13:31:35 RRSAgent has joined #wai-wcag 13:31:35 logging to http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc 13:31:46 RRSAgent, make log world 13:32:09 Meeting: WCAG Techniques Task Force (TTF) Weekly Telecon 13:32:41 Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0507.html 13:33:15 agenda+ 4.2 (test cases) 13:33:24 agenda+ Continue review of 1.3 13:33:31 agenda+ 2.4 13:33:37 agenda+ Script Techniques 13:51:27 hi ben! 13:51:39 good morning 13:51:57 (afternoon...) 13:52:00 :) 13:57:10 ChrisR has joined #wai-wcag 13:57:26 Hi cris! 13:58:05 Christophe_Strobb has joined #wai-wcag 13:58:43 David has joined #wai-wcag 13:59:28 WAI_WCAG(techniques)10:00AM has now started 13:59:35 +Ben 14:01:16 +??P3 14:01:26 +Dave_MacDonald 14:01:57 zakim, ??P3 is Chris 14:01:57 +Chris; got it 14:02:24 +??P13 14:02:40 +Christophe_Strobbe 14:02:42 zakim, ??P13 is Lisa 14:02:42 +Lisa; got it 14:03:20 Becky_Gibson has joined #wai-wcag 14:03:25 +Michael_Cooper 14:03:49 +Becky_Gibson 14:04:35 Michael has joined #wai-wcag 14:05:24 Chair: Michael_Cooper 14:07:13 Michael has joined #wai-wcag 14:07:16 agenda? 14:08:07 scribe: Chris 14:09:43 zakim, take up agendum 1 14:09:43 agendum 1. "4.2 (test cases)" taken up [from ben] 14:09:57 Present: 06Ben, Chris, Dave_MacDonald, Lisa, Christophe_Strobbe, Michael_Cooper, Becky_Gibson01 14:10:17 +Wendy 14:10:27 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0360.html 14:10:33 wendy has joined #wai-wcag 14:10:52 David will send proposal to list re d-link 14:11:20 New fangled d-link (description of object) 14:11:48 BG: did test on IE and object not detected 14:12:03 BG: HPR will find text for object tag 14:12:31 BG: even if flash, or whatever, is turned on - passed on to Freedom Scientific 14:13:18 BG: created DHTML java test file, but can't query object, can post if anyone interested 14:13:36 DM: hate d-link idea but see no other fallback 14:14:15 BC: needs to be repair technique 14:14:23 BG & DM ack 14:14:50 BG: what about Applet? (not xhtml) 14:16:02 HTML Tech 12.2 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050211/#progobj-fallback 14:17:43 DM: do not want to say that fallbacks are unnecessary, remove note from 12.2 14:18:16 DM: if baseline is provided is fallback necessary 14:18:35 MC: keep technique, baseline it and move to 1.1 14:18:56 DM: agree 14:19:01 BC: OK 14:19:30 WC: will be doing summary for 1.1 this week, will work with David 14:21:05 action: David will put to group, Michael will respond 14:21:35 12.3 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050211/#progobj-altcontent 14:21:43 DM: delete 12.3 cuz it's covered by 4.2 14:22:32 BG: they are seperate techs, questions if should be grouped 14:24:04 DM: we're asking for 2 of same thing (text in 2 places) 14:25:05 DM: wish text in object would be supported 14:25:29 BC: not really requiring in 2 places 14:26:54 DM: perhaps put into 12.3? 14:28:10 DM: keep as seperate and include d-link idea in 12.4, will post this idea to list 14:29:22 BC: 12.3 is repair for 12.4 14:30:31 MC: if 12.4 doesn't work, use 12.3 14:31:53 action: DM will move d-link funky thing into 12.3 and keep both 14:32:20 12.5 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050211/#applet-content 14:33:46 WC: looks like 1.1, why discuss under 4.2? 14:34:49 WC: should be under 1.1 14:35:09 DM: propses they go under 4.2 14:36:16 DM: they are specific to applets and plugins (4.2) not really alt content (1.1) 14:37:48 WC: need to link examples to SC 14:38:34 WC: must be clear about mapping 14:38:48 MC: leaning towards 1.1, BC agrees 14:40:05 WC: depends on how we define non-text content, if we say non-text is applets etc. then must provide text 14:40:16 WC: and make applet/object accessible 14:41:32 discussion of how 1.1 and 4.2 relates and what if 4.2 dropped 14:42:00 DM: eventually have to deal with this but can drop for now 14:43:19 WC: have we got a tech for alternate for object if baseline excludes it? 14:44:01 q+ 14:44:46 WC: if applet is sortof eye candy then is covered by techs, critical applets are not 14:45:37 ack leasa 14:49:44 agenda? 14:50:41 DM: will look for real-world applets 14:51:14 DM: move over to 1.1? 14:51:23 general agreement 14:52:59 WC looks forward to hearing DM's suggestions 14:54:14 12.10 - http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20050211/#download-viewer 14:54:56 DM: suggest keep as is, minor text change 14:55:40 MC: artifact of 508 and baseline idea means we don't SC and don't need tech 14:56:55 BC: example of 2 versions of PDF reader so tech could be usefull 15:01:24 MC: anyone that doesn't have viewer is affected, not just PWD 15:03:07 WC: difficult to support tech until 4.2 is resolved 15:03:59 action: push discussion of 12.10 to Thursday call 15:06:50 zakim, close this item 15:06:50 agendum 1 closed 15:06:51 I see 3 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is 15:06:52 2. Continue review of 1.3 [from ben] 15:07:00 -Dave_MacDonald 15:07:05 -Christophe_Strobbe 15:07:07 -Ben 15:07:16 zakim, take up agendum 2 15:07:16 agendum 2. "Continue review of 1.3" taken up [from ben] 15:11:05 +Dave_MacDonald 15:11:16 +John_Slatin 15:12:06 scribe: dm 15:12:15 scribe: David 15:12:19 +Christophe_Strobbe 15:12:46 +Ben 15:14:09 mc: tim boland summarized existing definitions, John ran with it 15:14:31 js: jim said there was no defn' of technology 15:14:49 js: so he put some defn' forward 15:15:08 s/jim/tim 15:15:41 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0503.html 15:16:15 js: everybody agrees we need uniform defn' 15:16:34 leaving the call 15:17:00 John's proposed def. of techniques - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/0503.html 15:17:01 bye lisa 15:17:04 something urgent just cam eup 15:17:06 buy 15:17:23 -Lisa 15:17:25 1.3 Techniques Issues: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005AprJun/att-0345/00-part 15:17:30 leasa has left #wai-wcag 15:18:37 bg: suggest we move it out 15:19:00 mc: if there are accessibility implications in the future we will need it 15:19:19 js: JAWS now suports Rowgroup element 15:19:41 mc: use tbody to make row groups 15:20:00 bc: optional because not applicable to talbles 15:20:17 bc: not needed for all tables 15:20:36 bc: on simple data table no need to worry about it 15:22:43 js: thead holds headings row...significant for low vision 15:23:04 bg: sounds like css tech 15:23:41 js: lets keep it and a few of us research it 15:24:28 action: michael, work on examples for technique 7.4 15:24:59 bg: what's Joe's tbody examble 15:25:22 s/examble/example? 15:25:33 yup 15:26:25 js: part of it is because techs are so fine grained we are daling with different aspects of it in dif technique 15:26:41 wc: do the need to be separate techniques?????? 15:27:01 wc: but it could get very long 15:27:48 js: is that groupng better suited to the guide doc 15:29:02 wc: if we can just explain our thinking of when to apply these attributes then we teahc them how to make decisions, that would mean it makes sense in html docs. I'm concerned that guide doc, could get long for various html techniques 15:29:22 wc: would be cool to make a tree doc 15:30:03 s/tree doc/decision tree that helps people understand what decisions to make. 15:30:16 mc: I will make a proposal to make tree doc flowchart 15:31:04 action: Michael make tree doc flowchart of selecting table header approach 15:31:16 bc: sounds like the application doc we talked about...the guidance that you are bring up is more tutorial oriented 15:32:12 mc: I have a clear picture in my mind 15:32:38 wc: when do you want to bring it to the group 15:33:24 wc: flowchart is the interesting part. prioritize there 15:34:26 mc: decision tree arod when to use specific table things 15:35:10 mc: this will help with 8, 9, 10 in 1.3 15:35:24 and 7 15:35:41 11. Categorizing data cells 15:36:19 bg: #11 cites bug 653 15:37:47 wc: intent is to query the data in a data table based on category but I don't think anyone uses it. 15:38:16 wc: window eyes and Jaws don't do it 15:39:02 js: it tries to turn table into 3 D but I don't understand it 15:39:18 dm: if we don't get it will general public be able to do it 15:39:42 wc: it is part of WCAG 1.0 and so it needs a placeholder 15:41:36 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/#gl-table-markup 15:41:45 mc: two options throw it out or keep it, 15:41:53 all: out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 15:42:57 wc: will put placeholder for transition 15:43:43 bg: math ML 15:45:15 deals with 12.1 15:45:24 mc: let's comment it out 15:45:29 12. Markup and style sheets rather than images: the example of math 15:45:48 js: if we want a math ml tecniques let's ask Neil Soiffer, 15:46:08 wc: he said he would but organizaing it is hard 15:46:17 closede 184 15:46:22 13. CSS styling 15:46:29 closed bug 184 15:47:07 bg: let's remove it or give it specific examples 15:49:07 wc: this is what I was trying to get at at the tech lenary. most started with html tests, there is so much overlap with HTML, let's inlcude css in here 15:50:28 mc: next week's agenda will be to include wendy's proposal to include CSS in html techniques 15:51:38 mc: comment out again 15:52:11 bc: let's just kill it 15:53:38 wc: survey's have go to list we can to a survey on it. 15:53:56 bg: next would be my list of proposed techniques 15:54:15 Proposed HTML Techniques. 15:54:16 1 Technique for marking up plain text documents. 15:54:54 bg: if we have to deal with plain te3st documents depending on 1.3 then we have to write a tehniue 15:55:07 technique 15:55:14 2. Do we need an HTML technique for L1 SC3 about color - there are currently none? 15:56:27 mc: perhaps no need for css techniques, no nooed for html technique 15:56:46 3. Perhaps a technique to address Issue #1244, Image-based headings 15:57:48 bg: if they must use img headers should show image based heading wrapper, create a technique 15:59:02 bc: finds headers and dynamically created flash objects, in a specific font, 15:59:12 wc; cool thing about it is text is still text 16:00:47 wc: we can reference this technique 16:01:12 bg: we can't include a techique for flash 16:01:39 action: John explore progressive enhancement 16:01:41 sIFR: http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/ 16:01:59 bg: we will reference this technique 16:02:24 bg: select element 16:03:25 wc: thomas casper says they are different, 16:03:47 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2004Sep/0013.html 16:04:12 action: Becky follow up on issue 1199 16:06:43 chistophe has guidelines summary for thrusday call, then someone (Chistophe?) can do summary 16:06:53 -Becky_Gibson 16:06:55 -Michael_Cooper 16:06:56 -Ben 16:06:56 -Chris 16:06:57 -Christophe_Strobbe 16:06:57 -Dave_MacDonald 16:06:58 ChrisR has left #wai-wcag 16:07:00 agenda? 16:07:07 zakim, who's on the phone? 16:07:07 On the phone I see Wendy, John_Slatin 16:07:08 zakim, close agendum 2 16:07:08 agendum 2 closed 16:07:09 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is 16:07:10 3. 2.4 [from ben] 16:07:14 zakim, close agendum 3 16:07:14 agendum 3 closed 16:07:16 I see 1 item remaining on the agenda: 16:07:17 4. Script Techniques [from ben] 16:07:20 zakim, close agendum 4 16:07:20 agendum 4 closed 16:07:21 I see nothing remaining on the agenda 16:07:28 Christophe_Strobb has left #wai-wcag 16:07:30 RRSAgent, please generate minutes 16:07:30 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-minutes.html ben 16:08:52 RRSAgent, bye 16:08:52 I see 7 open action items: 16:08:52 ACTION: David will put to group, Michael will respond [1] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T14-21-05 16:08:52 ACTION: DM will move d-link funky thing into 12.3 and keep both [2] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T14-31-53 16:08:52 ACTION: push discussion of 12.10 to Thursday call [3] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T15-03-59 16:08:52 ACTION: michael, work on examples for technique 7.4 [4] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T15-24-28 16:08:52 ACTION: Michael make tree doc flowchart of selecting table header approach [5] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T15-31-04 16:08:52 ACTION: John explore progressive enhancement [6] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T16-01-39 16:08:52 ACTION: Becky follow up on issue 1199 [7] 16:08:52 recorded in http://www.w3.org/2005/05/18-wai-wcag-irc#T16-04-12 16:08:56 Zakim, Bye 16:08:56 leaving. As of this point the attendees were Ben, Dave_MacDonald, Chris, Christophe_Strobbe, Lisa, Michael_Cooper, Becky_Gibson, Wendy, John_Slatin 16:08:56 Zakim has left #wai-wcag