W3C

– DRAFT –
APA Weekly Teleconference

03 Jun 2026

Attendees

Present
Dr_Keith, janina, matatk, Neha, PaulG, tsaulter
Regrets
-
Chair
Matthew
Scribe
janina, matatk

Meeting minutes

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Agenda Review & Announcements

WAI Coordination

matatk: Notes restart of WAI Coordination calls

<matatk> https://www.w3.org/WAI/update/

matatk: Addressing issues that cut across WAI groups and common interests

matatk: Above link shows WAI activities

matatk: Notes a reprise of Authoring Tools Working Group is pending; proposed charter coming soon

matatk: Desire is to update with something normative, i.e. ATAG++

matatk: Will look at incorporating AI

matatk: Please inform APA Chairs if something that should be a topic for WAI coordination

matatk: Notes WHAT-WG has regular meetings. Should some of us attend?

janina: I'll be attending IETF late July

janina: More to follow on that

TPAC 2026

matatk: Deadline looming to name who we want cross-group mtg with at TPAC

matatk: Due 17 June

matatk: Working on enhancing my scheduling tool from last year to be even more functional for us

matatk: Suggest reminding TF of the requested 17 June deadline

matatk: We should discuss next week here

New charters review

Browser Tools and Testing

Roy_Ruoxi: They are planning to drop AT-Driver

Roy_Ruoxi: Have let ARIA know

Roy_Ruoxi: Notes effort (or accidental?) drop of A11y Driver

matatk: Definitely a concern; project seemed to be going well

Roy's comment: w3c/strategy#558 (comment)

matatk: Notes David Burns pointed to another approach option; so discussion progressing over this

matatk: Don't think it's dropped officially yet or because it's flawed. Rather the usual time/resources

Spec review requests

Digital Credentials

due 2026-07-14

w3c/a11y-tracking#325

matatk: Is an API to facilitate presentation and verification of credentials

matatk: Could be wide ranging application

matatk: A concert ticket ...

matatk: A governmentally issued ID

matatk: Would integrate and store in a digital wallet

matatk: So api provides for some mediation and interaction

matatk: May replace holding a passport up to the camera

matatk: Could be age verification

matatk: This not the selective disclosure of of verifiable credentials approach

matatk: Zero knowledge proof on the horizon -- would support selective

matatk: There are other systems

matatk: It's a complex area over all; this API is request and presentation of credentials

matatk: Work has been controversial; laws very; misuse a concern; but lots of legitimate use that could be empowering

matatk: W3C has chosen to be involved rather than not while work continued elsewhere

matatk: We need to focus on a11y; other groups will address other concerns

matatk: Some of what we might ask would be out of scope for our comment

matatk: We can still encourage use of more supportive approaches

matatk: the Accessibility Considerations section does include some normative provisions

matatk: We need to look for what might be missing

matatk: Status is beyond FPWD; is wanting CR

matatk: It's a formal review request

PaulG: Is the credential or the mechanism for accessing/mediating?

matatk: The latter -- the API

matatk: Certain ISO formats have been chosen by gov entities; so choices already made

paul: Is it challenge and wallet?

matatk: yes, both sides of the communication

matatk: My guess that this relies on browser UI; so browser for wallet management

PaulG: concerned how we manage for users who may have multiple wallets on multiple devices; how do you know what's what?

PaulG: potential for frustration is high

PaulG: You need confidence request is from a trusted source

PaulG: may have passwords in multiple managers; this can get complicated

PaulG: User needs to know who's asking; and we need confidence our end to end concerns are covered somewhere

janina: We need to know who's supporting what.

janina: It's often not clear who's asking for a password, when you have n windwos open.

janina: Password managers not always reliable; old credentials don't die easily

janina: who's asking is important; if there's any challenge-response going on it's vital we can trust it

PaulG: agrees; who's asking and do we trust their request? How to get more detail because we're concerned over spoofing

janina: Also user initiated expire and delete

matatk: boundaries are unclear and important they be clarified

matatk: I'll distill into our tracking thread from these notes as we figure out next steps

matatk: Would be good for us to file issues and do so early

janina: similar to the notification with just an OK option; but no good access to content or Esc to dismiss

PaulG: What about COGA docs?

matatk: yes

matatk: This will come back for us to continue

matatk: Thanks for a good conversation

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Maybe present: paul, Roy_Ruoxi

All speakers: janina, matatk, paul, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi

Active on IRC: Dr_Keith, janina, matatk, Neha, PaulG, tsaulter