W3C

– DRAFT –
Silver Task Force & Community Group

02 December 2022

Attendees

Present
janina, jeanne, JenStrickland, kirkwood, Lauriat, ToddL
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
kirkwood

Meeting minutes

Preview of Tuesday's AG WG meeting (& AGWG Culture Check In survey)

<Lauriat> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2022OctDec/0118.html

<Lauriat> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/culture_check_in/

Shawn: culture checkin survey

<Lauriat> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2022OctDec/0114.html

Shawn: please fill out survey, can send directly to Charles if not comfortable with culture question

Shawn: pasted link if want to provide anonymously contact Charles
… test requirments subgroup anything else to note on agenda?

Presentation for (following) Tuesday

Jeanne: think covered everything

<Lauriat> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YFLroVspFQSEqUgAcI8qPS2CI6EboZcHA43FQNWpt-8/edit

Shawn: will continue work and Suzanne did audio for the decision tree, Tuesday the 13th

Shawn: any other decsion trees?

Shawn: in that doc there’s guidelines and outcomes copied in

Shawn reading it through

<jeanne> Audio Decision Tree Example

Chuck: question for Suzanne i think…
… i do not know second bullet, don’t know what it means?

Jeanne: something out of children’s group I think. we should as her

<Chuck> I'm taking us down a rabbit hole that is off topic. I apologize.

Janina: not catching, asking about arrows is that a thing?

Janina: AAC should probably be in there somewhere

Jeanne: let me add as a suggestion

Jeanne: Augmented Alternative Communications?

Janina: yes

Shawn: looking through decision tree, audience analysis, conformance goals and performance scope. lots of options. ranges of conformance from not much to really great.

Shawn: continues to read
… sections includes describing product (continues to read)

Shawn: essentially a decision tree for implementation
… target audinece general, vsual design, based on that can map out functionla needs and follow to methods

Charles: not a tradtional decision tree could map to one

<Zakim> Chuck, you wanted to say I think that this could be translated to a traditional decision tree.

<Chuck> +1 to jeanne's observations

<Zakim> jeanne, you wanted to split this from the decision tree that Makoto proposed

Jeanne: its interesting seems on a higher level than what we have been talking about, might be tricky to implement, this decision tree on conformance, not aadiio, think split it off, not sure how related outcome to user needs

Shawn: given outcome what decision tree go through to meet that outcome
… for exaple firs bullet under user needs, is there audio present, if no than done if yes what is tha audio
… walk through decisions tree how have you you met the outcome, suzanne how build to make outcome
… based on target audience and conformance here are methods to meet that

<Zakim> Chuck, you wanted to say that while it wasn't what I expected, it's still an interesting take that we may want to consider as a different exercise.

Shawn: think this would be a different type of proposal, good starting point

<Chuck> +1 to shawn

Janina: your survey of differnt types of audio, bring in pronunciation support for TTS. we don’t have markup for bleeps but limited, probably want to make sure they don’t get captioned. need an index for them

Shawn: i have develpers asking how to implement earcons, thats complicated

Shawn: someone drafting slides to summarize… what should we start out to summarize?

<jeanne> Alt text proposal

Janina: i think we need to review, proposal for alt text for example

Jeanne: have top part of example, Makoto had part and Suzanne has approach

Shawn: we set out to write user needs want to summarize to WG
… from there can build up and get into how to potentially test these things

Jeanne: looking at documents

Charles: could we go mack to Suzanne, its meaningful and fascinating, does she have enough time to shift left to perhaps make decionsion tree for that. do we have enough time?

Shawn: don’t think we have time

<Chuck> +1

Shawn: should work on focus of presention, maybe Suzanne could move this bit in parallel

<Chuck> +1 +1 = +1

Chuck: we can us Makoto’s as our primary, the earlier stuff in Suzanne that still aligns

Shawn: for our presentation start with goals at top of google doc

Shawn: foru gooalsk.. preserve knowledge, focus on users, clear language, define guidance that’s efficient
… how did we do on those goals?

<jeanne> Presentation for AGWG

Shawn: defining guidance clear we took baby steps became very complex
… in writing in terms of user needs for each is prohibitively complex

<Chuck> you answered my q

Shawn: we can highligh going through common and unique needs in groups and going down to outcomes and landscape of graphics and boil it down

Chuck: presentation specific on how to structure, present first results Makoto then part two analysis of process we used and challenges?

Shawn: seems readonable

Jeanne: first results then analysis of process?

Chuck: yeah

Shawn: two questions, given explorations done and thinking through enirety of WCAG today, how does that feel in coming up with these kin of outcomes for all the rest of guidance?

Shawn: for me i like it

Janina: i agree i like the user centric orientation and its results oriented

Shawn: focus on supporting technologies

Janina: side benefit puts more pressure on user agents to deliver, might be powerful

Shawn: exactly

Chuck: takes a step closer to user understanding structure of page earlier than assitive

Shawn: involves entire stack

<Chuck> agreed, still shifts closer to the user.

Shawn: can work through author or platform itself providing the information

Shawn: for example captions they are provided both live and prerecorded through no effort on the aurthors part essentially through assistive technology

<Chuck> +1 yes!

Shawn: risk of lexiblity those who want concrete thats where Suzanne’s deciions tree comes into play

Janina: Suzannes’ decison tree could be technical implemntation

Charles: not minor effort recommend many groups working on different parts?

Charles: shifting about process, not a minor amount of work. variety of small groups working on different parts asynchronously?

Shawn: probably

<Chuck> +1

Shawn: good way to bring in key stake holders early

Rachael: observing process, not sure how to recommend, outside of scope, but do agree in that recommendation

Jeanne: have we reached conclusions can reach outcomes?

<Chuck> It feels like we can.

Shawn: the outcome and effort to arrive at it in the exercise several feel its doable and worth effort
… need to bring to group should be a particualer proposal, what question do we want to bring to group, or do we wnat to?

Jeanne: the conclusion on a broad level, we don’t want to write outcomes as user needs we want both

Jeanne: user needs are more informative and educational and outcomes are more requirement oriented, i think?

Shawn: for outcome in Makoto document we have a more user-centric outcome more powerful than a technical outcome, more a usability requirement than an implementation requirement

Shawn: i think Sarah would be better at picking apart

<jeanne> Presentation Draft

Shawn: like ot get started with shape of presentation for presenting in a week and a half.

Jeanne: anyone who’d like to can fill in details or rearranging

Shawn: it would be good to speak to realization of shifting from set of technical quidance to a set of user experience guidance
… the conclusion slide is a good start for that

Jeanne: start out with goals, then approach common and unique user needs, alt text example, captions example, some of results
… shifting from technical guidance to user experience orinted process
… Chuck wanted to do analyis and had input

Jeanne: fix it Chuck ;
… end up user-centric result oriented

continue to go through presnetation changes

Shawn: can talk through very specific exmaples
… thinking about the Japan screen reader will change a lot of how approch missing ARIA support

Jeanne: I’m capturing it

Chuck: progress

Shawn: have together by next friday?

Shawn: with what to ask larger group

Jeanne: can people add in thoughts into slides

Jeanne: lets please take a look at it this week add thoughts

Jeanne: key pople aren’t here today I will email to add thoughts

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Active on IRC: Chuck, janina, jeanne, JenStrickland, kirkwood, Lauriat, Rachael, ToddL