Minutes: December 10, 2009 UAWG telecon

http://www.w3.org/2009/12/10-ua-minutes.html 
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference
10 Dec 2009

See also: IRC log
Attendees

Present
    AllanJ, Jeanne, Greg, sharper, mhakkinen
Regrets
    Kelly_Ford, Kim_Patch, Jan_Richards, Henny_Swan
Chair
    SV_MEETING_CHAIR
Scribe
    allanj

Contents

    * Topics
    * Summary of Action Items

<trackbot> Date: 10 December 2009

<scribe> scribe: allanj

GL: discusses comments to 4.9.6
... replace UA with user agent
... clarify 'and/or' based on what's there, not what the author provides.
need to clarify in the definitions and supplemental materials
... settle on one term for "time-based media" (4.9.3), "animation" (4.9.7),
and "video" (4.9.6)

issue: settle on one term for "time-based media" (4.9.3), "animation"
(4.9.7), and "video" (4.9.6)

<trackbot> Created ISSUE-61 - Settle on one term for "time-based media"
(4.9.3), "animation" (4.9.7), and "video" (4.9.6) ; please complete
additional details at http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/61/edit .

issue: ISO has slow multimedia as an AA level not A
... is media broad enough, should we choose a different word, to generalize
to encompass audio, video, animation, haptic, etc.

what about canvas element.

GL: if all control of timing is done by a script then it is up to the author
to provide functionality.

issue: editorial checks -- review document for 'recognize', 'and/or',
initialisms (UA, acromyns, etc.)

<trackbot> Created ISSUE-62 - Editorial checks -- review document for
'recognize', 'and/or', initialisms (UA, acromyns, etc.) ; please complete
additional details at http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/62/edit .

discussion of flash threshhold

WCAG flash language: Three Flashes or Below Threshold: Web pages do not
contain anything that flashes more than three times in any one second
period, or the flash is below the general flash and red flash thresholds.
(Level A)

SH: wants to combine 4.4.1 and 4.4.2

GL: what about 'blink' element. if UA has a hard coded blink rate of 4+
times, then UA is in violation.
... UA that recognizes flashing control should provide a mechanism to limit
the number of flashes.

WCAG understanding:
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/seizure-three-times.html

<Greg> Actually my point was that if a Web page uses the <BLINK> tag and the
UA renders that by flashing the content four times per second, the UA would
not violate the currently worded guidelines, but we should revise the
guidelines so it would be in violation of something.

<Greg> We can either modify 4.4.1 and 4.4.2 to restrict both the UA UI *and*
recognized flashing in rendered content, or we could add separate success
criteria for the latter.

<Greg> To go further, should the UA be required to override recognized Web
content attributes that would cause blinking that violates the thresholds?
Or, should the UA only be required not to violate them when IT (the UA
itself) provides the blink rate?

Intent- to avoid causing seizures.

<Greg> I suggest that we recommend the user agent provide a user option to
constrain recognized blinking in web content to fall within the general
flashing and red flashing ranges so as to avoid triggering seizures in
individuals with photosensitive seizure disorders.

intent - this is about preventing physical harm

scribe: to the user

two items: user option to set blink rate; and, default flashing rate for
interface and content

<Greg> "the user interface and default presentation of recognized flashing
Web content never violate..."?

<scribe> ACTION: Jim to rewrite 4.4.1 to include the user interface and
default presentation of recognized flashing Web content never violate and
create user has the option to... [recorded in
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/10-ua-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-258 - Rewrite 4.4.1 to include the user interface
and default presentation of recognized flashing Web content never violate
and create user has the option to... [on Jim Allan - due 2009-12-17].

issue: mechanism to expand marque (or other element) to read the content
within - scroll bars, etc

<trackbot> Created ISSUE-63 - Mechanism to expand marque (or other element)
to read the content within - scroll bars, etc ; please complete additional
details at http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/63/edit .

<Greg> Suggestion: the UA should allow the user to perform on CSS images and
background images any action they could perform on normal, foreground
images. Same with extra text e.g. bullets and numbering.

issue: the UA should allow the user to perform on CSS images and background
images any action they could perform on normal, foreground images. Same with
extra text e.g. bullets and numbering. UA should have access to CSS DOM or
its generated content.

<trackbot> Created ISSUE-64 - The UA should allow the user to perform on CSS
images and background images any action they could perform on normal,
foreground images. Same with extra text e.g. bullets and numbering. UA
should have access to CSS DOM or its generated content. ; please complete
additional details at http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/tracker/issues/64/edit .

<mhakkinen>	FYI retro link and marquis page with both blink tag and
blink css	http://users.jyu.fi/~mhakkine/blink.html 
Opera wins the prize with http://users.jyu.fi/~mhakkine/blink.html css blink
on marquee blinks the moving text

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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