W3C

– DRAFT –
Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference

21 September 2023

Attendees

Present
dmontalvo, Suji, thbrunet, ToddL, trevor
Regrets
-
Chair
-
Scribe
kathy, ToddL

Meeting minutes

ACT Standup

kathy: Last week TPAC, good atteendance. Todd only one that was not in attendance.

kathy: to do secondary reqs.

kathy: another change discussed to do with background

Suji: Didn't get to much last week.

trevor: Didn't get to much last week.

Tom: not much last week

dmontalvo: merged a couple PR's and go over Kathy's items. Planning and presentation for CSUN.

Recharter of AGWG

I did not get to anything last week as well.

dmontalvo: AGWG to be rechartered.

dmontalvo: A reset on the way participants will need to rejoin groups. Need nomination from IC rep.

dmontalvo: IE applications will need to be revisited.

dmontalvo: I will be taking care of IE reissue invitations.

kathy: Does CG need to do anything?

dmontalvo: CGs do not need to do anything.

October 5th meeting cancelled

kathy: 5 Oct meeting is cancelled.

TPAC Update

kathy: ANyone who was there feel free to share

dmontalvo: A couple productive days at TPAC. Making progress in ACT rules 1.1

dmontalvo: discussed subjectivity of rules, 118n, will be setting up wiki.

dmontalvo: ariawg, discussed better communication on what is removed and updated

dmontalvo: deprecation of rules discussed e.g., 4.1.1 Parsing

kathy: both TF and community meeting super helpful.

Suji: first time attending TPAC. Really good two days of sessions.

trevor: Several big conversations that got resolved. e.g., Optional test cases.

trevor: Still a lot of work to do.

Subjective exceptions in the applicability

trevor: main talking point. how to define subjective definitions. came up with several different ways.

trevor: e.g., logical operators, scoring. Can be difficult to make formalized definitions.

trevor: talked to Wilco about scoring approach

trevor: The "getting warmer" method seemed to get the most traction

trevor: concensus was default was similar to getting warmer method. we could use the logical operator method.

trevor: Should definitions use concrete examples. Well-described examples.

trevor: Wilco suggested closed subjective definitions to set them apart from other subjective definitions

trevor: Helen brought up complexity concerns that are difficult to implement or overwhelming for people getting into accessibility testing

todd: had a testing discussion with developers. agree with not being too complex
… have heard wcag 2.x is too complex. try to keep complexity down would be great. include examples in definitions

trevor: ACT rules are more for people building test methodogies. not for new testers as much
… less ambiguity is better for harmonization

dmontalvo: Not the group for people getting started with accessibility

dmontalvo: let's make it useful for the prupose of the group. whenever we need to streamline, we can.

thbrunet: tools need to accept they don't have 100% matching with ACT.

thbrunet: depends on environment. people may not want to get involved with ACT

+1, agree.

kathy: Getting Warmer method is new to me.

kathy: what would help for me is when someone is looking at list of items, how many of those items would mean it's a heading for example

kathy: put some parameters around Getting Warmer method

trevor: leaning towards stripping out some stuff

kathy: having examples will help with understanding. concerns with looseness.

thbrunet: could mark them like "beta". once some rules are out could work on more

<trevor> act-rules/act-rules.github.io#2050

group discussion on navigation example and definitions

trevor: how to make definitions with examples with more than one distinct definition

Updating & renaming the background section

kathy: Topic came out of TPAC discussion last week

kathy: feedback was this was a bit too long

kathy: accessibility support and assumptions will go under background

kathy: background renamed to Understanding

kathy: Wilco will be out the next two weeks, Daniel out next week.

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 221 (Fri Jul 21 14:01:30 2023 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: kathy, todd, Tom

All speakers: dmontalvo, kathy, Suji, thbrunet, todd, Tom, trevor

Active on IRC: dmontalvo, kathy, Suji, thbrunet, ToddL, trevor