Re: Proposal on accessibility bugs the HTML A11Y task force should take on

Yes, I propose that once the task force has finalized the list of bugs
it will consider (and therefore the ones it won't), it alert a number of
individuals and groups that some bugs need owners. UAAG would certainly
be one of those groups - some of the bugs I specifically thought should
go to UAAG (but didn't have time to write up my thoughts on each and
every bug). I'm willing to do a second pass on specific groups or
individuals whom we would like to suggest take on specific bugs, though
I also think it's an open invite to whomever is interested in a given bug.

Michael

Kelly Ford wrote:
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> Michael and All,
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>
> From the second list of bugs here, those you feel are not appropriate
> for the task force but may be for other groups, is there value in
> having the task force alerting the other groups to these bugs at all?
>
>  
>
> Looking through this list I do see some that UAAG should likely be
> concerned with and will raise those within our group but I'm wondering
>  if the task force should provide general awareness to other WAI
> groups of bugs in this category.  This could be as simple as an e-mail
> saying we think you should consider providing feedback/taking action
> on the following bugs.
>
>  
>
> Kelly
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From:* public-html-a11y-request@w3.org
> [mailto:public-html-a11y-request@w3.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael Cooper
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:50 AM
> *To:* HTML Accessibility Task Force
> *Subject:* Proposal on accessibility bugs the HTML A11Y task force
> should take on
>
>  
>
> I took a look at bugs tagged with the a11y keyword
> (http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=HTML+WG&keywords=a11y
> <http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=HTML+WG&keywords=a11y>).
> This executes ACTION-9.
>
> Apologies that this is a gargantuan email. There are 92 bugs
> considered here. My goals were to find a minimal set of bugs that
> would benefit from group attention, on the bug or the larger issue of
> which it is a part.
>
> Here are the bugs I think should become formal task force bugs. If I
> think there is a natural group for the bug, I indicate that in
> brackets after the bug. I will talk more about the groupings in a
> separate message.
>
>    1. 5758 insufficient accessibility fallback for <audio> or <video>
>       [media]
>    2. 6494 Make the requiredness about alt more obvious [text
>       alternatives]
>    3. 7011 canvas accessible fallback provision is under specified
>       [canvas]
>    4. 7362 inclusion of the title as a case where the alt may be
>       omitted is problematic [text alternatives]
>    5. 7404 "but only if the element is being rendered" needs to take
>       into account <canvas> descendants if we're making them focusable
>       [canvas]
>    6. 7539 Since @summary is an official part of the table element, it
>       is no longer obsolete. Suffienct warning language exists in it's
>       definition that this entry should be removed [summary]
>    7. 7633 The use of @summary should be encouraged when circumstances
>       warrant [summary]
>    8. 7721 Drag and Drop is not keyboard accessible [drag and drop]
>    9. 8000 ARIA roles added to the a element should be conforming in
>       HTML5 [aria]
>   10. 8144 Is a 'visibility: hidden' element being rendered? [display]
>   11. 8171 Implement the text alternatives proposal from WAI [text
>       alternatives]
>   12. 8187 Section 4.8.7 on video makes no reference to audio
>       description [media]
>   13. 8524 Guidance for Authoring Tool Markup Generators [text
>       alternatives]
>   14. 8554 <progress> element should be labelable with a label [labels]
>   15. 8622 Activation behaviour and pre-click activation [focus]
>   16. 8644 Fallback mechanism for embedded content [text alternatives]
>   17. 8645 Alt text for images [text alternatives]
>   18. 8647 Define tab order for IFrame [focus]
>   19. 8648 Title attribute on the IFrame element [labels]
>   20. 8652 what to display when images are not available is not well
>       specified [display]
>   21. 8657 Allow UA to reload fallback content if it fails to load
>       [display]
>   22. 8659 Media events to indicate captions and audio descriptions
>       [media]
>   23. 8666 Keyboard accessible date pickers [focus]
>   24. 8671 Requiring the label attribute [labels]
>   25. 8673 Restriction on command element as part of a menu [display]
>   26. 8682 Tab and reading order for context menus [focus]
>   27. 8716 Replace img Guidance for Conformance Checkers with
>       Suggested Text for Short Text Alternatives [text alternatives]
>   28. 8717 Usability and Element-level-focus-apis [focus]
>   29. 8722 focus behaviour should be same for canvas regions as for
>       elements [canvas]
>   30. 8723 image map is underspecified [focus]
>   31. 8738 Role-based navigation [focus]
>   32. 8740 How do pseudo-class selectors interact with WAI-ARIA? [aria]
>   33. 8743 Auditory icons clashing with AT [display]
>   34. 8747 Defining how a license applies to elements [semantics]
>   35. 8750 User able to override the hidden attribute in incorrectly
>       rendered pages [display]
>   36. 8751 User should have ability to override automatic scrolling
>       [display]
>   37. 8752 Allow user to manage focus changes [focus]
>   38. 8753 Undo for drag and drop [drag and drop]
>   39. 8754 Overflow when text is resized [display]
>
> A note about a number of these bugs marked as "need more information"
> - in a lot of cases I agree there isn't enough information to act on
> the bug. I suggest we take an early pass on just expanding the problem
> statement in these bugs, before coming back in a more considered pass
> to work on solutions for them. That exercise might also help us to be
> collectively more familiar with the set of bugs on the plate for the
> task force.
>
> I'm trying to keep the set of task force bugs as small as possible in
> order to give us a fighting chance of getting through it all (though
> still arrived at 39), but this means a lot of bugs that are important
> to accessibility are on the "not for the task force list". The
> following bugs I think do not need formal consideration by the task
> force. Some of these may be important, but I don't believe they would
> be controversial or difficult to work out from an accessibility
> advocacy perspective. Others are, in my personal opinion, issues for
> other specs (WCAG, UAAG, ATAG, and others) and so not ones we need to
> spend task force time on even though they're important. We should
> expect the usual HTML process to proceed with those. Some individual
> or another group may need to take ownership of them and advocate for
> them, if they need escalation. Those individuals may be members of the
> task force or others. If the task force agrees not to take these on,
> we may want to issue a general call for advocates, otherwise the bugs
> could end up being closed due to insufficient expressed support.
>
>    1. 5807 User Agent display of title attribute content not defined
>    2. 6181 Process table feedback (including headers='" issue) [table
>       headers]
>    3. 6462 Self-reference and cyclic references in headers='' [table
>       headers]
>    4. 7144 I am not sure if we are ditching ALT in favour of legend.
>       You don't make this clear here. Some of your alt examples here
>       resemble longdesc, which I am in favour of ditching completely.
>       I'd be interested to see your answer on whatwg list about this
>       [text alternatives]
>    5. 7260 Create testsuite for table headers association [table headers]
>    6. 8088 Change back the meaning of <meta
>       http-equiv="Content-Language" content="FOO, BAR">
>    7. 8118 Remove the Hidden Attribute
>    8. 8379 Remove Section 4.11.1 The Details Element
>    9. 8404 Refocus the figure element back to being a figure
>   10. 8449 Remove extraneous material from Table section [table headers]
>   11. 8522 Authoring Tool editing mechanisms
>   12. 8523 WYSYWYG tools should gather semantic information
>   13. 8525 Authoring Tools are exempt from using elements only for
>       their specified purpose
>   14. 8617 Purpose of the icon attribute
>   15. 8619 Problematic for assistive technologies
>   16. 8620 No concept of interoperability beyond the site
>   17. 8621 Orphan nodes in content models
>   18. 8623 Graceful degradation when using the style element
>   19. 8643 Headings out of sequence
>   20. 8646 Private communication exception
>   21. 8649 Resize IFrame
>   22. 8656 Allow user to select fallback content for the object element
>   23. 8658 Availability of captions or additional audio tracks
>   24. 8660 Context for areas on an image map [text alternatives]
>   25. 8661 Contradiction of dimension attributes
>   26. 8667 Ability to style validation errors
>   27. 8668 Clarify default behavior for the details element
>   28. 8669 Ability to wrap a command around a larger group of elements
>   29. 8670 Parent for radiobuttons with same radiogroup
>   30. 8672 Synthetic clicks same as real clicks
>   31. 8674 Add popup as a value for the type attribute for menu element
>   32. 8679 Menu example contains a violation of WCAG 2.0
>   33. 8680 Meaningful label in menu example
>   34. 8861 Separator menu items
>   35. 8683 UA context menu when author context menu shown
>   36. 8684 Ensuring user can always access UA's default context menus
>   37. 8698 add conformance criteria info to header/banner [aria]
>   38. 8700 modify contentinfo mapping and conformance [aria]
>   39. 8701 modify main role conformance info [aria]
>   40. 8715 Scrolling elements into view
>   41. 8736 Decision to playback for media should be left to the user
>       agent [media]
>   42. 8737 Allowing option with no value to be a command
>   43. 8739 Link element with active pseudo-class
>   44. 8742 User informed when URI can#t be resolved
>   45. 8745 Deprecation of the use of TABLE for Layout
>   46. 8746 Text separator between links in markup example
>   47. 8748 Differentiating hyperlinks referring to the same tag in
>       different scopes
>   48. 8749 Conveying the hierarchy or relationship between the links to AT
>   49. 8755 Automatic reduction of text-size is unnecessary
>
> The following bugs are closed or duplicates, and therefore also
> shouldn't need further review.
>
>    1. 5822 The headers attribute should be able to reference a td
>       [table headers]
>    2. 5823 Scope allowable on a td [table headers]
>    3. 6496 Allow <img aria-labelledby> to act as a caption [text
>       alternatives] [aria]
>    4. 7740 Authoring advice for canvas is bad for accessibility [canvas]
>
> -- 
>
> Michael Cooper
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
> E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>
> Information Page <http://www.w3.org/People/cooper/>
>

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Michael Cooper
Web Accessibility Specialist
World Wide Web Consortium, Web Accessibility Initiative
E-mail cooper@w3.org <mailto:cooper@w3.org>
Information Page <http://www.w3.org/People/cooper/>