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Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference

02 Oct 2019

Attendees

Present
janina, Becka11y, Matthew_Atkinson, MichaelC, IanPouncey, Gottfried, jasonjgw
Regrets
Chair
janina
Scribe
becka11y

Contents


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Agenda Review & Announcements

Janina: standard agenda plus outcomes from TPAC

TPAC Outcomes

Janina: requests for additional items or news met with silence
... Very busy TPAC, got a lot accomplished; will send the minutes out again from converstations
... webRTC is close to going to TR; had joint meeting with them; US is mandating some types of RTT (real time text) for accessing emergency services
... notion is to add an informative section on WebRTC 1.0 that notes the importance of RTT;

<Joshue108_> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-holmberg-mmusic-t140-usage-data-channel-02

Janina: there is a specific RTT spec coming from IETF which may not be as widely scoped as we would like - want to support what IETF has created for now but possibly add additional uses cases to a future version of WebRTC

Joshus108: see the link above

Josh: Judy’s concern is that there are existing implentations of RTT via polyfills. She wants that captured in the webRTC spec so people will continue to work on those polyfills;
... Have reviewed some of the text sent to the list; it is fine because it acknowledges there is no formal way for WebRTC to implement RTT; will add text that WebRTC will continue to address the issues with RTT and perhaps work with IETF on future protocols

<Joshue108_> Suggested addition from Josh..

<Joshue108_> Therefore the WebRTC working group will be actively looking to address this

<Joshue108_> gap in future use cases documents, as well as progressing technical API

<Joshue108_> requirements.

<Joshue108_> This may be done in conjunction with developed IETF protocols.

Janina: still a bit hazy about what the problem is between what IETF is specifying and WebRTC is supporting
... not sure we need to clarify all of the issues just note that everyone is paying attention

Josh: still think it is good to call this out to make it explicit

Janina: need a fast turnaround - perhaps review the text via email so we can meet the schedule and have a decision by Monday - hopefully kickoff 48 hour CFC tomorrow

Josh: I have the polyfill text

<Joshue108_> <josh suggestion for polyfill>

<Joshue108_> There are current polyfill implementations such as x,y,z that do enable

<Joshue108_> effective RTT support in WebRTC applications. This is sufficient until

<Joshue108_> future gateways are enabled via IETF protocols such as the SCTP data channel

<Joshue108_> protocol and RFC 4103 Real-time text, and this needs to be defined via IETF

<Joshue108_> or in conjunction with related work at W3C groups to effectively standardise

<Joshue108_> RTT support.

<Joshue108_> </polyfill>

Josh: x, y, z references are waiting for Judy to fill in with explicit references to the polyfill implementations

Janina: what I understand from Dom is that a gateway solution is used
... for protocol translation

Jason: WebRTC tries to provide a standard transport for the real time text; IETF suggests that there might be some negotiation involved

<Joshue108_> +1 to Jason

Jason: WebRTC design that is put forward to IETF uses a different protocol and thus a protocol translation is needed

<Joshue108_> Great that he is here *smile

Janina: any other thoughts we can use to put this forward and have a CFC tomorrow
... we don’t want to hold up WebRTC CR so will move this along with minimum time frames
... 3 great sessions discussing immersiion Web practices; including tutorial on how Web 3D works; goal of having a shared understanding and vocabulary so we can discuss bringing a11y into immersive web, AR, XR etc
... important that we have a shared objective; GLTF was mentioned as possible mechanism
... agreed that gaming is a good judge of what approaches work, or not because it is a highly rich environment
... Personalization TF got a boost from I18N; had a meeting to discuss deficiencies for specifying sign languages around the world - also includes coding for sign languages but brought up that symbolic languages need to be includes as well
... meeting agreed that symbols don’t have to be part of UTF since we want to provide a translation between symbol sets;
... different symbol sets are similar to the early days of Braille where if you learned one type you couldn’t read/understand the other; Thus we understand we need a translation between symbol sets - I18N agreed
... Lisa Seeman was able to put together a demo of how this could work in Chrome over webEx - this got someone else ot implement in Firefox
... pronounciation spec moved forward in joing meeting with TAG and there is now understanding that we can’t rely on just AT to solve this - will need something in HTML; Joanie and others got a proposal put together
... had a good session with CSS - they believe some of what we want to acheive is already possible - need more converstation on this; also need to look at additional requirements - one being on defining spacing between words

<MichaelC> https://www.w3.org/2019/09/15-css-minutes#item29

Janina: see CSS meeting minutes above

Ian: any update on AAM for CSS? I think the agreement is to move forward. Joanie will be tech editor and Zoe will pull out CSS features that we want to standardize accross the a11y api

Joanie: We have forked the repo and will work offline until pull request to merge it back in

Janina: was very busy.

Workshop Updates

(scribe note: Ian question above was answered by Janina - not split out to give proper credit to Janina)

Janina: Ted Gill and I had a session at the Data Modeling for Transportation Workshop; they are continuing to build the data model.

<Joshue108_> https://www.w3.org/2019/08/inclusive-xr-workshop/

Janina: upcoming workshop in Seattle on inclusive and immersive web technologies?

Task Force Updates

Janina: this was co-organized by Leonnie; Believe there is also an authentication workshop coming
... TF are following up from info gained at TPAC; Good progress

Horizontal reviews https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Horizontal+review+requested%22

Jason: RQTF continuing to work on WebRTC issues and immersive web

Michael: Nothing new

Janina: interesting meeting of groups that do horizontal reviews at TPAC - trying to standardize the process so groups have a consistent way to interact with the review groups; happy to see TAG endorse explainer documents

new on TR http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-status-drafts.html

Janina: looks like explainers will be expected (but perhaps not demanded)

Michael: 3 pronounciation documents - no need to review ;-)
... have some editorial comments on Web of Things

<MichaelC> Verifiable Credentials Data Model 1.0

Michael: 3 related; verifiable credentials - we had submitted comments; don’t believe we have gotten a response so may have an isse
... <looks for a response - didn’t find one> So we need to raise this. I will start with the project mgmt lead (PLH)

<MichaelC> Verifiable Credentials Implementation Guidelines 1.0

Michael: also two new notes that were published - verifiable credentials implementation guideline 1.0

Janina: are these the same people we met with about killing CAPTCHA

Michael: related but not the same

<MichaelC> Verifiable Credentials Use Cases

Michael: need to investigate why our comments were not requested of not reviewed

<MichaelC> Self-Review Questionnaire: Security and Privacy

Michael: think we only need to review in horizontal review process

Janina: agreed

<MichaelC> MiniApp Standardization White Paper

Michael: believe we do need to review this one; MiniApps are a big thing in China; host application can install a miniApp; gives better than a web page but less than an app; suspect there are accessibility issues

Janina: anyone interested in reading - we do need a review;

Michael: it is no track; developed by Chinese Web interest group;
... perhaps ask Roy to give a tutorial on this at a future meeting

Actions Checkin (Specs) https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/track/products/8

Community Groups Tracking Review https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Community_Groups

<Gottfried> Becky: We looked at the community groups a year ago. Created a table with a column for asignee. Added a description.

<Gottfried> ... Also column with last update date, sortable.

<Gottfried> ... We need to agree on this list.

<Gottfried> Janina: We previously agreed on this. How many?

<Gottfried> Becky: About 20.

<Gottfried> Janina: Let' sgo

<Gottfried> Becky: Solid. https://www.w3.org/community/solid/d

<Gottfried> The Solid project aims to improve privacy and data ownership on the Web through a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications.

<Gottfried> * Machine Learning for the Web. https://www.w3.org/community/webmachinelearning/

<Gottfried> Becky: No need to track. Agreed.

<Gottfried> ... RDF-DEV. https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-dev/. No need to track.

<Gottfried> ... Publishing. https://www.w3.org/community/publishingcg/. No need to track.

<Gottfried> ... Audio. https://www.w3.org/community/audio-comgp/. Propose no need to track.

<Gottfried> Janina: We might want to think about that.

<Gottfried> ... We should inform the community that they should create an explainer.

<Gottfried> ... High-level introduction what Web Audio is supposed to do.

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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