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ACT Rules Community Group Teleconference

23 Jun 2022

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Wilco_, CarlosD, Jean-Yves, Helen_, Daniel, Akhil, thbrunet, harris, giacomo_petri, trevor
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Contents


<Jean-Yves> clear agenda

<Jean-Yves> scribe: Wilco_

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

JYM: one 1-week call, PR 1864

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

JYM: Not much progress, some PRs have moved on.

Wilco: Worked on ARIA-1.2, along with Harris and Akhil
... Will also look at Aron's old ARIA 1.2 PR

Akhil: Created the two PRs with Wilco, these are my first submissions.

Giacomo: Worked a bit on the input image, empty title. I asked the API mapping team to clarify the goal of the mapping.
... They linked to another issue, but it's not answering my question.

JYM: I feel HTML-AAM needs to be updated to make it explicit.

Giocomo: I think we need clarification on next steps.

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

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

<Jean-Yves> Wilco: 3 new rules approved by AG: SVG element name, presentational children, header attribute refer to cell in same table.

<Jean-Yves> Wilco: We can completely move to the W3C site. All implementation data is there. Version history of the rules is present (+diff).

<Jean-Yves> Wilco: figuring how to reflect different states in the rule format (e.g. "during an animation, text doesn't need good contrast")

Face to face ACT-Rules meeting https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1847

JYM: Not much progress on this. We want to organise a F2F meeting, October or November, but we're not sure about the date yet.
... We plan to send out a survey early July. We'll about people's availability.
... This will likely be in Europe, we'll have to see where.

Wilco: Update from Daniel, he said the W3C survey system could be used

Should ARIA IDREFs existing be required? https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1849

JYM: The IDREF existing only applies when the attribute is required

Wilco: This is true for collapsed comboboxes and the aria-controls attribute.

Giacombo: Is there any difference between pointing to a hidden element, vs pointing to a non-existing element?

s/gaicombo/gaicomo

<Jean-Yves> https://w3c.github.io/aria-practices/#wai-aria-roles-states-and-properties-6

Wilco: This clearly says aria-controls is not required when the popup is not visible
... We could explicitly scope this out in the required props rule, do not require aria-controls when aria-expanded is false

JYM: So we'll need to add to the rule on valid values, and required properties

Should img without role be failed for Element marked as decorative? https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1853

JYM: I don't know how common this is, but I have not seen problems reported based on it.

Gaicomo: That's interesting also for label in name

JYM: If they are different it should trigger label in name
... If something doesn't load, the alt is visible.

Wilco: If it doesn't lead to objections, I'd prefer to make the change

JYM: I don't think it's necessary, it's more work, but I won't block the change.

Gaicomo: Maybe we can add some assumption? If the image is decorative it's a problem.

Wilco: I think it's likely not decorative.

Table header cell has assigned cells https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/pull/1548

JYM: This rule checks that if we have a table, every header cell has some data cell assigned to it.
... My main problem with this rule is it's trying to mix HTML table.
... On ARIA we don't have the same algorithm. Its my opinion we're making the rule too complicated by mixing the two types of tables.
... I think we should scope it only to HTML tables.

Wilco: I have no problem with that.

JYM: I think this is already addressed. This PR was merged last week

Consider rules for WCAG 2.2 https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1695

Wilco: Not too much to automate on WCAG 2.2. Target spacing and focus appearance.

JYM: It makes sense to have automated rules for tool vendors. But would it make sense for some more manual rules?

Wilco: I would suggest if we write new manual rules we focus on gaps in WCAG 2.0, rather than 2.2

Visible label whitespace https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/1615

Wilco: is there a way we can tell where spaces are important?

JYM: One way could be that between numbers spaces might not be important, but between text it is.
... At the same time, I don't know about numbers written as letters "1, 2, 3" vs "one, two, three"
... maybe we can say we don't care about spaces if everything is only numbers?

Wilco: What about punctuations, and maybe ignore spaces between numbers?

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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