W3C

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ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group Weekly Teleconference

14 August 2024

Attendees

Present
Boaz_Sender, Dean_Hamack, howard-e, Isaac_Durazo, isaacdurazo, IsaDC, James_Scholes, Joe_Humbert, jugglinmike, Lola_Odelola, Matt_King
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
jugglinmike

Meeting minutes

Review agenda and next meeting dates

Matt_King: Requests for changes to agenda?

Matt_King: Given that Boaz and Isaac are present, we'll move the "Home page proposal" topic up.

Matt_King: Even though we keep "kicking the can" on the verdict API

Matt_King: Next community group meeting: Thursday August 22

Matt_King: Next AT Driver Subgroup meeting: Monday September 9

Current status

Matt_King: I won't spend much time on this today; please refer to the agenda for details

https://github.com/w3c/aria-at/wiki/August-14%2C-2024-Agenda

Testing of disclosure navigation menu

Dean_Hamack: There are no conflicts in this case

Dean_Hamack: The issue here is that the button was dimmed for the tester, so they could not run the test

Matt_King: That button disablement is by design

IsaDC: This is a well-known VoiceOver issue

IsaDC: What happened here is that you have to reload the page to get the "run setup script" button enabled. We don't manually move cursors around

Matt_King: Dean_Hamack, when you performed the test, after you pressed the "run setup script button", the focus should have been placed automatically by the script on the "navigate backward from here"

Dean_Hamack: I just re-ran, and that did indeed occur

Dean_Hamack: Now, I'm getting the same result that IsaDC reported

Matt_King: there's something bizarre about VoiceOver and Safari that we've discovered when you programmatically set focus

James_Scholes: We also don't have a "tear down" system in place. That's why the button is disabled and you have to reload the page

Matt_King: That helps promote consistency

Dean_Hamack: Well, after learning all this, I'm willing to defer to IsaDC's results

Dean_Hamack: I also had a question about "list boundary conveyed"

Matt_King: We only check "unexpected behavior" when it's a behavior that is not described by any of the assertions

Matt_King: We should make boundary assertions optional from some of these commands

Testing action menu button with activeDescendant

Joe_Humbert: This isn't pressing; we can discuss it asynchronously

Home page proposal

isaacdurazo: I posted mock-ups and a description to an issue

<isaacdurazo> w3c/aria-at-app#1192

isaacdurazo: This is a more polished version of the landing page. It has branding with a logo mark

isaacdurazo: The structure is pretty much the same

isaacdurazo: At the top, right after the main navigation, we have a "hero" section with the same H1

isaacdurazo: Then we have an introductory text with a few calls-to-action: learn more and get involved

isaacdurazo: Instead of the video we have on the landing page today, there is a partial screenshot of the app--the test plan status summary

isaacdurazo: This is a placeholder, but the idea is to have a screen shot of the app

isaacdurazo: After the "hero" section, we have a box that includes a note about how this project is managed

isaacdurazo: The "How we are improving interoperability" section still has four columns

isaacdurazo: I've added some placeholder text to describe that section

isaacdurazo: I've simplified the icons quite a bit. The idea is the same for each of them--I'm not trying to change the message they are trying to convey

isaacdurazo: For the "getting involved" section, I've built a two-column layout

isaacdurazo: The left-hand side is exactly the same copy as what we already have

isaacdurazo: For the right-hand side, I'm proposing we add another screen shot of the app

Matt_King: Where and how is the W3C logo featured?

Matt_King: The video has been extremely useful for me to bring new people into the project; I liked the fact that it was easy to find. Where is it now?

isaacdurazo: I haven't included it in this proposal, but I could see it in the "hero" section where I've included a screenshot of the application

isaacdurazo: But it could also go in some sort of "about" page

Matt_King: I wouldn't mind having a separate "about" page in the future, but I wouldn't want to take the video away in the mean time

isaacdurazo: I haven't included the W3C logo, I suppose because we don't currently use it. But I think that's an oversight and that it would be good to add it

Matt_King: Agreed

Matt_King: jongunderson suggested that the "skip to" button should be visible at all times--not just when visitors "tab in" to the page

isaacdurazo: I do remember that, yes

Matt_King: I think this page might be a good place to experiment with an idea like that

Lola_Odelola: I think the W3C has a style guide for things like this

Matt_King: Potentially. This could get complicated if we try to integrate it too heavily into the W3C website

Boaz_Sender: I can work with isaacdurazo to learn about the opportunities here

Lola_Odelola: here's a link to the style guide: https://w3c.github.io/design/styleguide/

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 229 (Thu Jul 25 08:38:54 2024 UTC).

Diagnostics

All speakers: Boaz_Sender, Dean_Hamack, isaacdurazo, IsaDC, James_Scholes, Joe_Humbert, Lola_Odelola, Matt_King

Active on IRC: howard-e, isaacdurazo, Joe_Humbert, jugglinmike