IRC log of au on 2004-02-09

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zakim, this will be wai_auwg
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ok, m3mSEA; I see WAI_AUWG()4:00PM scheduled to start in 9 minutes
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WAI_AUWG()4:00PM has now started
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+[IBM]
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zakim, call matt-bos
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I am sorry, m3mSEA; I don't have the necessary resources to dial out right now
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zakim, call matt-bos
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I am sorry, m3mSEA; I don't have the necessary resources to dial out right now
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+Matt
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+??P1
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zakim, ??P1 is Karen
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+Karen; got it
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+[IBM.a]
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zakim, [IBM] is Barry
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+Barry; got it
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zakim, [IBM.a] is Kip
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+Kip; got it
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+Treviranus
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+Greg_Pisocky
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agenda+ Proposed new definitions
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agenda+ Remaining open issues
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agenda+ Further guideline prep for TR
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agenda+ charter revisions
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zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see Barry, Matt, Karen, Kip, Treviranus, Greg_Pisocky
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On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, m3mSEA
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regrets: Tim Boland
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zakim, take up agendum 1
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agendum 1. "Proposed new definitions" taken up [from m3mSEA]
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jt: Has everyone followed the definitions on the list?
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km: list of definitions:
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/2004JanMar/0051.html
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jr: Accessibility Problem, Accessible Content, etc. all have to hang together.
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jt: You're proposing that the msg sent by Jan on Sunday should be the ones?
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km: Yes, through "accessible authoring tool interface"
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http://www.w3.org/mid/1076256021.40265d1535c0d@webmail.utoronto.ca
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s/authoring tool interface/authoring practice/
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km: "Accessible web content" and "accessible AU interface" are cyclical.
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jt: Equivalent alternative information...
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jr: There's equivalent and there's alternative. Two different things.
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jr: Someone had an issue with referencing disability in terms of accessibility.
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jr: Jon Hanna brings up the issue that accessibility may not mean just to disability.
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mm: But that's out of scope for WAI's definition of accessibility.
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The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities.
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jt: Jon supports making it clear that this is explicitly so.
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jt: In the staged approach, you'd refer back to WCAG for "accessibility problem"?
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jr: Yes.
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km: You define accessible Web content as Web content without accessibility problems.
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jr: WCAG specifically says Web content.
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km: So, change accessible content to accessible Web content?
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jr: I don't mind removing the word Web.
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jt: Karen is proposing we keep it.
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jt: Agreed to replace accessible content with accessible Web content and removing def. for accessible content?
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jt: Thoughts on the term accessibility?
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jr: I'm fine with what's there.
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ACCESSIBILITY (some of the old text could go in the introduction)
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Within these guidelines, the concept of accessibility has two senses:
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- *accessible web content* refers to the content produced by tools being
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accessible by people regardless of disability, and
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- "accessible authoring tool interface" refers to the tools, themselves, being
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accessible by people regardless of disability.
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jt: How do we handle this between ATAG and WCAG?
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km: I think this can go in Accessibility Problem.
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jr: I think this goes into the Note on how ATAG and WCAG go together.
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km: From ATAG References to WCAG?
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jr: Yes.
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jt: Does that make it clearer?
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jr: That talks about our relative priority checkpoints.
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jt: Other proposed definitions?
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jr: We then have terms that we're still working on.
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jr: There's new work being done further down.
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jr: Applicable WCAG Requirements:
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JR: Those WCAG checkpoints that could reasonably to applied to the web content
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produced by an authoring tool. A WCAG checkpoint is "not applicable" only if
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the authoring tool lacks the capability to produce content that could fail the
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checkpoint. However, the inability of an authoring tool to pass a checkpoint
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does not make the checkpoint "not applicable".
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jr: So if you have a checkpoint that couldn't possibly fail, then it's n/a. But if it couldn't add alt text, that's not enough to say n/a.
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jr: I think it's important to say "if you can fail it, then you can't claim n/a"
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km: Agree.
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jr: Authoring Tool Interface:
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originally: The means by which an authoring tool is operated by an author.
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new: The means by which an author operates an authoring tool and receives
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information on the state of the tool.
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km: Unsure if state covers everything.
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jt: More like communication.
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jr: Volunteers?
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km: I can try to see if I can convey something more than state.
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action: jutta work on definition of Authoring Tool Interface (state)
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jr: Checking:
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was: The process by which web content is searched for accessibility problems.
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new: (includes "check for") The process by which web content is searched for accessibility problems. This
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applies to searches performed automatically or with assistance from the
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author. The search may be performed at specific times or be performed on an
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continuous basis as Web content is modified. For more information on checking,
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see ATAG checkpoint 3.2.
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gp: Would using "search" in other areas of accessibility affect this? Is it really a search process? Scan?
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jr: I could go with scan.
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mm: "Evaluated" goes with W3C terminology.
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jr: The process by which web content is evaluated for accessibility problems. This applies to evaluations performed automatically...
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[agreed]
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jr: Check for would go away:
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"as used in 4.1, check for can refer to 3 types of checking: 1) automatically (validity, testing content of a link); 2) Needing help from the author; 3) Must rely mostly on the author and can only ask the author to check.
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"
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jr: This includes a lot of junk that doesn't belong here.
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km: I'm okay with deleting "check for"
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mm: Is there anything that can go anywhere else?
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jr: It's already there. There's nothing here that needs to be there.
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km: I'll check the techniques to see if anything is lost.
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jr: Repairing:
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The process by which web content, identified as an accessibility problem,
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is modified (corrected, completed, or deleted) so that no accessibility
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problem remains.
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new: The process by which Web content is modified to solve accessibility
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problems. This applies to modifications performed automatically or with
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assistance from the author. For more information on repairing, see ATAG
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checkpoint 3.3.
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jt: "Repairing"
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jr: ok.
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jr: Workflow:
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jt: My thoughts on this is that since we're defining workflow, most of my comments are in how we're using the term. I would propose changing the wording a bit.
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jr: "familiar or customary sequence of steps"
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km: I like customary.
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jr: Agreed, using "customary" instead of "required"?
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[agreed]
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jr: That's all of 'em.
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agenda?
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zakim, next agendum
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agendum 2. "Remaining open issues" taken up [from m3mSEA]
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jt: Concept of a usability study override
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http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/issues.html
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jt: Concept was to allow someone who thought of a better way and could run a real usability study could use that to make a claim. We haven't decided as a group whether this is a good or bad thing.
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mm: I'm worried that this is a loophole. Might be better to allow a manual override that we could approve.
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jr: If we had a number of questions, would there be an issue if we handled MS first, etc.? What if we wind down the group?
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jr: Is there an ISO standard for usability standards?
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gp: There's an ISO 9241: Usability metrics.
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km: Is the whole idea superfluous?
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jt: This came from developer members of the group, who felt we couldn't come up with rules that were as good as theirs.
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mm: I don't know where we can draw a line for this.
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jt: We have objective measures in success criteria, but it's hard to have all cases in there.
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mm: Also hard to ensure that all usability tests will cover everything.
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zakim, close this agendum
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agendum 2 closed
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I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
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3. Further guideline prep for TR [from m3mSEA]
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zakim, take up agendum 4
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agendum 4. "charter revisions" taken up [from m3mSEA]
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mm: I'll put out a new draft charter today or tomorrow.
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action mm: New charter draft
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-Barry
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-Greg_Pisocky
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-Treviranus
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-Matt
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-Kip
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-Karen
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WAI_AUWG()4:00PM has ended
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Attendees were Matt, Karen, Barry, Kip, Treviranus, Greg_Pisocky
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zakim, bye
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Zakim has left #au
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rrsagent, bye
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I see 2 open action items:
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ACTION: jutta work on definition of Authoring Tool Interface (state) [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/02/09-au-irc#T21-35-36
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ACTION: mm to New charter draft [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/02/09-au-irc#T22-03-40