Minutes of UAWG teleconference of 12 November, 2009

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*User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference*

12 Nov 2009
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Attendees <http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-agenda.rdf>

Present
    Greg, Jeanne, KimPatch, allanj, iheni, kford, mth
Regrets
Chair
    Jim_Allan, Kelly_Ford
Scribe
    KimPatch

Contents

    * Topicsin <http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#agenda>
         1. TPAC Recap <http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#item01>
         2. Meeting Survey -
            http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/12nov09/
            <http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#item02>
    * Summary of Action Items
      <http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#ActionSummary>

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<trackbot> Date: 12 November 2009
<mth> will join by phone in a few minutes
<AllanJ> scribe: KimPatch
TPAC Recap
Kelly: face-to-face Thursday Friday Wednesday afternoon -- I felt we 
worked well together. We started looking at our techniques -- intent, 
examples, resources
<AllanJ> 
http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/2009/ED-IMPLEMENTING-UAAG20-20091106/MasterUAAG20091106.html 

Kelly: speech input demonstration refreshing to help us think about ways 
to expedite commands that don't force the speech user to go through the 
keyboard or mouse model -- that was reinforced
... meeting minutes have links to other presentations
... progress on section five guidelines -- for some segments of the 
disabled and aging population still too hard to use -- anything we can 
do to make controls discoverable
... HTML five was a hot topic
protocols on formats group trying to drive review -- the ascent of a 
joint task force between HTML five and protocols and formats to make or 
progress on accessibility issues
<AllanJ> Mark and Jim are members of HTML5 A11y Taskforce
three broad areas -- canvas accessibility, media accessibility, overall 
adds a lot of things
Kelly: turning our comments into bugs
Jim: Mark and I spent two hours in the accessibility group. when our 
media accessibility comes up again, there are a couple of people from 
that meeting I want to invite.
Mark: it was good to see TV exec. understand.
Jim: we were able to pipe up and say we are to have guidelines for that
Jean: the received a number of comments from the W3C team about our 
group being so visible -- dedication, enthusiasm, that was very nice to 
hear
<kford> html 5 task force info http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/html-task-force
Greg: the way we were working -- we tried breaking out into pairs, that 
worked out pretty well
Jim: hammered on and reorganized action items down to about 35 -- it 
would be different it clear that while before the end of the year
... maybe take some of the writing off-line
<kford> html 5 task force mailing list. 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/
Jim: possible face-to-face in January?
<jeanne> I am available
<AllanJ> Jim Available
possible
Week of the 18th in Austin, 2 1/2 days
Jim: or UC Sun
Meeting Survey - http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/12nov09/
Jim: 4.5.6 all or just accessibility related -- difficult to tell
<AllanJ> KP: restoring to default is getting back to a known state. that 
is important. even if it is not the best for a particular.
Greg: 5.8 restoring defaults outside the user interface accomplishes 
that better
<AllanJ> GL: 4.5.8 changing settings from outside the UA
Greg: to the less useful one be level a?
Kelly: do browsers have (4.5.6) today
Greg: Firefox lets you specify user profile
Kelly: IE does
Greg: question is is there a sitting inside the browser to specify user 
settings
... the other question is what is the thing that for either of these 
would justify level A
<kford> One example of how to restore FF 
http://www.universefirefox.com/how-to/restore-firefox-default-settings-without-uninstalling-it 

Jim: if there aren't any we can always knock it back to AA
Kelly: IE has restore feature
Jim: we'll leave it at A pending last call report if no objections

<AllanJ> *ACTION:* Jeanne to update draft 4.5.6 Restore all to default. 
The user can restore all preference settings to their default values. 
(Level A) [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-244 - Update draft 4.5.6 Restore all to 
default. The user can restore all preference settings to their default 
values. (Level A) [on Jeanne Spellman - due 2009-11-19].
<AllanJ> NOTE: The user must not be required to know or enter the 
default values.
Greg: groups subjective
Kelly: I think the ambiguity is acceptable given the overall initiative 
that it's trying to move the industry towards

<AllanJ> *ACTION:* Jeanne to update draft 4.5.7 Restore related 
preferences to default. The user can restore groups of related 
preference settings to their default values (e.g. reset keyboard 
shortcuts, reset colors and sizes of rendered content, etc.). (Level AA) 
[recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action02]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-245 - Update draft 4.5.7 Restore related 
preferences to default. The user can restore groups of related 
preference settings to their default values (e.g. reset keyboard 
shortcuts, reset colors and sizes of rendered content, etc.). (Level AA) 
[on Jeanne Spellman - due 2009-11-19].
<AllanJ> NOTE: Allowing the user to reset groups of related preference 
settings is more valuable than merely providing the ability to reset all 
preference settings together, because some users will be unable to use 
the product without a few specific custom settings. [@@This may be 
better in the understanding document@@]
Jim: 4.5.8
<Greg> Suggest changing "This allows the user to configure a product 
that would be inaccessible in its default state" to end with "in its 
default or current state".
Greg: seems more important than the one we put at single-A
Kelly: my biggest concern about level is from an implementation 
perspective you're asking a manufacturer to do something outside their 
main application
Greg: commandline
Kelly: if you have to fix it important, but in the real world are things 
ever so screwed up that you can't do anything until it hit some kind of 
reset
Greg: analogy is compare with sticky keys -- you can' t get there 
without having turned on and the first place
Kelly: analogy different -- by the time you get to the browser you've 
resolved
Greg: seems easier than 4.6
Jim: this is filling and around the edges -- if the interface is messed 
up for there is a setting you can't get to you've already failed 4.1...
... 4.5 is the guideline -- store preference settings
two different methods good for different users
Greg: looking at this in context it would be more useful if it wasn't 
restore default, but change settings -- more generalized
<Greg> For comparison, here is from ISO 9241-171:
<Greg> 8.2.5 Provide user-preference profiles
<Greg> Software should enable users to create, save, edit and recall 
profiles of preference settings, including input and output 
characteristics, without having to carry out any restart that would 
cause a change of state or data.
<Greg> NOTE 1 For systems that provide access for multiple users, such 
as library systems, conversion back to a default profile can be advisable.
<AllanJ> proposed: Change preference setting outside the UA
Greg: I'm willing to live with AA even though I think it's very 
important accessibility feature

<AllanJ> *ACTION:* Jeanne to update the draft 4.5.8 Change preference 
setting outside the UI: The user can adjust preference settings from 
outside the user agent user interface. (Level AA) [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action03]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-246 - Update the draft 4.5.8 Change preference 
setting outside the UI: The user can adjust preference settings from 
outside the user agent user interface. (Level AA) [on Jeanne Spellman - 
due 2009-11-19].
<AllanJ> NOTE: This allows the user to configure a product that would be 
inaccessible in its default state.
<AllanJ> EXAMPLE 1: A user agent ships with a separate utility for 
resetting or loading user preference settings.
<AllanJ> EXAMPLE 2: Holding down a modifier keys or specifying a 
command-line switch when starting the user agent could force it to use 
the default settings, or previously used and known-good settings, or a 
specified user profile.
<AllanJ> [@@note and examples may be better in the understanding 
document@@]
<AllanJ> close ACTION-201

*Summary of action items
[NEW]* *ACTION:* Jeanne to update draft 4.5.6 Restore all to default. 
The user can restore all preference settings to their default values. 
(Level A) [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action01]
*[NEW]* *ACTION:* Jeanne to update draft 4.5.7 Restore related 
preferences to default. The user can restore groups of related 
preference settings to their default values (e.g. reset keyboard 
shortcuts, reset colors and sizes of rendered content, etc.). (Level AA) 
[recorded in http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action02]
*[NEW]* *ACTION:* Jeanne to update the draft 4.5.8 Change preference 
setting outside the UI: The user can adjust preference settings from 
outside the user agent user interface. (Level AA) [recorded in 
http://www.w3.org/2009/11/12-ua-minutes.html#action03]
 
[End of minutes]

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