17:54:28 RRSAgent has joined #ua 17:54:28 logging to http://www.w3.org/2013/02/07-ua-irc 17:54:30 RRSAgent, make logs public 17:54:30 Zakim has joined #ua 17:54:32 Zakim, this will be WAI_UAWG 17:54:32 ok, trackbot; I see WAI_UAWG()1:00PM scheduled to start in 6 minutes 17:54:33 Meeting: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference 17:54:33 Date: 07 February 2013 17:54:48 zakim, code? 17:54:48 the conference code is 82941 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), kford 17:57:37 Agenda+ conformance use cases for conformance scenarios (extensions, mobile apps, etc) 17:57:38 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2013JanMar/0026.html 17:57:40 Agenda+ Eric Hansen review of UAAG2 20 Dec 2012 editor's draft 17:57:41 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2013JanMar/0015.htm 17:57:43 -- 17:58:18 allanj has joined #ua 17:59:18 zakim, agenda? 17:59:18 I see 2 items remaining on the agenda: 17:59:19 1. conformance use cases for conformance scenarios (extensions, mobile apps, etc) [from kford] 17:59:19 2. Eric Hansen review of UAAG2 20 Dec 2012 editor's draft [from kford] 17:59:37 Greg has joined #ua 18:00:05 jeanne has joined #ua 18:00:42 Jan has joined #ua 18:00:51 zakim, code? 18:00:51 the conference code is 82941 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), Jan 18:00:59 WAI_UAWG()1:00PM has now started 18:01:06 +Jeanne 18:01:15 +[IPcaller] 18:01:36 +EricHansen 18:02:04 zakim, [IPcaller] is really Jan 18:02:05 +Jan; got it 18:02:22 +Greg_Lowney 18:02:37 +Jim_Allan 18:02:43 sharper has joined #ua 18:02:49 zakim, code? 18:02:49 the conference code is 82941 (tel:+1.617.761.6200 sip:zakim@voip.w3.org), sharper 18:03:42 +Kim_Patch 18:04:15 +??P10 18:04:20 zakim, ??P10 is sharper 18:04:20 +sharper; got it 18:04:36 kford has joined #ua 18:05:09 KimPatch has joined #ua 18:05:24 Eric has joined #ua 18:05:31 +[Microsoft] 18:05:40 zakim, microsoft is kford 18:05:40 +kford; got it 18:07:06 topic: Sharing 18:07:51 tomorrow- Friday there will be a meeting at MIT to find extensions and plugings to meet SC in UAAG 18:08:20 will be a call in number as well for tomorrow's session 18:10:51 there will be a call in number for those who want 18:16:39 will be documenting results in the wiki 18:17:10 zakim, open item 1 18:17:10 agendum 1. "conformance use cases for conformance scenarios (extensions, mobile apps, etc)" taken up [from kford] 18:17:35 Jim: the proposal that I sent to the list 18:18:41 https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20130205/results 18:20:26 Jim: Greg's response – why was compliant left out, and if you get a single NA is it full compliance? 18:21:10 Jan:. I agree with your objection there – if it's not applicable accounts as a pass for conformance 18:21:16 agreement all around 18:21:27 Greg: so wording change needed 18:22:41 Greg: it does not discuss NA, and it would need to 18:22:42 Jim: so for the full UA compliance, which is the bit we were talking about of the top it just says you have to meet all of them – so there might be some NA's in there – some clause at the end 18:23:38 Greg: why is this wording so different from the need for partial compliance which says you have to list everything, as opposed to just a blanket statement. I think it's too easy to make a statement like that rather than actually – providing the form that lists all the SC and for every SC fills in one of the three categories and subcodes for compliance 18:24:14 Greg: either needs to repeat the same wording for both categories – full conformance or partial conformance or extract that out and make it part of the overall claim, but it shouldn't be for just one 18:24:50 http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#conf-applic 18:24:54 Jan: may be text from atag that's useful 18:25:01 (Some ATAG text re: N/A) 18:25:31 Jeanne: making a little more difficult for people to apply for conformance when one of the goals we should be going for is if it conforms, we make it easy for them to do the forms 18:26:22 Greg: I think everyone would agree that in order to apply for conformance you have to test everything – each of the SC. So if they have to do that – turning the checklist – I'm afraid that if they turn in a paragraph that says we apply for everything it's a lot easier for them to assume they do without making sure they have checked off every single SC 18:26:46 Jeanne: keep in mind that the major use of this conformance statement is going to be by us – we are going to be doing these conformance statements for the products that we are testing 18:28:08 Jeanne: very few people have gone through the process of filing a claim for WCAG. Conform, but don't file. 18:29:19 Jeanne: so unconcerned that were making this process more complicated for us and was likely for other people to do. I want to have good information and to make this a good product, but I think we need to make conformance less process 18:30:08 Jim: first time around – we found to implementation scattered across 30 or 40 products – none could ever be combined as a unit to make a fully accessible anything, but we did show that everything we asked for was done somewhere, just not together at the same time 18:30:36 Greg: but if you really think that no one out there is going to file a conformance claim why should be spent a lot of time developing the conformance section of this document, or should we leave it freeform because it won't really matter 18:31:34 Jeanne: thinking of the audience – it certainly does matter to us improving that our document does have real world implementation, but I don't think the audience for the conformance purchasing agents and users, consumers. I think the conformance matters to the legal departments of companies that have accessibility issues if they want to make sure they comply. 18:32:18 Greg: if were the only ones recording conformance claims – for our purposes with release would be simply a list of examples where each SC applies in a product, different from a formal conformance claim 18:32:38 Jeanne: the conformance claim matters to the company that's filing it. And it matters to us to prove that we have conformance implementations in the real world. 18:33:30 Greg: but the latter could be done simply as a document which lists examples – as Jim said features scattered across different products, there are at least two browsers implementing each SC, as opposed to testing a browser and listing every SC, which is what I see as a conformance claim 18:34:07 scribe: KimPatch 18:34:46 Greg: I can see us doing it as an exercise to make sure we have the form well-designed, but we probably won't do it for a lot of browsers 18:34:48 KP: make the form simple. so it is easy for people to do. 18:35:53 Greg: what I see is the real unsolvable problem is that the process of testing is extremely lengthy and time-consuming because there are so many different features in most browsers that in an ideal world you would be going through making sure that each one of those different views, each one of those pop-ups or whatever all conform with the applicable SC. And I know from experience to do any... 18:35:54 ...test against every feature in a product will be a very lengthy process and very expensive for companies to do 18:36:06 Greg: not that we're on the wrong track or anything – just keep that in mind 18:37:18 Jim: we are going to leave the testing process aside, and we are working on the conformance claim. So if we put in – fleshed out the wording a little bit better so we explained that if there are NAs that they still count, and if they're not compliant, then it's partial conformance and that's the next one – is that good if I fix that 18:37:20 Greg: yes – a passing experiences either it applies, or not applicable 18:37:47 Jim: so I will fix that language 18:38:17 Greg: that was the second comment – the first one 18:38:24 Jim: cut-and-paste error – I'll fix that also 18:38:52 Greg: third comment, extension isn't defined 18:38:53 Jan: extension needs to be defined 18:39:12 Jim: link to the glossary? 18:39:31 Jan: yes, different terms extensions, plug-ins. And then there is the embedded user agent which is sometimes called plug-ins as well 18:39:47 Greg: perhaps we should create one term for anything that's embedded and then subcategories for nested user agent 18:40:04 Jan: I would prefer to keep them separate – they seem too different to me 18:40:29 Greg: that's fine. We'll have to note in the definition if we define extension that some products use different terms for it 18:41:11 Greg: so we will keep two terms, one for add-ins, another for – will call plug-ins which have full control over one region 18:41:28 Jan: plug-ins have full responsibility for rendering the content in a certain technology 18:41:48 Greg: given those two terms – both of those terms need to be in this section here 18:42:25 Jan: also when you are making a claim you are making a claim on the basis of a certain technology. Self I made a claim that it meets UAAG for HTML 4, it might just ignore flash, whereas the flash plug-in might want to make a claim about its rendering of flash 18:42:37 Greg: what you're saying is a user agent might never have to cite a plug-in is a requisite for complying? 18:43:32 Jan: they might out-of-the-box make a claim about the rendering of HTML but perhaps a client says we have a lot of flash so how are you going to handle that– if we leave it open to them to add a plug-in. 18:43:34 Or in the context of what they are plugged into 18:44:39 Greg: at the high level of my comment was something anything at the level of a plug-in might assist in a task, maybe not just extensions, should be left open to things other than extensions 18:44:41 Jan: should be left open 18:45:13 from Eric: 18:45:18 Maximal Accessibility 18:45:20 Each claimant is encouraged to define a user agent that addresses the highest conformance level possible (A, AA, or AAA) and satisfies the greatest number of additional success criteria beyond the claimed level. Doing this may necessitate defining the user agent may include multiple software components (e.g., browser, plug-ins, extensions). Thus, a claimant could define a user agent as... 18:45:21 ...including browser X with plug-in Y, or could define it as including browser X without any plug-ins. 18:45:26 That is, plug-ins, assistive technology, or other tools, not just extensions, may be necessary to bring the user agent into compliance 18:45:56 Eric: those three things maybe with media players might be the sort of things that those additional software components might consist of, but we don't necessarily have to enumerate all of them. I'm agreeing with you that leaving it somewhat open is good 18:46:17 Eric: I guess the key point is the user agent could consist of multiple software components 18:46:39 Greg: I prefer to think of it as the user agent plus some additional things can comply rather than thinking of the user agent consists of the browser plus some additional things – that's just the language difference 18:47:11 I can take it 18:47:30 KimPatch has joined #ua 18:47:33 Goes back to the define of the user agent - what we count as one 18:47:33 EH It goes back to the definition of the user agent and the kinds of things we count as a user agent. 18:47:53 Eric: that we allow the client to specify the boundaries of the user agent and that's what gets evaluated 18:47:58 EH: We should allow the claimant to specify the boundaries of the user agent and that's what gets evaluated. 18:48:23 Eric: I think Greg stated different preference that a user agent is more narrow 18:48:31 EH: I think GL has said the user agent definition is more narrow. It is the browser and other components that are the subject. 18:48:54 EH: I think JR made refernece to a total user agent system. The fact that he used that says there are some issues we should resolve. 18:49:09 EH: What do we call this and what exactly is the subject of the claim. 18:50:41 Jan: it's going to draw in a plug-in, extensions mouseless browsing which it doesn't do, keyboards – those kinds of ATR separate. On the other hand I've heard of certain extensions, mouseless browsing for example as AT. 18:50:58 Eric: just to summarize, really what the subject of the claim is really isn't user agent specific 18:51:22 Greg: most of the time it won't be that if they really want to cite full conformance – I doubt any single product without add-ins will be able to comply with everything 18:52:02 Jim: I think we resolved all the little bits about the extension and the plug-ins – compliant, not compliant and how we go about the second part of the full compliance. I'd like to move on to our partial conformance bit. 18:52:52 Jim: wording of the first part is incorrect comment – which first part 18:54:12 Greg: your first paragraph – the phrase "because of intrinsic limitations of the platform" – I would just take it out… or replace it with… 18:56:27 Greg: All the NA stuff is not going to be under here – it's going to be up above… The way I look at it is for every SC there's one of these responses – either comply, not applicable, for you fail to comply. So the whole partial conformance thing is not any different other than some of SC are not compliant, and that could be for any reason, important that you list with the reasons are 18:58:40 Eric: I agree with Greg's point about these NA pieces not belonging here. There could be any reason – whatever the relevant reasons there are for not satisfying a success criterion that could count as partial conformance. I'm not sure why it makes reference there are two intrinsic limitations of platform. It could be any reason. I think partial conformance – it's saying that some success... 18:58:41 ...criterion have been satisfied yet either no level has been met – A AA, AAA – or… Actually just simplest to limit partial conformance of things that do not meet any of the three levels – they are below a 18:59:12 Jan: partial conformance to the two other groups is not that at all – because you could just meet a single A criteria and pass 19:00:14 Jan: WCAG several types of partial conformance – there really is no screen reader in Swahili, there may be one later but for now this is not supported. ATAG reason is not conformance because platform does not have an accessibility API 19:00:59 Eric: so situations such as intrinsic limitations of the platform that could be the scope of partial conformance but I so think I agree with Greg that these different non-applicable categories are something that really belong under full conformance and really I'm questioning whether any of them should show up. 19:01:36 Greg: tell me if this is a correct paraphrase – basically you can claim that you are compliant if you comply with everything that applies to you – 19:02:45 Greg: example, monochrome Kindle. If a person needs something about color they can't use the Kindle at all therefore you don't conform but you're no worse than the rest of us – I'm as accessible for anything for this platform can be and that would be partial conformance, not what the term partial conformance seems to me to be at least, which is I don't comply with everything in a general sense 19:03:27 Jeanne: group yesterday – would like us to use a different word than partial conformance for several reasons. Incomplete conformance should be very concrete like its platform based. 19:04:21 Jan: non-applicable input – that's a pass. HTML subset doesn't include video – nonapplicable pass. Things with a platform if it's not there because the platform doesn't allow you, that's kind of important information. The output type I find troublesome – could be I'm a video player and I don't do captions because I don't do text 19:05:51 Greg: now that I understand – confused by an NA's – could give it a title I'm as compliant as the platform allows. Hardware not software it chooses to use. 19:06:59 Jan: I see a parallel between this and the Swahili screen reader example. That site that's created in Swahili despite the fact that there's no screen reader support for it– why do they do that, they're trying to serve the Swahili community. Same for why they put it on the Kindle – they are trying to serve the Kindle community. Trying to piggyback on the WCAG term. 19:07:20 Jan: maybe we could be even more clear about the term platform and some kind of partial conformance on the basis of hardware device and operating system combination 19:07:33 Greg: that's another discussion 19:08:06 Greg: as for just the partial conformance – partial conformance due to things outside our control is what I would be getting at, as opposed to platform or hardware. That would take care of this whole thing about the Swahili example category as well 19:08:27 "partially conformant due to external factors" 19:08:30 Greg: partial conformance due to external factors? 19:08:44 Jeanne: about limited conformance 19:09:19 Greg: doesn't include why – that's not what we mean by our second category 19:09:33 I want to avoid using a term which colloquially would apply to failing some SC due to choice, rather than because you have no choice. 19:10:14 Eric: I've been connecting what we call partial conformance to the idea of a lack of control – why can't we fold that in to a term with we've already identified as appropriate rationale – three mentioned in Jan's memo – 19:10:31 Eric: claim level, unrecognizable content, lack of developer control 19:11:14 Eric: can we fold this into this area of lack of developer control? If we have to document lack of developer control, we could say for example that if success criteria is not applicable for lack of developer control and that lack of developer control drives from limitations of the platform than you need to document that fact 19:11:51 Jan: if it's a full pass you can end up saying something ridiculous like the first compliant browser is on a mobile browser that is black and white… 19:12:15 Jan: but if it's partial compliant, what's that, that makes sense 19:13:18 Greg: problem with terminology is anything to claim conformance if it meets one SC. And if it meets every SC except for the fact that there's no screen reader in Swahili – needs to be set up so you can tell the difference 19:15:15 Jim: I don't know that you finish this in the next 15 minutes. I'll make changes based on the comments we got. Time to take a breather on this. We are getting a much clearer picture. I think it will be better next time 19:15:50 Jim: We can go to Eric's proposal. 19:17:37 zakim, open ite, 2 19:17:37 I don't understand 'open ite, 2', allanj 19:17:49 zakim, open item 2 19:17:49 agendum 2. "Eric Hansen review of UAAG2 20 Dec 2012 editor's draft" taken up [from kford] 19:17:52 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2013JanMar/0015.html 19:18:14 Eric: I thought the number one issue was clarifying – a degree and flexibility the claimant has in clarifying the user agent. I think that was sort of the subject of our discussion today 19:18:40 Eric: second major point was related to having clear criteria about acceptable versus unacceptable rationale for non-applicability – also part of our topics today 19:19:44 Eric: a number of terms that needed some glossary definitions: two different terms for the same thing, older term called collated text transcript, which I find pretty easy to remember what it is, and the other was something like alternative for time-based media. Essentially they are the same thing. That's one example of the need to reconcile and define terms. 19:20:19 Eric: there were a number of instances of linking to a to be created glossary definition. I thought a number of terms probably needs a short definition in context even though you would also link to a definition, just for the reader not having to jump around I think it's helpful to define some of those terms in the body, at least in a summary fashion 19:20:55 Jeanne: those are the things I consider editorial – will take care of them 19:22:04 Eric: come up with a sort of a taxonomy of content. There are a number of times the term content is used and qualified in some way. There are sort of multiple taxonomies for content – default, primary, original, alternative – I've noted a few places where those taxonomies seem to be laid out in some way and I'm wondering if there's some way we can vet those and bring them up higher and... 19:22:05 ...earlier in the document so that people can get a mental image of what these different kinds of content are. 19:22:29 Eric: content with or without modifying term – reconciling those 19:23:57 Eric: a number of comments on conformance section, but I'm not sure since we spent so much time in conformance whether to go through that. One general thought about conformance that I'll mention is it seems to me what's emerging is that a conformance claim applies to a user agent system that could consist of just a browser or maybe some other stuff and it always takes place on a platform. I... 19:23:58 ...guess it relies on that platform for services. The clear we could be about exactly what a user agent is and what are the minimal components for conformance I think it will help us simplify the conformance scheme and everything else. 19:24:46 Eric: glossary terms that were not used – in a few cases I thought maybe we ought to collaborate with the other documents – WCAG or ATAG and agree 19:25:04 Jim: that's been tried before – difficult 19:26:19 Jim: Eric cemented a word document with comments on the entire document – Jeanne will go through for editorial, if anyone else has commeents, send to list 19:26:32 Greg: What are the big things 19:27:08 Eric: if you search for triple or quadruple Asterix that should take you to a few comments that are may be more important 19:28:22 Jim: I'll go through and send copy with important comments to list 19:28:38 Jim: will also send redone conformance 19:30:16 Eric: I took a crack at working off of Jans document and transmuted into a list of rationales for non-applicability of success criteria – I welcome any reaction to that too 19:30:18 Jim: I'll be incorporating that 19:31:41 Jan: they probably interact – recognized can be at a level below full SC 19:32:43 Jan: example about keystrokes – we have some SCs around the management of keyboard shortcuts, so access keys, but if thedeveloper has used their own keyboard shortcuts, they are unknowable, they won't be recognized 19:33:06 Eric: it sounds like you are saying that sometimes not being able to recognize content is a good excuse, sometimes not 19:33:56 Jan: example captions – you should be able to turn captions on off. This is fine if you know what our captions, but if div and don't know it's captions, shouldn't be expected to 19:34:14 Jan: upper-level condition on whole thing just like WCAG 19:34:28 Eric: and it ought to be handled in one place 19:34:29 +1 for one place to handle the not applicable. 19:34:30 Jan: yes 19:35:54 -Jan 19:35:56 -Kim_Patch 19:35:57 -Greg_Lowney 19:35:58 -EricHansen 19:35:59 rrsagent, make minutes 19:35:59 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/07-ua-minutes.html allanj 19:36:00 -sharper 19:36:07 zakim, who is here 19:36:07 allanj, you need to end that query with '?' 19:36:08 zakim, who is here? 19:36:09 On the phone I see Jeanne, Jim_Allan, kford 19:36:09 On IRC I see KimPatch, Eric, kford, jeanne, Greg, allanj, Zakim, RRSAgent, trackbot 19:37:03 rrsagent, set logs public 19:37:29 zakim, please part 19:37:29 leaving. As of this point the attendees were Jeanne, EricHansen, Jan, Greg_Lowney, Jim_Allan, Kim_Patch, sharper, kford 19:37:29 Zakim has left #ua 19:38:08 chair: JimAllan, KellyFord 19:38:26 rrsagent, make minutes 19:38:26 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2013/02/07-ua-minutes.html allanj 19:40:28 rrsagent, please part 19:40:28 I see no action items