14:40:30 RRSAgent has joined #html-a11y 14:40:31 logging to http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-html-a11y-irc 14:40:32 RRSAgent, make logs world 14:40:34 Zakim, this will be 2119 14:40:35 ok, trackbot; I see WAI_PFWG(HTML TF)10:00AM scheduled to start 40 minutes ago 14:40:35 Meeting: HTML Accessibility Task Force Teleconference 14:40:36 Date: 25 September 2014 14:40:42 agenda? 14:40:50 zakim, clear agenda 14:40:50 agenda cleared 14:41:31 Chair: Janina 14:41:32 agenda+ Identify Scribe http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List 14:41:34 agenda+ TPAC 2014 14:41:37 agenda+ Longdesc CR Progress 14:41:39 agenda+ Our Alt Note http://rawgit.com/w3c/alt-techniques/master/index.html 14:41:42 agenda+ HTML Process Tweaks Going Forward? http://darobin.github.io/after5/ 14:41:44 agenda+ Other Business 14:41:47 agenda+ Identify Chair and Scribe for the next TF teleconference http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List 14:41:50 agenda+ be done 14:54:30 WAI_PFWG(HTML TF)10:00AM has now started 14:54:37 +??P0 14:54:51 zakim, ??P0 is me 14:54:51 +janina; got it 14:54:59 zakim, next item 14:54:59 agendum 1. "Identify Scribe http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List" taken up [from janina] 14:56:09 paulc has joined #html-a11y 14:56:12 ShaneM has joined #html-a11y 15:00:34 regrets: Rich, Adrian 15:00:41 +David_MacDonald 15:01:04 Judy has joined #html-a11y 15:01:28 +MarkS 15:01:57 zakim, who's here? 15:01:57 On the phone I see janina, David_MacDonald, MarkS 15:01:59 On IRC I see Judy, ShaneM, paulc, RRSAgent, newtron, IanPouncey, Joshue, liam, janina, cabanier, joanie, Zakim, MarkS, hober, sivoais, trackbot 15:02:49 +Judy 15:03:17 zakim, what is the code? 15:03:17 the conference code is 2119 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), paulc 15:03:41 chaals has joined #html-a11y 15:03:41 +[Microsoft] 15:03:51 zakim, [Microsoft] is me 15:03:51 +paulc; got it 15:04:02 David has joined #html-a11y 15:04:08 On a very bad hotel wireless connection. Staying on mute. 15:04:28 zakim, call chaals-es 15:04:28 ok, chaals; the call is being made 15:04:29 +Chaals 15:04:58 +Liam 15:05:32 zakim, who's on the phone? 15:05:32 On the phone I see janina, David_MacDonald, MarkS, Judy, paulc, Chaals, Liam 15:06:15 scribe: David 15:06:35 zakim, next item 15:06:35 agendum 2. "TPAC 2014" taken up [from janina] 15:07:15 TPAC... no news that's new, made progress... expect to be done soon 15:07:26 okay re TPAC plans 15:07:57 JA: hotel sold out... w3c block gone, more expensive for others 15:08:07 +[IPcaller] 15:08:13 Zakim, IPcaller is me 15:08:13 +IanPouncey; got it 15:08:13 JS: nearby hotels have better rates. 15:08:59 s/hotels have/hotels *may* have/ 15:09:03 JS: W3C requests anyone moving hotels who is in w3C block, let us know so we can get them back in the block 15:09:32 Are there rooms at higher rates at the Marriott? 15:09:41 [yes] 15:10:07 -Chaals 15:10:15 Into the 300$ range outside the block 15:10:33 zakim, next item 15:10:33 agendum 3. "Longdesc CR Progress" taken up [from janina] 15:10:53 zakim, call chaals.es 15:10:53 I am sorry, chaals; I do not know a number for chaals.es 15:10:56 JS: no news ... waiting from director's offioce 15:11:08 zakim, call chaals-es 15:11:08 ok, chaals; the call is being made 15:11:10 +Chaals 15:11:20 +JF 15:11:43 zakim, next item 15:11:43 agendum 4. "Our Alt Note http://rawgit.com/w3c/alt-techniques/master/index.html" taken up [from janina] 15:12:02 JF has joined #html-a11y 15:12:15 JS: alt note 15:12:56 q+ 15:13:00 C of C, objection to closing work as longdesc moves towards status... i'm concerned we'd have to reopen it, assuming LD not stopped by FO 15:13:30 noting about the note status blocking any other rec... is there good reason to push it forward now... 15:13:52 +ShaneM 15:14:07 q+ 15:14:23 LIUM: i filed bugs that there are use cases that should have Longdesc... bad to publish as is, until LD resolved 15:14:24 +1 for inclusion of @longdesc 15:15:03 ack c 15:15:06 ack ju 15:15:07 Would an alternative plan be to publish a heartbeat of this document and then to publish a WG Note later after updating to include a reference to longdesc. 15:15:11 CM: not worried about publishing and reopeing, but we should wait for directors decision, and update if director approves LD 15:15:20 JB: agree 15:16:09 The latest info on the TR page is http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-html-alt-techniques-20121025/ 15:16:15 JB: concerned it looks like comprehensive spec, but doesn't have LD, which could be represented in the document... so agree to wait for director 15:16:55 s/have LD/some kinds of complex images/ 15:16:55 q+ to suggest a heartbeat makes sense 15:17:12 PC: could publish as heartbeat... it's approaching 2nd anniversary so needs some movement 15:17:12 +Cynthia_Shelly 15:17:29 +1 to push a heartbeat. 15:17:50 PC: editors can publish heartbeat without permission 15:18:45 q+ 15:18:53 JB: agree, but let's wait for decision... might just a few teaks be needed or large revision, let's consider HB after we're not guessing 15:18:54 ack c 15:18:54 chaals, you wanted to suggest a heartbeat makes sense 15:19:34 CM: HB makes a lot of sense, and hopefully have it fixed and ready 15:20:02 s/teaks/tweaks/g 15:20:21 JS: not a note yet because needs to be perfected... are we stirring the pot with a HB... 15:20:36 JB: i'm ok with a heartbeat... but not as a note 15:21:31 Someone should file a bug for the "image description problems" and then the SOTD can point to the outstanding bugs 15:21:35 JB: if we do a HB, we'd need to publish our concerns that some might be changed soon, and that there might be other image types not included 15:21:51 CM: I think we should publish HB 15:22:02 There are a LOT of changes in the document that is very different that the 2012 WD. 15:22:09 q? 15:22:11 ack l 15:22:11 liam, you wanted to prefer not to do a heartbeat until after the FO 15:22:46 Liam: don't want to publish without clear statement about the status of LD 15:22:56 Remember that we had Formal Objections about this document being on Recommendation Track that were withdrawn. 15:23:06 +1 to support Liam's point 15:23:32 PC: simple rule for JB, publish early and often 15:23:53 s/simple rule for JB/simple rule 15:24:01 PC: we had formal Obj on this going to rec track... 15:24:16 q? 15:24:19 PC: it's much better than what we have now 15:24:19 acl p 15:24:24 +Q 15:24:37 ack paulc 15:25:10 q? 15:25:14 ack jf 15:25:16 John: Normally agree with OC, but this is so riligious, about LD, we should hold 15:25:43 s/riligious/religious 15:25:54 s/OC/PC 15:26:01 s/LD/longdesc/G 15:26:42 JS: how about HB in early october 15:27:10 zakim, next item 15:27:10 agendum 5. "HTML Process Tweaks Going Forward? http://darobin.github.io/after5/" taken up [from janina] 15:27:48 JS: it is going on... just noting it 15:28:05 zakim, close this item 15:28:05 agendum 5 closed 15:28:06 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is 15:28:06 7. Identify Chair and Scribe for the next TF teleconference http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List [from janina] 15:28:09 zakim, next item 15:28:09 agendum 7. "Identify Chair and Scribe for the next TF teleconference http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List" taken up [from janina] 15:28:12 JS: invitation to participate in discussion on WG list 15:28:22 zakim, close this item 15:28:22 agendum 7 closed 15:28:23 I see 1 item remaining on the agenda: 15:28:23 8. be done [from janina] 15:28:42 topic: other business 15:29:39 JS: i don't have summary of various conversation to 5.1 items... been busy with OF... ' 15:29:48 s/OF/PF 15:30:44 scribe: MarkS 15:31:10 DM: I would like to see progress on dealing with footnotes, navigation to and from the reference 15:31:19 q? 15:31:20 ...difficult to do for screen reader users. 15:31:40 ...there are arguments against it i.e. we already have links to handle this. 15:31:53 ...this is also relevant to ePub 15:32:16 JS: have you looked at ePub's handling of footnotes? 15:32:38 ...also, what specifically is the problem for screen reader uses? is there overlap with other users? 15:33:02 ...there is a problem if the beginning and end of the note is not clearly delineated with markup 15:33:09 q? 15:33:11 ace li 15:33:13 ack l 15:33:13 liam, you wanted to note that there has been footnote conversations in digital publishing IG and in CSS, some similarities with longdesc 15:33:14 ace li 15:33:26 s/ace li//G 15:34:15 +Q 15:34:18 LQ: two kinds of issues with footnotes that are not satisfied with just links. A sighted user can see at a glance if its a bibliographic reference, or substantive 15:34:38 ...ebooks are struggling with this 15:34:59 ...nice to have on the same page if the room is there, and there are no flow issues 15:35:18 ...in ebook readers, ePub, there will need to be a way of marking what type of footnote it is 15:35:22 David__ has joined #html-a11y 15:35:32 ...a role attribute on an aside element, or some other solution 15:35:36 -David_MacDonald 15:35:56 JS: so there is lack of support for good handling in HTML5, if ePub formally adopts HTML5 as a solution 15:36:33 q? 15:36:36 LQ: also for those who use HTML5 CSS in their print publishing workflow 15:36:36 -Chaals 15:36:36 ack j 15:37:26 JF: we deal with footnotes a lot. some people use special characters to mark a note, double arrows for instance. 15:37:26 +David_MacDonald 15:37:47 David__ has joined #html-a11y 15:38:02 [CSS already has asterisk, dagger, obelisk, section mark, double bar counting sequence] 15:38:02 ...also multiple links to a single footnote. makes it hard to return back to where you originally referenced the footnote 15:38:14 q? 15:38:16 ...was it the first, second or third reference 15:38:32 q+ 15:39:40 ...legal documents are very difficult to solve this issue creatively 15:39:47 ack ju 15:39:49 s/are/make it 15:40:11 s/legal/the formal structure of legal 15:40:38 DM: john and and I can brainstorm more on this 15:42:15 JS: this isn't just an accessibility thing. I think we need to involve others in addressing this issue. This would be good for TPAC, ePub will be there and will be meeting with PF to talk about accessibility 15:42:42 ...sounds like this should be taken up by us, HTML WG and ePub. TPAC would be ideal 15:43:29 +Q 15:43:35 ack jf 15:44:02 JF: so david and I should get together and put together a discussion paper to kickoff a discussion at TPAC 15:44:10 JS: that would be very valuable 15:44:21 613-2354902 phone 15:44:29 JF: we have a good idea what the issues are so I don't think it will take us long to do 15:44:49 s/613-2354902/ 15:44:58 q? 15:46:06 JS: Thanks David for the suggestion, David and John will get together to oresent discussion paper on footnotes 15:46:09 http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Canvas_Task_Force/CR-Test 15:46:40 MS: Rich drew up a paper, I've written test for 12 issues 15:47:26 MS: we'll have more for you next week, the is a new meeting time for the canvas, TF, Friday 3pm eastern 15:48:35 JS: other business. media subteam needs to get together, have comments, and exoect nore for WAI EO 15:48:49 s/exoect/Expect 15:48:58 ws/nore/more 15:49:29 s/oresent/present 15:50:14 10EST monday, will meet to discuss comments, will put out notice... 15:50:58 next week Shane will Scribe 15:51:15 -ShaneM 15:51:25 -Cynthia_Shelly 15:51:29 -janina 15:51:30 -MarkS 15:51:30 -IanPouncey 15:51:31 zakim, bye 15:51:31 Zakim has left #html-a11y 15:51:50 rrsagent, make log public 15:52:05 rrsagent, make minutes 15:52:05 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-html-a11y-minutes.html David 17:22:22 Judy has joined #html-a11y 17:49:21 newtron has joined #html-a11y