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Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference

16 Jan 2025

Attendees

Present
Wilco, suji, Helen, Sage, Kathy, thbrunet
Regrets
Chair
wilco
Scribe
Kathy

Contents


<Wilco> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/wiki/ACT_Task_Force_Meeting_Agenda

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F2F meeting February 6 & 7

<Wilco> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/wiki/2025-F2F-meeting-edinburgh

wilco: face to face meeting coming up

Kathy: should be able to attend part of it remotely

Wilco: if attending, please add your name
... topics for agenda?
... would like a group to work on a manual rule
... another topic to work on accessibility support
... was looking at platform tests with Giacamo. seems promising and maybe set up a GitHub repo for test files
... refresh attributes handled differently by browsers

Rules format editorials

<Wilco> https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/pull/582/files

Wilco: Kathy's PR redone by Daniel to fix blooper
... PR to address feedback from Sage and Kathy
... some typos found

RESOLUTION: Accept PR 582 as amended

Annual Rule Reviews

wilco: first rule reviewed accept as is
... HTML page title descriptive has open issue #2122
... Tom's Q7 comment - fail 3 arguable

Tom: Fail 3 is not obviously a failure
... agree it should be better but other examples are clearer fails

Wilco: want edge cases that are gray

Helen: best practice to describe purpose of page but doesn't specify it must be unique

Wilco: generic title is valid for pages with different types of content
... do we need examples for dynamic pages

Tom: improve example explanation

wilco: agree it should improve
... should the rule be removed?

Tom: needs work but can stay

<Wilco> https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/c4a8a4/

Kathy: suggest not taking it down until further analysis determines it needs to come down

wilco: next, meta refresh. I opened a PR to fix typos, very minor.
... next, element marked as decorative not exposed. I opened a PR
... PR 2224 adding reviewers
... open issues to deprecate being discussed in CG
... next, link non-empty accname good

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

  1. Accept PR 582 as amended
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