W3C

– DRAFT –
WAI-Adapt Teleconference

19 Aug 2025

Attendees

Present
Abhinav, Annalu, janina, Lionel_Wolberger, matatk, Russell
Regrets
-
Chair
Lionel_Wolberger
Scribe
janina, Lionel_Wolberger, matatk

Meeting minutes

Announcing special APA WG call tomorrow on Accessibility Compatibility Data

<matatk> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/95b9836e-a993-413a-b073-a0913edfa4f8/20250820T100000/

<matatk> https://lolaslab.co/blog/2025/accessibility-compat-data/

Lionel_Wolberger: I agree with Matt, anyone interested in baseline should attend

Lionel_Wolberger: another related link, Adrian's blog post https://adrianroselli.com/2023/12/baseline-does-not-really-cover-baseline-support.html

Symbols

<matatk> Explainer updates: w3c/adapt#323

<gb> Pull Request 323 Symbols explainer post-workshop (by matatk)

matatk: Agreed (in https://www.w3.org/2025/08/05-adapt-minutes.html) to combine into this explainer both the registry and the method

Lionel_Wolberger: This is a critical change for our 'shop front'
… can we also do our home page?

janina: No, as I need to first edit the APA home page, then do the Adapt Task Force
… let's focus on being ready for TPAC

<Russell> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19AfygtoQ11uRFu1kBZWuwobKVa8N2GuZzvzDhOVjIa4/edit?gid=0#gid=0

<matatk> ^ workshop spreadsheet

<matatk> Also, symbols-related issues: https://github.com/w3c/adapt/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3ASymbols

<matatk> Tool links from Russell: https://icomoon.io/ ; https://icomoon.app/

<matatk> ... and https://glyphsapp.com/

<matatk> ... also https://fontforge.org/ - but it doesn't support color-based SVG fonts.

<matatk> Russell: FontForge can't do what we want. Glyphs mostly can - though it's commercial software. Icomoon is expected to be completely supporting color SVG glyphs, but it doesn't yet.

matatk: Glyphs can maybe do what we need, but needs a license

Lionel_Wolberger: Is the mini2 license enough? Here is the compare page, https://glyphsapp.com/buy

Russell: I will do a review of existing software and find a viable candidate

Annalu: I will have use cases this week as well.

Destinations

janina: Update from Lisa. The answer, is help only.

matatk: Help and contact?

matatk: Question, would linksets support not repeating the content on every page?

Lionel_Wolberger: We discussed using <link rel="linkset"> in the <head> to point to a centralized JSON linkset.
… This allows us to declare all Well Known Destinations from a single location.
… The linkset can include rel values like adapt-symbols, adapt-preferences, etc.
… Phil Archer recommended linksets, and they align well with our technical goals.
… To bridge the gap until user agents support linksets, we can use a simple JavaScript polyfill.
… The polyfill could fetch the linkset, parses it, and exposes destinations for use by scripts or UAs.
… This avoids repeating <link> tags on every page and supports modular deployment.
… we note that the IETF WKU (well known URLs) cannot support this use case

matatk: This approach is simple to implement

Talking about proposed destinations - e.g. this one that isn't: w3c/adapt#311

<gb> Issue 311 related

Lionel_Wolberger: Decided, we will label 'accepted destination' for destinations that we accept

I made a label for this: https://github.com/w3c/adapt/labels

Abhinav: I would like to talk about how this concept can be used in Agentic contexts
… GenAI agents could use it to navigate to the login page

Lionel_Wolberger: Let's discuss next time

janina: Agentic is an AI type class

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