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Low Vision Accessibility Task Force Teleconference

30 May 2019

Attendees

Present
Shawn, JoAnne, Jon, jon_avila
Regrets
Laura, Jason
Chair
Jim
Scribe
Shawn, Jon_avila

Contents


<shawn> scribe: Shawn

Google research - non-text contrast

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Jon: Ok, maybe in the end they could identify it, but what about the difficulty and cognitive load?
... and strain, stress, amount of time. some give up and get frustrated.

JoAnne: Agree. Questioning how they were identifiyable. If by default, maybe not an effective user experience. If discovered just because I happended to hover over it. We need to provide more visual information to provide more efficient user experience.

JimA: boundary of usability & accessibility. e.g., more time and effort makes it less usable for spefici users, thus an accessibility problem.
... Good for us to provide feedback.

Jon: Example where helpful: we have failure for links that use vcolor and not contrast, only in paragrpah of text. Sent example [to list] but it's not within the paragraph. Example of where color is being used as the indicator.
... possible outcome might be not relying on color even if it's not within a paragraph.
... about identifying affordance. we do have some SC, e.g., link purpose.
... have had people say "that's fine, people can follow the link and then go back"
... my problem is might get the same push-back for affordance
... it's much more of a problem for people with cognitive & low vision to "just go back"
... Think about for Silver if not for 2.2

JimA: A broad SC on affordance? or need to break it up by color, borders, etc.?

JonA: dunno...

JoAnne: If we go down road of breaking things up, is that away from the Silver approach?

JonA: In Silver, measuring the functional access. Maybe one of those measurements can be the time it takes or other measurement criteria.

SLH: the stress factor

JimA: Neilsen study long ago showed low vision user took longer than screen reader user

JoAnne: measurements would help attention to low vision needs, rather than diving into specifics (like were going down with 2.x criteria)

JonA: Looking at the material design, says "buttons should indicate that they can trigger an action" under heading "identifieable" Then they should be findable among other elements., They say buttons should be clear.
... seems like the guidance is there, but they don't follow through. [what they say about buttons]
... they say in here that should use outline for ones that are more important

JimA: What they say in materials, versus what the disclaim to users. Seems @@ more discernable than in the resersach.

JonA: [example of buttons] Text I assume is not a button because the text next to it has border for affordance.
... Challenge I have with keyboard is lose track of: did the background change becuse of the keyboard focus? [Confuses when background is used to indicate things like primary path versus secondary path]

JimA: They keep getting away from the basic things.
... maybe make that clear in requirements docs

JoAnne: Try to do custom tings to overcome the user agent, but sometimes makes it worse.

JimA: UA issues - e.g., in most browsers, @@ and focus rings fail contrast

SLH: Are concerns with the study getting adequately communicated?

JonA: I think so. I recommend not to discourage studies. Want to invite collaboration so that we can help them make it most worth their effort.
... If a study is done in the way we are comforable with, then we can use it to make decisions about Silver.

JimA: Pitch to Google like we did to WebAIM's low vision survey? Maybe say: next time, we'd like to ... to get our issues addressed.

JonA: Yes, research would be benefitial. We'd like to collaborate/talk about future studies so we can use them for our criteria. We want to feel comfortable with then methods that are used. We request to work together - discuss methods beforehand.

JimA: Can ask - welcoming gesture.
... While the study says participants could do it. However, people not comfortable with that. What aare the issues? Was it the types of low vision? Or we're mot critical or what?

JonA: Initially need qualitive analysis. then quantative if you know where to lookk.
... I think what happened in the study design.... can you identify this button: Yes or No. I guess that's all they were initially loooking for. They realize now @@

JimA: Yes I can -- but how much itme and effort to do it?

<Zakim> shawn, you wanted to say to researchers, to readers

SLH: @@ concerns with it?
... @@ AG

JimA: Jon only one who
... Jon only one who's said anything. Any discussion in AG? Not seeing feedback on Jons comments. NOt sure if AG gets it? Maybe LVTF needs to do more formal communcation with AG WG.

JonA: Think AlastairC wrote on the list. I want to be careful how we go about it.

SLH: +1 to be supportive (even though needs to point out flaws)

<jon_avila> scribe: Jon_avila

<shawn> Jon: Maybe talk about material design

JimA: might be reasonable thing to bring them into a call and get a group to seriously share ourn concerns and issues
... good idea to share with people who have low vision day in and day out
... we are good on this topic

Shawn: other topics are color wheel and updated images.

<shawn> new text -- "The Task Force decided to keep the original images, because users do not need to distinguish the slices from each other. The purpose is to show that colors look different to different people."

JimA: Laura redid color wheel for contrast requirements. Last week on call we decided that it wasn't important to see individual but to really show that different people see color different ways and so we decided we didn't need white boundaries
... we created wiki page to explain that rationale
... wanted to get feedback from Jon and JoAnn. She had mentioned white lines made it harder

Shawn: I would add -- that adding the white complicates and increase visual complexity and makes it uncomfortable to look at images.

JoAnn: differentiation between shades - the white complicates how things are located and how I see the wheel. Really complicates visual experience for me.
... the white makes no difference to me personally in understanding what other see when it comes to wheel

<shawn> JonA: Don't have preference personally. First is more smooth. White interrupts it a little bit.

shawn: with just the black lines there isn't enough contrast. You don't need to differentiate -- you only need to get the gestalt
... Do you are with that.

<shawn> JonA: The point is not to differeneite between the slices of the pie. So white not provide value. The point is to compare what people see. So maybe to make that easier, place one wheel inside of the other.

JoAnn: could we have comparative images.

Shawn: could take first wheel and put in other that might show a better comparison or even more side by side.

<shawn> JonA: Don't need to do that. But might be easy to try it, and see what we think.

shawn: right now we have 4 wheel. Now we would have 3 wheel. Make full color and stick it in the middle of each of those.

JimA: might be interesting. As for rationale -- we all agree that we don't need to separate pieces of pie as they don't have any meaning.

RESOLUTION: Use color wheels with black lines and not with white and black lines for reasons discussed.

JimA: Cite resolution on wiki page as well

Review changes to Requirements Document http://htmlpreview.github.io//?https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-a11y-tf/blob/jim-edits/requirements.html

JimA: Listing is complete for UAAG requirements for user needs. Shawn and I will work to merge that and get into main document. Just to let people review and let them note it's there.
... thanks to all you contributed JoAnn and Eric.
... Anything else to talk about?

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

  1. Use color wheels with black lines and not with white and black lines for reasons discussed.
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