- From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 14:44:40 -0600
- To: <w3c-wai-ua@w3.org>
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference 06 Nov 2008 Minutes: http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008OctDec/0043.html See also: IRC log - http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-irc Attendees Present Regrets kelly, mark Chair AllanJ Scribe Simon Contents * Topics * Summary of Action Items <trackbot> Date: 06 November 2008 <sharper> Scribe: Simon <sharper> ScribeNick: sharper <AllanJ> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/survey20081106/results David Poehlman Comment: The proposal says interface but then goes on to say interface and rendered content. are we talking both? should they be split? <AllanJ> Alan proposal: 2.1.2 For each user interface component, including the user interface itself and rendered content, make available its name, role, state, value, and description via an accessibility platform architecture. JR: Looks good <AllanJ> +1 Alan C: Should say 'and every' as opposed to each? JR: Likes the way it is <scribe> ACTION: jeanne Write back to David - re new wording [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action01] <trackbot> Created ACTION-69 - Write back to David - re new wording [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <AllanJ> discussion on wording of PRINCIPLE 2. Facilitate access by assistive technologies <AllanJ> sharper: assistive technologies seems too limiting <jeanne> My concern with removing "assistive technologies" would be introducing new jargon that would not be easily understandable. <AllanJ> JR: perhaps a rationale is needed. Change to "facilitate programmatic access" <AllanJ> JS: need to make intention clear, want to keep 'assistive technologies' <AllanJ> SH: concern for future of UAs, mobile, etc. programmers know programmatic access <AllanJ> ...keep assistive technologies for pragmatic reasons <AllanJ> SH: UAAG20 around for long time. should be more general more agnostic <AllanJ> ... all of principle 2 says programmatic access <JR> JR: Jan's point included making sure assistive tech is highlighted in the coming rationale <AllanJ> ... rationale is assistive technology AllanJ: Proposes change to programmatic access, but including AT in rationale +1 SH: +1 <AllanJ> +1 makes it more general. <scribe> ACTION: jeanne place 'facilitate programmatic access' into survey. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action02] <trackbot> Created ACTION-70 - Place 'facilitate programmatic access' into survey. [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <jeanne> ACTION: JS to place the rewording of Principle 2 to "Facilitate programatic access" in next week's survey [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action03] <trackbot> Created ACTION-71 - Place the rewording of Principle 2 to \"Facilitate programatic access\" in next week's survey [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <jeanne> +1 <AllanJ> 2.1.2 For each user interface component, including the user interface itself and rendered content, make available its name, role, state, value, and description via an accessibility platform architecture. <scribe> ACTION: jeanne place Alan's new wording into survey. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action04] <trackbot> Created ACTION-72 - Place Alan's new wording into survey. [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. AllanJ: discussion of 2.1.3 JS: Address David's issue by adding a use case example Davids Comment: this is unclear, what inaccessible functionality is left? JS: do we have a use case for this. <AllanJ> discussion of interrelationship between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 <AllanJ> SH: why does UA have to compensate for accessibility platform architecture <AllanJ> JR: UA can do lots of new cool things, but you have to map it some how to the accessibility platform architecture (apa) <JR> ACTION: JR to Write a proposal to clarify and perhaps integrate 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action05] <trackbot> Created ACTION-73 - Write a proposal to clarify and perhaps integrate 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 [on Jan Richards - due 2008-11-13]. AllanJ: 2.1.4 - everyone agrees with: 2.1.4 If the user agent implements one or more DOMs, make the DOMs programmatically available to assistive technologies. AllanJ - AC: says "Do we need to specify which assistive technologies? Or to what degree?" scribe: something like ' "... make the DOM or DOMs programmatically available to assistive technologies to the greatest extent possible??' JR: we need to make it just programmatically available? AC: AT can do different things - do we expect developers to understand AT? AllanJ: Do we need to change AT to accessibility platform architectures <Zakim> jeanne, you wanted to suggest that if a functionality works in only one modality (e.g. vision or mouse) then... JR: programmatic access aims reduce the amount developers will need to know about AT JS: More about functionality that is available in one modality, and the need for multiple modalities. AllanJ: Everything needs to be in the DOM - this will handle different modailities \me LET ME KNOW IF I'M GETTING THE NAMES WRONG PLEASE. General Discussion regarding the interplay between API pipe, DOM, AT and accessibility platform <jeanne> do we need 2.1.4 at all then? AllanJ: In Conclusion DOM must be available to AT ... Proposes 2.1.4 is complete All Agree <jeanne> ACTION: JS to add 2.1.4 to the new draft. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action06] <trackbot> Created ACTION-74 - Add 2.1.4 to the new draft. [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. Judy: can we ask David Poehlman to clarify his comment 'cannot accept, advise or reject.' <AllanJ> ACTION: jim to write david concerning clarify comment on 2.1.4 - need more expansion [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action07] <trackbot> Created ACTION-75 - Write david concerning clarify comment on 2.1.4 - need more expansion [on Jim Allan - due 2008-11-13]. item 3 3. Work on language of Principal 3 success criteria. - establish style rules for document - Issue 16 - Relook at the phrasing of Principle 3 to ensure clarity. http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/16 - establish replacement wording for 'chrome' (SC 3.10.11, and elsewhere, Issue 2 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/2) from stored data >From my mail 10. Principle 3, in particular 3.1 needs to be more clear. I�ve mentioned on a few calls how the user interface does a lot visually to convey meaning. I don�t think these guidelines give enough detail on what needs to happen or the expectation around accessibility. User agents today do a lot to convey state from security to page functionality with unique UI elements. AT jumps around loads of hoops today to convey this info. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2008OctDec/att-0026/00-part <AllanJ> http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2008/WD-UAAG20-20081022/WD-UAAG20-20081022.html#principle-perceivable Previous Discussion: RINCIPLE 3: Ensure that the user interface is perceivable JAllan: Anyone have any general problems with the wording? none heard. Now looking at Guideline 3.1 Provide text alternatives for non-text components group is ok with general wording. JR: I wanted to comment on something we found in ATAG. The item one that says you need to cover the accessibility of your platform is likely to cover this. Jeanne: I wanted to ensure we covered the accessibility of documentation. >From my mail 10. Principle 3, in particular 3.1 needs to be more clear. I�ve mentioned on a few calls how the user interface does a lot visually to convey meaning. I don�t think these guidelines give enough detail on what needs to happen or the expectation around accessibility. User agents today do a lot to convey state from security to page functionality with unique UI elements. AT jumps around loads of hoops today to convey this info. <jallan> KF: should keep, need to be a bit explicit, to make sure the point gets across More discussion about whether 3.1 is covered in guideline 1. <jallan> KF: user interface everything is labeled and available programatically <jallan> ... the UA could do more to make the information available. <jallan> JA: 3.1.1 does not say make information available programatically <jallan> JR: should be in Principal 2 <jallan> JA: information is available passively, the user must request the security state, rss feed, etc. kford more discussion about this. <jallan> ... do we need some SC to allow option to provide overview of current states in the UA JR: I think principle two would cover most of this. <jallan> JS: this is needed for low vision people. kford: kford and Jeanne think principle three needs to be strengthened. <jallan> ... ARIA has section on passive alerts, perhaps we need something like that JAllan: we've talked a lot about screen readers. Visually you glance around. ... if this is all available programatically, isn't it then the AT's job to grab this info. <jallan> KF: what is the state, what is important, the UA has gone through the effort to provide an icon. How is the user to decide what is important <jallan> ... I am missing the gestalt of the information <scribe> ACTION: kford jeanne to add guideline in 3.1 around improving perceivability [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/10/21-ua-minutes.html#action01] <trackbot> Sorry, couldn't find user - kford <jeanne> ACTION: KF to KF and JS to write proposal for Guideline 3.1 improving perceivability of user interface and passive status. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/10/21-ua-minutes.html#action02] <trackbot> Created ACTION-48 - KF and JS to write proposal for Guideline 3.1 improving perceivability of user interface and passive status. [on Kelly Ford - due 2008-10-28]. <jallan> JR: add to examples, kinds of important state information JR: I think we need to add to examples, some of what kford was saying about important state in modern browsers. JAllan: 3.1.1 needs to reveal info programatically and there needs to be some mechanism to provide a overview of important state items. Guideline 3.2 Provide access to alternative content JR: I have a long standing general concern about mixing content and user interface. JAllan restates JR's concern. JS: This goes back to what I was saying in the beginning about the overall principle. This talks about content and user interface. JR: You either split into two principles or expand scope of the current principle. JAllan: I prefer to keep one principle if possible. Jeanne: We need to ensure any author controls like ARIA are perceivable. <jallan> JA: the user agent provides a user interface to allow access to the author provided alternative content kford: I think we need to expand the scope of principle 3. ... Today the web author can easily extend what's traditionally thought of of the user agent <jeanne> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#perceivable <jeanne> I think we should use the WCAG wording: <Jan> PRINCIPLE 3: Perceivable - The user agent's user interface and rendered content must be presented to users in ways they can perceive <jeanne> issue: relook at the phrasing of Principle 3 to ensure clarity. <trackbot> Created ISSUE-16 - Relook at the phrasing of Principle 3 to ensure clarity. ; please complete additional details at http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/16/edit . AllanJ: Leave Issue 16 and move to success criteria starting at 3.1.1 JR: scrap 3.1.1 and concentrate on criteria primarily related to user agents not other kinds of software AllanJ: as it is covered in principle 1 <jeanne> +1 to deleting 3.1 SH: +1 <AllanJ> +1 AC: +1 JB: +1 <jeanne> ACTION: JS to delete Guideline and SC for 3.1 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action08] <trackbot> Created ACTION-76 - Delete Guideline and SC for 3.1 [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. AllanJ: 3.2.1 The user has the global option to be notified of alternatives to rendered content (e.g., short text alternatives, long descriptions, captions) <AllanJ> STYLE Note - action verbs jeanne: refresh... rephrasing so everything starts with an action verb <jeanne> Provide a global option to be notified of alternatives... Discussion: ensure or provide? AllanJ: Ensure <jeanne> +1 to provide <AllanJ> +1 provide AC: Provide <JR> JR: Provide SH: Ensure AllanJ: 3.2.1 done, choice is 'provide'. <jeanne> ACTION: JS to update 3.2.1 with " Provide a global option to be notified of alternatives..." [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action09] <trackbot> Created ACTION-77 - Update 3.2.1 with \" Provide a global option to be notified of alternatives...\" [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <AllanJ> Provide a global option for the user to be notified of alternatives to rendered content (e.g., short text alternatives, long descriptions, captions) AllanJ: Moving on to '3.2.2 Configurable Default Rendering: The user has the global option to set preferences for which alternative(s) are rendered by default. (Level A)' <JR> +1 <Alan> OK <AllanJ> Provide a global option for the user to set preferences for which alternative(s) are rendered by default. <AllanJ> SH: if user can choose all alternatives to be rendered, how do we communicate that to the developer, that the user is to have a choice <AllanJ> ACTION: jim to rewrite 3.2.2 to allow user to choose any combination of alternatives to be rendered [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action10] <trackbot> Created ACTION-78 - Rewrite 3.2.2 to allow user to choose any combination of alternatives to be rendered [on Jim Allan - due 2008-11-13]. <jeanne> ACTION: JS to draft a new wording for 3.2.3 for the 11/10 survey [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action11] <trackbot> Created ACTION-79 - Draft a new wording for 3.2.3 for the 11/10 survey [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <scribe> ACTION: sharper Suggest new wordings for 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action12] <trackbot> Created ACTION-80 - Suggest new wordings for 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 [on Simon Harper - due 2008-11-13]. allanJ: move open issues for next time. <AllanJ> ACTION: Alan to reword 3.2.4 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action13] <trackbot> Created ACTION-81 - Reword 3.2.4 [on Alan Cantor - due 2008-11-13]. <scribe> scribenick: AllanJ <scribe> ACTION: Jeanne to reword 3.2.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action14] <trackbot> Created ACTION-82 - Reword 3.2.3 [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2008-11-13]. <scribe> ACTION: Jim to reword 3.3.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action15] <trackbot> Created ACTION-83 - Reword 3.3.3 [on Jim Allan - due 2008-11-13]. Summary of Action Items [NEW] ACTION: Alan to reword 3.2.4 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action13] [NEW] ACTION: jeanne place 'facilitate programmatic access' into survey. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action02] [NEW] ACTION: jeanne place Alan's new wording into survey. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action04] [NEW] ACTION: Jeanne to reword 3.2.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action14] [NEW] ACTION: jeanne Write back to David - re new wording [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action01] [NEW] ACTION: Jim to reword 3.3.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action15] [NEW] ACTION: jim to rewrite 3.2.2 to allow user to choose any combination of alternatives to be rendered [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action10] [NEW] ACTION: jim to write david concerning clarify comment on 2.1.4 - need more expansion [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action07] [NEW] ACTION: JR to Write a proposal to clarify and perhaps integrate 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action05] [NEW] ACTION: JS to add 2.1.4 to the new draft. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action06] [NEW] ACTION: JS to delete Guideline and SC for 3.1 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action08] [NEW] ACTION: JS to draft a new wording for 3.2.3 for the 11/10 survey [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action11] [NEW] ACTION: JS to place the rewording of Principle 2 to "Facilitate programatic access" in next week's survey [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action03] [NEW] ACTION: JS to update 3.2.1 with " Provide a global option to be notified of alternatives..." [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action09] [NEW] ACTION: sharper Suggest new wordings for 3.3.1 and 3.3.2 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2008/11/06-ua-minutes.html#action12] [End of minutes] Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator & Webmaster Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9264 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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