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APA Weekly Teleconference

27 May 2026

Attendees

Present
chiace, Eric_hind, janina, JonCohn, marcelo, matatk, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi
Regrets
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Chair
Janina
Scribe
Eric_hind

Meeting minutes

<janina> Date 28 May 2026

Agenda Review & Announcements

TPAC 2026

Janina: No scholarship announcement at this point. Would be happy to see folks in Dublin - less than half a year in the future.

Spec review requests

Roy_Ruoxi: One new doc on TR

New on TR

SHACL 1.2 User Interfaces

<Roy_Ruoxi> - spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl12-ui/

<Roy_Ruoxi> - tracker: w3c/a11y-longitudinal-tracking#48

Roy_Ruoxi: Shacl12 UI, no mention of a11y in their document. Best next steps? (This is a low level document)

Janina: With UI, we should have a look at it.

matatk: Agreed, we should be involved. Was peripherally looked at in the past with other Shacl reviews - this one is marked as v1.2, not sure if this is new/refreshed.

matatk: We should take a look. Recommend next steps of contacting group about how best to review (github/email, etc)

Janina: Mostly sure that we haven't done any official Shacl UI reviews. This will be a new thing.

matatk: We will connect with the chairs of the group to see best next steps

Janina: We should review previous Shacl decisions too

Janina: Given that this related to form/content generation, we should be involved.

marcelo: Willing to volunteer or be in the loop on this.

matatk: We could do this dual track - ask what format of communication while also starting the reviewing.

matatk and marcelo to be assigned

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://www.w3.org/2026/05/20-apa-minutes.html#2e03

Topic+ Charter for browser tools

New Charters

Browser Testing and Tools Working Group Charter

<matatk> Last week's minutes (thanks Roy_Ruoxi): https://www.w3.org/2026/05/20-apa-minutes.html#2e03

matatk: There was a question with marcelo and paulG about impact of machine learning on protocols. Will the protocol itself need to be changed to support AI?

Janina: Reminder that this is a charter of the working group - should be a part of the deliverables.

marcelo: The discussion was around the webdriver and specific browser - question was around expanding this to QA tools?

matatk: Point of the work related to bidirectional is only in one tool, but others will be supporting webdriver bidirectional and the engines. So opening up to other tools is happening organically.

Janina: Do we want language change to their charter? matatk is OK with it as-is, but could do with more clarity on how this will expand to other platofrms.

matatk: We should likely sign off on it for now as-is.

Issue tracking

Spec review requests

EPUB 3.4 family of specs

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#323

matatk, as an intro avneeshSingh work with publishing group since 2019 - advisory board member as well

matatk notes that this is a minor revision, not major

avneeshSingh: main thing for reviews, changes for fix layout, no major a11y bug/issue updates

avneeshSingh: Working on Epub 3.5 charter, overlays update would be one major thing of note.

avneeshSingh: There is a subgroup of publishing related accessibility specific folks - there may be advocating for accessibility related items in parallel.

<matatk> Something that's coming up for a future version: https://w3c.github.io/epub-specs/wg-notes/fxl-a11y-tech/

matatk: Looking do this 3.4 review quickly - anyone with experience with EPub is welcome.

CSS Update (Paul)

<PaulG> w3c/csswg-drafts#9706

<matatk> Here is the APA tracking issue, for any 'APA internal' discussion: w3c/a11y-tracking#319

PaulG has created demos on indeterminate states related to browsers, AT, HTML/CSS to further conversations, this may come up in a future review.

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

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All speakers: avneeshSingh, Janina, marcelo, matatk, Roy_Ruoxi

Active on IRC: chiace, Eric_hind, janina, JonCohn, marcelo, matatk, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi