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Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference

03 November 2021

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, Joshue, Joshue108, JPaton, scott_h, SteveNoble
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
Joshue108

Meeting minutes

<jasonjgw> chiar: jasonjgw

Accessibility of remote Meetings.

JS: We need a new due date for comments

The announcements didn't go out.

I suggest a Friday in Dec

I suggest both go into Dec

JW: Mid to late Dec is that ok?

SH: Janina mentioned a Friday

JS: We will accept late comments

Lets make them both Dec 10th (deadline for comments)

JS: We expect comments on the NAUR and remote meetings

SH: The feedback has been good thanks.

SH: Good experience

<jasonjgw> Josh: will coordinate on messaging/announcements.

with Shawn

JS: There were minutes on remote meetings.

JS: There were back to back COGA issues, and it meant several group meetings were lumped together.

JS: I can try to get them

JW: When we get that done, we can look at this and discuss revisions

SH: Sounds good.

JW: We can do that and close out issues as we go.

JW: Any other preference?

SH: Takes action

<janina> https://www.w3.org/2021/10/27-coga-minutes.html

JS: I've got the URI

JS: <Discussion on a11y issues with Github>

<and Google docs>

Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements.

JW: The meeting on this was a Voice Interface meeting

I attended one, and other colleagues were there.

There was a chance to socialise the document

No comments yet but it was raised and into IRC and minutes

JW: There were highlights, interest in a W3C workshop on speech and language interfaces.

This has been on the cards for a while, years.

Speech backed interfaces offer great potential

It was suggested there needs to be a rebalancing

There is an active community group

I noted the doc, and that it is available for comment.

Questions?

JS: Looking at the APA TPAC wiki, it is a good place to gather things.

If you want to add that, go for it.

JW: We should gather these

JS: There are issues with what is supported etc

Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements.

JW: This was a well attended and productive meeting

We have minutes etc and we can extract issues and work on the draft

JW: We have some work to do on this.

JS: The due date for comments is Friday

JW: Steve where would you like to go with the feedback we got?

SN: I need to subscribe to issues list

JS: We can then create URIs that will show issues

JW: From minutes we will extract issues and write issues from them.

SN: If you want to review them and ping me - we will work out what to do.

JW: Then we will take action to review the draft

Next week we are at the WAI CooP project symposium

14 CET

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Shape_the_Future_Symposium_2021

JW: So no RQTF meeting next week. Back on the 17th of Nov

JS: Then the following week - day before Thanksgiving?

JS: I expect that Weds the 24th will not have meetings

JS: We can skip it ok

If we are making good progress then we may not need the meeting time.

JW: 17th is the next

W3C Statements: Implications for Task Force publications.

JW: I've linked to the new process doc

Details of what this entails are in the 2021 W3C Process document:

https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#memo

JW: <Gives overview>

Now that process is in place we have discussed using this new process for our docs

JS: It would elevate the impact of the document

It is only a note at the moment - so the statement is more powerful.

A W3C Statement is a Note that has been endorsed by W3C as a whole

Cloudflare have interesting research on this, that we could introduce into the document

SH: Very happy to help

JW: Sounds like a good idea

Any concerns?

<crickets>

JW: Seems like agreement

JW: Open issues?

JS: No - they should be all responded to.

Resolution: RQTF will resume editing Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA with the goal of advancing to W3C statement status

Upcoming workshop on professional media production on the Web.

https://www.w3.org/2021/03/media-production-workshop/

<jasonjgw> Josh: there will be an accessibility-related presentation at the workshop, and a discussion of next steps that will include authoring tool accessibility issues.

<jasonjgw> Josh: notes the relevance of the Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements.

https://github.com/w3c/media-production-workshop/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Asynchronization

<jasonjgw> The focus is on media production, hence synchronization issues are not entirely in scope - though some aspects are.

JS: We are talking about in the can content

So lets start authoring ASL etc, as the HTML spec will support as many as you have translations for

Same for descriptions of video

JS: These descriptions don't always have to be audio

Nigel M - has flagged that he has written a library and descriptions can be added just as text

This text track can be provided, Nigel could talk about that

We have some big opportunity

SN: I was looking at the website

<co-ordinating involvement>

<Gives overview of Sync issues>

<Wrangles over time>

JW: Janina will take this up in APA

JS: Can Raja get involved?

We will follow up with him

Automotive accessibility.

JW: This was an interesting meeting

Dont recall major actions - if you know any lets discuss

Where this hits the UI is the question..

How is the question..

Can we come back to this?

The future of accessibility APIs: possible privacy-related RQTF work.

JS: Yes

JW: There were two sessions on this

The most relevant outcome was interest in developing a privacy related analysis

and the way privacy is impacted (by A11y API development)

JS: The outcome seemed to be why are RQTF/ APA not working on this.

There are people to recruit Lionel W - has a lot of experience in privacy

There are also issues on future directions - there were things that fell into place around the ePub session.

Regarding ePub

Regarding interleaved communication - there were comments around snipping off features

such as multi track recording environments

Could be multiple tracks of meta data etc

XML, or Next Gen specs for music

Could support multiple lines of text

<Janina gives further examples of classical music interleaving etc>

Why not do this by abstracting the output of music into an ebook (by removing the music)

JS: Should I write this up?

Next Music XML markup

https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/

MUSIC NOTATION COMMUNITY GROUP

JS: There is a nexus here.

SN: I'm also a part of that.

SN: Teaches music at Louisville, Kentucky

JOC: Sounds facinating

Summary of resolutions

  1. RQTF will resume editing Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA with the goal of advancing to W3C statement status
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 136 (Thu May 27 13:50:24 2021 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/RESOLUTION: RQTF will resume editing Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA with the goal of advancing to W3C statement status/

Maybe present: JOC, JS, JW, SH, SN