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09 October 2025

Attendees

Present
AvneeshSingh, ChrisOliverOttawa, George, gpellegrino, MiiaK, Simon_M
Regrets
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Chair
AvneeshSingh
Scribe
George, gpellegrino

Meeting minutes

<AvneeshSingh> agemda+ Any other business.

How to handle display of the certifier report link: Issue #742

<CharlesL1> preset+

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#742

Gregorio: Recaped the information in the issue.The problem is that different systems have different ways to show the link.

The suggestion from matt is to use[string with link]

Gregorio: We may be overengineering this.

George: we may use something similar to markdown

Gregorio: We already have this information. The question is how to identify the string versus the URL?

Charles: We are overthink this.

<gpellegrino> +1

We should just have the URL as something the user can bring up.

Avneesh: We should have more than certifer report.

Miik: Agrees with Charles.

Avneesh: Decision: our recommendation is to apply the link to the whole sentence

the proposal is to make the whole string as a link

"For more information refer to the certifier's report" as a link

Consider Question and Answer as a role: Issue #740

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#740

Role for Question and answers.

George: we have a role for q-and-a
… we don't have an individual question role
… and an individual answer role
… and people are looking for it

Avneesh: Matt said it was proposed in the past and rejected. Should we try again?

<LC> What would having a role for this do for people?

George:

George: Answer is needed for workbooks.

George: it's needed for workbooks, without that it's difficult to make workbooks

George: APA people will say use a form with a lable.

<LC> What does having a role help with, though?

Avneesh: We need to work on use cases before we propose it.

<Simon_M> I assume the idea is to help AT users work through exercises?

Charles: JATS has semantics in this space. That is in JATS 1.4.

Vince: QTI, mentioned in the comments, has more sophisticated approach.

Gregorio: ED publishers have identified several roles that are missing. This was put in the PMWG issue.

Having an exercise role would be very useful.

<LC> Where are the links that were mentioned?

Charles: We have doc-example. What would be the use case?

Charles: A student would want to get to the exercise and the read the question and then move to the answer.

Gregorio: a stronger need.is that exercises are embedded in the text. We have no way of capturing the semantics of this type of content.

Laura: Thinking of workbooks. would each of the thousands of items need a unique label?

Laura Would a student then just get question, question, question, which is maaningless.

Charles: It would be up to the AT to present the information.

Laura: It could impact authoring practices.

Avneesh: We need use cases and then figure out the path forward.

Avneesh: We should put the use case in issue and can collect them there..

Avneesh: We can have many use cases.

Charles: Should we reach out to Mark Hakkinen and/or One Ed Tech. They will have use cases?

Avneesh: We should send this to Mark.

Page source related issues:

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#743

<AvneeshSingh> w3c/publ-a11y#726

Avneesh: Page source issues. Should we just close this?

Charles: both can be closed and Charles will merge the PR.

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