IRC log of wai-wcag on 2004-09-23

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rrsagent, make logs world
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+??P1
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+Michael_Cooper
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zakim, ??P1 is Doyle_Burnett
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+Doyle_Burnett; got it
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+Ben
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+Becky_Gibson
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+Gregg_Vanderheiden
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-Gregg_Vanderheiden
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+Gregg_Vanderheiden
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+??P9
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Zakim, ??P9 is Tom
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+Tom; got it
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Zakim, I am Tom
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ok, sh1mmer, I now associate you with Tom
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+JasonWhite
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+??P7
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zakim, ??P7 is Bengt_Farre
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+Bengt_Farre; got it
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+??P10
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+Kerstin_Goldsmith
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zakim, ??P10 is Takayuki_Watanabi
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+Takayuki_Watanabi; got it
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zakim, who's on the phone?
20:04:47 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Loretta_Guarino_Reid, Doyle_Burnett, Michael_Cooper, Ben, John_Slatin, Alex_Li, Becky_Gibson, Gregg_Vanderheiden, Tom (muted), JasonWhite, Bengt_Farre,
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... Takayuki_Watanabi, Kerstin_Goldsmith
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zakim, I am Takayuki
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ok, nabe, I now associate you with Takayuki_Watanabi
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2 secs
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+[IBM]
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+??P12
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zakim, ??P12 is Roberto_Ellero
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+Roberto_Ellero; got it
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zakim, mute me
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sorry, rellero, I do not see a party named 'rellero'
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zakim, mute Roberto_Ellero
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Roberto_Ellero should now be muted
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zakim, mute me
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Takayuki_Watanabi should now be muted
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zakim, I am Becky_Gibson
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ok, Becky, I now associate you with Becky_Gibson
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-Kerstin_Goldsmith
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back now
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+Kerstin_Goldsmith
20:09:50 [sh1mmer]
4.2 and baseline technologies
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q+
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q-
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q+
20:10:56 [Michael]
ack sh1m
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Do we have the basic abilities in our UA to do what we need? If there is UAAG should we point to that
20:11:20 [Michael]
ack jason
20:11:23 [sh1mmer]
what do we do if there is no UAs which meet UAAG?
20:11:31 [sh1mmer]
Jason: I sent a mail to the list
20:12:06 [sh1mmer]
what is the minimum technical accessibility requirments before something can be relied on
20:12:37 [Zakim]
-Kerstin_Goldsmith
20:12:47 [sh1mmer]
such that the content can be accessible because the UA supports the technology adequately
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UAAG is the only credible citation
20:13:01 [Zakim]
+Kerstin_Goldsmith
20:13:36 [sh1mmer]
There is no notion in my proposal about how much the UAAG are implemented, nor how good their implementation at a minimum level
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We can't make much progress without input from the UA group
20:14:06 [sh1mmer]
ack Tom
20:14:29 [Michael]
ack tom
20:14:30 [Michael]
q+ gregg
20:16:08 [Michael]
ack gregg
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Gregg: We should shouldn't write guidelines which 'patch' bad useragents
20:17:18 [sh1mmer]
Gregg: work seperately with the UA group abotu making UAs better
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So making a people make something which is conformant with a guideline for which nothing is implemented in UAs
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q+
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ack Tom
20:19:06 [Michael]
tc we should support features possible
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e.g., transforming gracefully important
20:19:55 [Michael]
some issues have gone away on newer technologies, but still people using older stuff, e.g., developing countries
20:20:10 [Michael]
ack john
20:20:28 [sh1mmer]
no.
20:20:47 [Zakim]
-John_Slatin
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ack loretta
20:21:03 [Zakim]
+John_Slatin
20:21:21 [sh1mmer]
Loretta: Agree with Gregg. If there are no UAs which conform with UAAG
20:21:29 [Michael]
q+ john
20:21:40 [sh1mmer]
We would have a hard time standing up and saying "you shouldnt use HTML"
20:22:13 [sh1mmer]
I like Jason's idea of laying out the pieces
20:22:27 [Michael]
ack gregg
20:23:12 [sh1mmer]
We need to try and reconsile the ability to work with older user agents and the ability to make the best accessibilty guidelines
20:23:55 [Michael]
ack john
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+[Microsoft]
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Gregg: We need to recognise that if we make a guidelines which only works with a UA that costs $1000 then its prohibative and stops the use of our guidelines
20:24:57 [sh1mmer]
John: I want to go back to something that Kerstin had raised previously. I seems to me that we are looking at things in certain contexts. In a corp. setting they can have a tight control on what you can use.
20:25:48 [sh1mmer]
So those people can focus on accessibility for a specific platform
20:26:04 [sh1mmer]
on the wider internet there a variety of contexts which could be used
20:26:11 [Michael]
ack jason
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which makes it a lot different
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q+
20:26:55 [sh1mmer]
Jason: replying to John. the proposal from a few weeks ago, it leaves asside issue from availability and cost. it looks at the minimum requirements of accessibility
20:27:08 [sh1mmer]
Jason: thats the idea of a core compability requirement
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set out a technical requirement for accessiblity
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beyond that there are other issues such as operating system and so on
20:28:05 [sh1mmer]
if it is put at level 1 that seems like a good way to do it
20:28:22 [sh1mmer]
there are serious issues of undercutting UAAG by requiring a subset
20:29:04 [sh1mmer]
empahsise the importance of having a general solution because as new technologies the question will continually arise. thats what the guidelines have to provide
20:29:45 [Michael]
ack alex
20:30:01 [sh1mmer]
Alex: some of the situations are not that different to software that you buy
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if you look on the box, the hardware and software requirements and thats just how things work
20:30:38 [sh1mmer]
we can maybe see it like that and see the browser as a deployment platform
20:30:43 [Michael]
ack tom
20:31:41 [Michael]
tc like discussion of economic issues - is it acceptable to have inaccessible sites if economics in the way? -NO
20:32:16 [Michael]
if we allow people to say "UA is at fault" we undercut what should be legislative and market drivers
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for UA improvement
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don't want to pull the rug from under UAAG
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need a constant platform with an onus for UA to comply
20:35:01 [Michael]
asn - arguing guidelines should only apply if there's a conforming UA?
20:35:18 [Michael]
sp asn/asw
20:36:30 [Michael]
tc - we're in danger of trying to fix things for UA, rather than have two guidelines (Content and UA) that work in harmony
20:37:35 [sh1mmer]
Gregg: one the principles is exactly that
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write what we think not cater
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when this is released if it can't be met noone will do it.
20:38:11 [Michael]
ack loretta
20:38:54 [sh1mmer]
Loretta: if i am trying to develop web content and my content no longer displays in internet explorer i dont think i would use them anymore
20:39:07 [Michael]
ack kerstin
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Loretta: maybe non level 1 guidelines to find some compromise
20:39:53 [sh1mmer]
Kerstin: I don't think that if we focus on the guidelines itself that going to get a big problem, i don't think there are anything which are going to wipe out the guidelines
20:40:16 [sh1mmer]
we are talking about a few bits and pieces at once
20:41:05 [Michael]
ack jason
20:41:17 [sh1mmer]
kerstin: there are far fewer UA developers who could make alot more difference than all the pressure on the web content developers
20:41:49 [sh1mmer]
JAson: user agents include assistive technology. don't want any confusions about what that means.
20:42:34 [sh1mmer]
if the UAAG people say there are no user agents which conform to their minimum what are the area which are currently not conformed to
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+EricP
20:43:40 [sh1mmer]
there are no level one requirements here which say that anyone could use anything they like
20:43:44 [wendy]
hello, i'm on eric's phone.
20:43:57 [wendy]
zakim, I am ericP
20:43:57 [Zakim]
ok, wendy, I now associate you with EricP
20:44:22 [sh1mmer]
we have serious problems and we need alternative proposals. the only one we have is requiring some subset.
20:45:12 [sh1mmer]
if you take user agents with servers which transform content, that might eliminate these issues.
20:45:39 [Andi]
q+
20:46:18 [sh1mmer]
ack gregg
20:46:23 [sh1mmer]
ack kerstin
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kerstin: agrees with gregg
20:46:51 [sh1mmer]
get volunteers and discuss this
20:47:03 [sh1mmer]
still a debate open about if AT falls under UA
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heh.
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andi: repsond to Gregg, why do UAs not meet uaag?
20:48:02 [Michael]
ack andi
20:48:03 [sh1mmer]
no pressure or regulation to require them to meet it
20:48:19 [sh1mmer]
still waiting for why HPR doesn't meet UAAG
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Gregg: want to know how they dont meet it.
20:50:24 [wendy]
http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/wai-eval/reports.php?report_id=4
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UAAG 1.0 overview of reports
20:51:35 [sh1mmer]
Action: Andi, Loretta, Tom to investigate issue more
20:51:52 [DoyleB]
i am going to have to run...have another scheduled meeting at 1 pm my time.
20:52:12 [Zakim]
-Doyle_Burnett
20:53:01 [wendy]
proposal at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004JulSep/0678.html
20:54:06 [wendy]
(that was issues)
20:54:08 [wendy]
proposal at: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004JulSep/0677.html
20:54:41 [sh1mmer]
There is a long list of points posted to the list
20:55:28 [sh1mmer]
we have thoughts?!
20:55:38 [Zakim]
-Kerstin_Goldsmith
20:56:14 [sh1mmer]
ok. next issue.
20:56:28 [sh1mmer]
Any comments against combining to two?
20:57:45 [sh1mmer]
Action: Gregg to add to next internal draft
20:58:54 [Zakim]
+Kerstin_Goldsmith
20:59:12 [sh1mmer]
Gregg: wendy has proposed joining 1.2 and 1.1
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If we talk about 1.2 we can clean it up which will help to join
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Wendy: only Joe C has commented
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asked about the seperation of policy and content
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comes up in other items
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Joe is saying that when people approach the guidelines, some of those things need to be incorporated into the guidelines
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q+
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if policy makers dont for example make phase in, noone will be able to claim accessbility
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at the f2f we talked about scoping
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we have scoping by url, critical path and date
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if there is a country if they aren't going to have any policy relating to captioning then WCAG is all they are going to have
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Gregg: if you took an over the air broadcast and broadcast it over the internet then it has to talk about it in a more general sense
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Wedny: more about how to apply these things to the web, particually web original content.
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Gregg: at the f2f we said phase in was policy rather than guidelines
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Wendy: that is the ideal situation but if there are no policies then should there be a WCAG default? what suggestions should we provide?
21:08:11 [sh1mmer]
ack tom
21:09:01 [wendy]
q+ to say, "another option is to respond by saying, 'it's policy. period.'"
21:09:47 [Michael]
tc - 3 categories: accessibility requirements, level requirement (e.g., 1, 2, 3), policy
21:10:40 [Michael]
we can't stop people from making bad policies, just can make good suggestions
21:11:25 [Michael]
wc - can we just say "for multimedia to be accessible it has to be captioned, period"?
21:11:31 [Andi]
q+
21:11:59 [Michael]
ack eric
21:11:59 [Zakim]
EricP, you wanted to say, "another option is to respond by saying, 'it's policy. period.'"
21:12:04 [Michael]
q+ gregg
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ack tom
21:12:14 [Michael]
ack jason
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q+
21:12:57 [sh1mmer]
Jason: if you want to talk about policy then fine, but i dont want to see if in the SC
21:13:53 [sh1mmer]
Jason: it interacts very badly with certain contries laws
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its a technical specification and it should remain such and seperate themselves from issues of hardship
21:15:05 [sh1mmer]
Wendy: there is a technical difference between realtime and recorded
21:15:34 [Michael]
ack andi
21:15:41 [sh1mmer]
wendy can you type those?
21:16:14 [sh1mmer]
Andi: there are cases where you can provide an equivelent which is not captioning
21:16:39 [wendy]
q+ to ask "consensus that a speech does not require captions? or at level 2?"
21:17:14 [Michael]
ack john
21:17:16 [sh1mmer]
it requires a plugin etc all those things otherwise have been in 4.1 and 4.2. I am oposed to phase in in the guidelines.
21:17:59 [Michael]
ack gregg
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John: agree with Wendy, policy in the guidelines is bad
21:19:51 [Michael]
ack tom
21:19:52 [sh1mmer]
Gregg: We shouldn't have it in the guidelines. Some things required for accessiblity are at lvl3. If something is not required such as a live caption for a talking head then we should talk about it.
21:19:54 [sh1mmer]
ack tom
21:21:58 [Michael]
ack alex
21:23:13 [Michael]
ack eric
21:23:13 [Zakim]
EricP, you wanted to ask "consensus that a speech does not require captions? or at level 2?"
21:23:26 [Zakim]
-Gregg_Vanderheiden
21:23:36 [sh1mmer]
Tom: make sure we have some guidance to do with conformance and policy even though it shoudln't be in the guidelines
21:23:37 [sh1mmer]
Alex: Phase in is a good idea, because the day that 2.0 becomes a standard you can't expect everything that was 1.0 to become 2.0, and we can't expect people who make decision to understnad.
21:23:39 [sh1mmer]
q+
21:32:03 [Michael]
ack jason
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q-
21:32:45 [sh1mmer]
Jason: somewhat concerned if hte captioning guidelines for 2.0 are less than those for 1.0
21:33:48 [sh1mmer]
multimedia is time syncronised audio and visual tracks
21:33:48 [Michael]
ack john
21:34:00 [sh1mmer]
John: I want to flip the captioning description around
21:34:28 [sh1mmer]
we have been talking about making spoken word accessible to people who can't hear
21:34:53 [sh1mmer]
i think we should look at how we would deal with a video as sign
21:35:42 [sh1mmer]
body gestures and so are important, a full rendering of these things in real form might be quite difficult
21:35:58 [sh1mmer]
that would also come under the heading of video content
21:38:00 [Zakim]
-[Microsoft]
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bye
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-Kerstin_Goldsmith
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-Michael_Cooper
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-Alex_Li
21:38:04 [nabe]
bye
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-[IBM]
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-John_Slatin
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-EricP
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-Bengt_Farre
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-Loretta_Guarino_Reid
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-Ben
21:38:09 [wendy]
RRSagent, make log world
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-Roberto_Ellero
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-Tom
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-JasonWhite
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-Takayuki_Watanabi
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-Becky_Gibson
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WAI_WCAG()4:00PM has ended
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Attendees were Loretta_Guarino_Reid, Michael_Cooper, Doyle_Burnett, Ben, John_Slatin, Alex_Li, Becky_Gibson, Gregg_Vanderheiden, Tom, JasonWhite, Bengt_Farre, Kerstin_Goldsmith,
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... Takayuki_Watanabi, [IBM], Roberto_Ellero, [Microsoft], EricP
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21:44:11 [Michael]
rrsagent, bye
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I see no action items