W3C

– DRAFT –
RQTF meeting

12 March 2025

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, John_Paton, josh, scott
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
jasonjgw, janina

Meeting minutes

Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI.

jasonjgw: Summarizes status noting finalizations preparatory to fPWD

jasonjgw: We've added a Note for future plans for the doc

jasonjgw: The Note explains the document may be restructured

jasonjgw: Abstract was created and amended on list

jasonjgw: We do have a branch prep to restructuring after FPwD

jasonjgw: Asking whether any objection to APA CfC for FPWD?

josh: Asks whether we shouldn't wait to FPWD until restrued?

josh: Would we miss something? Publishing too early?

jasonjgw: Don't expect a straight forward discussion

Janina: notes that we think there's enough maturity to engage the wider community.

Janina also notes the planned presentation by Matthew at the upcoming April AC meeting.

Janina: the request appears to be for more specificity in the editor's note.

Janina: considers this editorial in nature.

Janina proposes that the CfC start today and run through 23:59 Boston time next Wednesday. This gives us time for editorial enhancements.

jasonjgw: Accuracy of AI systems raised by Matthew that would be an example of what we need to address

Janina notes that we need to address authoring tools' application of AI/ML, with examples.

Janina: AI can be helpful to the user who is being served; it can offer personalized support, including helping users in interacting with their systems.

Josh: notes quality issues and the difference between AI/ML systems as actually realized and their potential.

Janina: discussion of responsibility is missing.

need to see plausability and trustworthiness mentioned

janina: Can address ATAG issues more completely

jasonjgw: Modula known additions above, any objection to FPWD at this time?

[crickets]

RESOLUTION: RQTF requests APA conduct a Call for Consensus to publish a FPWD of the Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI Note track document based on its current Editor's Draft at https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/

RESOLUTION: RQTF requests APA conduct a Call for Consensus to publish a FPWD of the Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI Note track document based on its current Editor's Draft at https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/

Jason: Suggests that Josh's proposed structure would require readers to read most of the document, including the examples, to gain an understanding of the central issues. He suggests an overview of the issues taht follows the introductory section, followed by the examples and discussion in the balance of the document.

Josh is open to having an overview section, appreciates the formulation of issues as developed in recent Task Force conversations, and has added further thoughts into the proposal for a revised document structure.

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CfC is at https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-apa-admin/2025Mar/0000.html

Template for Messaging is at:

w3c/wai-reviews-and-announcements#4

<gb> Issue 4 AI Note from RQTF (by shawna-slh) [review]

Janina notes a template for announcements/messaging.

Janina: any accessibiity issues with it should be reported immediately.

jasonjgw: We're all on board for working on messaging

scott: I'll take the first stab

jasonjgw: Believe this is all we can do on this document as of now ...

jasonjgw: We'll come back to it next week

Miscellaneous topics.

Janina: notes the latest proposal for the official description of the Task Force (charter-related).

Link to proposed description:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rqtf/2025Mar/0005.html

the Research Questions (RQ) Task Force identifies accessibility barriers and knowledge gaps in emerging and future web technologies, publishes research findings to assist in ameliorating those gaps and barriers, and supports

APA horizontal review activities

[discussion on proposed text]

jasonjgw: Seems we're all in agreement on it

Janina: notes there are upcoming AC-related meetings on clarifying the W3C's mission.

Janina notes the meeting in April is the context of Matthew's proposed presentation.

Summary of resolutions

  1. RQTF requests APA conduct a Call for Consensus to publish a FPWD of the Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI Note track document based on its current Editor's Draft at https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/
  2. RQTF requests APA conduct a Call for Consensus to publish a FPWD of the Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI Note track document based on its current Editor's Draft at https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: Jason

All speakers: Janina, Jason, jasonjgw, josh, scott

Active on IRC: janina, jasonjgw, JPaton