W3C

– DRAFT –
Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference

27 April 2022

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, scott_h, SteveNoble
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
SteveNoble

Meeting minutes

Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA.

janina: Not a lot of movement yet on CAPTCHA

janina: We should continue to work on this as time allows

Accessibility of Remote Meetings.

jasonjgw: Scott sent out the previous blog post text from the first time

jasonjgw: The blog text is a bit long for an announcement

janina: The is a wiki page with a template for announcements and other types of communications

jasonjgw: However, it looks like the earlier version of the announcement on that page is no longer there

janina: Will see if we can get some staff help to find this

Accessibility of collaboration tools - scope of possible work.

jasonjgw: Created wiki page at https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Collaboration_Tool_Accessibility

jasonjgw: Have found numerous examples in the research literature, although it seems very screen-reader heavy

jasonjgw: Not much in the way of cognitive impairments

raja: Have some experience in collaboration in games and teams

raja: But not seeing a lot in the wiki

janina: The wiki is bare bones right now

raja: Agree that we need more discussion and come to some agreement on definitions

raja: The general concept of synchronous or asynchronous - for example, with captions and transcriptions, where captions are timed but a transcript is OK without timestamps

janina: We could look at these distinctions as examples

jasonjgw: One concern - if several are collaborating online in real time in a document, but also communicating at the same time (like in a meeting) that creates a lot of cognitive load

raja: Sometime people need more time to digest information

janina: One example is the real-time meeting, but the other is perhaps more on asynchronous collaborative document editing

raja: We need to find a way to allow people to slow down or pause which would support those with longer processing time

janina: This seems more like an issue for Remote Meetings

jasonjgw: Yes - the Remote Meetings updated draft has this now

scott_h: Collaborative tool documents like Office 365 online with Narrator works very well

scott_h: Good example is writing grant applications - lots of people writing different points

scott_h: Agree that there are different implications for different assistive technology use cases

jasonjgw: Literature on this mostly concerns screen reader users

jasonjgw: We should do a cross-disability analysis

<scott_h> sorry everone - will share comments in IRC

<scott_h> basically just saying that when we look at collaborative tools

<scott_h> we should consider stastic documents, editing periodically

<scott_h> and also a fflurry of editing such as in a collaborative grant application

<scott_h> and the implications for assistive technology use in all these sceanrios

raja: defining the user case and scenarios will be helpful

<scott_h> across differen disability groups

<scott_h> I thik that's it - sorry that my internet seems to ahve died for zoom tonight

<scott_h> Will add my references to the wiki durig the week

jasonjgw: We should consider what features we have an interest in, and let that determine what types of collaborative tools we wnat to discuss

Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements.

jasonjgw: Nothing to report here

jasonjgw: Should resume this discussion when Josh is present

jasonjgw: Updated draft is likely in order

Miscellaneous topics.

jasonjgw: The web machine learning ethics document has not made any changes this far

janina: Two CfCs out - renaming the personalization task force to "WAI Adapt:" with the name of the module afterward

janina: An SVG draft is out as well

janina: The Maturity Model work is in the works as well

jasonjgw: Other thoughts?

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 185 (Thu Dec 2 18:51:55 2021 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: raja