Summary of action items, resolutions, and open issues from the F2F

Thanks to everyone who attended the face to face meeting last week.

I am still cleaning up the transcript of the meeting, but wanted to get the 
summaries of action items, resolutions, and new issues out to the 
group.  This is available at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2000/10/f2f-minutes.html

Minutes from 5 and 6 October 2000 WCAG WG F2F
Held at HP Labs in Bristol, England.

Summary of action items
·       Action Ian and Wendy: Work on a document on accessibility of 
languages (larger than just DTDs, for example).
·       Action WG: everyone is invited to submit a proposal for what they 
want 1.1 to say.
·       Action WAC: Write up issues raised with checkpoint 1.1, send to list.
·       Action CMN: Write a short paragraph explaining why we need a WCAG 
2.0 (including why we are moving from 14 to 6 guidelines). This paragraph 
will be integrated into the introduction of WCAG 2.0.
·       Action KK: Review public draft and comment on how device info can 
be / should be incorporated.
·       Action Loretta: Produce a draft of PDF techniques to be released 
with the next version (November 17 goal).
·       Action WC: Map WCAG 1.0 checkpoints to WCAG 2.0.
·       Action Katie and GR: Submit a proposal to WG about how test suites 
will be organized. Deadline 20 October.
·       Action LS: Submit bidi test-cases in light of Katie/GR proposal for 
test suites
·       Action CMN: Work with Katie on DATABASE for techniques and 
publication.
·       Action Wendy: After this discussion, send email to chairs list 
about WCAG WG's interest in plenary
·       Action CMN: Post SVG techniques to the list.
·       Action Katie/Loretta: Send PDF techniques to the list.
·       Action CS: Send server-side techs to the list.
·       Action CMN: Look up "constraint-based CSS".
·       Action CMN: Take this requirement to the ATAG WG - provide an 
annotated wcag 2.0 with information about facility of implementing 
requirements in tools.
·       Action Tom: specify which p2 items are prerequisites for p1s.
·       Action Kynn and Marshall to write a questionnaire and submit to the 
WG.
·       Action WAC/WL: Review UA Guidelines 1.0 and coordinate on behalf of 
this WG.

Summary of new open issues
·       Should we ask the public to submit techniques?
·       Consider this proposed requirement: author must not prohibit access 
to content types unless specifically required by user.
·       Redundancies in WCAG 2.0: 2.3, 2.4, and 2.5 (structuring 
information) are all the same.
·       General comment about levels of abstraction in requirements - heads 
up that more or less abstract requirements in three different WAI 
guidelines. Perhaps the WG should try to establish criteria early on for 
determining whether a checkpoint is sufficiently or overly abstract.
·       How do you link between SVG techniques and other techniques?
·       What happens in the case like SVG where there are not legacy user 
agents. How do we deal with that in general?
·       Some exceptions to proper markup - to support older browsers, you 
may need to send invalid or deprecated markup.
·       What if you have content available but don't necessarily for 
display by the content provider (e.g., in a database)?
·       It's not clear when you claim conformance that you are claiming 
conformance for certain user agents.
·       For some proprietary formats, such as PDF, what the author can do 
is dependent on the authoring tool. Is it helpful to classify those? should 
this info be attached to the technique somehow?

Summary of resolutions
·       PF work on the XML Accessibility Guidelines will use the WCAG 2.0 
framework, and work will be done in parallel to our development and also 
done in public.
·       First choice for next meeting is last week of Feb at all-WG 
meeting. Second choice: alongside CSUN (around 20 march) (It's also Claus' 
birthday!)
·       Next meeting feb/mar. Following meeting may in asia.
·       Tentative goal: Nov 2001 Proposed Rec. with meeting in Australia 
(keeping in mind that AC meeting is in France in November).
·       First public working draft to be published November 17, 2000. It 
will address:
·       a mapping to the existing HTML Techniques, CSS Techniques, and Core 
Techniques;
·       An introductory paragraph that explains why a WCAG 2.0 is necessary 
and why we have 6 guidelines rather than 14;
·       a mapping to the checkpoints between WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 1.0;
·       priorities will be inherited from WCAG 1.0. new checkpoints will 
not have a priority (be assigned "Priority X" for now). It needs to be 
clearly stated that priorities are a major open issue for the working group 
and priorities as they appear in this draft are not based on consensus.
·       a first public draft of the PDF Techniques for WCAG will also be 
published at that time.
·       We will aim to have another public working draft out around 
Feb/March (i.e. our next face-to-face meeting).

Participants
·       Cynthia Shelly,
·       Bill Loughborough,
·       Wendy Chisholm,
·       Ian Jacobs,
·       Gregory Rosmaita,
·       Charles McCathieNevile,
·       Kazuhiro Kitagawa,
·       Katie Haritos-Shea,
·       Masafume Nakane,
·       Claus Thøgersen,
·       Dick Brown,
·       Lisa Seeman,
·       Sally Hadland,
·       Jason White,
·       Tom ?,
·       Loretta Guarino Reid,
·       Andrea Snow-Weaver,
·       Gregg Vanderheiden,
·       Daniel Dardailler,
·       Kynn Bartlett

Regrets
·       Marshall Jansen
·       Steve Tyler
·       Pam Hichens



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