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"Review submitted Techniques" taken up [from Joshue108] 17:12:54 JOC: A couple of techiques submitted 17:13:25 JOC: I have started a couple of draft techniques 17:14:45 http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=Using_the_html5_required_attribute_to_indicate_that_a_value_is_required_in_an_input_field 17:15:09 TOPIC: Review of HTML5 Required Technique (URI above) 17:16:13 LGR: Trace wiki - will be there until it stops working 17:17:06 LGR: better to use the w3c wiki - but if you have credetntials can use it 17:17:17 JOC: be aware that not everyone can edit on the trace wiki 17:17:33 DT: Just used this because this is what I had available 17:17:47 DT: just let me know where tyo transfer it to 17:18:15 JOC: Straightforward technique 17:18:37 q+ 17:18:50 DM: Whole user agent support issue 17:19:04 DM: There are a whole bunch of different ways of specifying required 17:19:42 DM: want a few examples rather than one 17:20:26 JN: as long as our exmaples are correct I think that is enough 17:20:35 JN: isn it enough to link to the spec? 17:21:32 JN: I think we should use best practice 17:22:11 LGR: don't want to jst refer to the spec 17:22:27 JOC: Both syntaxes are correct 17:23:25 Adam: can't be comprehensive - but as developers are used to using values for their attributes may want to add this here 17:23:38 JOC: issue of multiple syntaxes is going to come up again 17:24:03 Adam: If using required by iteslf should also include the other 17:25:19 required is the same as required="true" which equals required="false" which equals required=0 17:27:39 Adam: required="required" seems to be used 17:27:48 Is this the right link? http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-select-required 17:28:41 LGR: asking about relationship to aria-required 17:29:34 JN: I think if in the same techiqiue we confuse the user aganet support 17:30:07 http://john.foliot.ca/required-inputs/ 17:30:33 ??: Is this AT only or all user agents? 17:32:10 JOC: some are pretty accessible 17:33:16 LGR: what is is supposed to be doing according to the spec? 17:33:44 JOC: in some places the spec defines the user experience but on other places it doesn't 17:34:11 LGR: wouldn't expect to define the visual experience but would perhaps expect that if trying to submit it would fail 17:35:04 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/common-input-element-attributes.html#the-required-attribute 17:35:54 http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/common-microsyntaxes.html#boolean-attribute 17:38:17 JN: what are we going to do for boolean attributes in html5? Both styles or one? 17:38:29 JOC: I think we should think about it a little more 17:39:08 http://www.eramp.com/david/html5/required.html 17:39:14 LGR: we should include the link to the correct place in the spec but should also help people in plain english 17:40:51 lgr: Is it clear what kind of modifications need doing? 17:41:29 DT: have a few notes about UA support, test procedure and .... 17:41:41 LGR: needs some work on the test prodedure 17:41:59 Adam: we assume that the presence of the required attribute satisfies the success criteria 17:42:09 DT: poerhaps take out step number 2 17:42:35 http://www.eramp.com/david/html5/html5_forms.html 17:43:16 JN: depends what success criteria you are trying to meet 17:43:58 LGR: This could also be a 3.3.2 techique with user agent notes 17:45:27 But 3.3.2 would still need a label, in addition. 17:48:45 LGR: sounding less like a 3.3.2 candidate even for parialt 17:49:02 s/parialt/parital/ 17:49:20 s/parital/partial/ 17:49:38 Adam: would like to see more visual discussion 17:50:23 JOC: can add CSS to the field. 17:50:43 LGR: could do a sufficient technique for this - need to look at H90 17:51:04 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/H90.html could be a model for how to write a 3.2.2 technique. 17:51:19 It would need CSS and label as well as required attribute. 17:52:45 LGR: H90 discusses what the group thought was minimally acceptable 17:53:42 For each indicator of required status that is not provided in text, check that the meaning of the indicator is explained before the form control that uses it. 17:54:41 LGR: concern is that * is easy to miss 17:55:11 JOC: I like having the text required in the label 17:58:45 JN: I think this should be a seperate technique 17:58:49 LGR: agree 18:07:26 rrsagent, make minutes 18:07:26 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/02/20-html-techs-tf-minutes.html jnurthen 18:07:42 zakim, who is on the call? 18:07:43 WAI_HTML TT()11:30AM has not yet started, jnurthen 18:07:44 On IRC I see Joshue108, DavidTodd, marcjohlic, David, RRSAgent, Zakim, Loretta, jnurthen 18:13:30 zakim, please part 18:13:30 Zakim has left #html-techs-tf 18:13:41 rrsagent, make minutes 18:13:41 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/02/20-html-techs-tf-minutes.html jnurthen