Raw minutes from 4 January 2001 UAWG teleconference

4 January 2001 UA Guidelines Teleconference

Agenda:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001JanMar/0005.html

Minutes of previous meeting 21 December:
  http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000OctDec/0430.html

Next meeting: 11 January 2001

Present: 

   Jon Gunderson, Ian Jacobs (scribe), David Poehlman, Eric Hansen,
   Gregory Rosmaita, Tim Lacy, Jim Allan, Rich Schwerdtfeger

Regrets: 
   Charles McCathieNevile, Harvey Bingham

Absent: 
    Mickey Quenzer, Kitch Barnicle

Announcements

   1.Next User Agent face-to-face meeting in Boston on 1-2 March 2001

   JG: Who's not going? JA, TL
       Unsure: EH, DP
       Going: GR, JG, IJ

   Action IJ: Put up UAWG meeting page for meeting week of
   technical plenary. Link to Plenary meeting page.

Planning

   1. Looking for a UA representative at coordination group meeting on
   27 February for WAI working group meeting in Boston.

   JG: In addition to Chairs and Team contacts, they would like
   another rep to attend.

   2.Update on glossary group formed in WCAG

   JG: There has been a glossary group formed. There is a published
   draft: 
       http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2000/12/unified-glossary

Issues

   4.Issue #421: Checkpoint 8.6: Clarification about intent required.
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#421
 
  IJ: Are their system conventions for implementing focus? 

  TL: In Windows, there's an OS focus rectangle and system-defined
  focus events. In the context of IE, you can get/set focus through
  scripts. In a future version of the OS, we'll probably give the
  user more control over how the focus rectangle appears.

  JG: How important is it to use OS conventions for focus?
 
  TL: I don't know why people would manage their own focus / events
    mechanisms. It is technically possible for an event to occur
    where there is no focus.

   Resolved:
    1) Move "Implement selection/focus according to
             system conventions." to a P1 G5 checkpoint.
       Delete remainder of 8.6.
    2) Ok to merge background and foreground color requirements
       in a single checkpoint (4.3) as in 29 Dec 2000 draft.
    3) Adopt Ian's proposal for issue 348:
      
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000OctDec/0459.html
       AND:
       - Add requirement for styling configuration that min req is
         one mechanism other than color.

   5.Issue #422: Checkpoint 8.8: Clarification of usage of terms active 
     element/focus + techniques
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#422

   Resolved:
   a) We agree with reviewer.
   b) Resolved per adoption of proposal in previous issue.
   c) Ensure that techniques updated accordingly.

   Action IJ: Update 8.8 techniques.

   6.Issue #423: Checkpoint 9.3: Need min requirement for how/where conf 
     information presented.
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#423

   RS: Suggest that in techniques that a separate list of keyboard
   shortcuts suffices.

   JG: UAs handle this differently.

   IJ: The issue is:
        a) Do you want a special list (one place to go to)?
        b) Does in-context information suffice (distributed solution)?

   IJ: I think that the distributed solution satisfies the P1
       requirement (since the information is available somewhere).

   IJ: Note that neither 9.1 and 9.3 speak about UI or content
       specifically.

   RS: It's helpful for the user to know that access keys don't
   apply all the time.
  
   IJ: What is accessibility advantage of in-context presentation
   of the information?
 
   GR: Cognitive. Provide information through icons. 
   Suppose you have a huge document, with 1000 links, of which 56
   have accesskeys. It's an unreasonable burden to have someone have
   to refer to a big list.

   RS: I think that that's not how people author. People don't
   create that many accesskeys.

   IJ: I can see it being convenient (but not P2) to find out
   bindings while browsing. I don't think that, without in-context
   information, it would be very difficult for users to have
   access to binding information through a list alone.

   DP: I agree. You can look through the list of bindings first
   for a page (and jump to it, for example).
 
   JA: I agree with David.

   GR: If I get a list of bindings in a different viewport, as I
   user, I have to carry the information in my head back to the
   initial viewport. I think it makes it more difficult for users
   with cognitive disabilities.

   JG: Is WCAG suggesting keyboard shortcuts to help users with
   cognitive disabilities?

   GR: There's cognitive disconnect every time you have a new
   viewport.

   JA: I think that in WCAG, I think visual notification that
   there is a shortcut. If there is a visual indicator in-context,
   that's important.

   IJ: I'm hearing, now, that for cognitive, it's important
   to know in context.

   JG: Who feels that list alone is the only min P2 requirement for 9.3?
       JA, DP, RS, EH, TL, JG, IJ

   Resolved:
    a) For 9.3, min req is that all information about author-specified
       input configs be availble in a single place.
       (Need to define clearly what "in a single place" means, 
        or what "distributed solution" means). For example,
       a list of bindings would satisfy the requirement.
    b) For 9.1, (which is P1), distributed solution ok (e.g.,
       information available in menus). 
       Note that if the default config is the current
       config (and user can't change), then 10.3 requirement ensures
       that 9.1 is satisfied.
    c) Do not add in-context rendering as a P3 checkpoint.
    d) Add in-context rendering and configurability to techniques.

   JG: Do we have implementation experience with this?
   IJ: Can use style sheets for this.
   RS: It's easy to implement this with information from the DOM.
   IJ: Imagine binding a shortcut view with the current viewport, and
      the shortcut view is updated automatically as the current
      viewport changes.

   7.Issue #424: Checkpoint 9.3: Do author-specified shortcuts include 
     active elements that take mouse input?
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#424

   TL: There are tons of these: mouse-overs.

   JG/TL: I wouldn't call these shortcuts. 

   TL: I think that this is an authoring issue.

   IJ: If mouse behaviors done through scripting, then let's broaden
   the question: what author-specified bindings are required? What
   about what's done through scripts?

   TL: I think that the answer to issue 424 is "no".

   Resolved: 
     a) Presentation of information about bindings 
        achieved through scripts are not required by checkpoint 9.3.
     b) Don't say explicitly that mouse bindings are excluded
        (although today, we don't think markup languages let you 
        specify mouse bindings).

   8.Issue #425: Checkoint 9.5: Need to emphasize more why different
from 9.4
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#425

   Resolved:
    a) In 9.5, highlight differences from 9.4: only about the
       keyboard and only about single-key access.

   9.Issue #426: Checkpoint 9.8: Clarify that brief sequences satisfy
this 
     checkpoint
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#426

   Resolved: 

   a) Add a note to 9.8 that says that there are no min
      requirements for binding complexity by default.  Instead,
      configuration requirements for bindings covered in 9.4 and 9.5.
   b) Move checkpoint 9.8 "closer" to checkpoints 9.4 and 9.5.

  10.Issue #427: Checkpoint 10.1: HTML is not only accessible format
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#427

   Resolved:

   a) No change. WCAG 1.0 does not require HTML to conform. 

  11.Issue #428: Checkpoint 10.5: Add requirement that changes that
affect 
     accessibility be part of dedicated documentation (10.4)
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#428

   Resolved:
   a) Add techniques to 10.5 suggesting linking from documentation
      required by 10.4.
   b) In checkpoints 10.2 and 10.4 and in G6 title, change
      "promote accessibility" to "benefit accessibility".
   c) Remove "at a minimum" from techniques for 10.5.
   d) Refer to GR's objection about documentation priority
      level for techniques for 10.5.

  12.Issue #429: New requirement: documentation of API for querying 
     preferences.
     http://server.rehab.uiuc.edu/ua-issues/issues-linear-lc2.html#429
 
  IJ: I think we are covered as part of 1.2. 

  JG: This could be a requirement for another version. We could
   include in techniques today that providing this information through
   an API is useful for communication with ATs.

  IJ: We require profiles, but no guarantee that profiles
  available to scripting languages.
  
  JG: Some of this is done by default.

  IJ: Should we talk to the DOM WG about this?

  JG: I don't think that they want to address this sort of issue.

  IJ: I have a problem requiring an API that isn't designed to
  promote interoperability.

  JG: This would clearly be a new requirement.

  Resolved:
   a) Add techniques to G5 about communicating preferences to other
software.
   b) Consider for post UAAG 1.0.
   c) Talk to DOM WG.

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ACTION ITEMS
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New
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   Action IJ: Put up UAWG meeting page for meeting week of
   technical plenary. Link to Plenary meeting page.

   Action IJ: Update 8.8 techniques.

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Completed
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   4.IJ: Ask Jason White for CSS implementation information for
         emacspeak.
   Done: Asked Raman.

   5.IJ: Publish new implementation report for the meeting
   Done: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-IMP-20001113/

   6.IJ: Improve wording of note for 4.14 related to CSS reference
   Done in 29 December 2000 draft.
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20001229

   8.IJ: Draft new language for 6.2
   Done: 
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000OctDec/0437.html

  10.IJ: Issue 348: Propose new checkpoints with harmonized language
     about text rendering, selection rendering, etc.
   Done:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000OctDec/0459.html

  13.IJ: Proposed fixed wording for 7.5
   Done in 29 December 2000 draft.
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20001229

  32.IJ: Evaluate whether silent or invisible rendering has an impact on 
         checkpoints other than 7.5 (search).
   Done in 29 December 2000 draft.
    http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/WD-UAAG10-20001229

  35.JG: Schedule face-to-face time with other WGs 
         (need to contact voice and mobile)
   JG: We have preliminary info for CSS/DOM.

  37.JG: Propose resolution of issue 421
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2000OctDec/0447.html


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Open
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   1.WG: look for user agents that implement mouse events like mouse
over 
         with the keyboard.

   2.IJ: Follow up with Greg Lowney on issue 389

   3.IJ: (Issue 387) Propose new wording for check point 8.4 reflecting 
         discussion on 28 November

   7.IJ, EH, AG: Propose new definitions forterms in question
(equivalence, 
         text element, etc.)

   9.IJ: Issue 327: Get wording from Martin on charset API
                    requirement.
   Request sent to Martin, awaiting reply.

  11.IJ: Propose new checkpoints/modified checkpoints for 8.2.

  12.IJ: Add some more explanation about the difference between 7.3
         and 7.4.

  14.IJ: Add to techniques a link to Adobe's accessible PDF information.

  15.IJ and AG: Revise the applicability provision and send to WG.

  16.IJ: Ask Adobe why this is hard (issue 382)

  17.IJ: 1.4 needs to be re-written in light of changes in checkpoint
1.1.

  18.IJ: Proposed text in 2.1

  19.IJ: Add a note to 5.8 - content requirements may also apply to user 
         interface

  20.IJ: Mention that resizing and overiding absolute values is part of 
         some specification in section 1.2

  21.IJ: Clarify the meaning of system colors

  22.IJ:
     a) clarify "recognize style" in checkpoints 4.5
     b) need more rationale - refer to WCAG - style less important than 
        other content
     c) add note 4.5 - give example of multimedia content that can be 
        recognized as style

  23.IJ: Add technique to checkpoint 4.12 to make clear that:
     - This includes author-override if speech engine allows.
     - This includes whatever granularity offered by speech engine.

  24.IJ: Add a clarifying note to 4.11 that if you allow independent 
         control of all sources of audio, you satisfy the
         checkpoint as well.

  25.IJ: Add a P3 checkpoint on user control of windows that
automatically 
         close

  26.IJ: Add a clarification to checkpoint 4.20 including:
         If a viewport includes other viewports, then this requirement
only 
         applies to the topmost viewport.
         Add a Note that other requirements still apply to sub-viewports

  27.IJ: Delete second sentence from 4.21

  28.IJ: Add to end of first sentence "with which it overlaps" in 
         checkpoint 4.21

  29.IJ: Add "that benefit accessibility" to end of second sentence of 
         checkpoint 5.8

  30.IJ: Put a note in the definition of active element that this does
not 
         include selection. (optional clarification note)

  31.IJ: Include selection and focus in note after 1.1 as examples of
what 
         must be done.

  33.JG: Implementation information for guideline 2

  34.JG: Propose a list of things we are
         expecting UAs to recognize in scripts.

  36.JG: Propose text for the techniques document 
         about synthesized speech implementation issues. 
         Notably UA and AT wanting to use the same 
         synthesizer engine.

  38.GR: Review checkpoints in Guideline 10 for implementation
information

  39.GR: Talk to Håkon about CSS support.

  40.GR: Talk to AFB about captioning and positioning

  41.JA: Review checkpoints in Guideline 4 for implementation
information

  42.MQ: Send more details about control of speech parameters for the 
         techniques document based on OpenBook.

  43.KB: Submit technique on providing information on current item and 
         number of items in search

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