Meeting minutes
Introduction & Administrivia
<matatk> janina: I'll be on the way to ICCHP in Brno on the 14th so am unlikely to make it.
AAC
Russell: Moving forward with Hannes who's on vacation for the moment
Russell: found a tool called nano emoji by Google for creating fonts, incl emoji
Russell: For creating emoji fonts from files and codepoints
Russell: supports compound emoji so creates nec ligature
Russell: exactly what we want
<matatk> googlefonts/
Russell: Just found it yesterday but very excited
Russell: Very interesting that string replacement glyph is added to a gsub table so OS knows to do lookup
Russell: there are associated tags, not sure what diff for us if any or which we should adopt
Russell: Eager to hear from Hannes on this tool!
matatk: Exciting!
Russell: Have a 500 symbol vocab
Russell: Tool should help us be able to switch among several symbol sets
<matatk> matatk: The extension and authoring tool can be updated mostly by removing code. We will get new exciting rendering issues to work on then.
<matatk> matatk: Re taking code away... cue the quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - '...perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away...'
matatk: So what else to do? Not much: finish fonts and plug into my tool
matatk: A bit concerned about sizing when sourced from various file images
matatk: Finding a level that works and is consistent maybe something we need to discuss
matatk: e.g. square font? though we may want that as our signature!
matatk: Actually a fingerprinting concern
matatk: We need at least to be aware that some people using this tech will be vulnerable
matatk: Not sure what we can do, but we need to consider
Russell: Asks what information is provided?
matatk: Via browser page will know if the fonts are being displayed
matatk: We're concerned about malicious sites
matatk: They could run a script to determine whether the ruby is being rendered
matatk: Phps we can at least obfiscate which AAC symbol set is being rendered
matatk: Phps per site activation behind a prompt?
matatk: some of the fingerprinting can become very precise -- I know exactly who you are
matatk: We should provide an easy opt-in to enable users to control
matatk: In any case we have access to expert guidance and we're confident the feature is worth doing with appropriate cautions and safeguards
matatk: Notes we should return to updating the Explainer also