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HTML Techniques Task Force

16 Apr 2012

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Attendees

Present
Joshue, Cooper, Loretta_Guarino_Reid, David_MacDonald, +1.202.272.aaaa, Bruce_Bailey, Marc_Johlic, Adam_Solomon, Jon_Gunderson, +1.650.253.aabb
Regrets
Chair
Josh
Scribe
marcjohlic

Contents


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<Joshue108> Week of Oct 29)

<cfit> Meeting: HTML Techniques Task Force

<scribe> scribe: marcjohlic

Please comment on the survey for this week (if you haven't already) - https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/htmltechs-20120409/

<cfit> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_HTML5_section_elements

<David> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_HTML5_section_elements

JC: Reviewing feedback - will update and try to present again next week
... Should we divide technique up into many techniques - or is it better to have it all in one large technique

DM: Feels one technique is sufficient.. looking it over
... Where did article example come from

JC: Just made it up - pulling from existing spec

JG: Heading structure using H1?

JC: Left out because wasn't sure if it should be an advisory technique

JG: Looking at Example 4 - wouldn't you want every post to use an H2 to indicate that it's under the "Your first high end guitar" because it's an H1?

JC: Good point

DM: How do people feel about having headers and footers included - tend to think about header being at the top and footer at bottom - and didn't think of including each in every article.. I don't know that I'd put those in each article..

JG: Semantic markup best when sparse - tends to lose meaning when it's everywhere

JC: Agree and will remove headers and footers

JG: What do user agents do w/ headers and footers? Do they make them landmakrs

DM: It's pretty spotty right now - depends on the UA and AT you're using
... "Landmarks" are very well supported right now, but HTML5 section elements are not

JC: Some of these examples are based on what you could potentially do in the future

DM: maybe 6 mos - year

JC: Will most of this end up as advisory techniques?
... Some comments were on adding test techniques - but not quite sure how to add those for these

DM: Recommend checking w/ Steve Faulkner as he's written some good HTML5 test techniques

BB: Should clarify header and footer around tables

JG: Concern that there may be potentially too many navigation points - ends up looking like every bit of info is important.. might be overkill to have header and footer on every article (Example 4)

JC: I'm going to change that - it's legal, but not necessarily best practice
... There is a lot of confusion of how to mark up / nest stuff

JG: According to SF blog it looks like article and header are just treated as divs now, but may be more relevant in the future

<jongund> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-api-map/raw-file/tip/Overview.html

JG: Link to draft document of api mappings
... article is an interesting role in HTML5 - not a landmark role but more like a special list as far as I can tell
... May have to careful with article
... Most folks think of article as a landmark, but it looks like it's not defined as a landmark

MC: article is a type of region in a document - but should be clarified as a non-interactive region

JG: What are they envisioning a screen reader's interaction would be?
... articles are supposed to be used in a sequence?

DM: supposed to be used more for blogs, newspaper / news sites

MC: I would think that an article would have a heading and you would navigate via the headings
... Even though article isn't technically a landmark doesn't mean that ATs couldn't come up with ways to interact / navigate (similar to tables today)

<cfit> Interesting article on JAWS, IE Heading http://www.accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/10/jaws-ie-and-headings-in-html5/

<David> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_ARIA_landmarks_to_identify_regions_of_a_page

JC: Need to determine if we'll keep all of these together (section, article, aside) or split some of them out

MC: My personal bias is to make techniques as granular as possible and then making use of the Related Techniques section

JC: Would be fair to have examples that contain the multiple elements / attributes
... MC makes the case on breaking this up - so if there is no disagreement I will go ahead and do that.

<cfit> ACTION: Josh to rework the section technique and divide it into smaller granular techs [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/04/16-html-techs-tf-minutes.html#action01]

AS: As far as breaking up the techniques, there is a precedent in 1.3.2 for lists where it is all in one technique - so something to consider

JC: I may be able to flesh it out some more if I did break it up

AS: If the only reason we are breaking up is due to length then I think we should reconsider

<David> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_HTML5_section_elements

LG: Have you thought about what the test procedure would look like?

JC: Thought about it, but have not put anything down yet.. may ping LG for some ideas

LG: I don't think we've ever broken up just because it was long, but if you try to put too many things then it might be harder to write test procedures to cover everything.

AS: 1.3.2 gives good example even for test technique if kept together

DM: Splitting up may make it too granular

LG: When grouping you have to be careful that you don't somehow end up requiring all of them accidentally

JC: That's similar to the point that JG brought up about including header and footer
... Would it be possible to have 2 or 3 sets of test techniques if they were kept altogether?

LG: Could utilized and / or - but would have to be clear of what is required

JC: I'll break it up and we can see how it looks and then we can compare to what is already written and go from there

AS: H48 would be a good example to look at for a test procedure

<David> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_ARIA_landmarks_to_identify_regions_of_a_page

Using ARIA landmarks to identify regions of a page

JC: Find that aria-label is really useful and wonder if this would be a good place to expand on it (just see it used in Ex 4)

DM: I would put that in the aria-label technique that i'm working on next
... Just using it in Ex 4 now to cover case of generic region landmark
... Would add link to aria-label in the Related Resources section

JG: Comment on Ex 5 - should H2 be inside of the div? Is that better practice:?

DM: Good point - I'll change that

<Loretta> Can someone paste in the URL for me?

http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Using_ARIA_landmarks_to_identify_regions_of_a_page

LG: Would like to see an advisory technique written up regarding all content being included within the landmark.

JG: I'd be happy to try to write an advisory technique for that

DM: Do we want to go forward with this techinque?

JC: Happy with it - ready to go fwd - what is the next step?

LG: Would go to the Working Group, but we would probably want to wait and send a few of these over in a batch
... Add something to the status stating that this one is ready to go to the WG

JC: Any other comments on David's Landmark technique?

no more comments

Possible F2F at TPAC 2012 <http://www.w3.org/2012/10/TPAC/> (Lyon, France

LG: Don't expect will be able to make it over

MC: Does expect to be there

DM: Hoping to get there

MC: PF group will be there, folks already in HTML a11y that are in Europe may be there
... We can make a request for a room - but should only request for the days that we'll actually use it

JC: Let's ask for Thurs for now

MC: Loretta, can you fill out the survey for that? I've already answered on behalf of one group so can't answer this one

LG: Yes - will do survey for WCAG for Thurs

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Josh to rework the section technique and divide it into smaller granular techs [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/04/16-html-techs-tf-minutes.html#action01]
 
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