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Low Vision Accessibility Task Force Teleconference

30 Mar 2016

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Attendees

Present
JimA, shawn, JohnR, Laura, Andrew, Wayne, Erich, Jeanne, AWK, JohnRochford, ScottMcCormack, JonAvila, jon_avila, Alan_Smith
Regrets
Chair
JimA & AndrewK
Scribe
Wayne

Contents


<shawn> hummmm

I cannot get in webex, enter the meeting number?

<laura> Scribe List: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Scribe_List

scribe, Wayne

<AWK> +AWK

Celebrate publication of FPWD!!!

<shawn> scribe:Wayne

<AWK> Jim: yay

Getting word out about review of FPWD

Jim: There was a session on LV at CSUN. The people at the CSUN did not know about our FPWD. Getting the word out. Spread it around to other groups.

Shawn: EO's dance card is full.

<ScottMcCormack> webex is asking for a meeting password

Jim: The deadline is short April 15, but we will take comments as long as we need.

Shawn: We point to the official site, or the editors draft.

<laura> +q

JohnR: Maybe we could point to both.

<shawn> e-mail announcements with both links: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JanMar/0174.html

Laura: We can announce it to WCAG.

<shawn> approved version: https://www.w3.org/TR/low-vision-needs/

<shawn> Editor's Draft (more updated): http://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html

Andrew: We have talked about it at the call. Michael did forward it to the list. We will evangelize it.

Shawn: WCAG WG has approved its publishing.

Eric: I
... IAAP is taking up Low Vision.

Jim: Welcome Scott McCormack

Scott: I am from BART and joined from an invite from Jon A.

CSUN review

Scott: The group was assembled by Joel Isac. This was to talk about technical aspects. How each applies technology. There was an emphasis on Low Vision in education.

<shawn> Wayne: some panel participants not want to actively participate in TF, yet like the work and want to review doc

<shawn> Scott: group is largely non-technical

Scott: It is not a technical group, but they can give good review.

<shawn> [ plus this document is not technical -- later ones will be more so ]

Jim: People do not have to be technical. We need their pain points.

Shawn: This document is not technical.

<shawn> Wayne: setting up conference call w/ CS Council of Low Vision to introduce doc

JohnR: That depends on your point of view. People who know nothing about technology.

Shawn: We want this audience to understand the document. Even though they're not the primary audience.

JohnR: I am a proponent of plain language. We need a simple way to explain it.

Eric: Any thing with a hint of jargon causes some to glaze over.

<shawn> [ we do plan to do a language edit later ]

Scott: We are trying to explain Low Vision and even the aspects of low vision are new to me.

JohnR: Now I am talking about a simplified version of text. One possibility is a simple explanation followed by a more formal explanation.

<shawn> Wayne: @@

<Zakim> jeanne, you wanted to say Lainey Feingold web site does a good job with it.

<jeanne> http://www.lflegal.com/2016/03/houston-press/#summary

More people are more likely to be familiar light sensivity than lumins.

Jeanne: Lainey Feingold does a good job of simplification.

Contrast requirements of interactive controls (from WCAG)

<shawn> zakim take up item 4

LVTF position on contrast requirements for interactive control states

<allanj> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-low-vision-a11y-tf/2016Mar/0061.html

Andrew: (We are not asking for LVTF necessarily) That would be good, but WCAG seems to have forgotten. I don't know.

<shawn> Wayne: from e-mail, prefernce for all states meeting c ontrast requirements

<shawn> ... can live w/ hover being poor contrast, but would rather not.

Jim: We have five members commented. Do you think the five could get together and look into this issue?

<laura> +q

Scott: In an ideal world all would be high contrast. An absolute requirement is that any state is read should have contrast.

Laura: The only pause, is the difficulty is the claime of difficulty finding colors.

Andrew: If you have a focus color one can use the focus color.If there is a use canse whaere hover needs to be different maybe.

Joh: Most people say hover and focus. The only difference is active. Unless there is a important. Recommend focus and hover.

<shawn> proposal: focus & hover need to meet requirement. active does not

Andrew: We have a use case for focus and hover.

Jim: In the past IE used a different interpretation.

Scott: Will check.

Andrew: I will write up a resolution for focus and hover, and will pass it around.

<shawn> s /Joh:/JonA:

RESOLUTION: AWK to modify text of TF recommendation on focus and hover state contrast and send to TF mailing list, to be then forwarded to WCAG

Issue 32: Wording of Incidence

+1

<shawn> https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/32

<allanj> https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/32

Jim: we are working on rephrasing.

Shawn: If we 86% if we added the 14% are blind. Would that meet the point of Denis but keep it shorter.

Andrew: My only concerned. Make sure our mathematics is correct.

JohnR: In the back of my mind I was thinking world wide.

Jim: We have that right.

Shawn: We need a fact check. Is this how we want to present it.
... Denis wants to make it clear that there are more LV than Blind.

Andrew: It puts is in appearing to set up a priority game.

<allanj> +1

Andrew: I worry about wanting to overemphasize the point.

JohnR: Denis is there any reason to say this percent is color blind.

Jim: It is not official low vision.

Shawn: Can we get across the idea that it is prevalent without saying it is more important.

<JohnRochford> +1 to representation by percentages

<allanj> +1 percentage

<laura> +1

<shawn> +1 to both percents (and not 6 times)

<shawn> ACTION: Jim do fact check on "(WHO) estimates that there are 246 million people worldwide who have low vision and 39 million people are blind, indicating that generally 16% of people with visual impairments are blind and 84% have low vision." [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2016/03/30-lvtf-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-44 - Do fact check on "(who) estimates that there are 246 million people worldwide who have low vision and 39 million people are blind, indicating that generally 16% of people with visual impairments are blind and 84% have low vision." [on Jim Allan - due 2016-04-06].

<alan_smith> Joining late

<alan_smith> + on percentages for a business case statistic

<shawn> Wayne: lots of people with low vision feel left out. solutions for blind are expected to meet low vision, but don't

Issue 33: Wording of Causes of Low Vision

<shawn> https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/33

Causes of Low Vision

<JohnRochford> Got to go, folks. Ciao.

<AWK> AWK just sent updated wording on focus/hover to LVTF list

Andrew: There is difficulty with defect. There is a concern about not noting the icrease in age related low vision.

<shawn> Wayne: in places where correction is available, about 1/2 is age-related

<shawn> ACTION: Shawn follow up with DEnis on https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/33 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2016/03/30-lvtf-minutes.html#action02]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-45 - Follow up with denis on https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/33 [on Shawn Henry - due 2016-04-06].

<allanj> close item 6

Eric: A question came in about SVG that include text. Can we include this as an agenda item.

Andrew: This should be in the success criteria.

<allanj> jonA: may be issues with changing color, css

<allanj> perhaps there is a use case

<allanj> shawn: maybe an example for getting information from images

Jon: Does this meet images of text. You can resize but changes to font and color are not addressed.

<laura> bye

trackbot, end meeting

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: Jim do fact check on "(WHO) estimates that there are 246 million people worldwide who have low vision and 39 million people are blind, indicating that generally 16% of people with visual impairments are blind and 84% have low vision." [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2016/03/30-lvtf-minutes.html#action01]
[NEW] ACTION: Shawn follow up with DEnis on https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/issues/33 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2016/03/30-lvtf-minutes.html#action02]
 

Summary of Resolutions

  1. AWK to modify text of TF recommendation on focus and hover state contrast and send to TF mailing list, to be then forwarded to WCAG
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