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– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

16 Jul 2025

Attendees

Present
Demelza, Dr_Keith, Fazio, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, mike_beganyi, Neha, niklasegger, PaulG
Regrets
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Chair
Janina
Scribe
niklasegger

Meeting minutes

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Agenda Review & Announcements

janina: Standard agenda, some additional items

Charter review

<matatk> AC reps' survey on the charter - please vote if you can! https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/apawg-recharter-2025/

<matatk> Proposed charter (full): https://www.w3.org/2025/06/apa-wg-charter.html

janina: Voting expires in about a week, 24th, middle of the night, Boston time

<matatk> Proposed charter (diff): https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F07%2Fapa-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2025%2F06%2Fapa-wg-charter.html

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janina: Right now, we don't have enough positive feedback, need still more to feel confident. I will go through our member list

Upcoming presentation on Accessibility Compatibility Data

matatk: This is about the Base Line Initiative. So about the "safe" features, that you as a web content developer can rely on, that the browser supports these. The problem is: It doesn't consider how well AT supported theses features are.

matatk: This has been a known issue and they want to fix it. At the moment, work is being done, by Lola Odelola. She will join in August this call and give us a presentation. We want to make sure, we get as many people as possible to this call.

janina: As this is a really important topic, we will probably record the presentation but not the discussion following it so we are free to share our ideas and comments

New on TR

Roy_Ruoxi: Nothing new

Spec review requests

matatk: No spec review at the moment

Comment review requests

matatk: We have a few, some old, some new, so I grouped them in the agenda. We will do them in order here:

<PaulG> this loads a blank page for me (?)

Proposal: New attribute alt-origin to indicate provenance of alt text (machine vs. human authored)

<matatk> source: whatwg/html#11448

<matatk> tracking: w3c/a11y-review#243

matatk: Did someone look through this, any thoughts?

Dr_Keith: Why would we want to include whether alt text is machine generated of human generated versus just wondering if it's correct?

<JenStrickland> Some of us got in queue to respond to the question.

matatk: Good question. Looking though the GitHub Issue a few people have the same question.

<matatk> Credible Web CG: https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/

mike_beganyi: Yeah, I agree with the comments by Steve and and Leonie, who had good points.

JenStrickland: Same, the idea is nice but I think it's off track.

<Zakim> matatk, you wanted to plus-one Jennifer

PaulG: Another point: A visual indicator would also be necessary and not only a disclaimer for robots and AT users

<Fazio> It's akin to automated testing vs manual

matatk: The Credible group is doing important work in this context, see the link above if you are interested.

<Fazio> I think its useful

matatk: I wonder if we could come to consensus on this and write an APA comment, not just from individual members

<Fazio> all companies want scale. This allows scale

<Neha> +1 Fazio

Add showValidationMessage() method for validation without focus management

<matatk> source: whatwg/html#11416

<matatk> tracking: w3c/a11y-review#239

matatk: The current reportValidity function auto refocuses the invalid element. So trapping focus, bad UX, accessibility problems

<JenStrickland> I also agree with you and Paul. It's a valuable fix.

matatk: Paul and I both think this proposal is a good idea. Someone from WHATWG added a "maybe" comment. Could help with a11y but also backfire in some cases

<PaulG> bit.ly/a11yform

<PaulG> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1g6mFUI7TOzBquvQiAPBaUlycvbFcKod9ZI7-wO-XGTk/mobilepresent?slide=id.p

matatk: I can draft something in our tracking thread and later post the comment, when there is no disagreement

PaulG: Pauls presentation is really useful and will us it in the comment
… sorry comment from Matthew

[css-env][css-fonts] New `<meta text-scale>` tag to make UA initial font size respond to OS text scale setting

<matatk> source: w3c/csswg-drafts#12380

<matatk> tracking: w3c/a11y-review#241

matatk: My initial thought is fantastic

PaulG: I agree, that's why I added it

matatk: Any objections if we say APA likes this

matatk: (No objections) Awesome will do it

[css-anchor-position-1] Improve accessibility guidance

<matatk> source: w3c/csswg-drafts#10311

<matatk> tracking: w3c/a11y-review#230

matatk: We talked about this before. They asked for a11y guidance, because they wanted better examples as to how to use it and maybe not to use it

matatk: Paul and Neha added ideas and examples to our tracking issue. We still need a tooltip and a disclosure example that uses anchor positioning and a bit of ARIA

matatk: Once we've got the missing examples, I'm happy to write some text and maybe Paul can check it

Neha: I will write the missing examples

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All speakers: Dr_Keith, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, mike_beganyi, Neha, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi

Active on IRC: Demelza, Dr_Keith, Fazio, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, mike_beganyi, Neha, niklasegger, PaulG