IRC log of ua on 2006-02-16

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Zakim, this will be UAWG
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ok, JR; I see WAI_UAWG()2:00PM scheduled to start in 3 minutes
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AJAX - what is it? What are the accessibility issues? What are the
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implications for UAAG?
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Agenda+ AJAX - what is it? What are the accessibility issues? What are the implications for UAAG?
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+Jan_Richards
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+Peter_Korn
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Agenda+ Review techniques for 1.2 Activate event handlers (P1)
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+Jim_Allan
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Agenda+ 3. Review Test Suite items for 1.2 Activate event handlers (P1)
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Attendees from SUN today: Peter Korn, Will Walker, Dan Labrecque
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Meeting: WAI UA
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Scribe: JR
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Chair: jallan
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Zakim, take up agendum 1
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agendum 1. "AJAX - what is it? What are the accessibility issues? What are the implications for UAAG?" taken up [from JR]
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+Earl_Johnson
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Possible regrets from Cathy Laws
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JA: UA might develop document about how UAAG should relate to AJAX
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JA: PF is looking at DHTML - which will relate to AJAX
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EJ: AJAX is an approach ...- introduces same challenges as DHTML.
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DL: In SUN, AJAX being used to replace large junks of page - prob for screen readers, etc.
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JA: Prob. for DHTML as well - all comes back to things are dynamically changes...how are users supposed to finf out.
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PK: User Agents will need to implement platform accessibility API...
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PK: User agents would need to pick up annotations...
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PK: Info from DHTML to UA to platform accessibility API to Assisitive tech.
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PK: That seems to be appropriate place for UAAG to address this.
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PK: Issue is that platform dependent issues come to forefront.
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DL: In talking to Aaron from IBM, they seem to be identifying various approaches (roles, etc.)
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DL: Aaron had info on which things are working already (Window Eyes + Firefox)
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DL: Approach: start focussing on stop gap places...
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DL: Then there are the support issues...
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PK: Thinks that in uaag there would be specific checkpoint realted to all of the DHTML abilities - then state that the platform API's are the way to deal with them - then specific guidance plat-by-plat in the appendix.
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JA: Yes hoping to do that in techniques.
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JA: We do want to review new techs as they come out - if we find a hole then we may have to open up uaag. If no hole, then we'lll add more to uaag techs.
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PK: Any holes found?
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JA: No holes found during DHTML review.
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PK: Convinced there are holes...
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PK: In semantic area - no way to convey semantic meanings without API specifics
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PK: Not enough to just say there's a DOM event and assume AT knows about it.
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PK: Because people are using AJAX to put apps inside browsers that look remarkably like desktop apps.
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PK: More work then is needed to bring these across to the uyser.
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JA: But semantics in the code...
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PK: But in IBM work, "this thing is a menu role" - in flash, etc, etc. but as long as it is annotated appropriately and right events are fired then it should be handled as a menu.
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DL: That is the course that has been defined...
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PK:L But not given PF blessing.
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DL: IBM using unsupported techs (eg. XHTML 2.0) to do some of this stuff.
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DL: Where do we start now?
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PK: We are talking about bring in section 508 (desktop applications 1194.21) into UA.
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PK: To some extent this is in WCAG -e.g. if you use Java etc. - but now its not extra content that is passed off, its done with content that the browser itself parses
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DL: There's also Section 508 .22 that falls on the content writer.
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PK: More concretely: In http://www.gregphoto.net/sortable/index.php
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PK: Once I focus, i need to move it with keyboard PLUS i need labels...
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PK: All this needs to be exposed out through platform API
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PK: UAAG shouldtalk about how we expect roles etc to be used, including examples.
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PK: We should also reference, as examples, good examples of annotated content.
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JA: Right - in test suites
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JA: Let's look at Google suggest
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JA; JAWS does read some of it - what goes into form field.
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JK: But JAWS FAILS because there is more to the menu item than suggested text, there is also the number of results which JAWS did not read
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JA: Playing devils advocate: is it the author who does it?
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PK: Ideally it is the author of the AJAX GUI toolkits.
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PK: Would already be done.
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PK: AJAX authoring tool would also have accessibility validation for this stuff.
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PK: Basically this is the desktop coming to the browsert.
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PK: DHTML and AJAX are coming along REALLy fast.
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PK: We would really like pf and ua to push out some guidance asap.
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PK: Fortunately roles, etc don' affect rendering so if they change it shouldn't be a big deal
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PK: Main starting point is Firefox existence proof.
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JA: Don't want to rush opening uuag.
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JR: Could be a W3C Note
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PK: Not suggesting complete overhaul - it would be a new section.
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JA: Thinking about changing techs note and point to PF work.
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JR: Note also gives better flexibility to say platform epecific things.
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PK: This approach seems to make sense - though want to make sure we go into enough detail.
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PK: e.g. menu is a role from PF, this is what the expected behaviour is
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PK: then further in test suites
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discussion of Authoring tool
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inviting sun folks to speak at authoring tools meeting
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-Earl_Johnson
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JR: AUWG and WCAG-Gl should be informed about this as they go towards last call.
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how to get DHTML concerns into wcag
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- +1.877.625.aabb
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-Peter_Korn
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-Jan_Richards
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-Jim_Allan
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- +1.781.442.aaaa
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Attendees were +1.781.442.aaaa, Jan_Richards, Peter_Korn, +1.877.625.aabb, Jim_Allan, Earl_Johnson
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/02/16-ua-minutes.html jallan
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