W3C

– DRAFT –
RQTF meeting

19 March 2025

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, Joshue, Roy_Ruoxi, scott_h
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
jasonjgw, Josh, scott_h

Meeting minutes

Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI.

<Joshue108> JW: There is a CFC still open till tomorrow

<Joshue108> JS: I'm expecting we will publish

<Joshue108> JS: We welcome comments

<Joshue108> JW: There have been editorial comments - expecting a Pull request

<Joshue108> JW: Any updates?

<Joshue108> JS: From whom?

<Joshue108> JW: W3C staff

<Joshue108> JS: Roy will be using the editors draft

<Joshue108> JS: I want to make sure we don't have typos etc

<Joshue108> RR: There have been suggestions around ethical principles and harms.

<Joshue108> RR: In the GH repository.

<Joshue108> JOC: We should talk about the comments from Patrick and Hidde etc

<Joshue108> JS: A spell check needs to be run

<Joshue108> JW: Not sure about the source of the PR

<Joshue108> JS: Not worried about that

<Joshue108> JW: Not aware of the comments what are they?

<Joshue108> w3c/ai-accessibility#13

<gb> Issue 13 AI and Machine Learning - note fails to discuss ethical aspects of using AI (by hidde)

<Joshue108> w3c/ai-accessibility#12

<gb> Issue 12 AI and Machine Learning - Note title is slightly misleading/incorrect (by patrickhlauke)

issues: need to check for typos

issues: first issue is that title is misleading/incorrect

issues argues that ML and generative AI is high level and no specific accessibiity

janina: editorial suggesiton, change from 'of' to 'in'

josh: do think we have more and will change

josh: happy to comment

josh responded to issue

Github issue 2:

concern over note not discussing ethical aspects of using AI

including sustanability regarding envrionmental concerns,

copyright violations

and liklihood of bias

suggeiston to add an ethical considerations information

janina: some out of scope but ae focusing on people with disaibities

janian and scott suggest similar response to previous issue regarding liklihood of increasing scope

josh: W3C has a report regaidng AI and ethics, can be referenced

josh posted response

roy: also some discussion on overlays

<janina> https://A11yEdge.github.io/capabilities/

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessibility/FPWD-ai-accessbility/index.html#accessibility-overlays

<Joshue108> scribe+ JW: I dont see an issue at this point

<Joshue108> RR: No issue but giving you a heads up - if they do arise we should prepare

<Joshue108> JW: Announcement text?

jason: announcement text, W3C will be writing it need to be aware of specifc questions for reviewers

editors note and scope section woudl be one

introduciton section and explanations of background woudl be another,

third is accessibility considerations

janina: ask specifically what should this document cover / expand our scope?

plan to workthorugh focus reas next week

jason: mailing list good as wel

jason: so let's look at the three areas and focus on questions within them

1. scope to the scope identified. what else woudl you like to add for us

in intro seciton, ask about definitions

2. introducion specific secton

3. from seciotn 3 use cases: provide us use cases, provide yoru concerns

<Joshue108> JOC: Lets do this on list!

Miscellaneous topics.

<janina> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/a6b80080-4af5-43f4-bc55-823cc6fdf8b7/

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).

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Succeeded: s/accessibility considraitons/accessibility considerations

Maybe present: issues, jason, josh, roy

All speakers: issues, janina, jason, josh, roy

Active on IRC: janina, jasonjgw, Joshue108, Roy_Ruoxi, scott_h