W3C

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24 October 2024

Attendees

Present
AvneeshSingh, CharlesL1, gautierchomel, George, gpellegrino, jeffrey_griggs, Madeleine, rickj
Regrets
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Chair
AvneeshSingh
Scribe
gautierchomel, gpellegrino

Meeting minutes

Deadline for feedback for first public draft.

AvneeshSingh: proposed deadline november 20th

rickj: we have a number of small changes. I would love if possible to have a second public draft, asap, so we can review something more up to date.

CharlesL1: we could, yes there were a lot of impromvements.

AvneeshSingh: the question is does the editors have the bandwith?

gpellegrino: I'm travelling but i see no problem. We have a publishing script to ease the process

<gpellegrino> actual URL: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/2.0/principles/

<rickj> +1 to end of Nov deadline

George: before thanksgiving break would be good. Too much time tends to push to backlist of todos. We want to be on the frontlist.

<rickj> modifying my +1 to agree with George on Tuesday Nov. 26

Harmonizing strings in principles, ONIX techniques and EPUB metadata techniques.

AvneeshSingh: let's publish an incremented draft and let until november 26th for feedbacks.

<AvneeshSingh> Principles: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/draft/principles/?updated

<AvneeshSingh> ONIX metadata techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/draft/techniques/onix-metadata/index.html

<AvneeshSingh> EPUB metadata techniques: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/draft/techniques/epub-metadata/index.html

George: short summary. We want to harmonize the strings in principles and techniques. We decided to have statements without period at the end. All exemples are identified by a data ID so we can have more than one per document. each data ID is a Key in the JSON with Compact and Descriptive variants.

<gpellegrino> https://github.com/w3c/publ-a11y/blob/main/UX-Guide-Metadata/draft/localizations/crosscheck%20strings%20epub-onix-canonical_json.xlsx

the xlsx file is here to check that everything is aligned

AvneeshSingh: do we want to push the JSON in the next draft ?

rickj: I don't need a JSON file until it's a final one.

George: one big issue is about legal consideration. We're misisng more comments.

rickj: we assume that anything we get here will be for our internal use

gautierchomel: I think we had feedback in GitHub, saying this information should not be displayed, publishers will not use the metadata if something is displayed
… I think we had an agreement on a string proposed by Chris Saynor

ISSUE: w3c/publ-a11y#350

gautierchomel: to me the general statement is a good compromise
… and provides a good level of security

w3c/publ-a11y#355

gpellegrino: proposed wording was This title benefit from an exemption or exception to legal provision of accessible publication.

rickj: US ADA Title 2 causes questions about those exemptions being too EAA oriented. We need a more neutral statement.

gautierchomel: I agree with Rick, that's why we need a string that is really neutral
… do we want multiple statements, one for each legislation?
… or one for all?

Chris_ONIX: I would argue for a very general statement, not market dedicated.

Chris_ONIX: I'll make wording proposals.

rickj: My understanding is that Title 2 has no exemption. It's WCAG AA or not.

CharlesL1: there are exceptions in title 2 like archival purpose. But we don't have it in metadata. But exceptions can exist in other markets later.

George: we need to be global in our guidance. are we thinking tthat the techniques would identify a string to trigger a suggested display, or it is a statement that a publisher could make? Is it binary or per metadata?

Chris_ONIX: three onix codes are very precise, thta's not what we want to show. It's for the use of regulatory. I would think that any of those three codes triggers one same sentence.

rickj: the purpose of those legal metadata is for enforcement. Displaying it will probably confuse the UX.

gpellegrino: it may be beneficial for users to know that before they trigger a legal action for a non accessible publication.

AvneeshSingh: concrete exemple, MTM sweden, regulator authority receive complains from consumers.

gautierchomel: as a customer i can complain even in case of exemption.

George: agree, and also agree we need a general statement.

<rickj> my suggestion: w3c/publ-a11y#350 (comment)

CharlesL1: we have a placeholder in the techniques so we can easily trigger one common string or one for each.

George: so we want this in our next release.

Explain the metadata workflow in 2.2 · Issue #397

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#397

<AvneeshSingh> Fixed at: https://w3c.github.io/publ-a11y/UX-Guide-Metadata/draft/principles/?updated#processing-guide

mgarrish: we clarified the diagram and enriched it with PDF and MARC references to make it clear it applies to any file and metadata format. This is a visualisation of how the reference and techniques work together to provide a common user experience described by the Principles. An overview of this document set. We are happy to continue to refine if someone has suggestions.

<rickj> updating the image now!

Chris_ONIX: minor thing, it should be ONIX record instead of Code LIst. Apart from that, it's good.

Issue #437: Can we add a note to mention ONIX technique is applicable to UNIMARC

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#437

gautierchomel: Christofer Carr requested for a delay with this issue

ccarr: we presented ONIX mapping to IFLA commitee, editors of UNIMARC had questions, so we want to clarify with them. We get back to you as soon as.

AvneeshSingh: 14th is daisy board, we have to push our next meeting to 21th.

AvneeshSingh: it fits the feedback deadline.

AvneeshSingh: editors will work in the meanwhile.

Summary of issues

  1. w3c/publ-a11y#350
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 238 (Fri Oct 18 20:51:13 2024 UTC).

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All speakers: AvneeshSingh, ccarr, CharlesL1, Chris_ONIX, gautierchomel, George, gpellegrino, mgarrish, rickj

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