IRC log of ua on 2014-10-09
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- Zakim, this will be WAI_UAWG
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- Meeting: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference
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- Date: 09 October 2014
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- -Jeanne
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- 17:14:13 [jeanne]
- zakim, who is on the phone?
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- On the phone I see Kim_Patch, Greg_Lowney, [IPcaller], Jeanne
- 17:18:05 [KimPatch]
- Topic: survey
- 17:18:09 [Greg]
- Survey results at https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/36791/20141007/results
- 17:19:12 [Greg]
- Wiki with the draft tests: https://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/Tests_for_CR
- 17:19:20 [KimPatch]
- Topic: 2.3.1
- 17:19:29 [Greg]
- We start with Jim's draft test for 2.3.1.
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- https://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/2.3.1
- 17:23:00 [jeanne]
- GL: I want to talk about the format and general template we are going to use.
- 17:23:22 [jeanne]
- JR: last week we agreed to follow the WCAG style of tests
- 17:24:03 [jeanne]
- ... the larger issue, is the emotionally satisfying issue of only testing one thing
- 17:24:24 [jeanne]
- GL: We need a test document that has samples of different types of elements.
- 17:25:37 [jeanne]
- GL: We could provide test documents for a lot of formats, SVG, etc.
- 17:25:45 [jeanne]
- JR: HTML will be good enough.
- 17:26:17 [jeanne]
- GL: Our samples can serve a template for testers to create documents in other formats their user agents support
- 17:27:29 [KimPatch]
- Greg: do test documents that W3C already has exist for HTML?
- 17:27:44 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: we should how we do our own
- 17:28:06 [KimPatch]
- Jan: one big document, also in the process of breaking it into smaller documents
- 17:28:21 [KimPatch]
- Greg: first step go through the SC and make a list of test documents we need
- 17:28:52 [KimPatch]
- Greg: we need an ATS document that has one of each type of enabled element, that would be for testing this set of SC's
- 17:29:51 [KimPatch]
- Jeane: some of what ATAG did is we put a dummy link to enable elements so we knew when we were finished what we needed
- 17:30:04 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: if one person could focus on getting these documents together that would be useful
- 17:30:36 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: we want to have enough of these done so we can actually do testing at TPAC
- 17:31:33 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: potentially we could have a lot of observers there, and we can start going to the test criteria with everyone having a different user agent and get a lot of data put upon the screen that says whether or not this browser meets this success criteria
- 17:32:52 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: that where we are doing important work that needs to get done in terms of getting to CR, but we are also promoting to everyone who attends – whether or not this browser meets UAAG, which puts pressure on all the browsers to meet UAAG. We need to start letting people see that people are implementing UAAG
- 17:33:11 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: it's also getting work done but also positioning ourselves publicly as a force to be reckoned with
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- Jeanne: Jan and I are going to sit down on the 21st and 22nd and blast through any tests that aren't written yet so we have them in time for TPAC.
- 17:34:24 [KimPatch]
- Jan: Test documents will take longer
- 17:34:50 [KimPatch]
- Greg: we could start with the easy ones. Where is a list of all the enabled elements in HTML 5?
- 17:36:09 [KimPatch]
- Greg: of these test files supposed to be minimal to demonstrate the thing being tested or are they supposed to also be demonstrations of good best practices including best accessibility practices?
- 17:36:26 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: no, just the small files just for testing
- 17:36:53 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: do we need is not accessible file?
- 17:36:55 [KimPatch]
- Jan: yeah, just for a couple of things
- 17:37:01 [Jan]
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/CR20/TestPrep.html
- 17:38:43 [KimPatch]
- Jan: UAAG has a lot of stuff about control, but it's mostly things like pause and skip around
- 17:39:06 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: videos from NASA
- 17:39:49 [KimPatch]
- Jan: UAAG is going to have more need of accessible test files than ATAG
- 17:40:09 [jeanne]
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/CR20/WCAG2_HTML_Problem_File.html
- 17:40:22 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: inaccessible file
- 17:40:26 [jeanne]
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/CR20/WCAG2_HTML_Problem_File_Fixed.html
- 17:41:43 [KimPatch]
- Greg: why a tiny image that's difficult to hover over very narrow vertical bar
- 17:41:59 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: media is not there yet
- 17:42:33 [KimPatch]
- Greg: going back over other comments to see if there's decisions we need to make on 2.3.1
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- Jan: needs to be reworded to only use words we have predefined
- 17:43:21 [jeanne]
- All steps must be true or false
- 17:43:31 [KimPatch]
- Jan: we have a definition for direct navigation
- 17:44:12 [jeanne]
- We cannot use words that aren't defined in our Glossary
- 17:44:16 [KimPatch]
- Jan: we should stick as closely as we can to the SC wording
- 17:44:57 [KimPatch]
- Jan: any rewording is a departure from the normative
- 17:45:12 [KimPatch]
- Greg: use document instead of page
- 17:45:51 [KimPatch]
- Greg: rewrite to say the test document has each type of, and we'll use some phrase meaning verify for each type
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- Jan: selection of types – very difficult to pull out every type
- 17:46:26 [KimPatch]
- Greg: embedded objects
- 17:46:28 [KimPatch]
- Jan: that should be done
- 17:46:41 [KimPatch]
- Jan: I agree that we get rid of assertion, procedure instead of assertion
- 17:46:58 [KimPatch]
- Jan: cleaning up the format, getting rid of the line breaks
- 17:47:28 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: important to write these in the wiki instead of email – can send email with links to wiki
- 17:48:03 [KimPatch]
- Greg: I was reluctant to edit the wiki and change Jim's wording, because we could have a survey potentially with answers responding to Jim's wording and then have to mine after I changed it
- 17:49:14 [KimPatch]
- Jan: I don't think we should be linking in surveys to the wiki – it changes too much
- 17:49:43 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: anything that we want to change, make changes
- 17:50:17 [KimPatch]
- Greg: I agree that we should keep a record – Jim writes one, Greg changes, Kim makes comments on Greg's, hasn't seen Jim's
- 17:50:31 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: is that the way we work?
- 17:52:19 [KimPatch]
- Kim: do a copy paste if you do changes so there's an original etc.
- 17:52:34 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: can we do the last one on top?
- 17:52:48 [KimPatch]
- Greg: I did change is right in line so you could compare with what I included for people to decide
- 17:57:17 [KimPatch]
- Kim: outdated section at the bottom – copy the current, put it at the top of outdated, then make your changes to the current?
- 17:57:38 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: I want to make sure not to have to do a lot of cleanup on these files before I move them into the SQL database
- 17:57:56 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: I suspect it's going to be a brutal copy paste job
- 17:59:20 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: give people a lot of ways to filter things if you don't want to see video etc., test page, allows you to check whether it's pass or fail, records that in the database and gives a report that tells you – we've got two implementations of this success criteria but only one or none for this success criteria – and you can put comments in.
- 17:59:37 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: all the success criteria and tests have to be preloaded into the database before – that's the copy paste job
- 18:00:31 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: it's a really slick thing once it's working. That's eventually where this goes, and then we can start testing
- 18:01:34 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: before we start the formal testing we needed informal report where we know what our success criteria that we may not get two limitations of – the at risk success criteria. We need to have a list of those. If we declare something is at risk we can drop it from the final stack without having to go back to another CR and go through the whole process again. it's important to identify the...
- 18:01:36 [KimPatch]
- ...at risk ones, and that's what we will be doing at TPAC
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- Topic: 2.2.3
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- Topic: 2.2.4
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- Jeanne: Greg's comments very good, these are things we want to talk about – how we are doing it, this is very useful
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- Greg: look at the draft wording – consult the manual if necessary
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- Jan: consult the documentation
- 18:06:49 [KimPatch]
- Greg: we need a big decision on how we want to handle this whole extensions thing
- 18:07:28 [KimPatch]
- Greg: the one about showing direct navigation – let's say a browser needs the mouseless browsing add-on. Are we expecting the tester to iterate – I consult the documentation and I can't see any way to do this, then I go to the extension to provide this functionality?
- 18:07:43 [KimPatch]
- Jan: I don't think so – they need to know ahead of time the package that they need to put together
- 18:08:17 [KimPatch]
- Jan: it depends on if they are taking more of an adversarial role or not – this failed, so let's see if there any extensions – it's really up to them
- 18:08:59 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: keep in mind it's really up to us – we're the ones that will do the testing. But Jan is right we have to assume that the tester will put together the package.
- 18:09:11 [KimPatch]
- Greg: so it's the user agent and all the extensions that are installed with it
- 18:09:35 [jeanne]
- We should put a statement early on that by "user agent" we mean the user agent and all extensions that are all being used to meet it.
- 18:09:38 [KimPatch]
- Greg: we should make that explicit somewhere in the startup of the testing procedure
- 18:10:13 [KimPatch]
- Greg: as a general thing when everyone is writing these tests there are certain things to keep in mind – helpful to make a list of them, such as keep your wording technology neutral
- 18:10:28 [KimPatch]
- Jan: I agree, and your comments are half of that style guide
- 18:10:43 [KimPatch]
- Jeanne: we could make it a wiki page, and link it
- 18:11:26 [KimPatch]
- Greg: I like the method of saying it in a technology neutral fashion and then in parentheses giving an example
- 18:11:34 [KimPatch]
- Jan: agreed
- 18:12:14 [KimPatch]
- Greg: for example say shortcut, and then in parentheses a modifier, access key whatever
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- Jeanne: writing up thoughts for the style guide
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- 18:16:52 [jeanne]
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/Tests_for_CR
- 18:17:03 [jeanne]
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/work/wiki/Test_Writing_Style_Guide
- 18:23:24 [Greg]
- How will we handle it when the tests for several SC can and should be combined into a single test pass?
- 18:27:19 [KimPatch]
- Greg: I'll edit the test template, and then Jeanne can correct later to make sure it's good for cut-and-paste
- 18:27:38 [jeanne]
- JS: I think we need to talk about the combo or chained SC tests when we find them.
- 18:27:55 [Greg]
- E.g. use heading levels appropriate for the final SQL database, rather than the Wiki pages.
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- -Jeanne
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- WAI_UAWG()1:00PM has ended
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- Attendees were Kim_Patch, Greg_Lowney, [IPcaller], Jeanne
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- zakim, IPcaller is Jan
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