W3C

– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

28 Jan 2026

Attendees

Present
Dr_Keith, Eric_hind, Fazio, Fredrik, janina, JenStrickland, JonCohn, marcelo, matatk, mike_beganyi, Neha, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi, tsaulter
Regrets
Alisa_Smith, Gottfried_Zimmerman
Chair
Matthew
Scribe
Neha, matatk

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review & Announcements

matatk: Registration for AC is on

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://www.w3.org/news-events/w3c-ac/ac-2026/

Meeting of AC board meeting 2026 in China, link is shared above

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://www.w3.org/news/2026/agenda-available-for-w3c-workshop-on-smart-voice-agents/

Roy: Workshop announcement, link shared

janina: It is virtual, can be of interest of lot of people

<Roy_Ruoxi> homepage

matatk: check for registration details

Fredrik: Zero project conference in Vienna https://zeroproject.org/conferences/zero-project-conference-2026

Spec review requests

<mpaiva> Present

CSS Anchor Positioning

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#289

<matatk> w3c/a11y-request#142

mpaive: has reviewed it, noted down understanding, added a usecase, details - anchoring a tooltip or popover to a control,

increasing zoom to 200–400%,

and triggering the anchored content near the viewport edge, where the visual relationship between the anchor and anchored element becomes difficult or impossible to perceive.

mpaive: you want me to review your guidelines only or something else?

matatk: let me see if they want to cover us somthing

matatk: Accessibility section should be improved and some references should be added

matatk: overall yes it helps for above questions

matatk: Paul had mentioned about pop over examples and Neha has added that

matatk: APA needs to say if spec improves the situation, but yes we have some concerns , as a group we can add accessibiliy section to this spec

matatk: we can start with google docs

matatk: We can mention and inform that we are working on it and will be ready in a couple of weeks

PaulG: Positioning can be controlled with Javascript but can be skipped, do we need last sentence where we mention do not add many things

PaulG, mpaiva - happy to help in editing

<matatk> PaulG: doing the work in JS - you have to manipulate the attributes already and may as well do the positioning there, and have a resize observer to address Marcelo's use case

<matatk> this means they can get through QA faster w/o doing the proper accessibility work

<matatk> ... like that first thing is a giant warning that says you can't rely on visual positioning to express the semantic info

<matatk> aria-details doesn't work yet - should remove

<matatk> if you're building it yourself and not using popover api, you need aria-expanded

<matatk> last sentence - about 'difficult to comprehend' - do we need that? why is this needed. Just make the semantic bindings

<matatk> point to existing docs like APG for the patterns (which will update at some point)

janina: I agree with Paul

<matatk> s/this means they this means they/... this means they/

<Fazio> +1

janina: Operative term is overuse - it should be illustrative what is mean by operative

DVB Implementation Guidelines

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#266

matatk: couple of things will pop up one janina and matatk go through it

matatk: Tiffiany has already added comments but still anyone want to have a look by next week

janina: noone has experty on captioning but they have done a good job in adding details

matatk: for this one we can start with another google docs and then we can share it with them, and start getting feedback to them

janina: I will be better prepared by next week, if anyone want to help in this

janina: It is a big read and not a simple document

janina: instead of going through whole document, go through TOC and pick a topic to go through

Dr_Keith: I am not getting rmeinders from bot, can someone send me reminder for this

Issue tracking

Scroll-triggered animations

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#272

matatk: google docs summarize all the discussion we had on all the threads

matatk: if someone wants to start working, follow the link for issue and google doc

Web platform gap: motion

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#290

matatk: we talked about this last week

matatk: I wanted to log an issue on TACS regarding this gap

matatk: I have added a long comment regarding motion

JenStrickland: Carousels are not applied to animations, but it should be enforced

matatk: I am adding videos and user may need to pause the motin, I have updated the comment

<JenStrickland> I'd like to see a suggestion that being able to stop animations at a user request.

matatk: User agents know the content is animated

<Zakim> janina, you wanted to ask about any TAG process guidance in documenting gaps

<JenStrickland> In CSS animations it is possible to set it to stop after a set number, or anything.

janina: I am proposing to write an issue about viewing and selecting content in lists - the back button doesn't work after you've selected an item

matatk: Please add it as an issue

janina: Years ago we have user agents, but now this is the path from where we can start again, so this is very important

<mike_beganyi> Nice work, Neha!

<JenStrickland> Yes, please, publish it!

<mike_beganyi> +1

<Neha> +1

<Eric_hind> +1

<tsaulter> +1

<marcelo> +1

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Maybe present: mpaive, Roy

All speakers: Dr_Keith, Fredrik, janina, JenStrickland, matatk, mpaive, PaulG, Roy

Active on IRC: Dr_Keith, Eric_hind, Fazio, Fredrik, janina, JenStrickland, JonCohn, marcelo, matatk, mike_beganyi, mpaiva, Neha, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi, tsaulter