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Bugs/New A11Y Bug Snapshot 20100815
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New A11Y Bug Snapshot as of August 15, 2010
Summary
- 30 Total NEW a11y bugs existed on August 15, 2010.
- The oldest NEW a11y bug was opened 127.64 days ago on April 9, 2010.
- The newest NEW a11y bug was opened 17.12 days ago on July 28, 2010.
- Average age of a NEW a11y bug is 72 days.
Contents
Details
| Bug id | Open Date | Number of Days Open as of August 15, 2010 | Reporter | Bug Status | Component | Short Description | Number Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9452 | 4/9/10 8:39 | 127.64 | silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Handling of additional tracks of a multitrack audio/video resource | 1 |
| 9471 | 4/9/10 22:11 | 127.08 | silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Introduce declarative markup to associate timed text resources with media elements | 2 |
| 9589 | 4/25/10 2:01 | 111.92 | mjs@apple.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | HTML5 should give examples for how to present @title when the user can't use a pointing device | 3 |
| 9623 | 4/30/10 0:03 | 107.00 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | <details> and <summary> are missing from the "strong aria semantics" table | 4 |
| 9657 | 5/5/10 2:58 | 101.88 | xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Content model of object | 5 |
| 9673 | 5/6/10 21:04 | 100.12 | jfoliot@stanford.edu | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Remove any reference to a specific Time Stamp format for video captioning from the specification at this time | 6 |
| 9678 | 5/7/10 9:27 | 99.61 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | alt techniques (editor: Steven Faulkner) | add rationale for providing an alt when inline description is available. SF: bug responded to and marked as resolved August 16, 2010. | 7 |
| 9679 | 5/7/10 9:50 | 99.59 | laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com | NEW | alt techniques (editor: Steven Faulkner) | Consider expanding the explanation of a null alt attribute (alt="") SF: have responded to this bug on August 16, 2010. Using an empty alt attribute alt="" | 8 |
| 9773 | 5/20/10 9:10 | 86.62 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | There is not a clear difference between "subtitles" and "captions". These are mostly used to describe "closed captions" (binary transmissions in TV broadcasts) vs "subtitles" (text files), as far as I know. | 9 |
| 9774 | 5/20/10 9:13 | 86.62 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | "consecutive lines displayed below each other" - since subtitles tend to be rendered at the bottom, it's actually better for new subtitles to be rendered higher up. Of course, the individual lines of each subtitle still extend downwards, but it's still po | 10 |
| 9775 | 5/20/10 9:17 | 86.61 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | "positioned to a multiple of the line dimensions of the first line of the cue" - enforcing the same line height for every line ihurts text rendering appearance for no apparent reason. This is especially true if text styling is supported (bold text is larg | 11 |
| 9817 | 5/27/10 18:01 | 79.25 | schwer@us.ibm.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Details element Focus problem | 12 |
| 9845 | 6/3/10 18:56 | 72.21 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | provide reference and info about HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives in html5 spec | 13 |
| 9871 | 6/7/10 8:50 | 68.63 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | provide normative advice to conformance checkers about use of onevent handler attributes | 14 |
| 9872 | 6/7/10 8:58 | 68.63 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | trigger a conformance error when javascript is included in href attribute | 15 |
| 9876 | 6/8/10 9:30 | 67.60 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Clarify that a figure can be any content with a caption | 16 |
| 9893 | 6/9/10 20:28 | 66.15 | laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | tabindex not listed in Table of Contents | 17 |
| 9936 | 6/16/10 14:17 | 59.40 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | onclick attributes on any element that is not focusable should trigger a conformance error | 18 |
| 10015 | 6/25/10 21:15 | 50.11 | xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | longdesc URL checking | 19 |
| 10016 | 6/25/10 21:24 | 50.11 | xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | longdesc and @role (ARIA) | 20 |
| 10017 | 6/25/10 22:34 | 50.06 | xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | longdesc and @aria-describedby (ARIA) | 21 |
| 10019 | 6/26/10 9:35 | 49.60 | laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Native user agent support for exposing longdesc to all users | 22 |
| 10026 | 6/28/10 20:38 | 47.14 | h5@theshangs.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Scope attribute for TD | 23 |
| 10066 | 7/2/10 13:58 | 43.42 | faulkner.steve@gmail.com | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | replace section 3.2.6 with the alternative spec text provided | 24 |
| 10077 | 7/4/10 17:59 | 41.25 | contributor@whatwg.org | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | The <embed> should support an alt attribute. While the embedded content should provide for accessilibility of the embedded object, the developer doesn't always have control over those content, some embeddable formats are inherently less accessible, and th | 25 |
| 10168 | 7/14/10 18:01 | 31.25 | laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com | NEW | alt techniques (editor: Steven Faulkner) | Please consider adding a section on role="presentation" | 26 |
| 10248 | 7/28/10 15:41 | 17.35 | schwer@us.ibm.com | NEW | HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) | Canvas requires a Caret Drawing call method | 27 |
| 10249 | 7/28/10 17:03 | 17.29 | schwer@us.ibm.com | NEW | HTML Canvas 2D Context (editor: Ian Hickson) | Canvas requires a content selection method | 28 |
| 10251 | 7/28/10 20:48 | 17.13 | oedipus@hicom.net | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | Psuedo-Cascade of Multiple Accesskeys Definable for an Individual Element | 29 |
| 10252 | 7/28/10 21:05 | 17.12 | oedipus@hicom.net | NEW | HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) | HTML5 hard-binds "Action" to accesskey key-press | 30 |
Methodology
This methodology is based on Paul Cotton's August 14, 2010 email.
Bugzilla's search result can be download in an XML format or CSV file. This permits the use of XPath/XQuery or a spreadsheet program to compute statistics.
A CSV file from a Modified Bugzilla search was used to generate the CSV. It was imported into Excel and used to compute the number of bugs and their age.
The resulting spreadsheet was formatted for use in this Wiki.
Notes
Bug 7260 is ignored which is about an A11Y test suite. There are also 3 "open" (REOPENED) much older A11Y bugs which are not include these in computing the "age" value above since they are quite a bit older and would have biased the statistic.
Four A11Y bugs resolved since the beginning of April:
- Bug 9437 is marked as RESOLVED but it was escalated as ISSUE-109
- Bug 9485 was REJECTED
- Bug 9804 was a DUPLICATE
- Bug 9835 was created to be a bug related to ISSUE-66. When the W3C WG accepted this bug the Editor made a change to the W3C spec but NOT make the same change to the WHAT WG specification.
Conclusion
This research seems to indicate that very few if any A11Y bugs have been processed since the beginning of April 2010.