IRC log of html-a11y on 2011-02-09

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rrsagent, make log public
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Meeting: HTML-A11Y telecon
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Chair: John_Foliot
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agenda: this
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agenda+ Identify Scribe
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agenda+ Actions Review http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/open
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agenda+ Issue-152 Multitrack API http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2011Feb/0079.html
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agenda+ Time Tracks Feedback from Google http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2011Jan/0152.html
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agenda+ Are we done with Time Tracks?
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agenda+ Poster Issue http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Dec/0054.html
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agenda+ Media Queries on Track http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Dec/0145.html
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agenda+ Other Business?
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agenda+ be done
22:01:58 [janina]
zakim, this will be 2119
22:01:58 [Zakim]
ok, janina; I see WAI_PFWG(A11Y)5:00PM scheduled to start now
22:02:05 [janina]
zakim, code?
22:02:05 [Zakim]
the conference code is 2119 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 tel:+33.4.26.46.79.03 tel:+44.203.318.0479), janina
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zakim, take up item 1
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agendum 1. "Identify Scribe" taken up [from janina]
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scribe: janina
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zakim, close item 1
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agendum 1, Identify Scribe, closed
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I see 8 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
22:02:54 [janina]
zakim, next item
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2. Actions Review http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/open [from janina]
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agendum 2. "Actions Review http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/open" taken up [from janina]
22:03:40 [silvia]
zakim, mute me
22:03:40 [Zakim]
sorry, silvia, I don't know what conference this is
22:04:24 [janina]
rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/02/09-html-a11y-minutes.html janina
22:04:54 [janina]
zakim, who's here?
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WAI_PFWG(A11Y)5:00PM has not yet started, janina
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On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, silvia, JF, janina, MikeSmith, trackbot, [tm]
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zakim, this will be WAI_PFWG(A11Y)
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ok, janina, I see WAI_PFWG(A11Y)5:00PM already started
22:05:49 [silvia]
zakim, mute me
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sorry, silvia, I do not know which phone connection belongs to you
22:06:07 [janina]
zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see +1.650.862.aaaa, ??P1, +1.408.823.aabb, +61.2.937.4.aacc
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On IRC I see RRSAgent, Zakim, silvia, JF, janina, MikeSmith, trackbot, [tm]
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zakim, aacc is Silvia
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+Silvia; got it
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zakim, mute me
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Silvia should now be muted
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zakim, aaaa is JF
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+JF; got it
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zakim, ??P1 is janina
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+janina; got it
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zakim, aabb is Eric
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+Eric; got it
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regrets: Geoff
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regrets: Sean
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action-88?
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ACTION-88 -- Sean Hayes to review Media Fragment URI 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-frags-20100624/ -- due 2010-11-24 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/88
22:10:24 [janina]
rrsagent, close action-88
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I'm logging. I don't understand 'close action-88', janina. Try /msg RRSAgent help
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action-96
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zakim, close action-88
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I don't understand 'close action-88', janina
22:10:32 [silvia]
clost action-88
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close action-88
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ACTION-88 Review Media Fragment URI 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-media-frags-20100624/ closed
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action-96?
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ACTION-96 -- Eric Carlson to media Sub Team to revisit bug 11395 (Use media queries to select appropriate <track> elements) -- due 2011-01-06 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/96
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close action-96
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ACTION-96 Media Sub Team to revisit bug 11395 (Use media queries to select appropriate <track> elements) closed
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Dave and Eric decided it would be too complex to extend media queries for this purpose
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action-99?
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ACTION-99 -- Janina Sajka to annotate 9452 with clear audio discovery and selection, as well as independent control of multiple playback tracks -- due 2011-01-19 -- OPEN
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http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/99
22:12:46 [janina]
zakim, next item
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agendum 3. "Issue-152 Multitrack API http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2011Feb/0079.html" taken up [from janina]
22:13:06 [silvia]
zakim, unmute me
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Silvia should no longer be muted
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+Judy
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Silvia: WG wants change proposals by Feb 21
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Silvia: Has a proposal, asking for feedback
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http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Media_Multitrack_Media_API
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Silvia: I prefer solution #1
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Silvia: People should read the wiki and indicate their preferences
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Silvia: Also a proposal that defines a position on screen for the element (which can be changed with CSS)
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Silvia: Microsoft had been for option #2
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Silvia: We need continued discussion, as different people prefer different solutions
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Eric: Will do so later today
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Eric: Favoring option #2 with mod of having src element inside track to accomodate different encodings
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Eric: I've pinged Frank, but not heard back yet
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John: Asking about #7
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John: is it correct that sign video track would be positioned using css?
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John: PIP might be too smal on handhel, no?
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John: Wereas, if independent, could do better sizing
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Silvia: Yes, that's an advantage of #7
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Silvia: These are some of the points it would be good to see on list
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Eric: Why can't that also via track element?
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Silvia: Would imply too fundamental changes, currently track only renders on viewport and nowhere else on page
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Silvia: Track currently can't have children
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Silvia: Don't know if that's open to mod in the WG?
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Eric: Suspect we'll discuss any of these in the WG, even though it's late in the timeline, it's just been postponed
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John: Didn't we identify a user req to position anywhere?
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Eric: Yes, but not possible with spec as it is now
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Silvia: Would be through js
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Silvia: So, possible but not simple
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Silvia: Proposing to widden the discussion
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Judy: Proposing it should be on the W3C list
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Judy: It's a critical piece of getting a11y addressed in W3C, so wouldn't make sense to not have it on W3C
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Silvia: Problem is I've had no response on the W3C list
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Judy: So, we should figure how to get the discussion going
22:28:02 [janina]
Silvia: No reason to take it off, but should not be a problem widdening the discussion
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Silvia: Just wonder if it makes sense to post to the WG list
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Judy: Maybe that's why there's no response yet.
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John: My concern is to avoid multiple discussions, too many gotchya possibilities.
22:29:55 [janina]
Silvia: I'll keep track and report, but I want more opinions.
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Eric: Agree, this topic is too important
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Eric: We had this discussion sometime ago, and it's not progressing.
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Judy: Thought the reason it's been silent is that more work was anticipated? Not so?
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Silvia: The "More work part" is more discussion.
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Silvia: Don't want a solution that's had too little vetting.
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Silvia: I don't mean anything official--just to communicate what we're considering.
22:33:14 [janina]
Judy: Important point is that we need to move forward and have a wider discussion
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John: Do we revisit this next week? With the sense of a decision from the TF?
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Silvia: Makes sense.
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John: OK, any more on this?
22:35:28 [janina]
Judy: One question: Given discussion is being raised in the broader group, has there been any feedback that we should chase down?
22:36:25 [janina]
Janina: Yes, we should solicit feedback from a11y people with experience on this, NCAM, DAISY, etc
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John: More on this?
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zakim, next item
22:38:19 [Zakim]
agendum 4. "Time Tracks Feedback from Google http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2011Jan/0152.html" taken up [from janina]
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John: An executive overview?
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Silvia: So, I'm currently contracted to Google and have been working on this ...
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Silvia: Teams from Chrome, YouTube, a11y, looking at WebSRT, track element
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Silvia: Checked out 608 and 708 (used in U.S.)
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Silvia: We're happy about a name change from WebSRT to WebVTT, in good part because SRT has negative reputation around copyright infringement
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Judy: Question: When looking at U.S. reqs, were you looking at the FCC reqs?
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Silvia: At Google's reqs
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Silvia: The two existing standards for captions on TV
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Silvia: These have limited set of features, insufficient for our reqs
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Silvia: But, we want to replicate everything in 608 and 708
22:42:54 [janina]
Judy: Yes, but my question is different ...
22:43:26 [janina]
Judy: Since you're looking at U.S. reqs, did you consider the FCC VPAC reqs. You're aware of VPAC?
22:43:38 [janina]
Silvia: Unaware they've produced a req doc?
22:43:55 [janina]
Silvia: Understand only a general req
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Eric: General req to carry captions in current broadcast video when broadcast over Internet
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Eric: Sounds like they have basis to believe it will meet reqs from Vpac
22:45:08 [janina]
Judy: There are also issues about emergency crawls, voicing of those, etc. including on the web
22:45:35 [janina]
Judy: The reqs aren't mapped in the statute, but my impression is that there will be more reqs than previous practice
22:45:59 [janina]
Silvia: So, I guess the answer is: "No, we didn't look at that."
22:46:13 [janina]
Eric: Google is on the committee, yes?
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-Eric
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+Eric
22:46:37 [janina]
Judy: Yes, but the committee's barely started. Only one meeting so far, and there's not yet been an opportunity to get a fuller understanding
22:47:12 [janina]
Judy: Geoff did post his understanding that FCC would not identify a protocol for this
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-Judy
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Judy: There may be some clarification to that, as the charge for Vpac is to produce guidance
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Silvia: So, the email summarizes our results ...
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Silvia: Discusses gaps on WebVTT -- also what we want to see improved
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+Judy
22:49:23 [janina]
Silvia: I'm currently working on a js implementation for all this
22:49:54 [janina]
Silvia: Think we're currently converging on changes needed to WebVTT, and they're not very large
22:50:46 [janina]
John: Anything we need to consider?
22:51:07 [janina]
Silvia: Don't think so--if any questions, happy to involve everyone in a discussion
22:51:25 [janina]
John: Duplicate track? Not sure what the answer should be? Is there?
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Silvia: Philip responded duplicate is same lang and same type format; answer just display both in the menu
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Janina: Because independent alternate media authors may have produced a second version, same lang, same type
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Eric: Correct, but spec says only one, and that's wrong
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s/wrong/guidance for authors/
22:53:49 [janina]
Eric: Text is just guidance for authors, so from that perspective it's reasonable
22:54:11 [janina]
John: Should we seek better spec?
22:54:50 [janina]
John: To specifically say that both should be made available in the menu?
22:55:07 [janina]
Silvia: Sounds like a reasonable bug, and makes it easier to conform across browsers
22:55:38 [janina]
John: Just thinking of making things as robust as possible
22:56:02 [janina]
John: Might as well get it into the spec, rather than by precedent, because there could be not so great precedent
22:56:10 [janina]
Janina: Agree
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John: I'll file
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-Silvia
22:57:36 [JF]
silvia, are you still on IRC?
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+Silvia
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John: Anything else?
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Silvia: Would ask people to read through our results and respond with their thoughts.
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zakim, next item
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agendum 5. "Are we done with Time Tracks?" taken up [from janina]
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John: Anything more we should say?
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Judy: Let me try ... On the broader question
23:00:36 [silvia]
zakim, mute me
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Silvia should now be muted
23:01:11 [janina]
Judy: The question remains a concern. There may be no other way, and considering the impace downstream is important ...
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Judy: Is there a point for this group to comment?
23:01:29 [janina]
John: That's the question.
23:02:42 [janina]
John: Market forces will decide what each browser does ...
23:02:59 [janina]
Judy: But, there's also continued discussion re our reqs
23:03:28 [janina]
Eric: I have concerns with SYNMPTI, now that I've read the spec, from an a11y perspective, specifically with background image handling
23:03:38 [janina]
Judy: Agree there are things to look at there
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s/SYNMPTI/SMPTE-TT/
23:04:14 [janina]
Judy: My understanding is that Vpac won't mandate, but will comment on appropriatness of various options
23:04:28 [silvia]
zakim, unmute me
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Silvia should no longer be muted
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+q
23:04:36 [janina]
Judy: Understand there are strong leanings on the part of some stakeholders
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Judy: We're also looking at this in W3C
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Judy: Curious to learn more about the background image issue
23:05:51 [janina]
Judy: W3C needs to be responsive to the entire field--all stakeholders
23:07:07 [janina]
Eric: Not sure that background is necessarily harmful to a11y, but analgous to CSS background--and we should have a discussion
23:07:21 [silvia]
s/background/background-image/
23:07:51 [janina]
Judy: Agree we should understand it better. Let's do
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Eric: Happy to do so
23:08:21 [janina]
Silvia: Done a prelim on SYMPTI TT; agree with Eric, unclear what we get if we use it
23:09:06 [janina]
Silvia: If I understand correctly, one key purpose is to get legacy content onto the web with captions, using Internet as a transport, not necessarily as web content
23:09:58 [janina]
Silvia: It's an exchange format, so makes sense to use for encapsulating and transporting; But that doesn't necessarily imply presentation
23:10:24 [janina]
Judy: Curious to explore something on this ...
23:10:42 [janina]
Judy: Understand that's the basis of their approach, have heard this elsewhere as well
23:11:00 [janina]
Judy: Not as convinced that some of the broadcast people aren't also looking at using it on the web
23:11:43 [janina]
Judy: Are you certain that there aren't already entities forseeing use of TT for web delivery?
23:12:10 [janina]
Judy: Don't think this answers what W3C should do, just trying to clarify our understanding of where people are coming from
23:12:29 [janina]
Silvia: I was trying to understand how the SYMPTI standard came to be
23:13:00 [janina]
Silvia: e.g. there aqre binary captions in legacy content
23:13:42 [janina]
Silvia: Transformational and transport formats aren't necessarily the best choices for web presentation
23:14:42 [janina]
Silvia: We have to deal with the converging world, and we have these two groups coming from different perspectives
23:15:05 [janina]
Silvia: Don't know if we can consolidate the two
23:15:40 [janina]
Silvia: May be delivered across the net, but not delivered via a browser
23:17:03 [janina]
Judy: Very helpful, Silvia. I appreciate your perspective.
23:17:32 [janina]
Janina: Suspect browser will emerge because there are also a11y reqs on the user interface now
23:17:43 [janina]
John: Or plugins, which I expect
23:18:02 [janina]
Judy: Several people are wondering about convergence possibilities
23:18:43 [janina]
John: With a few minutes left, I want to recap ...
23:18:50 [silvia]
zakim, mute me
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Silvia should now be muted
23:19:04 [janina]
John: Judy, you mentioned a two week timeline?
23:19:48 [janina]
Judy: W3C is participating on the Vpac, we're there to be helpful and explain what we're working on, but we don't have a position
23:20:32 [janina]
Judy: We'd like to bring info as up to date and as useful as possible, so very interested in our analysis of SYMPTI TT vs W3C TTML
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q+
23:20:56 [janina]
Judy: Then the a11y relevance
23:22:00 [janina]
Judy: So, the possibility of convergence before many years go by with people working in different formats, that's an important question.
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John: Specifically we've a pressing timeline for multitrack api, just thinking in terms of time alltoment here
23:23:09 [janina]
Judy: Don't have a good answer right now.
23:23:57 [janina]
Judy: Perhaps 20 minutes on the SYMPTI next week? Three of us have looked at it already?
23:24:03 [silvia]
zakim, ack me
23:24:03 [Zakim]
unmuting Silvia
23:24:04 [Zakim]
I see no one on the speaker queue
23:24:29 [Judy]
s/SYMPI/SMPT/
23:24:32 [janina]
Silvia: Suggesting Eric and I look more closely at SYMPTI, and also Judy, so we should discuss it
23:25:02 [silvia]
s/SYMPTI/SMPTE-TT/
23:25:03 [janina]
rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/02/09-html-a11y-minutes.html janina
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John: Just concerned we conclude on multitrack
23:27:21 [janina]
akim, next item
23:27:26 [janina]
zakim, next item
23:27:26 [Zakim]
agendum 6. "Poster Issue http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Dec/0054.html" taken up [from janina]
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John: Nothing to add ...
23:27:39 [silvia]
zakim, mute me
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Silvia should now be muted
23:27:52 [janina]
Janina: Pf interested that we have screenshots to mark up for the two proposals, that we not leave this to a handwave
23:28:07 [silvia]
zakim, unmute me
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Silvia should no longer be muted
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-Silvia
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-Eric
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-janina
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-JF
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-Judy
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WAI_PFWG(A11Y)5:00PM has ended
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Attendees were +1.650.862.aaaa, +1.408.823.aabb, +61.2.937.4.aacc, Silvia, JF, janina, Eric, Judy
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s/VPAC/VPAAC
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s/FCC would not identify/FCC would not mandate/
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s/Vpac/VPAAC
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s/SYMPTI/SMPTE
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zakim, bye
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rrsagent make minutes
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rrsagent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2011/02/09-html-a11y-minutes.html janina