12:38:32 RRSAgent has joined #rqtf 12:38:32 logging to https://www.w3.org/2022/05/18-rqtf-irc 12:38:34 RRSAgent, make logs public 12:38:34 Zakim has joined #rqtf 12:38:36 Meeting: Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference 12:38:36 Date: 18 May 2022 12:38:42 chair: jasonjgw 12:38:44 present+ 12:39:11 agenda+ Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements. 12:39:11 agenda+ Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. 12:39:11 agenda+ Accessibility of collaboration tools. 12:39:11 agenda+ Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements. 12:39:11 agenda+ Joint Working Group meetings at TPAC 2022. 12:39:14 agenda+ Miscellaneous 12:41:10 agenda 6 = Miscellaneous topics. 12:53:50 janina has joined #rqtf 12:54:11 present+ 12:54:15 agenda? 13:00:02 JPaton has joined #rqtf 13:02:04 zakim, next item 13:02:04 agendum 1 -- Synchronization Accessibility User Requirements. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 13:02:31 SteveNoble has joined #rqtf 13:02:37 present+ 13:02:45 scribe: SteveNoble 13:03:19 scott_h has joined #rqtf 13:03:30 present+ 13:03:42 jasonjgw: Michael Cooper is working on editorial changes 13:04:08 jasonjgw: Working on messaging 13:04:55 janina: Minor correction: Michael was thinking more about additional headings and other changes to make the content more digetsable 13:05:47 janina: Good to get this fixed first before the CfC is issued 13:06:53 janina: Otherwise we should be continuing to advance to a W3C "Statement" status, which is new 13:07:55 jasonjgw: We do not expect the editorial changes to take that long 13:08:08 zakim, next item 13:08:08 agendum 2 -- Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 13:08:48 jasonjgw: Communications are underway with relevant groups 13:09:30 jasonjgw: Leave in agenda for next week 13:10:01 zakim, next item 13:10:01 agendum 3 -- Accessibility of collaboration tools. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 13:10:59 jasonjgw: Wiki page has been updated with distinctions and central issues 13:11:47 scott_h: Began to search the research literature, but so far have not found much additional materials 13:12:35 jasonjgw: At the moment, the best strategy is to keep adding to the wiki page 13:12:56 zakim, next item 13:12:56 agendum 4 -- Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 13:13:24 jasonjgw: Updated working draft was published 13:13:34 jasonjgw: No comments yet 13:14:19 jasonjgw: We do still have some open issues 13:14:53 jasonjgw: Will look at the open issues 13:15:16 Joshue108: Some of the COGA issues are still open 13:16:08 janina: Will ping COGA about additional clarifications that are needed 13:17:35 janina: A label stating that further clarification is pending might be good 13:19:01 janina: Pointing them to the specific github issues could be good 13:20:11 Joshue108: Will review the issues where we still need clarification and will get back to Janina and Jason 13:20:54 present+ 13:21:13 zakim, next item 13:21:13 agendum 5 -- Joint Working Group meetings at TPAC 2022. -- taken up [from jasonjgw] 13:22:21 jasonjgw: Not positive if we have enough critical mass on topics to propose joint meetings 13:22:45 janina: Maybe a Wednesday session on the NAUR? 13:23:04 jasonjgw: That is a possibility 13:23:23 janina: Perhaps the collaborative editing tools? 13:24:01 jasonjgw: That seems like a good potential 13:24:39 jasonjgw: CAPTCHA might be another topic if we have enough done by that point 13:26:35 janina: May need to look at furthering speech tagging aside from the language tag to allow for things like a child's voice 13:27:29 janina: The current specs do not hot handle this 13:28:48 janina: These issues connect Internationalization and Accessibility needs, so potentially useful for joint meeting discussion 13:29:37 janina: For example, input from a new community group looking at accessibility needs for children 13:31:02 Joshue108: The FAST group also met with this community group 13:31:48 jasonjgw: There is also the work being done in the Math Working Group on the new MathML spec 13:32:26 zakim, next item 13:32:26 agendum 6 -- Miscellaneous topics. -- taken up 13:32:59 jasonjgw: One comment came in on Accessibility of Remote Meetings 13:33:18 jasonjgw: This may point to some ambiguity 13:33:53 Raja: It is challenging as children's voices change over time - as do people with speech disabilities, but definitely something to be noted 13:34:22 Raja: handling these edge cases benefits everyone 13:35:16 janina: Yes...we need to do more in the way of specifying aspects which currently are not supported in the current specs 13:35:43 Raja: e.g. steve gleason's ALS and collaboration with MS -- to save speech samples and use these as his speech declined 13:37:48 Joshue108: To Jason: About neural-networks - further input? 13:38:40 jasonjgw: New developments from Google and others are moving toward using a neural network for the entire TTS process 13:39:45 jasonjgw: COQI - demonstrated the ability to record one's own voice and use that to program TTS 13:40:55 janina: That was also mentioned my Mark Hakkinen 13:40:57 https://coqui.ai/ 13:41:45 jasonjgw: Would be good to look at their tooling 13:42:32 jasonjgw: Also announcements from Google and Microsoft show a lot of new development in both TTS and speech dictation 13:45:29 Joshue108: Upcoming panel talk at ICCHP to discuss cognitive disability connections to immersive environments 13:46:18 janina: COGA is planning to meet at ICCHP so that would be a good place for coordinating 13:48:42 zakim, bye 13:48:42 leaving. 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