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Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference

18 Jun 2026

Attendees

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giacomo-petri, Wilco, Helen, Godwin
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Contents


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standup

Helen: busy, created some reflow test that I want to put in ACT rules

Wilco: we should create it as a project
... bring it to the CG next week

Helen: and on the image and media alternatives, they haven't give me any rule to check
... sign language subgroup, I've been on a couple of subgroup meetings; I've been assigned tasks because some tests are too subjective. It's doable but I want to finish the reflow ones first

Wilco: we are in charge of helping, not writing rules for subgroup
... we wanna help to enable them in writing act rules

Helen: for the sign language subgroup, I want to show an example for those rules that are "more subjective"

Godwin: busy here, not really much updates
... I've been attending subgroup meetings, missed some, last one nobody shown up

Adam: inputs subgroup with Francis, I worked on my first ACT Rule, custom key documented

AGWG surveys

<Wilco> https://www.w3.org/wbs/35422/wcag3-provision-survey-03/

Wilco: new survey opened (link shared)
... new provisions that include ACT work, but not all of them (it seems like)
... for those who have time please review these
... survey due date is June 30th
... if you are not too busy, please review

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18RDQH1piGOCjae1RTymHaP-M_2RXHoXF0WDHqYvw14w/edit?tab=t.4bwog5i155ho#heading=h.2wk5m3dely66

giacomo-petri: I went through the survey, and there is a bit of confusion in terms of applicability/inapplicable examples (highlighted current scenario - last one)

Adam: is there any link we can use to help the subgroup understanding the difference between failing and inapplicable

Helen: did you guys check any existing rule, like "zoom" which is a composite rule
... for reflow, we have exception (e.g., map) that's inapplicable becuase it's an exception for the rule

Wilco: generally the way we are going, if it's an exception in the requirement, you would like it to be a pass
... the inapplicable is related to the rule
... e.g., hidden images are inapplicable
... another example, is an "X" for close; this is not intended to be text, so it's inapplicable

Adam: we do that beacuse we know the tester might be inclined to mark it as a failure?

Wilco: yes, there might be edge cases, but this is usally the distintion we draw

Adam: is it expected that every rule has inapplicable examples? is ok to omit them?

Wilco: I think it's probably ok for this stage of things

Adam: last question, https://docs.google.com/document/d/18RDQH1piGOCjae1RTymHaP-M_2RXHoXF0WDHqYvw14w/edit?tab=t.t6majvyytcnc#heading=h.h0qqy6fg8f1y this is going to the act I wrote a bunch of time ago: if you are an author and you offer custom keyboard for controls you have to document them
... I got this inapplicable example: A button reveals a tooltip of “Press Space to activate” on focus and hover. The documentation is not necessary since it is describing a standard platform keyboard command.
... is it ok?

Wilco: yes.

Adam: I think we've lost the importance of the applicability

ACT Template in the WCAG 3 guide

<Wilco> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_O5J7D4BWMZAB7NaD4iplDRuqOjCvCGAaHdAirLUhE/edit?tab=t.5ps3fi1qo2eh#heading=h.allk2i0wr14

Helen: we have the ACT guide, and the rule template is basic
... rule name, applicability, expectation examples

Helen screensharing

Helen: out template is more complex, applicability, expectations 1,2,3..., backgorund, assumptions, accessibility support, related rules, other resources. This is much more detailed compared with what we gave to AGWG

Wilco: the reason why we simplified this was to avoid scaring people
... maybe we can provide a basic and complete templates, so they can start with basic, and if they need more maybe they can check the complete one

Giacomo: might be helpful but at the same time could be confusing. ACT members should help in that the subgroups maybe; anyway giving the ability to review the full template might be helpful if people is not able to complete their rules due to some missing piece

Wilco: I can add a template for the complete scenarios

other topics

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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