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ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group Weekly Teleconference

06 November 2024

Attendees

Present
Hadi, howard-e, IsaDC, james, jugglinmike, mfairchild, mk
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
jugglinmike

Meeting minutes

Review agenda and next meeting dates

https://github.com/w3c/aria-at/wiki/November-6%2C-2024-Agenda

mk: This agenda is largely a copy of last week

mk: I've specifically omitted the issue during the second half of last week's call

mk: That's really important because it's blocking everything related to menu at the moment, but I feel unprepared to move beyond where we ended up last week

mk: Is there anything else that should be on the agenda?

mk: Hearing none, we'll stick with it as-is

mk: Next Community Group Meeting: Thursday November 14

mk: I'm still planning on a meeting for the following week, on November 20

mk: The following week, however, the meeting falls on the day of Thanksgiving here in the US--Thursday, November 28. I have cancelled that meeting

mk: Next AT Driver Subgroup meeting: Monday December 9

Current status

mk: We haven't moved anything since last week; I included this item largely for visibility

mk: IsaDC, I sent a list of plans that I think are all pretty lightweight lifts in terms of getting into the test queue for next week. Is that something you could focus on?

IsaDC: Yes, in fact the next radio button is ready for review already (I created the pull request only recently). That should be quite straightforward

IsaDC: It's very similar to the radio button with aria-activedescendent

IsaDC: Both links--yes

IsaDC: I'm not going to make any promises on disclosure

IsaDC: Vertical temperature slider, though, that's a "yes"

mk: Got it

mk: So we can potentially next week add four to the queue and have people ready to test them

mk: Hadi, as one of our primary JAWS testers, is there's any chance that you could help out here between next Thursday and the end of the month?

Hadi: Sure. Simply assign me, and I will do it

mk: Great. We'll check in with you on those next week

Testing Disclosure Navigation Menu

mk: Right now, we have four conflicts in the JAWS results

mk: I haven't reviewed these conflicts, yet

IsaDC: We reviewed them last week. It's me having to change my results and changing the impact to moderate

mk: Ah, so we already aligned on them

IsaDC: That's right. It's just the VoiceOver conflicts

mk: I believe that's just about Dean having to re-do the work

mk: And NVDA is published

mk: So that one's awesome

mk: Since we know the path forward on the JAWS one, it seems like you will be able to publish JAWS, IsaDC, and then we'd just be waiting for Dean

IsaDC: That's right

mk: Unfortunately we don't have Dean here today. It might be good to nudge him, IsaDC. I just want to get this out of the test queue because we don't have any technical issues blocking us, here

Testing navigation menu button

mk: for this one, I did take a look at the conflicts that are there.

mk: I didn't look at all ten conflicts, but I'm pretty sure they're all related to the issue we were talking about last week with hints

mk: Again, I don't want to talk about that issue today. I'd prefer to prepare more and have a fuller discussion next wek

mk: I think I have three or four options; I'd like to write those up along with trade-offs and risks and share that with folks to help reach a conclusion

mk: That's apparently affecting only VoiceOver

mk: This is where we're currently waiting on Hadi. It looks like Hadi hasn't started it, yet

Hadi: I wasn't aware that I had been assigned to this

Hadi: I can work on that this week, probably by the end of this weekend

Hadi: Next week, I will be attending a conference, so I'll make sure I finish this work before I go there

Hadi: I will be attending the conference from Tuesday until Friday. I won't be attending next week's meeting

Testing Action menu button with element.focus

IsaDC: I haven't started, yet

mk: I don't think we have people assigned

isaDC: I think Joe offered to run some tests, possibly with NVDA

mk: It looks like we have some VoiceOver Bot problems

mk: The VoiceOver Bot had one test error, zero tests completed, zero tests queues, and ten tests cancelled

IsaDC: Ah, that's because I ran it when adding the test plan to the queue

IsaDC: Could you try to assign me and see if it runs?

mk: I'm surprised to find that the "manage" button isn't present...

mk: I'm definitely signed in

IsaDC: I can see the "manage" button with Safari

IsaDC: For me, it says one test error

IsaDC: And the test plan run has no AT responses

mk: Now, it says it's assigned to IsaDC

howard-e: I'm seeing that status--one test error

mk: Why wasn't there a "manage" button for me?

howard-e: Here, I'm seeing that it's now assigned to IsaDC

mk: Right, she just changed the assignment

howard-e: Could you use the "assign" menu to assign the VoiceOver bot?

howard-e: Whatever that previous run was, it definitely failed since it had 10 cancelled

IsaDC: I'm going to delete that run

howard-e: Could you try creating a new one?

IsaDC: Sure

mk: First-letter menu navigation does not work in that menu. If I type "v" to go to "VoiceOver Bot", it doesn't go there

mk: Maybe I should raise that as a bug for these menus...

mk: I thought there was supposed to be a button in the "status" column named "Manage Bot Run" which would have allowed you to re-run it

howard-e: That definitely should have been there. I'm still not sure why it didn't show for you

mk: Given that we only have Hadi here (we don't have Joe or Dean or Alyssa or anyone else), and given that we want Hadi to focus on the navigation menu button right now, I don't think we should assign any people to this plan today

IsaDC: Okay, the VoiceOver Bot seems to be working

IsaDC: Oh, no, the output is still blank

jugglinmike: It does take some time to collect AT responses

howard-e: I can confirm that the job is still running in the GitHub Action

mk: What I see in the test queue right now is that it is assigned to IsaDC right now and that there are 0 tests evaluated

mk: This seems like a bug; the test plan should still be assigned to IsaDC

mk: You normally can't re-assign it to a person until the test plan run is complete

IsaDC: It said "11 tests queued" and it allowed me to assign it to myself

howard-e: That shouldn't be possible

IsaDC: It's a bug. Before, I could see when the bot was still running, and it wouldn't let me assign or do anything. Now, it was showing as if it finished the run, and I could assign myself (even though it wasn't actually complete)

mk: There's something to look into there

howard-e: I will raise an issue for this

mk: I think we got through everything that's on the agenda for today

mk: What's going to happen to the particular run that's executing right now?

howard-e: I see that the results are being populated right now. It's moved on to test 3

mk: Hopefully, IsaDC, if you come back later, you will find output there. You can run it again and assign it to Joe

IsaDC: Understood

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