W3C

– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

15 Jan 2025

Attendees

Present
Dr_Keith, Eric_hind, Fazio, Fredrik, gautierchomel, janina, matatk, NehaJ, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi
Regrets
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Chair
Janina
Scribe
NehaJ

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review & Announcements

janina: apa repository is updated with minutes from the music tech

janina: Call for consensus is still open

janina: deadline - 23:59 (Midnight) Boston Time, Wednesday 15 January.

Update on horizontal review process

matatk: we are embracing github processes for reviews, sign posting in the email about agendas or issues

matatk: If anyone facing any issue in calendar please inform us

matatk: idea is that people should get time to look at the list issues before our meeting. This can be done from calendar

janina: calendar is very good application which integrate all meetings at one place

matatk: we were using wiki for reviews for which we are moving to github

matatk: Roy has moved this process to Github which can be very helpful for lot of people

New Charters Review

Timed Text Working Group Charter

<Roy_Ruoxi> - issue: w3c/strategy#487

<Roy_Ruoxi> - charter: https://w3c.github.io/charter-timed-text/

Roy_Ruoxi: new requests are in

Roy_Ruoxi: to me it is looking good

janina: trying to recall the issue

janina: I will ask more about this directly

We are okay with timed text charter

Web Machine Learning Working Group Charter

<Roy_Ruoxi> - issue: w3c/strategy#488

<Roy_Ruoxi> - charter: https://w3c.github.io/machine-learning-charter/charter.html

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://www.w3.org/TR/webmachinelearning-ethics/

Roy_Ruoxi I think for us it is good

janina what is the deliverable ?

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

matatk w3c team has worked on ethical document to use Ml for web, concern which we had - ML can decide for people with disability without their inputs. But I am assured that we are good to consider this and sign it as they have implemented it very well

matatk: just wanted to give background

Roy_Ruoxi: Can we share this document with RQTF to sync ?

<matatk> +1 to Roy_Ruoxi - re asking them to link to RQTF's AI accessibility doc (from the ethical principles for web machine learning). When it gets published. We could tell them about it before then though.

janina: this document is in early draft whereas RQTF will be publishing

janina: Human readable summary can be added ?

Dr_Keith: What is the need or significance of it?

janina Human readable summary for API features

Dr_Keith: how this summary for API will help?

matatk: janina is asking for explainer and I can find it

<matatk> https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webnn/blob/main/explainer.md

Web Payment Security Interest Group Charter

<Roy_Ruoxi> - issue: w3c/strategy#488

<Roy_Ruoxi> - charter: https://www.w3.org/securepay/charter-2025.html

matatk: Roy_Ruoxi do you want me to comment?

Roy_Ruoxi: yes

Roy_Ruoxi: looking good to me

janina no objections from me as well

Spec review requests

matatk: we have three spec reviews

Input events

<matatk> w3c/a11y-request#95

<matatk> Due: 2024-12-19

matatk first one is input event, Dr_Keith and I are working

matatk: auto replaced text by OS conveying this information to AT users. Tested this with different ATs and results vary

matatk there is no standard way of doing this

matatk: we can check this if there is nay update and I will get back on this

matatk I will try to confirm it later in this week

WebRTC API

<matatk> w3c/a11y-request#98

<matatk> Due: 2025-01-31

matatk janina: future development plans

matatk we are reviewing spec document. It refers to specific section. Can we assign this to someone?

janina You can assign this to me

matatk: Assigning to Jason as well

matatk: assigning it to me as well

WebCodecs

<matatk> w3c/a11y-request#97

<matatk> Due: 2025-02-28

matatk: we can start drafting comments for this, does anyone want to have a look?

New on TR

String Searching

<Roy_Ruoxi> - tracker: w3c/apa-review#8

<Roy_Ruoxi> - spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/string-search/

<matatk> Tracker: w3c/apa-review#8

Roy_Ruoxi: this is not urgent but anyone interested

PaulG: I will interested

<PaulG> https://developer.chrome.com/articles/hidden-until-found/

matatk: I am not sure about the scope of it, I was thinking about the correct name, highlighting

janina: this is more to regular expression

PaulG: expand searched content- nice feature but still can be dark corner of hacked strings

Comment review requests

<matatk> Pinging w3c/a11y-review#216 - please join us there if you have input

matatk: if anyone has any thought please put in the tracking document

matatk any other business ?

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 242 (Fri Dec 20 18:32:17 2024 UTC).

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All speakers: Dr_Keith, janina, matatk, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi

Active on IRC: Dr_Keith, Eric_hind, Fazio, Fredrik, gautierchomel, janina, matatk, NehaJ, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi