W3C

– DRAFT –
ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group

17 December 2025

Attendees

Present
Joe_Humbert, lola, Matt_King, mmoss
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
Joe_Humbert

Meeting minutes

Meeting schedule

<Joe_Humbert> Next meeting: January 8, 2026 at 12 pm Pacific

Matt_King Meetings will be by-weekly starting with January 8, 2026

Matt_King We will run a poll for a new time for further meetings in 2026

Elizabeth: the 12pm meeting time is very late in Africa (midnight local time) 10am Pacific is 10pm local in Africa

Current Test Plan Status

<lola> w3c/aria-at#1356

Matt_King things to pay attention to: checkbox reports fully done last week. Almost ready for candidate. Tans for automatic activation ready for candidate. PR for APG to update with ARIA-AT data

Matt_King 21 total examples in APG with support tables

Quantity spin button plan

Matt_King Matt is advancing to draft. It should be in the test queue very soon

Matt_King Jaws 2026 version bot is not ready yet. We can still test on 2025

Isabel: I'm running JAWS 2026

Matt_King not sure the current version Voice bot is still version 15, Isabel agreed

Matt_King We need volunteers for assignment

Matt_King Dean do you want to volunteer for this?

Dean: Sure

Matt_King Murray do you want to help as well

mmoss Sure

Matt_King We will work on VoiceOver first

Matt_King Joe_Humbert can you work on NVDA?

Joe_Humbert Yes I can do NVDA

Matt_King Elizabeth can you work on NVDA?

Elizabeth: Yes

Matt_King the bots are running

Joe_Humbert Murray is assign, but will unassign and assign the bot results to themself

Joe_Humbert The NVDA and JAWS bot tests got cancelled

Checkbox test plan

Matt_King November 13 version of test plan fixed test 1 and test 3. The test plan is in the queue

Matt_King Joe_Humbert and Dean need to rerun a few test, but another change might be necessary

Matt_King The is no J command in some of the tests

Isabel: There might not be a J command because it didn't work

Matt_King Do single key letter quick navigation keys work outside of website in operating system UI

Isabel: She believers she tested the J command and it didn't work

mmoss the J command working in MacOS system dialog

Matt_King We will addd a new command to test 1 through 4. Joe_Humbert and Dean do not test until the new changes are done

Joe_Humbert I cannot delete automated rerun bot ones

Joe_Humbert Modal Dialog is only at 2%, Navigation menu is at 18%. These might need to be rerun

Joe_Humbert partial matches did not have error messages so testers know they need to check at keyboard command test

Matt_King We are out of time to discuss the Grid

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/TOPIC: Qauntity spin button plan/TOPIC: Quantity spin button plan/

Found 'Next meeting:' not followed by a URL: 'January 8, 2026 at 12 pm Pacific'.

Maybe present: Dean, Elizabeth, Isabel

All speakers: Dean, Elizabeth, Isabel

Active on IRC: Joe_Humbert, lola, Matt_King, mmoss