know about AJAX,
> 
> JR: How this began, a user agent session on AJAX, because there is
> concern about the accessibility of rich internet applications for
> technologies such as AJAX allow. There should be a flow through effect.
> 
> BF: A major part of AJAX dynamic HTML meaning GUIs that reconfigure
> themselves based on events. All of this is created by dynamic
> Javascript. It's not the content but derivative of the execution of the
> content. The other dimension of AJAX is the dynamic nature of fetching
> new content. Continuously going back to the server and getting new web
> page content in chunks as needed. The user agents don't have any way to
> notice that any of this is happening. IBM is currently working with
> Firefox.
> 
> JR: If it gets into WCAG in an intelligent way, there could be some
> techniques we could embark upon from there. That's one of the things I
> want to talk about on this call, is how to move the techniques along.
> 
> Agenda:
> 
> 1. Comments on draft - so far we have:
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2005OctDec/0055.html
> 
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2005OctDec/0042.html
> 
> (Already addressed)
> 
> -EO has a batch that should be coming soon.
> 
> Judy has indicated
> 
> -BF says IBM comments coming soon.
> 
> I have some, do you want what I have or wait until all of them have been
> collected.
> 
> Overall sense:
> 
> There appears to be some confusion of relative priorities. Perhaps our
> explanation could be clearer.
> 
> Disagreement with our current priorities, since 2s should be 1s that
> sort of thing.
> 
> Issues around language. Make terminology consistent with WCAG
> 
> Those are some of the general categories.
> 
> -other members have been encouraged to collect input from within their
> organizations as well.
> 
> GP: Circulating about Adobe.
> 
> Note: when asking others for input, use most recent internal draft:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2005/WD-ATAG20-20051216/WD-ATAG20-20051216.html
> 
> 
> 
> 2. Report on technique development
> 
> - JR and TB are working on this.
> 
> JR: Tim and Jan are taking a stab at this. Some are text oriented, some
> with screenshots. Attempting to create a consistent format. Tim is
> detail oriented, perhaps a long document. We need to include others, get
> something else up soon.
> 
> GP: People would be in a better position to contribute if they could
> refer to a framework they could comment upon.
> 
> AI:
> 
> JR will update the current techniques. Within the week expand the work
> back into groupspace.
> 
> 3. Publishing plans - heartbeat requirement means another publication is
> probably needed before the end of March - most likely the Techniques.
> 
> JR: We have a requirement to publish every few months. Last time was
> December was guidelines. We should publish techniques next.
> 
> 4. F2F Ideas
> 
> -RS has proposed Venice
> 
> -TB has suggested NIST
> 
> JT: When were we thinking of scheduling the next one?
> 
> JR: At least the last week in April.
> 
> AI:
> 
> JR to Email rest of group, propose the possibility of Venice - April 24 - 29
> 
> AI:
> 
> Roberto to check meeting place availability that week.
> 
> JR: Tim has suggested NIST in DC as well.
> 
> JT: Let's post the list
> 
> JR: Next meeting 2 weeks from today will be March 6.
> 
> BF: That will also be the day final comments are due.
> 
> Action Items Summary:
> 
> JR will update the current techniques. Within the week expand the work
> back into groupspace.
> JR to Email rest of group, propose the possibility of Venice - April 24 - 29
> RS to check meeting place availability that week.
> 
> 
>

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