W3C

– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

18 October 2023

Attendees

Present
Fazio, Fredrik, janina, Lionel_Wolberger, mike_beganyi, niklasegger, PaulG
Regrets
Gottfried
Chair
Janina
Scribe
Lionel_Wolberger, PaulG

Meeting minutes

<janina> /join #rqtf

Agenda Review & Announcements

janina: Mathew is working on getting back into the organization
… the time will be different in Europe when they change clocks starting the week of the 29th

TPAC 2023 Followup - https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Meetings/TPAC_2023

janina: there's been a fair bit of followup with media interest group. The EU standards are moving forwards but failed to cover some areas. We expect a report from them we can review about accessibility gotchas
… RQTF agreed to put issues in the CAPTCHA document to help move it forward
… when we're done with the authoring side, we'll open it up for public comments

New Charters Review https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Horizontal+review+requested%22

Accessibility EOWG re-charter

<Roy> - charter: https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2023/eowg-charter-2023.html

<Roy> - issue: w3c/strategy#428

<gb> Issue 428 [wg/eowg] Accessibility EOWG re-charter (by shawna-slh) [Horizontal review requested] [Internationalization review completed] [Privacy review completed] [charter]

Roy: no new charters. A remaining one for EOWG

Fredrik: I'm in the process of review and will report back later today

A11y Review Comment Tracker https://w3c.github.io/horizontal-issue-tracker/?repo=w3c/a11y-review

<Roy> - issue: w3ctag/design-reviews#897

<gb> Issue 897 Tag review request for the "Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2" (by cconcolato) [Topic: media] [Venue: Timed Text (TT) WG] [a11y-tracker]

Roy: I think we already reviewed this document

<Roy> Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2

janina: I'm comfortable with just signing off on this

Explicit Review Requests https://github.com/w3c/a11y-request/issues

new on TR http://www.w3.org/TR/tr-status-drafts.html

CSS Update (Paul) https://github.com/w3c/css-a11y/issues

No updates

Actions Checkin (Specs) https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/track/actions/open

Task Force & Deliverables Updates

janina: on Dec 5 I'm presenting in NYC
… ADAPT will have various updates I can talk about. If we have updates from Pronunciation we might find interested parties there.
… they all know WCAG and they're trying to get their company's digital assets to conform
… research questions is moving some documents.

<Roy> https://twitter.com/equalsShaun/status/1706961274947432655

janina: there is some discussion that will happen around Maturity

Fazio: we have people looking into the usability

Other Business DT

(check meeting minutes from Monday Pronunciation regarding issues with pause/break)

<janina> Minutes for

Paul: We are working on supporting semantic markup of timing, or pauses, as they are often significant for comedic effect

<janina> Minutes here: https://www.w3.org/2023/10/09-pronunciation-minutes.html

Paul: full pauses, empty pauses, in general silence can be highly significant, for emphasis or allowing processing
… another example is the case of a "hide and seek" countdown from ten to one, where the last three numbers are counted off at a much faster rate
… a timing that is interpreted as unfair

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All speakers: Fazio, Fredrik, janina, Paul, Roy

Active on IRC: Fazio, Fredrik, janina, Lionel_Wolberger, mike_beganyi, niklasegger, PaulG, Roy