W3C

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APA Weekly Teleconference

24 Jun 2026

Attendees

Present
chiace, janina, matatk, Neha, PaulG
Regrets
Gottfried_Zimmerman, Jennifer_Strickland, Jonathan_Cohn
Chair
Janina
Scribe
Neha

Meeting minutes

Agenda Review & Announcements

<matatk> Interesting bug report: anthropics/claude-code#56079

Issue is raised for inaccessbility of generated claude code

Neha: Neha started non profit organization for creating STEM accessible content for school kids

TPAC 2026

<matatk> https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/wiki/Meetings/TPAC_2026

All details on the wiki page

Discussion on proposed meetings

We will be meeting 13th July with Web AI

RQTF will be joining

Taxanomy of accessibility features which media platforms should have - will be good i we can work on that

Roy: we do not have confirmation from web AI group

Roy: Web n AI interest group do not have a good number of participation

Paul: LLM poisoning or AI poisoning - adding some content which is not making any sense and malicious. Both have impact on a11y. eg. adding wrong content in subtitle files

Paul: people do this to protect their IPs but that wil sabotage a11y

Paul: we should have some community group to dedicate time for this

<Roy_Ruoxi> https://github.com/w3c/webai/issues

Roy: WebAI group is also tracking this with above link

janina: ethical principle publication can be something related to this

Paul: I can raise an issue and help in planning this

matatk: Web machine learning group, webai, technical architecture group, ethical web principles, privacy principles

matatk: ethical web principles will be perfect place to start

New charters review

Web Machine Learning Group Charter - WebMCP

<Roy_Ruoxi> - Charter: w3c/strategy#560

<Roy_Ruoxi> - TAG issue: w3ctag/design-reviews#1238 (comment)

<Roy_Ruoxi> - a11y-tracker issue: webmachinelearning/webmcp#65

<Roy_Ruoxi> - a11y-tracker issue: webmachinelearning/webmcp#91

Roy: they are asking to do horizontal review in advance

They are tranforming from community to working group

Roy: Ask us to review their tech knowledge from TAG issue link

janina: Do we have to review before forming the group?

matatk: I think we have to check - a11y consideration for webMCP specs

janina: DO we object formation of webmcp working group formation?

matatk: accessibility tree and redundency discussion - people have objection on adding sematics to accessibility tree as machine may use this instead of ATs

matatk: I will see how we can articulate and put it in the tracker

<Zakim> janina, you wanted to suggest this means we'll need an AI AUR

janina: As per me, i suspect if we need this review before forming this group

PaulG: I agree we should review it

PaulG: capabilities should be checked whic hare offered by webmcp

matatk: I will try to setup something, where people can assign these issues to themselves and work on it

New on TR

<matatk> https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-vc-di-quantum-resistant-1.0-20260616/

<Roy_Ruoxi> w3c/a11y-longitudinal-tracking#49

matatk: this is low level, we can move on

Spec review requests

matatk: epub 3.4, we have to do quick turn around it

matatk: No objection on the proposed agenda

WAI-ARIA 1.3

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#327

<matatk> Significant changes: https://www.w3.org/TR/2026/WD-wai-aria-1.3-20260604/#sotd

matatk: what concern me about it with aria-head and aria-footer, are they going to be landmark roles or not

matatk: I could see they are not, so how will it be helpful for AT users

<PaulG> +1

<Neha> +1

<Roy_Ruoxi> +1

matatk: several question relatedd to this use case

matatk: all other changes are good

Issue tracking

HTML custom spelling dictionary

<matatk> w3c/a11y-tracking#328

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Maybe present: Paul, Roy

All speakers: janina, matatk, Neha, Paul, PaulG, Roy

Active on IRC: chiace, janina, matatk, Neha, PaulG, Roy_Ruoxi