W3C

– DRAFT –
ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group

22 January 2026

Attendees

Present
Joe_Humbert, present
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
Joe_Humbert

Meeting minutes

Meeting Schedule

<Matt_King> Resolved to try wednesdays at 9:00 AM Pacific starting Jan 28

Current Testing Status

<Matt_King> See agenda

CONFERENCES

Checkbox Plan

<mmoss> +present

Matt_King in December, the VoiceOver commands for J an Shift+J were not showing up

Matt_King Commands fixed with next deployment

Matt_King Another fixed implemented based on Joe_Humbert ticket. The fix is now in place

Matt_King after Joe_Humbert and Dean should be able to finish

Dean: Found issues running Checkbox tests with VoiceOver 26

Matt_King would be surprised if there are differences in iOS 26. Dean could run the plan with current version

Dean: having issues running checkbox tests in MacOS 26

Correction: on MacOS 15 with Safari 26

Joe_Humbert I tested on MacOS 15 and Safari 26.2 and it Ctrl+option+right worked

Matt_King suggested Dean check his settings

Dean: I will update and retry

Running quantity spin button plan

Matt_King JAWS and NVDA bots are not running

Joe_Humbert I think they have not been working for a while

Matt_King Bots are failing immediately

Matt_King we need more engineering help. Hopefully Axe-Con and CSUN will help

Matt_King VoiceOver bot is working

Dean: issues with VoiceOver are probably related to updates

Murray: my testing for VoiceOver is done

Murray: Lots of failures

Joe_Humbert: Murry are you using MacOS 26? I wonder if Dean on MacOS 15 will see the same failure

Matt_King Murray, did you have to edit the bot results?

Murray: yes lots of changes and inconsistencies

Matt_King FYI about this Dean. Could affect future bot runs

Elizabeth: I would like to help work on the bots

Murray: I'm also interested in the bot engineering

Matt_King We are and have updated the engineering documentation. Working on on-boarding documents

Joe_Humbert Do we need to do manual testing

Matt_KingI don't want to waste people's time. Hoping to here from Bocoup

Grid test plan questions

<Matt_King> Resolved to put an opinion into the test plan but hold it loosely. Navigating back with arrow into grid MUST convey grid boundary, cell content, cell headers and SHOULD convey ro/col position and name of grid.

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Maybe present: Correction, Dean, Elizabeth, Murray

All speakers: Correction, Dean, Elizabeth, Joe_Humbert, Murray

Active on IRC: Joe_Humbert, Matt_King, mmoss