IRC log of silver-conf on 2022-02-10

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Meeting: Silver Conformance Options Subgroup
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date: 10 feb 2022
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chair: janina
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agenda?
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regrets: Todd_Libby
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Agenda+ Agenda Review & Administrative Items
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agenda+ User Scenarios: Additional Considerations
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agenda+ Other Business
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agenda+ Be Done
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scribe: Wilco
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zakim, take up next
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agendum 1 -- Agenda Review & Administrative Items -- taken up [from janina]
17:04:16 [Wilco]
Janina: Had some additional comments, some from me, some from Jeanne.
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... Thanks to Shadi for helping to put them in.
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... TPAC planning continues. We'll start asking who might be there in person.
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zakim, take up next
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agendum 2 -- User Scenarios: Additional Considerations -- taken up [from janina]
17:07:19 [shadi]
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/silver/wiki/Talk:Substantial_Conformance/Example_Scenarios
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Shadi: I dropped a summary of the comments in the talk page
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... Going to situation 9 heading
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... Would suggest lack of AT support should factor in.
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... Two example, one on limited support for accessibility; immersive environments.
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... 9.2 talks about experiences that can not easily be translated.
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... I'd like to suggest a 9.3 highlighting the lack of accessibility support
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... Graphs, there isn't really a way to visualise that.
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... There could also be something like music, where music notes and words are side by side that is not easily rendered by AT.
17:10:21 [PeterKorn]
Would we want to use the phrase "Accessibility Supported" for this/these scenarios?
17:10:45 [DarrylLehmann]
+1 Janina and Shadi example addition
17:10:47 [Wilco]
... Question to the group is do we add such example?
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17:11:08 [janina]
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17:11:18 [DarrylLehmann]
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Shadi: We'd have to phrase that carefully, accessibility support related to technology.
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Janina: little nervous about accessibility support. It may get controversial. I'd rather phrase it another way.
17:12:28 [Wilco]
... If we get a standard for doing something. The process is usually we get a spec, and then over time we get AT support for that.
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Darryl: Another example is WebGL, online 3D. There is basically no support.
17:13:56 [Wilco]
... There was a 3D model online which had labels, we replicated that with a 3D printed model with braille
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Janina: The only place we have accessibility support built into graphics is SVG 2
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17:14:56 [Wilco]
Gregg: If you had graphs with lines, would it be more useful to have a table?
17:15:14 [Azlan]
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17:15:16 [Wilco]
... We have the ability to take a picture of a chart and give a table with the data.
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Janina: Tables if you concentrate well you can get the picture, but there's a reason for charts.
17:16:47 [PeterKorn]
[I need to step away; be right back]
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... Things communicate more quickly
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Gregg: I would suggest diagram of a heart, instead of lines on a graph.
17:17:08 [Wilco]
Shadi: Sounds good
17:18:55 [Wilco]
Shadi: Janina mentions an APA note on how to approach real-time calls. I had further discussions on that.
17:19:19 [PeterKorn]
[I'm back]
17:19:52 [Wilco]
... WCAG 2 already has different requirements for live vs prerecorded media. One of the things Janina raises is synchronisation of captions, and the transition from live to prerecorded.
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... Suggestion is to add this to the guidance section.
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Gregg: There's a task force looking at real-time text in ISO, which could have impact.
17:21:36 [janina]
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17:21:36 [Wilco]
... I don't think we want to add requirements, but we could have examples.
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... For example you can have word by word live captions.
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... There is also caption synchronisation software.
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... In life captions is behind as you won't know what someone will say, but after it should be put in sync.
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17:23:23 [Wilco]
Janina: We've been living this. Many things happen on Zoom, but then are put on YouTube hours later.
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.. We can leave it to policy how much someone needs to do.
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Gregg: If we can put tools in the understanding docs so people can find them.
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... Saying they exist doesn't help, putting a link does.
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Shadi: Hearing agreement
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... The next item is on situation 2. There is a new bullet from Janina.
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... It occurred to me that maybe framing, the question is does all content need to be accessible.
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... There is an upon request, but there is also content that is not essential.
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q+ Gregg
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... It's not about relevance. It's under which condition can you say pieces will not follow all the requirements.
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... There is a role for policy here.
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Gregg: If it's important enough to post it for anybody, it shouldn't be not important for some people.
17:29:27 [PeterKorn]
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... If you have a huge archive, what we'll do if we need it we'll be responsive, I hate for us to say some things don't need to be accessible because they're not used much.
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... I'd rather we make a comment on policy.
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Shadi: Some content won't have the highest priority. It's being phrased as relevant.
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Janina: We should not perpetuate the assumption that we'll do everything for all content. It gets in the way.
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... This is about prioritisation. You should be able to do it.
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Shadi: I'll go forward and rephrase that in terms of priority.
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Shadi: Under the heading Overall comments. Jeanne and I feel we need another section.
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17:34:35 [PeterKorn]
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17:34:47 [Wilco]
... The key datapoint is that 98% have fewer than 100 employees. There was more in the comment here. From that I have a few suggestions.
17:34:50 [maryjom_]
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Peter: We have examples of this in the US today. We might note that this has already been done in accessibility laws
17:36:08 [janina]
q+
17:36:35 [PeterKorn]
No objection; I think it makes a lot of sense - especially because this is already practice
17:36:38 [Wilco]
Shadi: Also in EU legislation, EAA exempts micro organisations. Still is there any downside, would anybody object to a situation of a small business who have difficulty finding the right professionals, tooling, knowledge.
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+1
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Janina: I think the concern to consider, are we saying enough that a small business is likely to rely on a scripted website provider.
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... Are these number big enough that we need to say more?
17:37:52 [Wilco]
... We've covered a lot of user generated, but third-party HTML / CSS. Apparently that's been on a rapid rise.
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q?
17:38:50 [DarrylLehmann]
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17:39:16 [Wilco]
Shadi: This is the first of several additions to address small business. This particular suggestion on situation 11.
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... I want to mention that policy makers should consider the size and capability of the content provider.
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... It's one thing to say for a small shop that they can't make all images accessible. That's a policy question.
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... Policies will now exempt small businesses, and sometimes have reasonability concepts built in.
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Darryl: I agree adding this example is useful. Just the fact that there is a lack in the space to creating accessible content.
17:41:39 [Wilco]
... Companies should find good specialists, that'd kind of the problem as well.
17:42:26 [janina]
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/third-parties
17:42:44 [Wilco]
Shadi: There is a strong dependance on tools. In 4.1 we have an example; website that allows users to create their own website. It's written from the perspective of the tool provider.
17:43:29 [Wilco]
... The suggestion is to create a similar example under 5; I created a website using a tool that creates websites. That tool has limitations and I'm dependant on what that tool can provide.
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+1
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+1
17:43:51 [Azlan]
+1
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Shadi: No objections; I'll get that drafted.
17:44:36 [Wilco]
... Following that we can add guidance around selecting appropriate tools.
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... EO is working on a list of authoring tools supporting accessibility.
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Janina: There's an implicit guarantee, if you get in trouble over not being accessible. You should be able to duck out of it.
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Peter: We have two proofs in this space, architects in the ADA, and now web business that promise overlays fix problems.
17:47:57 [Wilco]
... I would not go down this road other than to say this is all about policy.
17:48:16 [Wilco]
... This can suck our time.
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Shadi: If we can phrase this as a consideration rather than a solution?
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Azlan: It's quite the can of worms. One thing I've been working on is an authoring tool. Needing to provide enough tooling for someone to create whatever they want. I don't want to be too restrictive, but still protect them from causing issues.
17:49:33 [Wilco]
... Where do you draw the line of who's responsible?
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Janina: I think this would be a win if we get this in appropriately.
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Gregg: I think we should say people need to put it in the contract. If you don't put it in the contract, you can't get out of it.
17:51:08 [Wilco]
Janina: I'm not sure that's true. They may not know they need to think about it.
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Gregg: That's why we need to tell people to put it in their contract, and that they have it checked.
17:51:49 [PeterKorn]
q?
17:52:46 [Wilco]
Shadi: I'll see what I can do with that. I'm hearing we don't want to get into detailed solutions, but maybe there's something on considerations for tool providers.
17:54:28 [Wilco]
... We have situation 6. Janina has a point where she says we need to be clear that bugs do happen, so that we make a strong case. There's no bug-free software.
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q?
17:55:10 [Wilco]
Peter: I wonder if we can say something between "will" and "can". Virtually all software has bugs.
17:55:56 [Wilco]
Janina: I'd love to see us cite some things.
17:56:24 [maryjom_]
https://www.mayerdan.com/ruby/2012/11/11/bugs-per-line-of-code-ratio
17:57:57 [Wilco]
Shadi: Situation 5 is on dependencies on other services. There's maybe more interlinking between sites than people think.
17:58:16 [Wilco]
... We didn't have any specific suggestion / conclusion. Maybe we can get back to it next week.
17:58:17 [janina]
https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2021/third-parties
17:59:11 [Wilco]
Janina: I think we need to be comprehensive when we return with third-party to AGWG. We have a good start, but there is a lot more going on, but someone has to be responsible.
17:59:40 [Wilco]
... It goes a lot further than I had realised. Hopefully we can think more globally on how to draw lines.
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zakim, end meeting
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As of this point the attendees have been janina, GreggVan, shadi, PeterKorn, DarrylLehmann, MichaelC, Azlan, Wilco, maryjom_
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RRSAgent, please draft minutes
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I am happy to have been of service, Wilco; please remember to excuse RRSAgent. Goodbye
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