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ACT Rules Community Group Teleconference

11 Jan 2024

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CarlosD, Jean-Yves, Wilco, dan_tripp
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Call for review https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/461

Jean-Yves: Nothing in 1-week call
... The CJK PR is on two-weeks call

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

Jean-Yves: Worked on #2038, PR opened today
... need reviews on #2076, #1919

CarlosD: No progress to report

dan_tripp: Waiting for Kathy's PR to be merged before continuing

Jean-Yves: PR merged, so you can continue

Wilco: Need work on migration to WCAG2.2
... And two PRs that I can merge

Jean-Yves: Perhaps we could purge the list of members of the group that have been inactive

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

Wilco: Published 5 new approved rules
... push back on "Heading describes content"
... AG was not happy with it applying to only the heading and the immediately following content
... so it's going back to TF
... Rules Format 1.1 is nearly done

<Wilco> https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/555/files/2979089429ac6748ed88759f18be7ce2b80f179f..fb1f042d51c67c72c557534536922729b294b71b

Wilco: still need some work on subjective applicability
... we are proposing to change the MUST requirement on objectivity of the applicability to a SHOULD requirement

<Wilco> https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/556/files

Jean-Yves: We will need to update the rules to describe their format version

Wilco: Accessibility support and the Assumptions are now subsections of the Background
... When 1.1 is published we will start updating the rules
... first PWD will be out soon and it will have an explicit request for review to the CG

Should rules have an assumption about aria-busy? https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/2140

Wilco: I'm not sure how aria-busy is used by AT

Jean-Yves: There is an implicit case that the page should be loaded before the audit

Wilco: There are things you want to test while the page is loading... it shouldn't flicker while it's loading
... aria-busy is only supported in JAWS
... (looking up what it does according to a11y support)
... JAWS seems to skip the content

Jean-Yves: We should include that in the background

CarlosD: All rules that use the accessibility tree

Jean-Yves: Can we include it in the common input aspect?
... Mention it in the accessibility tree descrition

Wilco: I think this more like the presentational role conflict and we do have notes about that

Jean-Yves: It would be good to have it automated... if there is an accessibility tree and includes a paragraph about it

Wilco: We could do that, putting something in the frontmatter

Confusion about how “assigned” headings work with ARIA https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues/2127

Jean-Yves: This is about table rules that do not work in ARIA

Wilco: The aria-owns thing seems obvious

Jean-Yves: Is it widely used?

Wilco: I hope not!

Jean-Yves: Is it picked correctly by screen readers?

Wilco: I don't think VO supports aria-owns
... Do we need to test this?
... There is no spec for this...

Jean-Yves: Given the complexity of the html assignment algorithm I don't want to move this to aria
... Maybe we should handle aria tables in a different rule

Wilco: I think that is the right way to do it
... and raise an issue with aria to define how it should work

Jean-Yves: So we should pick up on the work of Aron in #1971
... Anne raised this issue about implementations that use implicit roles when only explicit roles are applicable
... Anne raised the question that tools that do not respect the applicability should not be consistent
... I think our mappings are loose enough to support tools that do not implement the rule exactly

Wilco: I have been getting push back about this rule, with people questioning if failing this is a WCAG failure

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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