Meeting minutes
A11y4Children follow-ups
janina To ping Suzanne because we're eager to get together with them on next steps
Issue 240, w3c/adapt#240
Lionel_Wolberger: Draft created and being reviewed
Track "Adapt dash" WHATWG status whatwg/html#9084
Lionel_Wolberger: Since our goal is that AAC Symbols becomes a Technical Recommendation of W3C, data- ('data dash') will not be an acceptable attribute for us
… this applies as well to the CR stage
… When we picture the adoption phase, we do find that implementation may bypass the browser engine(s) and be implemented by browser extension(s).
ACTION: matatk to reply on the WHATWG thread
<trackbot> Created ACTION-103 - Reply on the whatwg thread [on Matthew Atkinson - due 2023-06-12].
<ghurlbot> Created action #242
janina: Accessibility is frequently the first adopter, and is more willing to put up with partial success
… considering Adapt for browser extensions falls into this pattern
… To give a non-HTML example, consider the development of captions
… TVs could not render captions at first, they depended on an external box that cost a chunk of change
… It wasn't until the US Congress passed the TV Circuitry decoder act to display captions, that they took off
… that opened the gate to captions, and the FCC starting to get mandates on captioning
… and this became a leading 'curb cut' as in noisy bars, public places, etc, captions are on and sound is off
… There is a similar trajectory here for symbols.
… There are studies that demonstrate the usefulness of symbols, and we also see the proliferation of emoticons in common communication
matatk: Interesting that we see the 'unicode' idea arising again in the HTML context, as we saw in the Bliss context
… our response is still robust and valid, that unicode cannot function as a 'primary key' for associating a symbol that the user has learned,
… with the concept that is conveyed on the marked up page
… we call this the 'Rosetta Stone' spproach that we enable with the symbol registry
Gap Analysis, https://github.com/w3c/adapt/wiki/Gap-Analysis
matatk: I dived in, and found things I expected to need to add, e.g., regarding micro-formats, are sufficiently already present.
… The footnotes need to get proper relative anchors
ACTION: matatk to reformat the gap analysis wiki page
<trackbot> Created ACTION-104 - Reformat the gap analysis wiki page [on Matthew Atkinson - due 2023-06-12].
<ghurlbot> Created action #243