W3C

– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

29 Oct 2025

Attendees

Present
Eric_hind, Fazio, Glenda, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi, stevef, tsaulter
Regrets
Fredrik_Fischer, Gottfried_Zimmerman
Chair
Matthew_Atkinson
Scribe
janina, matatk

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review & Announcements

Publishing Maintenance WG call tomorrow

<matatk> calendar: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/d4de58aa-59e8-4071-83d9-d7ff2c795858/20251030T090000/

<matatk> requirements document: https://github.com/w3c/epub-specs/wiki/Standardizing-Extended-Descriptions:-User-Stories,-Testing-Results,-and-Current-Limitations/

Details in the invite ... Matt reviews them ...

<JenStrickland> Hurray for longdesc!

janina: I think the challenge before was the requirement to go back to exactly where you were when you followed the link to the description.

janina: That would be a good feature for the platform.

PaulG: That's not in ePub, or the browser, or both?

janina: both

PaulG: It's like 2 lines of JS in any browser - store and re-set the scroll position

PaulG: It's not native, of course, but relevant. I use it n long-form content where people are expected to follow links.

Discussion of historical browser concerns with longdesc mechanism

matatk: Challenges involving cursor/virtual cursor/focus? Flaky?

Paul suggests a simple json can support return to specific location with an Alt+Left-Arrow

PaulG: that's something we may need - possible enhancement to ARIA? At element or page level.
… 'take me back to where I was' feature

Any further thoughts/questions?

JenStrickland: Concern around relying on JS due to low connectivity scenarios.

matatk: Notes TAG's gaps repo: https://github.com/w3ctag/gaps/issues

TPAC 2025

Notes early schedules are now available

Matt notes we have open APA time scheduled

Spec review requests

Neha assigned ....

DAPT

w3c/a11y-request#124

Web Sustainability Guidelines

w3c/a11y-request#133

Notes group is meeting with AGWG at TPAC

Would also be of interest to APA -- Suggests participation

Glenda offers to work with Jen ...

<JenStrickland> Note: JenStrickland is assigned to 133 as the person who opened the issue, so I'm rep'ing the Sustainable Web Interest Group on that one.

Matt reviews APA's new process ... Will help with organizing the review/response

CSS Color Adjust

w3c/a11y-request#130

CSS Color Adjust

No concerns found yet

PaulG: Could cite WCAG 2.2

janina: That' a global problem we need to resolve

matatk: I think this may've been solved in another recent review; will try to dig it out.

Paul: concern to support user themes but also brand colors

<Glenda> I use WCAG 2.x (to reference things that are the same across WCAG at the 2 level)

matt: think wcag/latest in spec ref

. maybe called web ref

DVB request

w3c/a11y-request#132

qck Roy_Ruoxi

Roy: There's formal liaiason with W3C

<Glenda> From the document, “The DVB Project is an industry-led consortium of broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers,

<Glenda> regulators and others from around the world committed to designing open, interoperable technical specifications for the

<Glenda> global delivery of digital media and broadcast services. DVB specifications cover all aspects of digital television from

<Glenda> transmission through interfacing, conditional access and interactivity for digital video, audio and data. The consortium

<Glenda> came together in 1993.”

. talked to PLH and W3C strategy team, believes would be good to review, and Kevin reviewing for AGWG

. concern about overlap with W3C standard

janina: What is the status of this doc? like FPWD, or already done and implemented, and we can't make changes?

Glenda: Seems relevant to me in terms of where and how we "watch" video content; Just TV, phones, etc

. notes captions, sign-language, descriptions, etc

matatk: notes not web based; though a web rendering agent may be used in the closed system

<Glenda> I can watch DirectTV from my web browser..and I do it. i’m not using an app when I do this.

Roy_Ruoxi: MEIG also wants to review

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://dvb.org/news/draft-update-to-dvb-accessibility-implementation-guidelines-feedback-invited/

janina: Suggests we should all coordinate about who reviews what

matatk: We have AGWG, MEIG, us ...

Issue tracking

A way to make autoplay respect prefers-reduced-motion

w3c/a11y-tracking#255

autoplay=unless-preferes-reduced-motion type of thing being proposed

matatk: Noting lots of support from a11y folks

matatk: also suggestion to generalize

whatwg/html#11605 (comment)

<JenStrickland> +1

<PaulG> +1

<Glenda> +1

<Eric_hind> +1

matatk: Does everyone agree with respect prefers less motion?

<janina> +1

the votes pertain to Matt's q

<matatk> +1

[css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit

w3c/a11y-tracking#262

PaulG: Willco, need to grok

matatk: Also I

. we could ask for example to clarify

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Maybe present: matt, Paul, Roy

All speakers: Glenda, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, matt, Paul, PaulG, Roy, Roy_Ruoxi

Active on IRC: Eric_hind, Fazio, Glenda, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi, stevef, tsaulter