Text & Wording Meeting Minutes Jan 7, Week 1

Thanks for joining our first call today as we work to setup our new context and scope.

As agreed on last year, this email will start with our next steps followed by the minutes.


Next Steps

  *   Read preview version of our three subsections<https://deploy-preview-414--wcag3.netlify.app/guidelines/> and add comments to the google-doc versions?

  *   Identify terms we need to create definitions for and add to “Definitions” tab of Text and Wording doc<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nXQ6dOhGRsr74j8saix2FlB-DZagRsPraKZyNd-G6QU/edit?userstoinvite=alpinerlb%40gmail.com&tab=t.9qrcolj9rgzq>— placeholders needed by Jan 18th.

  *   Len: Internationalization outreach

  *   Agenda item for January 14th: Should our subgroup create a slack channel?

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Attendees: Julie, Len, John T, John K, Jeremy, Kimberly, Carrie

Summary

We began with introductions to help welcome and orient our new member Jeremy.

Julie summarized how Accessibility Guidelines (AG) activities concluded the year, noting that all Guidelines Test feedback has been incorporated into the upcoming WCAG 3.0 draft. A survey has been sent to AG members to gather feedback on the new draft, with significant concerns expected to surface as GitHub issues.

This week:

  *   short names for requirements are currently being revised to follow a {object} {goal} pattern (e.g., “image detectable,” “text resizable,” note that this wording is not final).

  *   some requirements may be reassigned to different groups for better alignment; for example,

     *   text appearance may move to the User Control group

     *   Text Contrast (Minimum), may move to a contrast‑focused subgroup

Our subgroup is responsible for completing unfinished requirements newly assigned to us, including expanding language‑specific characteristics beyond English (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Russian).

We should be on the look out for missing or unclear definitions in all three subsections. New terms such as “nested clauses” and potentially “common words” require group review, definition, and refinement. See the tab New definitions<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nXQ6dOhGRsr74j8saix2FlB-DZagRsPraKZyNd-G6QU/edit?tab=t.9qrcolj9rgzq#heading=h.8vd4d0jgk8mk> in this document.

Internationalization considerations were discussed. While the current scope is limited to five languages, we know that people will be asking about languages not on our list.

Len offered to begin identifying contacts to help complete language characteristic tables.

Full meeting minutes (from IRC) can be found here<https://www.w3.org/2026/01/07-text-and-wording-minutes.html>.




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Len Beasley, CPACC, (He, Him)
Domain Expert, Accessibility & Inclusive Design
W3C Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, COGA Task Force

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