IRC log of wai-wcag on 2004-11-24

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WAI_WCAG(techniques)10:00AM has now started
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+Wendy
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+Michael_Cooper
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see Wendy, Michael_Cooper
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+??P28
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zakim, ??P28 is Chris
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+Chris; got it
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+Tim_Boland
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15:08:58 [Michael]
Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2-tech-req/
15:12:56 [wendy]
Requirements for UAAG 1.0 test suite http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/TS/reqs-20020208.html (not sure the latest)
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Earlier draft of Tim's document: Accessibility Testing Technical Documentation (Draft) - 18 Mar 03 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2003AprJun/att-0019/wai-test11.htm
15:14:54 [AliG]
Having a problems with my phone will try to join the call in a few minutes.
15:16:41 [wendy]
AliG? what is the error message that you hear?
15:17:44 [AliG]
None, the Skype software I am using cannot connect to its proxy server.
15:19:28 [wendy]
sounds like it's a skype issue. Chris had trouble using skype as well.
15:19:36 [Zakim]
+??P36
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zakim, ??P36 is Lisa_Seeman
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+Lisa_Seeman; got it
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+??P37
15:20:40 [wendy]
zakim, ??P37 is Alistair
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+Alistair; got it
15:24:59 [wendy]
tb test suites for best practice? break into best practice and conformance.
15:25:06 [wendy]
mc perhaps best practice better accounted in examples
15:25:32 [wendy]
mc examples should be the same throughout the document, become more detailed further into materials you get
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tb test suites designed to demonstrate conformance
15:25:43 [wendy]
ag yes
15:25:59 [wendy]
ag should be used to determine if the tasks have been achieved.
15:26:16 [wendy]
ag not all tests are automatable
15:28:47 [wendy]
ls instead of a test with a pass/fail, if they were educational tools. "do you have less than 3 words? if so, check that alt-text is in fact short and not adding unnecessary, additional time to surf the page" then would be less worried about them being water tight in every situation.
15:29:27 [Zakim]
-Alistair
15:29:28 [wendy]
cr when writing them, my focus was testing conformance and that rationale would be in other documents. wasn't thinking about best practices.
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+??P37
15:31:57 [Michael]
need to present this idea to the Thursday call to make sure we all agree
15:32:05 [Michael]
(wac)
15:32:28 [wendy]
wac speculating that next public drafts are in february/march. will be pushing for 1st public WDs of checklists and test suites.
15:37:40 [Michael]
wac overview of process to get to Recommendation
15:37:49 [Michael]
wac test suites don't count as implementation experience
15:38:24 [Michael]
wac evaluation tools that meet test suite could count, but that wasn't originally planned, instead we just expected to have Web sites that meet WCAG
15:38:43 [Michael]
wac but so many types of sites, would we have to have examples of each type, and different languages etc.?
15:42:27 [Michael]
mc do we need test suites for more technologies than HTML to fit requirements?
15:42:53 [Michael]
ag need to prove backwards compatibility w/ WCAG 1.0
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ag including css, html, image, etc., anything covered in WCAG 1.0
15:44:01 [Michael]
wac test cases specific to WCAG 1.0 to demonstrate changes, or test cases that help determine if WCAG 1.0 conformant site passes 2.0?
15:44:33 [Michael]
ag select test cases so we don't need for technologies like PDF that weren't in WCAG 1.0 scope
15:46:07 [wendy]
mc w/out a script test suite, how validate that wcag 2.0 applies to dynamic technologies?
15:46:15 [wendy]
what about DOM test suite?
15:47:15 [wendy]
http://www.w3.org/QA/TheMatrix
15:48:28 [Zakim]
-Tim_Boland
15:50:29 [Michael]
http://www.w3.org/DOM/Test
15:52:06 [wendy]
wac how create a test suite for scripting w/out requiring usability testing?
15:52:27 [wendy]
mc are test suites defining what evaluation tools should be looking for or are they modeling what wcag 2.0 conformant code should look like or ??
15:52:40 [wendy]
ag shouldn't they test whether someone has implemented the code properly?
15:53:13 [wendy]
ag techniques show best practice in hope that people start using.
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ag test files must support tasks
15:54:51 [wendy]
mc saw last week that test files are more detailed than techniques
15:55:06 [wendy]
ag that's the overlap between the top-down and bottom-up approach
15:56:06 [wendy]
ag remove limiting # of chars from test file (b/c of the overlap between top-down and bottom-up approaches)
15:57:30 [wendy]
kk tools have 3 levels: errors, manual, etc.
15:57:46 [wendy]
ag need to idnetify the type ofimage
15:58:05 [wendy]
mc length can be a clue, to trigger a closer look.
15:58:42 [wendy]
mc trigger closer look when using the eval tool not be a required test for the tool developer to implmeent
15:59:11 [wendy]
ls we're making classifications for other parts of the page, why not images as well?
16:00:38 [wendy]
ag my comments based on work from TF3 in euroaccessibility
16:01:21 [AliG]
take a look at http://www.accessinmind.com/supportEAM/ImageTech.html (its a very rough draft)...
16:04:43 [wendy]
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#text-equiv
16:06:20 [AliG]
http://www.accessinmind.com/supportEAM/WCAG1Tasks.html
16:16:35 [Michael]
wac add section to requirements for test suites, and another section for relation among techniques, checklists, test suites
16:17:24 [Michael]
wac other W3C requirements documents have test suite requirements, we can use as models
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e.g., UAAG
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ag difference between methodology & test suite
16:21:55 [Michael]
wac/ag: test suite tasks for evaluators, techniques tasks for authors
16:22:13 [Michael]
wac open questions:
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relationships between documents
16:23:08 [wendy]
audience of different resources
16:23:33 [wendy]
checklist as set of tasks? if a dev task and need more resources, go to techniques. if eval, to test suite.
16:26:10 [wendy]
action: michael, ben, chris, gregg, alistair, wendy work on draft of requirements for techs, checklists, and test suite
16:26:27 [wendy]
action: jenae, tim, ken, etc. thoroughly review draft once it is sent to the list
16:27:48 [wendy]
perhaps section 6: test suite and 7 relationship between techniques, checklists, and test suites
16:27:54 [wendy]
audience of checklists vs test suites
16:29:11 [wendy]
action: michael, chris, alistair meet friday to begin discussion
16:30:10 [Michael]
wac potential concern about use of term "test suite" because of what we mean vs. what other W3C specs mean
16:30:40 [wendy]
RRSAgent, make log world
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-Lisa_Seeman
16:36:06 [wendy]
ag some of the tasks have both evaluation and repair info in the same task. e.g., task should be "dont' use font element" repair is "use css instead"
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action: ag, wac, bc to get alistair set up and using bugzilla
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-Alistair_Garrison
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-Michael_Cooper
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-Ken_Kipnes
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-Wendy
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-Chris
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WAI_WCAG(techniques)10:00AM has ended
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Attendees were Wendy, Michael_Cooper, Chris, Tim_Boland, Ken_Kipnes, Lisa_Seeman, Alistair, Alistair_Garrison
16:38:32 [Michael]
rrsagent, bye
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I see 4 open action items:
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ACTION: michael, ben, chris, gregg, alistair, wendy work on draft of requirements for techs, checklists, and test suite [1]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/11/24-wai-wcag-irc#T16-26-10
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ACTION: jenae, tim, ken, etc. thoroughly review draft once it is sent to the list [2]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/11/24-wai-wcag-irc#T16-26-27
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ACTION: michael, chris, alistair meet friday to begin discussion [3]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/11/24-wai-wcag-irc#T16-29-11
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ACTION: ag, wac, bc to get alistair set up and using bugzilla [4]
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recorded in http://www.w3.org/2004/11/24-wai-wcag-irc#T16-37-22