Meeting minutes
Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI.
jasonjgw: Josh was able to push corrections to repository
josh: Those will need to be merged to the main branch
josh: but double check
Bibliographic Citations
jasonjgw: we had a request for potential edge cases to check the implementation
jasonjgw: we want to show the different types of records we might want to cite.
scott: happy to chase down some examples
jasonjgw: we want to find examples that aren't the standard journal references
janina: do we have our ETA?
Scott: a couple of days for me
janina: it will take a few days to get some of these but if we have anything now it would be good to send them ASAP
janina: we can always say "more to come"
draft development and revision plans
jasonjgw: we want to get to first public working draft
jasonjgw: what are the priorities for revision to get us to 1st pwd status
Josh: 18 issues open 2 closed
scott: 18 new?
josh: 12 new
josh: some these have been discussed but not closed.
janina: good first step and that will notify people their issues have bene worked on.
janina: let's avoid being overcautious. A closed issue can be reopened if it needs to be
jasonjgw: Josh - are the issues relating to your mergers closed?
Josh: no, I'll walk through them now.
jasonjgw: "Closes #[issue number]" in a commit should auto-close that issue number.
Janina: to close the ethics issue we need to cross-reference the W3C ethical document
josh: the sustainability issue is out of scope for us so we'll need to defer to the ethics and similar documents
janina: it can be reopened if there is some demonstrable link to accessibility but otherwise this isn't within our remit
Josh: that's 8 closed
jasonjgw: we can focus on remaining issues next week.
Miscellaneous topics.
AI-Accessibility related APA reviews
<gb> #350
janina: the github issue above may impact on our work
jasonjgw: we can pick this up next time if deemed useful
AAC Users Use Screen Readers
Josh: Yes, they're useful for people with cognitive disabilities.
janina: if that's not flagged with COGA it'd be worth doing
Additional topics
jasonjgw: DAISY consortium is producing a user requirements document
jasonjgw: there's a draft in their github repository so it's worth commenting on that if you're interested
janina: multilinear and music appear to be the same problem just with different media
jasonjgw: there's a review of Meta smart glasses and whether they are compatible with hearing aids, cochlear implants and refreshable Braille and they don't appear to be.
jasonjgw: it's worth bearing in mind when we reopen the XAUR and RTC