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Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference

21 July 2021

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, John_Paton, Joshue, Joshue108, scott_h, SteveNoble
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
SteveNoble

Meeting minutes

XR Accessibility User Requirements: issues and publication request.

<Judy> [Judy regrets for first part of meeting, will join as soon as gets out of another meeting]

Joshue108: Getting close to finished

Thanks to Josh for all the work!

<Joshue108> JOC: I'll mint a CFC ready commit, likely tomorrow and we can get ready for creating a publication branch.

jasonjgw: Suggest we look at draft next week to make sure we are ready for CFC

+1

Joint working group meetings at TPAC 2021.

janina: Several meeting will be of interest to RQTF

janina: We want to meet with timed text (and perhaps second screen) for the synchronization discussion

janina: another might be looking at a glossary for consistent language among specifications

janina: We will know more after Friday, so by next week we will have begun with outreach to other committee chairs

jasonjgw: Can bring back on the agenda in a few weeks

WebXR Layers API level 1 review: continuation of discussion.

jasonjgw: Have been having some discussion on this by email

jasonjgw: Let's see what further comments we receive

jasonjgw: Have had good discussions around captions

jasonjgw: Question. Do we want to express a strong preference for closed captions over burned in?

<janina> xraccess.org

janina: Question: Do we know who xraccess.org is?

Frances: may know a contact for this

Joshue108: They did suggest the desire for coordination

jasonjgw: Bact to the captions question...any thoughts on closed vs burned in?

jasonjgw: Closed captions seem to be the norm

janina: Seems that closed captions allow for more user setup

Frances: Burned in may sometimes have benefits, but in most cases closed captions work best

jasonjgw: Josh will continue to respond to comments received

Joshue108: Have asked immersive captions group for comments

Automotive accessibility: scope of work, requirement analysis, and potential deliverables.

jasonjgw: We want to start defining and clairifying the issues and what work we may want to take up

Ted: would like to hear from others on their thoughts

Ted: have had a contact from Eric

Ted: Wanted to know if there was interest in collaboration

jasonjgw: Potential scope of work?

jasonjgw: Perhaps opening a wiki page to start collecting information

Ted: Best practices document at https://www.w3.org/community/autowebplatform/wiki/Best_Practices#Accessibility_.28A11y.29

janina: Media related systems - out of scope?

Ted: Eric is from Melbourne University

jasonjgw: Sounds like we have a few avenues of work

<Zakim> Joshue, you wanted to say some term to explore this space more is welcome

Joshue108: Further exploration with others who are doing work

jasonjgw: Natural language interaction is one example of where automotive accessibility might have a connection

janina: Will there be any TPAC activity on this?

<Joshue108> +1 to break out session on automotive a11y

Ted: At least a breakout session

Ted: many of these people are in Europe, so meeting times will need to be cognizant of that

Ted: suggest seeing who is interested first so we can keep meeting time in mind

Ted: will write up a breakout overrview

Documents in progress: Natural Language Accessibility and Synchronization Accessibility.

janina: Can we go ever the TOC, and figure out where some research may exist?

Raja: In regard to captions, there is some research in delay and size requirements

Raja: there was some discussion on minimal resolution and size

Jason: Any further comments?

judy: Suggest we do some of this discussion by email and then do follow-up discussion in the next meeting

jasonjgw: +1

jasonjgw: Not much work has been done lately on natural language

Judy: Would like to suggest accessibility of remote meetings may have priority

Joshue108: OK with me; XAUR is my current priority at the moment

scott_h: Working through feedback on remote meetings

jasonjgw: XR, Remote meetings and synchronization for next meeting

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 136 (Thu May 27 13:50:24 2021 UTC).

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