W3C

– DRAFT –
WAI-Adapt Teleconference

11 Mar 2025

Attendees

Present
janina, Lionel_Wolberger, Russell
Regrets
-
Chair
Lionel_Wolberger
Scribe
Lionel_Wolberger, janina

Meeting minutes

Administratrivia

Lionel_Wolberger: Regrets from Matt, Abhinav, Annalu

Lionel_Wolberger: London meeting coming up, let's examine the agenda next week

janina: I am approved for travel and booked the hotel
… we will update the wiki as well.
… if we are planning to invite people we need to do that now

janina: We put in the request for the Well Known Destinations presentation

Zero Project Report

Lionel_Wolberger: Aim was to meet with key people in AAC

Lionel_Wolberger: David Baines and Jutta T

Lionel_Wolberger: Then also to socialize our approach

Lionel_Wolberger: Jutta needed to reschedule due to illness

Lionel_Wolberger: David made the time and is very excited by what we're doing

Lionel_Wolberger: Had similar experience in Arasac -- Arab community wanted to clone symbols

Lionel_Wolberger: Some cultural inappropriate symbols, i.e. boy+girl holding hands to mean friend, not appropriate in Arab culture

Lionel_Wolberger: Explained need to do font ...

Lionel_Wolberger: David offered a page on globalsymbols.com

Russell: Don't know another of a single location that touches on so many different AAC symbol sets

Lionel_Wolberger: David mentioned 'hive mind' approach at GS

Lionel_Wolberger: So, re funding the missing SVG piece for arasac, we'll request from GS hive mind

Lionel_Wolberger: requests need to be sent to arasaac@aragon.es

Lionel_Wolberger: Suggested we talk with 'coughdrop'

Lionel_Wolberger: mycoughdrop.com

Russell: Can provide many vendors like this as well

Lionel_Wolberger: Finally, David focussed on core vocabularies

Lionel_Wolberger: Very focussed on communication

Lionel_Wolberger: David said I'm not talking com, but conveyance

Lionel_Wolberger: Nuances of emoji do not cross cultural communities

Lionel_Wolberger: He also recommended we get back to EA; that we're ready

Lionel_Wolberger: Also talked with many others and got very positive responses

Lionel_Wolberger: Believe we need to get our act together! People are waiting

Next steps

janina: We need to know, what will the browsers do?

Lionel_Wolberger: Do we need browser involvement?

Russell: If we use Ruby, we do not need browser involvement

janina: Richard A in i18n has a concern about Ruby

Russell: Did he have any specific core vocab suggestions?

Lionel_Wolberger: That triggered his Arabic adaptation (See above)

Lionel_Wolberger: Did not have opinion on which to adapt

Russell: To implement a font, we likely need a core vocabulary

Lionel_Wolberger: Basic English?

Russell: Ogden's

Russell: Not a bad place to start; they are others
https://zbenglish.net/sites/basic/basiceng.html

janina: EA may be able to point us to a basic vobaulary

Lionel_Wolberger: If we define a project plan (a) adopt the core vocabulary (b) create the font, perhaps with ARASAAC SVG symbols

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