W3C

– DRAFT –
A11y Edge Teleconference

13 feb 2023

Attendees

Present
derek, janina, Lionel_Wolberger
Regrets
-
Chair
Janina
Scribe
janina, Lionel_Wolberger

Meeting minutes

Minutes from last time, https://www.w3.org/2023/02/06-a11yedge-minutes.html

https://www.w3.org/2023/02/06-a11yedge-minutes.html

Derek and Bev introducing themselves to each other ...

Introductions

Progress updates

Welcome & Announcements (CEPC and IRC) to newcomers

See above -- we're now tracking from here, though!

Continuing progress on inventory of overlay facts, capabilities.html

We viewed the ability in iOS to label a button by the end user, at the edge

Derek: cant expect people on the edge to label things, that is against what we stand for
… but if it was a shared device, like a tablet, the ability to label on the advice would be very useful
… it is hard to tell people everything that inclusive design can bring, but if you use this strategy, you can achieve these things

janina: W3C can ask operating systems to do things.
… and WCAG has requirements regarding flashing. This should not be a guidance, it should be a requirement.
… this could be moved to the user-agent to prevent this blinking

Derek: Like Google Chrome enabled auto mute

derek: We have a list of capabilities that overlays can do
… what if we have a list of functionalities that the OS should never take away or block?

janina: Like some website disable the back button of the browser, so you cannot go back
… taking away 'alt-left'arrow' forces me to type out a URL

derek: At what level are we working? We seem to be zooming in and out, from technical details to high level 'in the clouds'

janina: We dont want advertising to be able to introduce a keyboard block.
… advertising is always an edge technology by definition, as the ad is served to the end-user's browser or app

Bev: I agree with the performance issues, and the general trend for more and more happening on the client side
… I am for end users having as much control as possible

janina: TO recap, if a user is worried about keyboard traps, or some kind of personal setting,
… set that concern in some technical way
… and tries to load a page with some kind of conformance level
… and an advertiser tries to push an advertisement that does not conform with the minimum conformance of the page
… the real time bid would be turned down

Bev: Exactly, if the end user can set their preferences in some way according to their needs or disability

derek: Do we want a role for 'ad's?

Lionel_Wolberger: will add advertising into capabilities

bev: wonders about warnings to users? should that be part of the path?

bev: sometimes we see those, but there's no reliability in the chain

Lionel_Wolberger: notes certificate errors on no https

Bev: The edge can provide warnings to users that there are flashing lights on the page

bev: thinking of warnings on flash

derek: text resizing, etc., picsels changing on screen

derek: could be just a few ms to evaluate

derek: notes google translate no longer in the header

Bev: It's not just epilepsy that is affected

derek: notes there will be populations that have adverse reactions to this

[group looks at branching to add content to our doc]

[discussion on how to do a good, fully cross-referenced pull request]

[discussion on what's appropriate under redundancy]

sometimes ok, sometimes not

derek: if it augments, it's probably ok

derek: There's times where redundancy is appropriate because it augments functionality rerather than only replicating

derek: as opposed to just replicate

derek: TTS generated might have pronunciation support that enhances
… readspeaker for example has a role with cognitive disabilities and neurodiversity who appreciate the redundancy

Bev: Not to limit the capacity for tuning.

bev: don't limit the ability to fine tune

Bev: we should do everything in our power to allow the user to tune to their needs

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 210 (Wed Jan 11 19:21:32 2023 UTC).

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All speakers: Bev, Derek, janina, Lionel_Wolberger

Active on IRC: derek, janina, Lionel_Wolberger