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– DRAFT –
Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Teleconference

24 August 2022

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, Joshue, Joshue108, Scott, SteveNoble
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
jasonjgw, SteveNoble

Meeting minutes

Accessibility of collaboration tools.

jasonjgw: Integrated some text about the use of messaging systems within these tools

Scott: Vote for merge and improve

jasonjgw: +1

jasonjgw: Would be good for all of us to look at this language and add comments and opinions

janina: Brought COGA up to speed on this work

janina: May want to expand the outreach to EO

scott: +1

Scott: getting as much input as possible will be very valuable

Joshue108: +1

Joshue108: Also, there are issues around accessibility testing tools which themselves are not accessible

Scott: +1

Scott: This probably doesn't really belong in the current document, but would be great as another document

<Joshue108> +1 to Scott that the CAUR may not be a good place for this a11y testing idea

jasonjgw: These tools seem all to be covered by WCAG\

Joshue108: This needs to be a front and center issue

Joshue108: One thing the "AUR" documents do which is very valuable is to pin down user requirements that have often been overlooked

<Joshue108> +1 to Scott

Scott: Agree...there is a lot of complexity to this issue

janina: The fact that people who are most needing accessibility are the ones who cannot use these tools is a devastating issue

janina: Question: do these tools count as "user agents" or "authoring tools"??

scott: Good question!

<Joshue108> We need to take the a11y testing tools out of their liminal position, in terms of where the responsibilities lie, and get that discussion going

jasonjgw: These tools may not fall squarely into one specific existing guidelines

janina: Some new aspects may be covered in WCAG 3

jasonjgw: Suggest we circle back to this issue at a later date

All: +1 all around

Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements.

jasonjgw: Should be ready to go

Joshue108: Seems fine - think we are good to go

jasonjgw: We had a resolution last week, so I think we are ready

janina: Will reach out to Roy

Joint working group meetings at TPAC 2022.

<janina> https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Meetings/TPAC_2022#Scheduled_Meetings

janina: Meeting planning still in the works

janina: The wiki will be the place to track these meetings

janina: RQTF TPAC meeting will be Tuesday 9:00 AM Eastern

janina: Propose we spend some time next week going over what we need to discuss in out TPAC meeting

jasonjgw: Will put on agenda

janina: Will find the link about the middleware accessibility issue

janina: Monday morning joint meeting with AGWG and COGA

janina: at 8:30 AM Pacific time

janina: TPAC Tuesday morning meeting about Reporting API (not sure exact time)

janina: RTC meeting; overlaps another meeting

janina: We may need to split coverage over the two meetings

janina: Thursday morning with EPUB

janina: ARIA has a number of issues to discuss

janina: Internationalization - we hope to see better <lang> support

janina: meeting about coordinating adding issues and comments on specs

janina: Looking at making SAUR into a normative document

janina: We'll have to separate out the elements which are mainstream without an accessibility connection

jasonjgw: Other comments on TPAC meetings?

scott: All sounds good

Accessibility at the Edge Community Group

<janina> https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2022/SessionIdeas#Accessibility_at_the_Edge

janina: Breakout session on Wednesday

janina: looking at some controversial things like overlays

jasonjgw: Perhaps things like automated speech-to-text for captions?

janina: Perhaps guidance on when that is acceptable and when not (live vs. when a recorded video gets loaded to a website)

jasonjgw: Language models on text processing is really expanding automated technigues

Miscellaneous topics.

jasonjgw: that's it

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