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ACT Rules Community Group Teleconference

26 Oct 2023

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anne_thyme, Wilco, Helen, dan-tripp, CarlosD, giacomo-petri_
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Call for review https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/461

carlos: giacomo pls take it out then put it back

(2007)

(rather: 2107)

wilco: you (giacomo) and I should get on a separate call for it

Assigned issues https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen

wilco: no updates from me

helen: nothing major

dan: I emailed kathy no response yet

wilco: ping kathy again, today

giacomo: stuck on CJK one.

<Wilco> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/pull/2121/

giacomo: do we need a native speaker? (re: PR 2121)

wilco: I'd be happy for this to get merged.
... can start a separate issue / note. but it's a great improvement as-is.

carlos: problem is: no examples in korean, right?

giacomo: right

carlos: it would be better if we had those korean examples, but still a large improvement without them.
... do we have any space on the rules where we can write a note that we're looking for help for eg. korean examples?

wilco: I don't think that we should put that on the rules.
... we need to figure out why these tests are failing too
... giacomo?
... failing test w/ one of the spelling checkers.

giacomo: it seems correct. unicode. 4e00.

wilco: looks like a bug in the spell checker.
... already in the spelling ignore file.
... strange.

dan: I'll do it. (typescript debugging ) email me wilco.

Update from the ACT Task Force https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/522/files

wilco: replace background w/ understanding section.
... == rename.
... adding "implementation" section. getting close to first public working draft.

carlos: what's the motivation re: background / understanding?

wilco: better understood term. more clear what's in it.
... people have wondered why something is in the rule and it's already explained in background section. maybe they'll read it if it's named "understanding".
... and some a11y support notes don't seem appropriate in "background".
... this came out of TPAC.

carlos: any concerns about being confused w/ "understanding" in WCAG?

wilco: that wasn't raised, but by all means raise it.

<Wilco> https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/550/files

wilco: 3 more rules ready to go to working groups
... 6 more to go. 3 to ARIA, 3 to WCAG. hopefully approved in next month or so.
... starting to look at audio and video rules for approval. have implementations w/ trusted tester having reviewed them.

Title descriptive expectation is vague https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/2122

<CarlosD> https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/c4a8a4/

wilco: problem is: it's too open-ended. overall content: what is that?
... does it contain hidden content? content that's revealed on hover or expand?
... open up tabs?
... lots of websites use external forms. iframe hosts 3rd party form. only thing in parent is nav and footer.
... if you navigate inside of iframe, does page title need to change?

giacomo: if you have heading managed by author, iframe w/ form, purpose is combination of both.
... title should reflect the form. even if content is inside iframe.

anne: we're not saying that the navigation is not the purpose of the page. repeating content should not be part of the purpose.
... we're after the content of the main section.

carlos: iframe is covered if we replace 'document' with 'web page'

wilco: that would help but doesn't do it all. still open-ended.

helen: not the iframe but single-page applications (SPAs). the user experiences the whole page, not the iframe etc.

wilco: that's a real challenge w/ this rule.

anne: should note some of these challenges on the issue

wilco: I just did.

carlos: I think we all agree that re: anne's comment, we don't want to consider repeating content for the title.
... eg. navigation
... that will bring this rule under what trevor is doing.

wilco: trevor has been working on vagueness. subjectivity.

anne: format for titles. ok to have underscores? made for human consumption.

helen: recommendation for limiting number of characters used in page title.

carlos: I don't think we should include that. hardly normative.
... maybe in background/understanding. not in expectation.
... re: trevor: more than work on vagueness - trevor's work on states. here we want to address the issues of navigation. probably related to different states of the web page. eg. if it's an SPA. if we move to a different state of the page in an SPA, we want the title to be changed. related to work on states.

wilco: required to change page title if you change the purpose of the page, even if you don't change the URL?

carlos: yes, that's what I'm arguing for.

wilco: I've never tested for that. have others?

carlos: I haven't. but probably will, w/ SPAs becoming more common.

wilco: if you're switching between tabs, you might want to change title.

giacomo: updating title does not tell the AT. I tested this recently.

wilco: if you've got an iframe that makes the main body of page, and you go from form to the "success" page, does the page need to update its title?

carlos: none of us would be against change title in that situation. so the spirit of the SC is this.
... eg. moving from form to post-form "success" page.

helen: eg. first part of title (front-loaded) as per W3C's recommendation.

wilco: changing from document to web page is a good idea. doesn't solve everything.
... would like to get WGs perspective on this.

giacomo: definition of 'purpose of the page' is subjective.
... change of context / content. imagine product listing page. apply filter. content is changing.
... title might become more or less precise.
... w/ changing filters. eg. pants vs. pants of a certain colour.
... agree that changing 'document' to 'page' is an improvement.

wilco: ok to be subjective. my problem is that it's vague.
... eg. clarify visible content vs. content in a11y tree.

carlos: we need to at least agree on what is the content.

wilco: agree.

helen: uniqueness is a concern.

carlos: what needs to be unique? title or content?

helen: title. don't want title used 5 times for 5 different "areas" (pages?)

carlos: probably would be another rule. called "page title is unique".

wilco: I disagree. pages can have same title.
... curious whether people feel like if the purpose of the page changes, does the title need to be updated, regardless of whether navigation happened?

carlos: agree

giacomo: agree

wilco: ok that's not clear now.

me: agree

anne: just listening.

helen: agree.

wilco: then we should have it in the rule.
... we can propose this.

carlos: that addresses one issue. not the original issue that wilco raised.

wilco: feeling more and more confident. leaving comments on issue during this meeting.

anne: I'd like to see repeating content mentioned also.

wilco: I'm less sure about that
... certainly it's not the only thing. common to mention name of website in title, and that's useful, and that's repeated content.

anne: but repeated menus, footers aren't relevant to title. and chat widget.

wilco: fair enough.

giacomo: related articles are in main content but not part of the purpose. so how do we handle that?

helen: title format: page purpose | category | company
... W3C recommendation / tutorials.
... not excluding. just making sure that repeated items aren't the starting point.

carlos: I agree w/ giacomo that it's going to be complex. what parts of page's content should be left out of the title?
... not sure it's going to bring a lot of value. not worth going through all that complexity. 3 items added by wilco during this call bring a lot of value already.
... final thoughts?

wilco: good old fashioned conformance requirements discussion. love it. great to have anne on the call.

helen: yay. enjoyed it.

anne: good to be back. amazing having these discussions. don't know if I'll be back or just visiting.

giacomo: thank you as always. very intersting discussions. wilco: will send availability.

dan: it's hard to scribe and talk at the same time.

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