14:40:36 RRSAgent has joined #wai-wcag 14:40:36 logging to http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-irc 14:40:38 RRSAgent, make logs public 14:40:40 Zakim, this will be WAI_WCAG 14:40:40 I do not see a conference matching that name scheduled within the next hour, trackbot 14:40:41 Meeting: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference 14:40:41 Date: 13 October 2015 14:40:47 zakim, agenda? 14:40:47 I see 1 item remaining on the agenda: 14:40:48 4. Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/ [from Joshue108] 14:41:28 agenda+ Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/ 14:41:38 zakim, clear agenda 14:41:38 agenda cleared 14:41:43 agenda+ Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/ 14:42:10 agenda+ WCAG new errata for review http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ AND http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/errata/ 14:43:55 regrets+ Jonathan_Avila, Eric_Eggert, Bailey_Bruce, Wayne_Dick 14:50:25 AWK has joined #wai-wcag 14:50:35 Zakim, queue? 14:50:35 I see Kathy on the speaker queue 14:50:47 Zakim, clear queue 14:50:47 I don't understand 'clear queue', AWK 14:51:05 Trackbot, what meeting is this? 14:51:05 Sorry, AWK, I don't understand 'Trackbot, what meeting is this?'. Please refer to for help. 14:51:15 RRSAgent, what meeting is this? 14:51:15 I'm logging. Sorry, nothing found for 'what meeting is this' 14:51:26 Zakim, agenda? 14:51:26 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda: 14:51:27 1. Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/ [from Kenny] 14:51:27 2. WCAG new errata for review http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ AND http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/errata/ [from Kenny] 14:51:56 RRSAgent, draft minutes 14:51:56 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html AWK 14:51:57 Joshue has joined #wai-wcag 14:52:02 zakim, agenda? 14:52:02 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda: 14:52:03 1. Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/ [from Kenny] 14:52:03 2. WCAG new errata for review http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ AND http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/errata/ [from Kenny] 14:53:34 trackbot, start meeting 14:53:36 RRSAgent, make logs public 14:53:38 Zakim, this will be WAI_WCAG 14:53:38 I do not see a conference matching that name scheduled within the next hour, trackbot 14:53:39 Meeting: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference 14:53:39 Date: 13 October 2015 14:54:44 trackbot, status 14:56:00 Chair: Joshue 14:56:52 laura has joined #wai-wcag 14:57:38 MichaelC has joined #wai-wcag 15:00:02 present+ Joshue 15:00:05 + 15:00:11 RRSAgent, draft minutes 15:00:11 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html AWK 15:00:30 +AWK 15:05:04 present+ kenny 15:05:30 present+ Laura 15:05:45 DanielFrank has joined #wai-wcag 15:07:36 \Sure 15:07:58 Scribe: DanielFrank 15:07:59 I will definitely need a little help, but happy to do it :) 15:08:12 jamesn has joined #wai-wcag 15:08:14 jnurthen has joined #wai-wcag 15:08:26 Scribing Commands and Related Info: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Scribing_Commands_and_Related_Info 15:08:48 is that noise me? 15:08:55 or is anyone else getting it? 15:08:58 David has joined #wai-wcag 15:09:07 +David 15:09:19 zakim, take up item 1 15:09:19 agendum 1. "Extension Requirements Survey: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/extension_req/" taken up [from Kenny] 15:09:38 https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/WCAG_Extensions_Framework 15:10:10 Joshue: Continuing from last week, the Extensions Framework 15:10:11 CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING IN WEBEX.... will try back 15:10:14 Kathy has joined #wai-wcag 15:10:21 + Kathy 15:10:26 yeah i can't hear anything other than clicks 15:10:31 ok 15:10:36 we'll wait 15:11:21 Joshue: Last week we spoke about various aspects of the draft, talked about some wording changes 15:11:34 Scribe: DanielFrank 15:11:47 rrsagent, make minutes 15:11:47 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html jamesn 15:12:52 James: I don't see how we can guarantee extensions are not going to contradict each other 15:13:26 Joshue: Agree that we cannot do that. I would suggest we minimize those sorts of situations as best we can. 15:13:50 James: Anyone writing an extension should understand it may conflict with another extension, and this should be documented in the extension 15:14:02 James: We can't require two of them when they conflict 15:15:25 Joshue: Would like to open that up to the floor 15:15:26 q+ 15:15:36 ack kath 15:16:51 Kathy: As far as the conflicts go, I agree with James that we are going to have potential conflicts. But that's really hard to have in the extension documents themselves. Should be in an overarching document. Concerned that with changes to documents and lack of visibility in each other's work, that could be an issue. 15:16:54 q+ 15:17:21 Joshue: A potential avenue here where we use that kind of language. We try to reduce conflict and dissonance in our work, but not explicitly call it out. 15:18:42 Kathy: Agree, but the extensions themselves are for specific things or audiences. If you do your evaluations and say this is what we need to support, then we'll want to include those extensions as part of what we are looking at in addition to WCAG 2.0. Need an overarching document to explain what they are, how they are used, and any potential conflicts. 15:18:50 Joshue: I thought that's what this document was 15:19:53 ... I also wonder are we potentially playing with weasel words here? Compatibility is good, but sometimes what's good for one group isn't good for another. 15:20:22 Kathy: e.g., high contrast isn't good for certain people with cognitive or learning disabilities. Doing one thing doesn't work for everybody. 15:20:29 ack d 15:21:03 ack David 15:21:11 David: First thing, Lisa was concerned on last call, she gave a scenario, for people in Israel when there were bomb warnings people would sing their favorite song four times rather than count. 15:21:42 q? 15:21:43 ... Here is a possible place where there could be a conflict. I started to say that we have conforming alternatives in our conformance requirements, nothing wrong with having multiple versions of something in WCAG 15:21:44 q+ 15:22:11 ... You can have e.g. a cognitive view of something. We can make our own conformance requirements in our extensions. 15:22:42 ... concerned that developers will just throw up their hands over extensions conflicting with each other 15:23:04 ... Our conforming alternatives can address most of that stuff 15:23:07 q+ 15:23:34 Joshue: One of the benefits of not calling out conflict at all is that it's kind of germane or inherent in the discussion that we want to reduce conflict 15:24:10 ... There may be no need to call out conflict. As Kathy points out, we may not able to hit all bases. I don't know if agree with David. 15:24:12 ack awk 15:25:04 marcjohlic has joined #wai-wcag 15:25:07 ... the alternate conforming version may not be the way to do this. Want to make it as easy as possible for developers to implement. WCAG is already complicated for many people. 15:25:17 q? 15:26:06 Andrew: Some of what were were talking about, is how to balance with this. Fragmentation is a significant concern with extensions, conflicts between them. People picking and choosing because of conflicts between them. 15:26:40 ... We don't wan't people to feel that extensions are favoring one group over another. If we allow conflict, that may happen, but if they don't conflict, we may end up with a race to the finish to avoid conflicts. 15:27:13 q+ 15:27:18 ... maybe we need to be thinking about one big extension rather than smaller extensions. 15:28:12 ack james 15:28:13 ... I agree we want to make sure we are addressing areas where WCAG is not doing such a good job currently: low vision, cognitive, mobile. We want to wrap things together so there are fewer potential sources of conflict. 15:28:58 James: Confirming alternate versions are a potential way to resolve any conflicts. I don't want to get into that, though, because it's a huge testing burden on people. 15:30:19 David: We want to minimize conforming alternatives, we've always said. e.g., here is a text version of the site. James is right, it's a testing nightmare. It's an escape valve. 15:30:53 James N: But then you get in a situation where everything is an alternate conforming version 15:31:00 q+ to say it needs to be a requirement that extensions not conflict with each other. how to achieve that is harder... 15:31:08 ack josh 15:31:30 Joshue: This brings up a question about calling out explicitly conflict in this document. I thought it was a good idea because it would focus our attention on areas where there are conflicts. 15:31:57 ... my preference is to test this and test it hard. That means you need to call out conflicts. 15:32:08 q- 15:32:27 ... We could remove references to conflicts within the framework documents. My gut tells me that's not necessarily the best way to go. 15:32:52 ... Andrew touched on whether we should have what we call a monoglot version vs. polyglot version, where we actually have all the extensions in one bundle vs. many. 15:32:59 ack laura 15:33:00 ... I would like us to discuss this. 15:33:30 Laura: I agree. We need to minimize conflicts as much as possible. I think it's good to have the "must" in there, but might be open to "should not conflict." 15:34:12 Joshue: Explicitly calling it out in our requirements document may be a way of resolving conflicts more quickly. Do people feel if we didn't have that language in the framework document, would it be lacking? 15:34:40 David: Not totally against it. If we leave it in, there isn't much room to negotiate. 15:35:09 David: I prefer to say no conflict, then meld it into 2.1 or 3.0 later 15:35:29 ... we could very quickly after getting a new charter come out with a draft of a 2.1 or 3.0 because we would have it all done. 15:35:49 Joshue: Is there a w3c requirement to call out conflict? 15:36:13 Michael: As far as I know, w3c process doesn't define the process of extensions. We would want to look at precedent. 15:36:50 ... I haven't heard of a case where a WG produced conflicting extensions. A lot of people would have concerns about it, and you'd have to justify it. 15:37:13 Mike_Elledge has joined #wai-wcag 15:37:13 ... we need to look for precedence and good sense. Maybe the quality assurance document addresses this. 15:37:42 ... we would want a pointer to the requirements and say explicitly either way whether extensions can conflict, and if they can we should say some stuff about it. 15:37:54 Joshue: Could it be beneficial in some cases when there is conflict? 15:38:13 q? 15:38:26 Michael: We could say that, but it may be argued that this fragments the conformance model. We would have to address that. 15:38:44 michael your volume is super high 15:38:58 ... we have to say how we expect the world to manage in the face of conflicts. 15:39:14 ... we would have to say how the conformance model works 15:39:39 q+ 15:39:54 Joshue: At this point, should we be calling out conflict as an idea or ideal? Do we need to explicitly reference it at this point? 15:39:59 ack kathy 15:40:27 q+ to say we need to address the topic of conflict, since it´s clearly an issue. We need to either say we will allow it, or we will not. We should not ¨wait and see¨ on it. 15:40:28 Kathy: I think it's more in the audience space where conflict could arise. Not necessarily on the technology, e.g., mobile. 15:41:36 ... more on the user needs and what we are doing. What happens if we find something that really helps users with cognitive disability, but we can't have conflicts. It's saying that all users are the same, and we can only put something into extensions that only benefits all users. 15:41:50 ... Users are different, and we all need to think of that a little. 15:41:56 Joshue: Damn straight! 15:42:08 q+ to say we might want to address the concern of different user groups in a future version of the guidelines, we don´t want to mess up the WCAG 2.0 base too much 15:42:33 ... Maybe there is such a thing as positive conflict. We need to recognize the diversity of user needs. 15:42:43 ack me 15:42:43 MichaelC, you wanted to say we need to address the topic of conflict, since it´s clearly an issue. We need to either say we will allow it, or we will not. We should not ¨wait and 15:42:46 ... see¨ on it. and to say we might want to address the concern of different user groups in a future version of the guidelines, we don´t want to mess up the WCAG 2.0 base too 15:42:46 ... much 15:42:47 q? 15:43:10 Michael: I think we have to expressly address the issue of conflict in requirements. We can't leave it unsaid, or wait and see. 15:43:49 ... different user groups: We need to think about stability of the guidelines. WCAG 2.0 was set up with the intention of being universal and stable. Explicitly fragmenting the targeted user groups might be too much for the 2.0 version of WCAG. 15:44:11 ... We might want to structure that into a future version of the guidelines where the core guidelines have that flexibility built into it. 15:44:18 q? 15:44:20 q+ 15:44:27 ... Could erode the stability of WCAG 2.0 15:45:23 ... Philosophical concern: Is it inherently untrue that a set of guidelines can meet all user needs? Pitting user groups against each other could create a massive problem for the community. 15:46:06 Joshue: One take-away is that we are going to have to mention conflict and how we deal with it. We can't take references to conflict out of the document. 15:46:42 ... Second thing, Is this down to the nature of the various TFs, do we have silos with different agendas? Is this something we should continue to do? 15:47:35 Michael: I believe that the TFs have been effective in corralling people with a common interest to focus on a detailed topic. It's natural and appropriate that they represent certain user groups. 15:48:00 ... The intended structure has been that the TFs work in their silos, though there is some cross membership and we want to coordinate more at the TF facilitator level. 15:48:19 ... they need to publish their deliverables through the core working group for review of these sorts of problems. 15:48:31 Joshue: I get a sense there may be trouble ahead 15:48:49 ack me 15:48:50 David: I guarantee there will be trouble ahead, and there is no way to do a world wide standard without trouble ahead 15:50:26 ... this whole thing about conflict between disability user groups is not new to us. e.g., curb cuts in Ottawa. Conflict resolved between mobility and blind communities by putting ridges in the cuts, but bringing them down to grade. 15:50:54 ... I would like to find a way to accommodate the conflicts. It's a very different Web now, easier to provide another view, different versions of things. 15:51:16 ... We may be able to do this, with a requirement that there be no conflicts. 15:51:45 Joshue: May not be able to happen. As we push this out down the road I don't think we can mandate there are and will be no conflicts. 15:51:53 ... we will talk more about this on the editors' call 15:53:00 Michael: Practically, if we have a requirement for no conflicts, we will try harder to resolve conflicts than if we say conflicts are OK. If we have a motivation to resolve conflicts, we are more likely to work to do that. With no requirement for resolution, things will fragment. 15:53:15 q+ 15:53:39 Joshue: That was the original motivation for doing this. Having said that, I do see that if we do use language that there must not be conflict, when people see conflict they will think that the WCAG process and extension model have failed. 15:53:47 ... In fact, user needs are not equal. 15:54:51 David: everyone is very concerned that there is a lot of screen reader focus in WCAG 2. In fact, it's really hard to make a Web site compatible with screen readers. 15:55:18 ... I go in and help people with low vision and blindness in banks all the time. I can tell you blind users have ten times the problems as low vision users. 15:55:34 ack kathy 15:55:42 ... I don't think we can use that as an argument for why we can't do it this time. 15:55:46 q- 15:55:59 Kathy: Screen reader users have always been more vocal. 15:56:21 ... We need to keep in mind that WCAG was developed with the knowledge that we had. We have the cognitive task force doing more research right now. 15:57:12 q+ 15:57:14 ... Can we put something that we will strive to have no conflicts, so we are all working toward no conflicts? When we do have a conflict, we have to have a discussion to determine what needs to be done. 15:58:04 ack mich 15:58:07 ... I want to have some leeway to have those discussions. It's fine for the TFs to propose things that may conflict. 15:58:50 Michael: I prefer the approach where we start the requirements saying we are not going to have conflicts, and we will try very hard to resolve any that arise. 15:58:59 ... that should go into the first version of requirements 15:59:45 q? 16:00:11 Zakim, next item 16:00:12 agendum 2. "WCAG new errata for review http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ AND http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/errata/" taken up [from Kenny] 16:00:35 Are we on agendum 2 or 3??? 16:01:07 Joshue: Would like all extensions to have A or AA status 16:01:10 sorry about that 16:01:13 TOPIC: Item 3 in extension survey 16:01:22 q? 16:01:40 Kathy: AA seems to be the relevant existing measure 16:02:10 s/Kathy/Laura 16:02:24 agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2015OctDec/0011.html 16:02:57 Kathy: As we were looking at the mobile extensions, we were definitely thinking about having the levels in there, it naturally fits with what we are doing 16:03:07 Joshue: Bruce suggests extensions should have a AA base 16:03:29 ... He is surprised and disappointed that there isn't more love for A and AAA 16:04:43 Michael: I am a fan of having levels, because if you do have levels, then if you have something where you debating where it should go, you can say this is A or AA or AAA; otherwise everything will end up in the AAA level. 16:05:04 ... Matching the extension level to the WCAG conformance level, the conformance claim becomes really complicated 16:05:45 ... You get a real fragmentation around the claimed conformance level where there are so many variations 16:07:29 q+ 16:07:29 David: I really hadn't thought of the problem before. It's a rat's nest. 16:07:48 ... Conforming at the level you are declaring probably makes sense. 16:08:45 Michael: To contradict what I said earlier, I can see one benefit to having extensions apply to a AA base. 16:09:08 ack me 16:09:09 David: There is a lot to help people with low vision and cognitive in AA. Requiring AA is a natural step to going to the next level. 16:09:17 ack awk 16:09:31 q+ 16:10:26 Michael: Basing extensions on a AA base means that it's meaningless to move something from A to AA. 16:11:29 Joshue: If someone has gone to the effort of making a AA compliance Web site, they should be able to make some minimum level of conformance to a particular extension. 16:11:52 ack dan 16:12:25 DF: Just to comment. Our enterprise policy etc says we have to be A and AA. 16:12:39 DF: We don't make a distinction between them. 16:13:29 DF: Yes 16:13:29 q+ 16:14:05 DF: Because of the nature of DOJ enforcement policy we don't make the distinction. 16:14:12 JN: We also see it like that. 16:14:32 James N: As an enterprise vendor, we don't make a distinction, either. 16:14:58 JOC: That opens the question of do we need A and AA at all? 16:15:16 MC: We need more evidence of how WCAG conformance claims are being used. 16:15:19 Michael: It seems we are getting into an area where we have anecdotal evidence for an important decision. We should do more research on that. 16:15:23 ... I dn' 16:15:36 ... I don't want to depend on anecdotal evidence for that decision 16:16:00 q? 16:16:06 David: In Ontario we have A until 2021, and AA after that 16:16:14 ack james 16:16:40 Laura: A number of lawsuits in the US have been settled to AA 16:17:29 Legal Settlement Agreements that Reference WCAG 2.0 http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/wcagwg/settlements/ 16:17:35 TOPIC: Monoglot vs. Polyglot extensions 16:17:55 Joshue: Should we have all extensions in one document, or separate extension documents? 16:18:46 Joshue: If we do the monoglot version, people who are only interested in mobile, or low vision, or cognitive, would still have to satisfy the extension criteria for those. 16:19:24 q+ to say a mono extension is WCAG 2.1 in disguise which might be viewed as a process foul 16:19:28 ... The polyglot approach could be easier to implement, but people might only satisfy that one extension 16:19:50 ack mich 16:19:50 MichaelC, you wanted to say a mono extension is WCAG 2.1 in disguise which might be viewed as a process foul 16:20:07 q+ 16:20:15 Michael: I personally view a single extension as WCAG 2.1 in disguise. We have said we are not doing WCAG 2.1, but effectively we would be doing it. That would raise questions. 16:20:29 ... also makes it more challenging to address the kind of diversity we are trying to address in extensions 16:20:46 ack kathy 16:20:54 ... If you are having extensions, the whole point is to have the possibility of more than one. 16:21:02 Kathy: We should have more than one 16:21:23 q+ 16:21:24 ... Extensions are specific to an audience or type of site 16:22:08 q+ 16:22:09 q+ to say a mono extension does avoid the conflict issue - but I´d rather address the conflict issue than combine the extensions 16:22:14 ack me 16:22:29 q+ 16:23:23 q+ to say we might want to document a clear path / expectations that extensions will become part of a future version of core 16:23:25 Joshue: In terms of doing stuff for groups who are not a part of your core when you are building stuff, I am keen to have people go above and beyond. 16:23:45 Kathy: If I've got a software program where the only audience is a user with a learning disability, you don't want to do everything. 16:24:24 q+ to point out it´s dangerous to assume certain user groups are not in your audience - that´s how a11y gets overlooked a lot 16:24:26 ... it's going to be a lot to wade through. Now it will be WCAG 2.0 plus the extension stuff. Lots to wade through. 16:24:39 ack dani 16:25:00 DF: Practically, we are driven by what the compliance reqs are. 16:25:09 DF: There is a gap in terms of mobile. 16:25:20 DF: Likely we would look at mobile first. 16:25:40 DF:Other groups we would not adopt until regulation. 16:25:45 ack me 16:25:45 MichaelC, you wanted to say a mono extension does avoid the conflict issue - but I´d rather address the conflict issue than combine the extensions and to say we might want to 16:25:45 ack mich 16:25:48 ... document a clear path / expectations that extensions will become part of a future version of core and to point out it´s dangerous to assume certain user groups are not in your 16:25:48 ... audience - that´s how a11y gets overlooked a lot 16:26:10 Michael: I am in favor of polyglot. Would rather solve the conflict issue in that context. 16:26:52 ... If you're doing an extension, you are targeting a user group. We should probably have a principle saying that we expect extensions to become part of the core guidelines in the next update. 16:27:31 q? 16:28:05 ... We need to be very careful about saying a certain user group is not in your audience. That's why accessibility is a big problem on the Web. 16:28:09 ack dav 16:28:39 David: We would mostly be doing our extension development on our own, and then we would integrate them and be ready for 2.1 or 3.0. 16:28:52 ... One extension is less complicated 16:29:07 zakim, next item 16:29:08 I do not see any more non-closed or non-skipped agenda items, Joshue 16:29:14 ... I don't have a strong objection to working up 3 or 4 extensions, and reconciling them on these calls 16:29:16 zakim, agenda? 16:29:16 I see nothing remaining on the agenda 16:29:26 TOPIC: WCAG errata 16:30:43 Errata: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/errata/ 16:30:56 Andrew: May as well get purely editorial changes in 16:31:34 If I can figure it out 16:31:59 Where do I find the group mailing list? 16:32:15 To where? 16:32:55 rrsagent, draft minutes 16:32:55 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html Joshue 16:33:17 WCAG 16:33:44 Yes, I seem to have dropped 16:33:50 Bye 16:33:59 trackbot, end meeting 16:33:59 Zakim, list attendees 16:33:59 As of this point the attendees have been AWK, wayne, EricE, Laura, Kathy, marcjohlic, MichaelC, David_MacDonald, jon_avila, JamesN, Joshue108, Lisa_Seeman, kenny 16:34:07 RRSAgent, please draft minutes 16:34:07 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/10/13-wai-wcag-minutes.html trackbot 16:34:08 RRSAgent, bye 16:34:08 I see no action items