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ACT Rules Community Group Teleconference

24 Feb 2022

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Jean-Yves, CarlosD, Helen, Daniel, Wilco, Akhil
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Daniel

Contents


<CarlosD> scribe: Daniel

AGENDA ITEM: Call for review https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/461

Carlos: We just merged the one we had for 1 week
... for 2 weeks, that ends tomorrow. You still have 24 hours

Assigned issues + help wanted https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen

Carlos: I have been moving some of mine, and also waiting for reviews on some
... PR 1765
... UPdating the "programmaticallyu determined" definition
... Also updating the audio and video rules which are going to become atomic
... I have also addressed requests from Wiclo in other
... 1794 has already been reviewed

<Wilco> https://act-rules.github.io/implementation/equal-access-accessibility-checker

Wilco: A little bit more work on the CG website
... Added IBM to our implementation tracker
... changes to support the markdown they have in their implementation descriptions

<Wilco> https://act-implementor.netlify.app/#/

Wilco: Other thing I am working on is the implementation tracker
... The puprpose of this tool is to make it easier particularly for manual implementations to include their data
... They can start from a new implementation of you can just copy paste some JSON data, or import that from a URL

[Wilco demos the tool]

Wilco: Once you include your implementations you can export them. That gives you a JSON file

Carlos: Thank you for this work Wilco

Wilco: I have been doing this, Kathy is doing some testing this week

Carlos: She has already submitted an implementation

Wilco: Did not know that
... One of our bottlenecks is that we don't have enough implementations for AGWG to approve our rules

Jean-Yves: Merged a couple of PRs, did not have time for more

<CarlosD> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/pull/1802

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/2236

Helen: I assigned this to myself now

Update from the ACT Task Force https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/522/files

Wilco: Work on ACT Rules format 1.1. We are taking a proposal to AGWG Chairs
... We have two new editors for that, Kathy and Trevor
... They will be working on it instead of the previous ones

Should rules about link's name consider the title attribute? https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1766

Jean-Yves: About HTML title attributes. Should that be part of the link text?
... Seems to have poor support
... Carlos made some test that suggests the title should be part of the context

Carlos: I think that is probably the best way to address this
... I did this with just one screen reader, others have done this with multiple screen readers
... Every browser screen reader combination except for some old browser versions they all handle title
... But they use it to create the accessible description
... I guess that aligns with what you said, JEan-Yves

Daniel: Would support considering title only for description

Wilco: Not sure why this is a change

Jean-Yves: I don't see the title attribute in the definition, maybe we need to change that to take the accessible description, and that will include all these cases

Wilco: That makes sense

Carlos: I agree

+1

Carlos: Probably not mentioning title explicitly but accessible description

Wilco: Do we then need to say something about the support for aria-description?

<Wilco> https://w3c.github.io/aria/#aria-description

Carlos: Yes, I guess that is a good idea. Although I am not familiar with how well it is support

<Wilco> https://a11ysupport.io/tech/aria/aria-description_attribute

Wilco: It seems it is reasonably well supported

Carlos: I think it makes sense to have an accessibility support note, not just for aria-description but also for title

Jean-Yves: I think it makes sense, it matches the intention of aria-description and we should mention that some will not consider every way you can do it and you may end up having slightly different results

Carlos: I will take care of this

[Carlos updates issue with resolution]

Device-motion rule may still be ambiguous https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1574

Wilco: Determining if an event causes a change is something we cannot determine unambiguously

Carlos: We cannot be objectively certain about the event that caused the change

Jean-Yves: I agree it may be not satisfying the requirement

Wilco: It is not obvious to me how I would prove this
... How can I know that an event does not trigger any changes
... Even if I fire that event, there might be circumstances that I cannot determine

Jean-Yves: I agree. I feel we have the same problem in the PR about focus and focusable definition

Wilco: What is different is that we don't say anything about how to trigger those events
... I am less worried about the other case

Jean-Yves: When we link to events in the HTML spec it is about one precise occurrence of firing an event
... I think we had discussions that it is only about the actual occurrence of the event, that's how we made it testable

Carlos: ACT Rules format does not require this to be objective. That is one of the reasons we moved this to the expectations
... But by not specifying how to fire this events we are making it ambiguous
... We don't even mention how to fire the event. We just say "for each registered event"

Jean-Yves: The "changes in content" definition talks about firing events

Wilco: Do we have other rules like on hover things?

Carlos: Not sure if we have these published, we do have some PRs

Wilco: Did we never complete the "content on hover has focus" rule?

Carlos: No, it still has changes requested
... We took a similar approach: firing the event and waiting for 500 miliseconds

Wilco: I am not sure what to do with this one. I wouldn't mind if we park it and revisit sometime in the future

Carlos: It makes sense

Jean-Yves: I think we have the same with the "device motion" rule

Carlos: yes
... I guess we have the same issue

Wilco: I am suggesting that we leave this open, which means these rules would not be approved by AGWG
... These are things we want to work on for ACT Rules 1.1

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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