# Planet MathML

The Planet MathML aggregates posts from various blogs that concern MathML. Although it is hosted by W3C, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the position of W3C.

## Syncing Braille Cell buttons with OfficeMath

Source: Murray Sargent: Math in Office • MurrayS3 • May 29, 2019 • Permalink

A typical refreshable braille display has a row of braille cells with a button above each cell as illustrated in the figure of a HIMS Braille Edge 40. The purpose of a button is to move the insertion point (IP) to the character or abbreviation represented by cell below the button.

This post discusses how pressing a cell button associated with a math braille cell can move the text selection to the closest matching character position (cp) in the corresponding math zone. The algorithm accounts for the many-to-many relationship between braille cells and OfficeMath character positions (cp’s). A single math symbol may be represented by multiple braille cells (‘=’ is represented by the four braille cells “⠀⠨⠅⠀”) and characters appear in math zones that aren’t shown on a braille display (there’s a start delimiter for 𝑎² that has no counterpart in the corresponding braille “⠁⠘⠆”. This is discussed further in Math Braille UI and below. And there are other cp differences such as hidden text as discussed in the post Using MathML-Based Speech to Edit Math in Different Math Models. In math braille, abbreviations are not used, a simplification that allows Nemeth math braille to be embedded in the braille for any language.

## Synchronization algorithm

The algorithm given here to synchronize the math-zone insertion point with a braille-cell button is analogous to the algorithm for finding the cp from a mouse-button hit on a line of text. For the latter, you measure the text until its width equals or passes the hit position. For the braille-cell button press, you

• Get the braille for a whole math zone or some valid selection therein. Note that if you select the start delimiter of a math object, such as a fraction, the selection is automatically extended to include the entire fraction.
• Press a braille cell button and get its offset into the math braille string. I’ve found that Narrator reports the offset via ITextRangeProvider::Move() and Select() calls.
• Recreate the same math braille noting the math-zone cp where the length of the evolving braille string equals the braille offset for the braille-cell button.
• Adjust that cp so that it is a valid IP in the math zone.
• Set the math-zone IP equal to the adjusted cp.
• Once again recreate the math braille to update the braille cell IP (⣀) corresponding to the new math-zone IP.

## Braille-cell buttons versus ←/→ key navigation

The left and right arrow keys can traverse every valid cp in an OfficeMath math zone, while the braille-cell buttons only have access to cp’s that have braille counterparts. Let’s consider the two cases mentioned in the introduction. The ‘=’ sign is represented by “⠀⠨⠅⠀”. If you press the button above the starting braille space (U+2800), the corresponding math-zone cp should be in front of the ‘=’. Remember that insertion points in rich text like math zones are in between characters, not on top of characters. If you press a button above any of the remaining three braille characters, the math-zone cp (IP) should follow the ‘=’. Meanwhile a single → key press in front of the ‘=’ moves past the ‘=’.

Now consider 𝑎². In a math zone this is represented by {𝑎|2}, where { stands for the superscript-object start delimiter, | is the argument separator, and } is the superscript-object end delimiter. In RichEdit these delimiters are given by the Unicode characters U+FDD0, U+FDEE, and U+FDEF, respectively. The start delimiter has no counterpart in the corresponding superscript braille string “⠁⠘⠆”. So, pressing the braille-cell button above the ‘⠁’ could set the IP in front of the superscript object or at the start of the superscript-object base (in front of the 𝑎). Structured navigation that selects the whole superscript object or just the ‘⠁’ could be used to choose between these two possibilities. Meanwhile a single → key press in front of the superscript object moves to the start of the superscript-object base.

The subscript object 𝑎₂ also appears as {𝑎|2} in the OfficeMath backing store. The object type is specified in the character formatting of the start delimiter. But in Nemeth math notation, 𝑎₂ is given simply by “⠁⠆”. The subscript operator ‘⠰’ is implied. In computer braille notation, this is “A2”. So, for such simple subscript objects, the start, middle, and end points are all ambiguous. For example, in the string “⠁⣀⠆”, with ‘⣀’ marking the insertion point, the next character typed could be at the end of the subscript base (first argument) or at the start of the subscript (second argument). Math Braille UI disambiguates the two by including a dot 8 (‘⠠’) in the braille-cell character(s) in the object argument that contains the insertion point. If the IP is at the start of the subscript, the math braille for 𝑎₂ is “⠁⣀⢆”, whereas if it’s at the end of the base, the math braille is “⢁⣀⠆”.

Similar cases include the ends of integrands, summands, accents and math-function objects as well as optional arguments like missing integral limits and radical indices (a square root has a missing radical index).

A braille user should have at least three kinds of OfficeMath navigation: braille-cell buttons and vertical scrolling, structured navigation, and the ←/→ keys. Currently, I have to use a keyboard for structured navigation and the arrow keys. But we should be able to assign keys on refreshable braille displays to perform such navigation in addition to the braille-cell button navigation.

## MathJax v3 beta.4 released

Source: MathJax • May 21, 2019 • Permalink

The MathJax team has been working hard on a major rewrite of MathJax from the ground up, with the goal of modernizing MathJax’s internal infrastructure, bringing it more flexibility for use with contemporary web technologies, making it easier to use with NodeJS for pre-processing and server-side support, and making it faster to render your mathematics. We have made headway in all these areas and we are pleased to announce the fourth public beta release of MathJax v3.

## Where to Find the Beta Release

The code for the release is available in the beta branch of the MathJax v3 github repository.

The mj3-demos repository includes examples of how to use MathJax v3 in web browsers, including interactive examples, custom configurations, custom tex extensions, and custom builds that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. See the instructions in that repository for more details.

The mj3-demos-node repository includes examples for how to use MathJax v3 in NodeJS applications, and includes sample tools and examples of how to use a number of MathJax v3’s features.

## What’s Included in MathJax v3

This beta version includes two input processors (TeX and MathML) and two output processors (CommonHTML and SVG). Other input and output processors (e.g., AsciiMath input) will be added in the future.

The current TeX input processor has all the core functionality of the MathJax v2 TeX input, and nearly all the extensions that are now available in v3.

The CommonHTML and SVG output implement all the MathML elements that they do in v2, but do not yet include support for line breaking (neither automatic nor explicit ones); this will be implemented in a later version. Both output renderers currently only support the MathJax TeX font; other fonts will be added in the future.

## What’s New

This beta includes a number of important improvements over the beta.3 version.

### MathJax Components

The biggest change is the ability to create MathJax “components” that can be dynamically loaded by MathJax as needed (much as could be done in version 2). This allows portions of MathJax to be bundled together into components that include most or all of what you need to run MathJax, but still allows less-used pieces to be loaded on demand later when needed. This is similar to v2’s combined configuration files and TeX extensions.

The main goal of these components is to use them for the delivery of MathJax from the CDNs that host MathJax. This allows you to customize the MathJax components that you use without having to have (as single files on the CDN) every possible combination of parts that anyone would need packaged together. We will provide a number of all-in-one packages that include an input and output jax together with the data for a font to be used, but also will provide separate components for the individual input and output jax, fonts, TeX extensions, and so on, so that you can mix-and-match them as needed.

MathJax components can be used in the browser as well as on the server in NodeJS applications, so browser and server-side applications can use the same code base and configurations. Components can be combined together into larger packages, either with other MathJax components, or with your own code, via webpack, for example.

Moreover, the tools for building components are available so that you can create your own custom components that you can serve from your own website if you have special needs not addressed by the CDN. For example, authors writing TeX extensions for MathJa can create their own components that can be loaded into MathJax from a different server even if the core MathJax is loaded from a CDN.

Although components are a convenient way of working with MathJax, those writing NodeJS scripts that use MathJax need not use the components as we have packaged them at all; they can continue to import MathJax into their projects directly, as in previous beta versions.

### Configuring Components

The component system described above can be configured using a global variable MathJax that you set before loading the main MathJax component that you are planning to use. The MathJax variable specifies configuration blocks for the various components in much the same was as was done in version 2 (this is illustrated in the examples below, and described in more detail in a separate section below). MathJax will modify this global variable to include the methods and data that it creates during the startup process for your use in your applications.

### Rendering and Converting Math

The mechanism for rendering expressions in previous beta versions of MathJax 3 involved calling a sequence of MathJax commands to perform the individual actions required to find, compile, typeset, and insert the math into the page. These functions are still available, but there are now several new functions to make that process easier and more natural to perform. The render() method of the MathDocument and MathItem classes will perform all the actions normally needed for typesetting math to the page, and the convert() method will perform conversion from the input format to the output format of the page (or to MathML, which is used internally by MathJax).

These methods use an internal list of actions to be taken when they are called, and those lists are updated automatically when extensions are loaded. For example, when the semantic-enrichment extension is loaded, the action that performs the enrichment is added to render() and convert() automatically, so you don’t have to call the extension’s methods yourself. You can even add your own actions to the list, if you want, or could remove the automatic ones to fully customize the rendering process.

If you use the MathJax components described above, MathJax will set up short-hand functions for you for typesetting the page or converting from input to output formats. For example, if you load the input/tex and output/chtml components (or the tex-chtml combonent that combines them), you automatically get methods Typeset() and TypesetPromise() for typesetting the page, and tex2chml(), tex2chtmlPromise(), tex2mml(), and tex2mmlPromise() that convert from TeX to HTML or MathML. You also get texReset(), TypesetClear(), and chtmlStylesheet() that reset TeX’s labels and equation numbers, reset the typesetting system entirely (the information about CSS used, font caches, etc.), and produce the CSS stylesheet object used by CommonHTML for the expressions you have processed so far. The ones ending in Promise return a promise that is resolved when the math is completed (use this if there is a chance that an external module needs to be loaded, e.g., with \require), while the others perform the typesetting or conversion and return the result immediately (they will throw an error if an external module needs to be loaded).

If you are using the MathJax components, then the MathJax.startup object includes references to the important objects created by MathJax automatically, like the input and output jax, the DOM adaptor, and the MathDocument. You may reference these as needed in order to access their methods for more special-purpose needs. Some of the examples below illustrate this.

A contextual menu similar to the one in version 2 has been added to MathJax v3 in this beta version. It has the actions familiar from version 2, but also includes some new features like copying to the clipboard.

### Assistive Technology

This beta version now includes support for assistive technology via the generation of speech strings attached to the math elements, and via an interactive expression explorer like the one in version 2. These can be activated using the contextual menu, as in version 2, or by importing the a11y components into your node project or custom webpacked version of MathJax.

### CommonHTML CSS

The CommonHTML output now produces only the CSS needed for the expressions on the page, rather than the CSS for every possible character in the font being used. This reduces the number of CSS rules used by CommonHTML considerably, and improves performance of browser refreshes and zooming. If you use NodeJS applications to preprocess math expressions and capture the CSS output to a separate CSS file, you may need to process all the math expressions before generating the CSS file. Alternatively, there is a new adaptiveCSS option for the CommonHTML output jax that you can set to false to have MathJax return to the beta.3 behavior.

### SVG Font Caching

The SVG output now includes the option of caching the glyphs used to render the mathematics so that the paths are shared if a character is used more than once. The cache can either be global (all expressions on the page share a common cache) or local (each expression has a cache for glyphs used within it, but they are not shared between expressions). This can be set using the fontCache option for the SVG jax, and it can be set to 'global', 'local', or 'none'. The default is 'local' so that conversion of math to SVG will produce self-contained SVG expressions.

### TeX Extensions

As part of the new components feature discussed above, the TeX input jax can load TeX extensions in much the same way that v2 could. This is accomplished through the new require extension that implements the \require macro to load extensions. There is also and autoload extension that will load extensions automatically when their macros or environments are first used. These are included in the default input/tex component, so you if you use that component (or one of the combined components based on it, like tex-chtml or tex-svg), you should have access to these extensions automatically. For example, \require{physics} will load the physics package.

Another new TeX package is the configMacros extension that allows you to configure pre-defined macros using the TeX input jax options, much like you could do in v2.

The new tagFormat extension allows you to customize how tags are handled in MathJax, and provides the equivalent of the formatNumber(), formatTag(), formatID() and formatURL() options of the TeX equationNumbers configuration block from v2.

The new braket extension implements the physics bra-ket notation macros. They will be loaded automatically if you use the input/tex component, or include the autoload extension in your project.

### Color Macro

In version 2, the \color macro worked in a non-standard way. The LaTeX \color macro acts as a switch, to change the current color for all the math that follows it, while the MathJax version took a second argument that enclosed the math to be colored. Version 2 included a color extension that implemented the LaTeX \color behavior, but it was not loaded by default.

In version 3, the LaTeX \color macro will be the default behavior if you are using the input/tex or input/tex-full components, or any component build on them (e.g., tex-chtml or tex-svg). You can restore the v2 behavior by setting color: [] in the autoload configuration for the tex component (when using input/tex), or by removing the color extension from the package list using packages: {'[-]': ['color']} in the tex configuration (for input/tex-full).

## NOTE

This is the fourth public beta release of MathJax v3.

Mathjax v3 is in beta release. Do not use this in production, but please test it and report issues on the MathJax v3 issue tracker!

This is the final planned beta version. We expect an official 3.0 release in the near future.

## [CSSWG] Minutes San Francisco F2F 2019-02-27 Part III: Getting images' aspect ratio right from html attributes, CSS Inline, Houdini <3 Text (aka Houdini and text layout) [css-inline] [houdini]

Source: www-style@w3.org Mail Archives • Dael Jackson (daelcss@gmail.com) • May 16, 2019 • Permalink

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These are the official CSSWG minutes.
Unless you're correcting the minutes,
Please respond by starting a new thread
with an appropriate subject line.
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Getting images' aspect ratio right from html attributes
(continued from Monday)
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- After a few days to think about the proposal as there was no
consensus on what was the best way forward - add new attributes
(original plan) or do property mapping (new plan).
- Chrome is committed to investigating further and will analyze both
approaches before selecting one and putting the work into WICG.

CSS Inline
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- RESOLVED: We'll add a separate property for this [first/last
baseline values of vertical-align] (Issue #861: Should
first/last baseline values of vertical-align belong to
alignment-baseline or separate longhand?)

Houdini <3 Text (aka Houdini and text layout)
---------------------------------------------

- There are several different paths the group could take when
Houdini builds its API for interacting with Text (Houdini Issue
#854). These range from a region-like API, where your content
flows from one box to the other to exposing glyph indices and
font metrics through the API. These approaches also come with a
similar range of potential for footguns.
- Widely the group leaned toward collecting use cases and solving
the safest of them first (that still would have broad usage)
before extending the API further.
- Exposing justification was one possible first step. Another
possibility was a property set to assist minority languages such
as what's being done in Graphite and AAT.
- Work will continue one scoping out a preliminary feature set and
drafting a proposal.

CSS Text
--------

- RESOLVED: Add the stable value [to text-wrap] (Issue #672: Allow
for paragraph-level line breaking)

===== FULL MINUTES BELOW ======

Agenda: https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/sf-2019

Scribe: argyle

Getting images' aspect ratio right from html attributes
(continued from Monday)
-------------------------------------------------------

florian: My understanding is that we all agreed this would be a good
idea if possible, and we should check if possible
florian: Tab disagrees, I want to hear that
florian: For context: "it" is using the width and height HTML
attributes to trigger the intrinsic aspect ratio
fantasai: Specifically, where we map the width and height HTML
attributes to width and height CSS properties, we could
also use them to calculate the ratio and also map that
back to CSS (using the new aspect-ratio property).
fantasai: That would solve the problem around the aspect ratio
information would be lost due to waiting for the image to
load, waiting to discover auto sizing
fantasai: so the proposal was to do that instead of introducing new
attributes to solve the same problem
Rossen: What is the data we need to gather then?
florian: So we don't break the web
Rossen: For the width and height
florian: Do we not agree?

TabAtkins: Having width and height be presentation attributes, and
not affecting those new and exciting ways
TabAtkins: The other reason I liked it, some of the other things,
like picture, you wanted to give an intrinsic size to
them, and it feels semantically better to be specific
about being intrinsic than doing css things that also set
intrinsic sizes.
florian: There's no intrinsic tools to do this
* fantasai thinks ojan should be here
<AmeliaBR> +1 to Tab's argument about <picture><source
intrinsicsize="..."> making more sense than width &
height

myles: What about canvas?
myles: We should consider the interaction with canvas where w and h
have other meanings other than mapping to css
TabAtkins: It sets the backing store on width/height, which is
compatible

dbaron: ... If this is a major thing sites can do to improve
loading, if a cms can just do this, that's great, and it
means that lots of sites can get it cheaply
dbaron: I think, if it's it's own attribute it we can do that, I
don't think it's as safe to do if we're re-using width and
height
florian: If the cms wanted to check if there was previously a width
and height, they could still inject the w/h and multiply by
what's needed, but they also need to check min-height and
max-height, and then it gets messy

astearns: We're theorizing about things Ojan has experience in, at
the most this conversation should inform what he continues
to do as he tries to find a solution
astearns: but I'm not sure I see the utility of theorizing when we
have an experimenter
florian: Utility is we don't need to experiment if we have other
demos, not worth checking if we don't want to do it anyway

<TabAtkins> <style>img { width: 100%; }</style> <img
intrinsicsize="350x450"> works by default. Changing it
to <img width=350 height=450> doesn't work; you have to
manually set height: auto in CSS too.

jensimmons: I think the original intention behind what fantasai was
saying, here's an idea, might be much simpler than
adding new attributes, we'd like this considered
jensimmons: I do think there's a way to do it that hooks into CMSes
and existing things, instead of making it more
complicated
jensimmons: If only width is coming out of a cms, and there's no
height, there's no mapping to intrinsic, we can map with
that limited data
jensimmons: Maybe there's something more complex needed, and we do
both
jensimmons: But I think there's an elegance here tapping into what
we already have. Perhaps that's what ojan is intending
jensimmons: Hey, we're going to solve some of this in css, and to
have that really heard, .. that's what I'd like to see
happen

Rossen: Where does this leave us?
jensimmons: Sounds like someone's going to find something out
AmeliaBR: I think it's great, we're leveraging something that
already works, but I think I agree with the arguments
there's too many cases where things can get messy for
repurposing
AmeliaBR: If browsers implemented the attr() function that maps
values to lengths, ... any image, grab these values,
put them together, here's the ratio
AmeliaBR: Not sure if there's utility if no one's has implemented it
yet
<jensimmons> +1 to what AmeliaBR just said
<jensimmons> maybe that could even be included in a project called
CSS Remedy
TabAtkins: I feel like there's just more discussion, but in the way
of being explicit with cases and approaches, and I don't
know if I want to spend time trying to nail it down

fantasai: There are advantages of using existing attributes. Like
for images in pages already out there, we get the faster
fantasai: No updating cms, no html file updates, it would let
browsers hook into it via current functionality
jensimmons: There's 100,000s of sites that put height and width on
images in the CMS already. Then in their code, put
width: 100%; height: auto in their CSS. Decade of work
is built that way, and likely aren't maintained
jensimmons: Quick way to boost all sites by re-using existing attrs
jensimmons: Don't get deep into picture element, ..., hey this is a
performance thing, but it back in and it'll be faster
jensimmons: Other proposals will use it for be used for simple and
complicated things, and some it'll be too much
fantasai: Historically, we've asked users to put weight and height
on images for performance, all the way back into the 90s,
and we'd be hooking into that advice. This proposal hooks
into existing content and knowledge better. It won't only
work on new things developed by people who keep up with
latest tech.

TabAtkins: Happy to do more discussion, but not confident enough to
decide now, or for us.
chrishtr: Maybe we could break out and talk about it?
chrishtr: I don't think I fully understand, and I'd like time for
that

Rossen: Okay so, I didn't hear that say the HTML width and height
attributes is the worst idea I've ever heard, we shouldn't
do it
Rossen: I also didn't hear we shouldn't think about the intrinsic
aspect ratio, because it'll just work
Rossen: TabAtkins has committed to work on this fully
TabAtkins: Chrome people will be working on this
Rossen: Kidding aside, we'll close this issue for now. Thanks for
introducing it to the working group, and making it an actual
proposal

Rossen: I think there was another bit in this, which was css
property, which will then have to map using either the
height or width attributes, as a ratio, or whatever else is
there, if anything is added as an additional attribute
Rossen: I think the property can be discussed at a later point, or
is this something you want to discuss later today
fantasai: It's already in the draft, we resolved to add awhile back
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/333
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-4/#aspect-ratio
jensimmons: So this discussion about not doing other things in HTML,
jensimmons: There will be more to talk about aspect-ratio with
min-height and min-width
jensimmons: There is a question of: do we put in what's there
already in the draft, support for ??, whether it's
happening in the UA style sheet, we do have the ability
to grab information about height and width
jensimmons: Might be right in between, and I think we should do what
Rossen mentioned
Rossen: Great point, thank you. Before we move on

AmeliaBR: I have a question: it's not being proposed by a web group.
Before we get a css spec, we need to get that moving up
into the HTML wg, so it's outside our scope, so long as
it's going through process and getting standardized.
chrome pushed it without standardization, we need to make
sure that happens
TabAtkins: Definitely should be in wicg - we'll get it there

CSS Inline
==========

Should first/last baseline values of vertical-align belong to
alignment-baseline or separate longhand?
---------------------------------------------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/861

dauwhe: No opinions
fantasai: Ditto
fantasai: This issue keeps coming up because I don't have any points
in favor or against either options, and I'd like to hear
why we should pick one over the other
fantasai: Do we have the board, do you want the [..] baselines,
[fantasai explains the problem]
fantasai: When aligning inline boxes to each other, you first match
corresponding baselines, then you shift if there's an
offset
fantasai: Once one of those has multiple lines of text in it,
do we use first or last? We wanted to add keywords to
choose.
fantasai: Do we put it in it's own property,
align-baseline-preference, and it cascades independently?
fantasai: Or do we merge it with alignment-baseline, which chooses
the type of baseline (alphabetic, mathematical,
ideographic, hanging)?
AmeliaBR: Reminder: long hands exist for legacy compat. So svg had
alignment-baseline, baseline-shift, css had
vertical-align...they describe the same functionality but
behave slightly differently
AmeliaBR: ..., adding new features to the longhand, when it's just
for compat, seems questionable. Also, not sure how first/
last would work in SVG. I don't see benefit there
[fantasai outlines things on the easel]
fantasai: We can't just add values to the vertical-align shorthand:
they need to be part of a longhand, too. So if there's a
reason to choose one over the other, it'll help us resolve
AmeliaBR: New property may not be used

fantasai: Related issue: from the MATH ML folks, they want to take
the baseline not from the first or last item, but from a
specific item
[See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1339 ]
fantasai: So that ties in a little bit with this. We don't have a
proposal, but we have an idea we should do it. So that
might tie into we end up with another that helps us solve
this as well.

AmeliaBR: I suppose the value of a new property is that vertical
align is already supported with current functionality
AmeliaBR: you may end up with duplication anyway
fantasai: Does anyone want to think about it more, or push it off to
later?

dbaron: I can imagine there's reasons you want them separate,
unknown how important they are. Consider multiple
languages [...]
fantasai: Alright, we have a reason, we can resolve the issue!
dbaron: I'm not convinced anyone will want to do this, but it does
seem like a good thing to do
dbaron: You might want to set alignment-baseline as a function of
the language without messing with the first/last choice set
for other reasons
AmeliaBR: Resolve to make a new longhand property
astearns: We figure the name out later
fantasai: No matter how silly, make suggestions in IRC, we'll
evaluate later
<astearns> best-baseline
<dauwhe> good-baseline | better-baseline | best-baseline
<TabAtkins> west-baseline
<AmeliaBR> baseline-line

Rossen: Okay, any other opinions that can top dbaron's?
Rossen: Anyone object to dbaron's proposal? or oppose?
Rossen: No objections. Resolved.
astearns: So, dbaron, could you put your actual suggestion into
resolve line
dbaron: The question was a boolean, do we want a separate prop or not

RESOLVED: We'll add a separate property for this

astearns: Great
fantasai: Thank you

Houdini <3 Text
===============
Scribe: emilio

Houdini and text layout
-----------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/issues/854

myles: So, houdini has a lot of stuff, and I think everything is
things that browsers do already, which is cool
myles: There's one of these things that is not in houdini so far,
which is text
myles: so there's a chance that authors are going to want text layout
myles: There's a lot of ways this could go. Text is complicated, and
different to other parts of houdini, in the sense that (a)
it's pretty easy to get wrong and (b) if it is, users will be
misled and confused
myles: It's easy to get it wrong when things like how BiDi works
should work by default, we don't want authors to have to
remember how to do these
myles: There's a bunch of things like that listed in the issue
myles: so I wanted to discuss how should we approach such an API to
avoid causing pain

myles: A strawman proposal just to get the discussion started would
be a region-like API, where your content flows from one box
to the other, and regular CSS properties apply in that box
myles: That'd be very high level. Another approach would be to
expose glyph indices and fonts and let the author place all
of them
myles: I think that'd be bad
<fantasai> +1 to that being bad
myles: So, there are these two extremes, these high-level things,
and there's this low-level thing which we can agree it's a
bad idea. There's a range in there that we should figure out

AmeliaBR: (summarizing her comment in the issue)
AmeliaBR: (https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/issues/854#issuecomment-459146355)
AmeliaBR: There's a lot of steps, like [...], that we need to break
this down into.
AmeliaBR: Within all the individual steps which happen during text
layout, we need to figure out which of them authors want
to customize. One of them could be justification
AmeliaBR: other things like bidi unicode stuff we don't want to ever
expose
AmeliaBR: We could expose (though maybe trickier) glyph selection
(sounds scary, but there's lot of fun stuff you could do
with OT glyph selections instead of having to create a new
font because you want to create a space-maximizing layout)
AmeliaBR: That's something that people may want but that is easy to
get wrong / break
AmeliaBR: Also, the steps are very dependent on one another, so we
need to come up with a nice model of the data that goes
through the pipeline if we want authors to insert their
custom stuff
fantasai: This is not just a sequential pipeline, some of the steps
interact with each other. An excellent line-breaking
engine will account for glyph selections and such
fantasai: so you can't just break that up into ordered steps

iank: I think we agree in spirit with myles, we don't want to get
into the business of bidi resolution or glyph selection or such
iank: We may want to get smarter about where to break and such, but
not atm
iank: The current model in the spec is a box where you run layout
giving the available width and you get back an inline box /
line box fragment
iank: You can re-request that if the resulting height is too big for
iank: Some layouts require the available width to change on a
per-line-box basis
iank: We want to prototype that
myles: So, I also agree that we mostly agree
myles: The idea of giving available width works well if the area has
vertical end, but if you're not a perfectly vertical
container it doesn't, it's not clear how much we care for
shapes in Houdini
iank: We care about shapes a lot
iank: In our engine we do at most two layout passes to avoid shapes
iank: which sort of fits in this model
myles: I think doing two layouts is unfortunate, describing geometry
would be nicer
iank: That'd be difficult, a lot of the use cases that devs want to
place a line depending on how the previous line has been laid
out
iank: I think describing all the geometry upfront would be limiting
iank: One of the examples we want to work is an arbitrary line grid
iank: The avail width of the next line really depends on the line
height of the previous line box

dauwhe: My industry is very interested in using Houdini to improve
justification / hyphenation, since the browsers have
different requirements

florian: I share the concern that this is important and hard to let
people do a lot of random stuff
florian: but Dave shared examples about hyphenation and
justification, and there are many more of the same kind of
when you consider i18n where a lot of effects needs a lot
of low-level access
florian: For example, Japanese people may want to increment distance
between some glyphs or such
florian: or implement stuff that isn't in browsers yet
florian: The approach of getting line boxes doesn't get far enough,
but I'm not sure how to get far enough but not being
dangerous
myles: You're right, but we have competing desires, letting authors
implement nice effects, and making pages legible, the latter
has been historically more of a priority
<fantasai> +1 to ensuring legibility

fantasai: Side comment, about justification and the model that is in
Houdini, which I agree is the right one to get started.
For justification would it make sense to return the
fragment without filling the available width, but also let
the user set it to be wider and that'd trigger
justification and alignment
fantasai: That way I can see where it fits much more easily, and
position it more easily
fantasai: and justification and alignment properties would work the
same way it works when you place it in a bigger size.
Justification would still be in control of the user-agent
myles: dauwhe, when you said for example you wanted to improve
justifications, is ^ what you were referring to?
dauwhe: I think we want more

Rossen: Thanks for bringing the issue, and I'm glad it's getting
more and more traction. The one common theme that I see so
far is that we are trying to get the "custom" part of layout
out of custom layout. Everything that's been discussed so
far how to force people to do the thing what we're already
doing and tweak it a bit here and there
Rossen: The nice thing of custom layout is that we're not giving
restrictions for where people to position boxes in the block
layout case, but when it comes around text we through our
hands in the air and say it's too hard, and I don't agree
with that
TabAtkins: We have existence proof that every single custom layout
has done bidi wrong.
Rossen: It seems to me that we're talking about levels of
customizability
Rossen: one where you expose bidi and shaping at every breaking
opportunity, the other where you give it a box and we'll do
the layout inside
Rossen: I'd be interested to go and explore the options in the
middle which would allow most custom layouts that people want
Rossen: so that we're still not insisting on that rigid one box
Rossen: We're also assuming that we're doing inline layout the way
browsers do it now, but maybe my lines are spiral, or I want
to go on top of floats
Rossen: Let's not try to take the custom part of layout outside
of css

dbaron: I just wanted to bring up another use case that hasn't come
up today
dbaron: I think having a low level API is very important for
minority languages
[general nodding]
dbaron: Gecko has shipped graphite support
<dbaron> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphite_(SIL)
dbaron: One of the things it does is let languages that have shaping
requirements that aren't in browsers do it in fonts instead
dbaron: Another approach for this would be a low-level JS API using
houdini
<dholbert> (I believe "glat" is one of these graphite font tables
that dbaron is referencing)
<dauwhe> "For example, it may be the case that a minority language
is tonal, while the national language is not, and the
orthographic solution involves using the standard writing
system with some extra diacritics to indicate tone. Or the
minority language might have a set of sounds characterized
by a certain linguistic feature, such as aspiration or
breathiness, that are not present in the national language,
and the desire is to add to the standard orthography a set
of variant characters to represent these variant sounds."
dbaron: I think that's a potential real use case

skk: From Japanese digital books perspective, more precise Ruby
would be amazing
skk: We'd like more control over ruby text positioning
<xfq> more than what ruby-position/merge/align currently provides?

dauwhe: Responding to the philosophical point, being able to explain
and expose all the platform features?
Rossen: It is, what I'm saying is, let's not prevent that
Rossen: So that we can avoid limiting the inner pinnings of how
things work. Said that, we want to open the engine so that
we don't need to implement all the stuff people want, that's
the fun part of it.
Rossen: We've never said "and we don't want to let you do this
because it's hard"
Rossen: why?
myles: If your layout is quite not what the author intended, the text
still exists. For box layout, bad layout is wrong for
everyone; for text, bad layout can be completely unreadable
only for some
Rossen: If it's unreadable it's unreadable because of me
fantasai: It may be because somebody typed something you (the Houdini
author) didn't expect
fantasai: and you didn't care of thinking of those users
fantasai: and those users are our users
Rossen: That's my problem, those users are going to complain to me

koji: From my POV I think "don't do bidi and don't you your own
thing" is more "we want to start from simple things", and as
we can confirm it performs properly and works we can extend
further
koji: but I'm not very confident that JS running through glyphs is
performant enough, so box-level layout seems simpler
koji: so re. Rossen's point, we're not against, but we want to start
from the simple thing

AmeliaBR: I agree with Rossen and dauwhe, the point of Houdini is
being able to tweak one of the little things the browser
does without having to re-implement the browser, and we
want to let authors do what they want
AmeliaBR: You can do some sort of custom layout with SVG, but
probably badly. We should let authors do what they want
without forcing to reimplement what they don't want to
tweak
AmeliaBR: I think we should prioritize our work to start with the
safest things to change and isolate
<dauwhe> I want to tweak what the browser does, not build my own
rendering engine
<skk> +1 to dauwhe
<heycam> Agree with AmeliaBR -- we should bias towards coming up
with APIs that allow users to benefit automatically from
the browser implemented bidi, complex text shaping, etc.
features that the author doesn't want to reimplement
<heycam> make it harder for them to accidentally not support those
things

florian: So, I think when we say is "this is too hard", this is not
saying that devs in this room are smarter than all of them.
But very little people have resources to implement all the
complexities right
florian: Very few people have the business justification to deal
with all languages
florian: Minority languages is where this is interesting and
dangerous
florian: The low level things that enable minority languages to work
on the web, are also what enable companies to write
western-only layouts that don't work with other minority
languages that browsers support today
florian: In the process of creating an api that's good enough to
support minority languages we'd have created the chance of
Chinese pages where you only can write in Chinese, or
English pages that allow you to only work in English
florian: So if you force people to rebuild text-layout itself, they
will not do the right thing, and we'd have disabled some
languages instead of enabling others
florian: So I'm more on the side of caution, and making sure that
everything we add to this API is a thing we can tweak
<fremy> very good point florian
florian: And yes, people will break stuff for their own customers,
but we'll also break the fact that the web is multilingual

fantasai: I think koji and AmeliaBR and florian said everything I
wanted to say

myles: Most of my job is fixing bugs that the text experts in the
piece of software they created because they only spoke English
myles: There's tons of places in WebKit where there are assumptions
because it was coded by English-only speakers
myles: I agree we should investigate the middle parts in the
spectrum, but I think we disagree with the criteria for
success
myles: I think text is different, where if you get it wrong it may
work for you but not for your users
myles: An approach where we take everything the browser does and
making it scriptable is not the highest priority
myles: Raising use cases is a good way to prioritize, the idea of
tweaking specific parts of the browser is great and makes
total sense
myles: Picking specific use cases and filing in holes is probably
the right idea, creating a low level platform and tell people
to write it yourself is probably not
<florian> +111!1!1
<fantasai> myles++
myles: Minority languages is a very interesting case, apart from
Graphite we also have a similar thing with AAT
myles: I wish we could find a way to solve that problem in a way
where safety is preserved

Rossen: I see a lot of passion and interest, zero reasons for us to
stop working on this. A lot of things said will hopefully be
taken into account as we move forward. One thing that I
wanted to make sure that the record reflects what I said.
Rossen: I wasn't suggesting to start exposing the far end, like
glyphs
Rossen: but as we go forward we should start walking towards the
end, I just want to ensure that we don't preclude us from
going forward
Rossen: Myles, is there something that you think it wasn't discussed?
myles: I think the next thing is gathering use cases, so we're done

iank: To try to wrap up, is there anything inside of the current
version of the spec that particularly scares you?
myles: My biggest concern is about encouraging authors to do layouts
in loops
myles: where they try over and over, but I understand such an
approach allows for dynamic use-cases, so I guess the
question is to which side we fall
iank: I think we agree, but we don't want to limit people which is
why we chose this approach
myles: We heard a lot of use-cases in this discussion that aren't
covered by the API, so maybe it's too early to create APIs
Rossen: We have a proposal and we have a lot of discussions, let's
not say yay or nay

dauwhe: I wanted to make a point regarding the responsibility about
us making software for our use case vs. browsers
dauwhe: We publish English and Spanish, I don't think there should
be obligation for us to handle vertical or rtl
* dauwhe admits that some of our books have snippets of Arabic,
Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, and MathML :)

AmeliaBR: I'm glad myles brought this discussion
AmeliaBR: One thing that myles and fantasai said is that text was
AmeliaBR: I don't think that's true, there are lots of ways you can
break content in another ways
AmeliaBR: I agree with Rossen that the developers of the websites
are responsible for being user friendly and would be the
ones to pay the price. I don't think that this proposed
ways which could break websites are worse that other ways
to break stuff with CSS
fantasai: I think it is actually worse
<astearns> I disagree with AmeliaBR's comment, and agree with
fantasai. Bad text layout has uniquely bad ways of making
content inaccessible

<fremy> iank myles: I do have some ideas on how to progressively
enhance the current api to cover more cases that have been
discussed here without starting from scratch and would like
or in the github issue if not.

Rossen: This is not the end of the discussion, but some of the
starting points
Rossen: We need go back and work more on this, we should keep
participating passionately
Rossen: Next steps is engaging in the specs
Rossen: So go help iank ;)
iank: I'd love that

CSS Text
========

Allow for paragraph-level line breaking
---------------------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/672

myles: Similar to houdini, there are lots of different ways to do
line-breaking. Houdini solves some of them. Other ways people
want to do line breaking are some fancy book-like
line-breaking
myles: ine-breaking on the web is greedy, and doing something
slower but higher quality is a longstanding request
myles: I proposed a value for this, which got to the spec and then
got removed because of lack of consensus
myles: I'd like to see which opinions for this
myles: it's a very high-level switch
<xfq> will the behavior be UA-defined?

florian: I want to know which one is the editing value
florian: I want one of the values to be stable when you type
<astearns> default is 'wrap' which is stable
myles: Right now the default is stable in every browser
florian: Not for print [PDF renderes like PrinceXML and AntennaHouse]
myles: You don't type in print preview
myles: I don't think you need another value, we already have it
florian: I think there should be a stable value
myles: I think reflecting reality and saying that auto should be
stable is fine
fantasai: I think the initial value should allow the UA to do
whatever

dauwhe: If the property is added to iBooks I'll add it everywhere
fantasai: I think iBooks should just add it to its default UA
stylesheet
[ compat? ]
dauwhe: I think you want to change it in existing books too
dauwhe: Having the text break better is just going to be a win

eae: I think this is a great idea, I'm a bit concerned that if we
don't define what pretty does we'd get interop issue, so we
should try to explain what pretty would do
<xfq> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/803 is the related
issue for the algorithm ("pretty")
myles: In the issue I listed a dozen different criteria
myles: So describe it explicitly is probably not realistic, do you
think agreeing on the goals is fine?
eae: yeah, I think that's ok
fantasai, dauwhe, myles: I think it's important to _not_ get compat
<AmeliaBR> There will always be perf trade-offs, so that it makes
sense that a print book will get prettier pretty
results than a browser on a low-CPU device.

heycam: I was going to make eae's point, though maybe I'm a bit more
worried about the compat impact, I don't we can change the
default algorithm because of compat, why wouldn't that
happen with pretty?
astearns: The current algorithm is not that interoperable
myles: Also, this is an opt-in
heycam: Once we have this, why would we not expect authors to just
use it all the time. Why would they not do that?
myles: It's the same answer for text-rendering: optimizespeed vs.
optimizelegibility
fremy: It's mostly useless
myles, AmeliaBR: it's not
heycam: I don't think people will think about speed, and many people
will just use it without thinking about it, having a perf
impact
astearns: I think that's the reason for the auto value
astearns: so that the UA can change it
heycam: I'm skeptical about changing line-breaking (by default)
myles: I'd like to keep the discussion less about the existence of
auto

dauwhe: I think there are a lot of trade-offs. Browsers are optimized
for speed right now, and taking any step to opt in to better
systems is going to be great regardless of interop
dauwhe: text layout is so sensitive that there's never going to be
interop

myles: I want to resolve to put this value back in
Rossen: Objections?
florian: I want to make sure we have the three values, including
stable.
fantasai: I think we should rename it, but no objection
fantasai: I'm a bit concerned that we are going to add another
switch that does nothing
fantasai: but if people feel strongly I won't object
fremy: not an objection either but we need a better definition on
what it does

RESOLVED: Add the value back in

fantasai: Are we adding stable?
myles: There are three values: auto, balance and this new thing
fantasai: I object to the multi-line name
myles: Proposals?
fantasai: 'pretty' sounds good to me
fantasai: It's what we used to discuss it here

RESOLVED: add the stable value


## Math Zone Navigation

Source: Murray Sargent: Math in Office • MurrayS3 • April 30, 2019 • Permalink

The post Using MathML-Based Speech to Edit Math in Different Math Models discusses the need to navigate math zones in the edit space rather than in a MathML copy of the edit space. This need arises for editing since the navigation location must be synchronized with the edit selection. It’s also important for defining the selection bounding rectangles even if editing isn’t allowed. The present post compares the math-zone edit navigation in Microsoft Office apps to the structured child/parent/next/previous tree navigation provided by MathPlayer and other systems. Combining both approaches results in rich navigation and editing experiences for blind and sighted users alike.

The OfficeMath math zone represents math as a “flattened” tree, in which nested math objects such as fractions and matrices have start and end delimiters. This allows character navigation to traverse every character in a math zone. Typing the → key at the start of a fraction moves into the numerator. Typing → at the end of the numerator moves into the denominator. Typing → at the end of the denominator moves out of the fraction. The → and ← keys let you “escape” from a math object (go to the next higher level in the tree) and to enter a math object (go down a level into the tree) as well as moving past characters.

Typing Ctrl+→ moves by siblings. So, typing Ctrl+→ at the start of a fraction moves past the fraction to whatever follows the fraction. A Ctrl+→ at the end of the denominator moves out of the fraction, so like the → key, Ctrl+→ can escape from down inside an object (go to the next higher level in the tree). But it cannot go down into a lower level of the tree. Both Ctrl+→ and → leave the selection as an insertion point (IP), ready for inserting more characters and math objects. Shift+Ctrl+→ and Shift+→ select the next object or character. The Ctrl+← and ← keys work the same ways but move toward the start of the math zone. (Note that Word hasn’t yet implemented this Ctrl+→ and Ctrl+←behavior, but OneNote and PowerPoint have).

All eight editing hot keys ([Shift+][Ctrl+]←/→) move out of the math zone when they come to the end of the math zone. The keys are usually geometric but are logical as well in that → moves from the end of a numerator to the start of the denominator. Such movement isn’t geometric since the motion is down and to the left rather than to the right. At any time, the user can enter and delete characters. If the selection is nondegenerate, entering a character replaces the selection and results in an insertion point (IP). If the selection is already degenerate, e.g., an IP following Shift-less key motion, the character is entered at the IP.

With OfficeMath speech, you can use this kind of navigation while entering and editing equations with a keyboard. You don’t need to see the screen. As far as I know, the Office apps Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote are the only major apps that let blind users enter and edit equations using only speech and a keyboard.

Contrast these edit movements with structured Parent/FirstChild/LastChild/Next/Previous tree navigation. This structured navigation always selects a character or object unless it ends up inside an empty argument. At the start of a fraction, FirstChild selects the numerator and LastChild selects the denominator. If the numerator is selected, Next selects the denominator. But unlike Ctrl+→, another Next does nothing since a fraction only has two arguments. To get out of the fraction, you enter Parent and then Next to go to the next sibling of the fraction.

If an argument is only partially selected, then Next goes to the next sibling in the argument. If the last sibling in an argument is selected, Next does nothing. Entering Parent selects the whole argument and another Parent selects the math object. The highest level in the tree is the whole math zone and structured navigation commands won’t move outside the math zone.

If a selection consists of multiple characters, e.g., the “sin” in the math function object “sin 𝑥”, FirstChild selects the ‘s’ and LastChild selects the ‘n’. Next/Previous select the next/previous character, respectively, unless the last/first character is selected (in which case Next/Previous do nothing). In this way, you can examine every character in the math zone using structured navigation.

Possible hot keys for Parent, FirstChild, LastChild, Next, and Previous are Alt+↑, Alt+↓(or Alt+Home), Alt+End, Alt+→, and Alt+←, respectively. Since these differ from [Shift+][Ctrl+]←/→, both kinds of navigation can be used together. It’s desirable to have corresponding navigation buttons on refreshable braille displays.

While structure navigation takes more keystrokes than edit navigation, it’s valuable for understanding complicated equations, particularly if you cannot see the equations easily and are navigating with the help of math speech.

## Conclusions

Ideally for editors like Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and OneNote, both kinds of navigation would be available. If using structured navigation, you want to enter a character at the end of the current selection, type → to collapse the selection to an IP at the end and type the character. If you want to enter a character at the start of the current selection, type ← to collapse the selection to an IP at the start and type the character. With these techniques, visually impaired users can have a rich navigation experience and all users can enter and edit equations easily.

## Re: W3C TPAC 2019 - Will your Community Group meet in Fukuoka?

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Alexandra Lacourba (alex@w3.org) • April 04, 2019 • Permalink

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Dear participants of the W3C Community Groups,

Please fill in the form below if your Community Group wants to meeting
during TPAC2019, before *12 April 2019*:

https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/CGsTPAC2019/

For the W3C TPAC 2019 Event team
Alexandra Lacourba
W3C Global Event Coordinator

On 03/07/2019 21:21, Alexandra Lacourba wrote:
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> Once again, the Community Groups have the possibility to meetduring
> TPAC2019 which willbe held in Fukuoka, Japan at the "Hilton Fukuoka
> Sea Hawk"[1].
>
> TPAC 2019
> 16 - 20 September 2019
> Fukuoka, Japan
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> start discussions to determine whether and when yourgroup(s) would
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> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/CGsTPAC2019/ W3C Community Groups can
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> the entire TPACweek. Outside of their Community Groupmeetings, non
> W3C-Member CG participants may attend as observers the Working and
> Interest groups meetings who accept observers, as well as the
> Technical Plenary Day willbe held on 18 September from 08:30-18:00.
> There will be registration fees to offset a portion of the meeting
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## RE: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Sina Bahram (sina@sinabahram.com) • April 04, 2019 • Permalink

Will do as I get a chance.

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.

Phone: 919-345-3832

https://www.PAC.bz

Personal Website:  <https://www.sinabahram.com> https://www.sinabahram.com

From: Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:53 PM
To: Sina Bahram <sina@sinabahram.com>
Cc: public-mathonw. <public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>; George Kerscher <georgek@benetech.org>
Subject: Re: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Hi Sina,

I think it would be good for you to review/comment on these two pull requests they will be discussing tomorrow.

* https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/923
* https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/924

Thanks
EOM
Charles LaPierre
Technical Lead, DIAGRAM and Born Accessible
Skype: charles_lapierre
Phone: 650-600-3301

On Apr 3, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Sina Bahram <sina@sinabahram.com <mailto:sina@sinabahram.com> > wrote:

I’m at a conference, so my regrets on this, but I’m really passionate about this topic. Please let me know if there’s questions I can answer or things I can comment on/provide feedback for.

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.

Phone:  <tel:919-345-3832> 919-345-3832

<https://www.pac.bz/> https://www.PAC.bz

Personal Website:  <https://www.sinabahram.com/> https://www.sinabahram.com

From: Charles LaPierre < <mailto:charlesl@benetech.org> charlesl@benetech.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:04 PM
To: public-mathonw. < <mailto:public-mathonwebpages@w3.org> public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>
Cc: Sina Bahram < <mailto:sina@sinabahram.com> sina@sinabahram.com>; George Kerscher < <mailto:georgek@benetech.org> georgek@benetech.org>
Subject: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let you know that in tomorrows ARIA WG call the topic of new Braille Properties added to ARIA will be discussed.

Unfortunately I can not attend as I am presenting at that time, but I hope those who joined the ARIA WG from this group will be able to attend.

Here is the agenda Item and information regarding the call which is tomorrow April 4th at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern

* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Time:
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA&iso=20190404T13&p1=43&ah=1> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA&iso=20190404T13&p1=43&ah=1

If you would like to add an item to the agenda please reply to this mail.

* New issue triage:

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* New pull-request triage:

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* Quick status check of active role-parity issues:
- fieldset/legend:  <https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/911> https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/911
- label:  <https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/886> https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/886
- time:  <https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/895> https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/895
* Quick, straw-poll-level discussion:
- Keep children-presentational on math role?
<https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/425> https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/425
- Do we want aria-rowtext, aria-coltext, and/or aria-listitemtext?
<https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/667> https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/667
* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

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## [CSSWG] Minutes Telecon 2019-04-03 [css-easing] [css-env] [css-text]

Source: www-style@w3.org Mail Archives • Dael Jackson (daelcss@gmail.com) • April 04, 2019 • Permalink

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Easing functions to CR
----------------------

- RESOLVED: Ask to take Easing Functions to CR once these editorial
changes [for Issue #3205] are made.

CSS Environments
----------------

- The proposal to get document title using css env() (Issue #3685)
met with skepticism from the working group. In order to proceed
with this approach the group needed to see more evidence that
this would solve most of the potential use cases either as is or
as an enhancement to the original proposal or that there are
other document properties that would want to have the same
functionality as proposed for document title. Interested parties
will continue to investigate the use cases.

High Contrast Spec
------------------

- Rossen wrote up a proposal to bring the Edge high contrast
behavior into CSS specifications. There was debate on where this
work should go so the group will review it this week and then
decide where this should be put in the official CSS repo.

CSS Text
--------

- When looking into a new property for MathML a larger question was
raised concerning if the stated design of text-transform when
applied to something like a screen reader needed to change in
order to align with current implementations (Issue #3775:
text-transform's design, intent and reality resolution)
- It was questioned if the difference is actually as large as the
issue indicated since the text-transform is not changing the
fundamental structure of the document and cannot be treated as a
core part of the document since some view modes remove the CSS.
- text-transform contains many possible values so there will be a
need to either split this into more than one property or spec
how the properties differ as there are different solutions per
property.
- Other groups will need to be brought into this conversation to
ensure that the decision reached is correct for a wide audience.
CSSAAM was specifically called out at a task force which should
discuss this.
- A possible way forward is to expose detail of transform and
original content at the same time instead of only exposing the
transformed content so that screen readers can make a smarter
decision then they can today.
- Discussion will continue on the issue.

===== FULL MINUTES BELOW ======

Agenda: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2019Apr/0000.html

Present:
Rossen Atanassov
Amelia Bellamy-Royds
Brian Birtles
Oriol Brufau
Simon Fraser
Dael Jackson
Brian Kardell
Peter Linss
Myles Maxfield
Cameron McCormack
Ian Pouncey
François Remy
Melanie Richards
Florian Rivoal
Alan Stearns
Greg Whitworth

Regrets:
Tab Atkins
David Baron

Scribe: dael

astearns: We should get started
astearns: We will skip item #7 and add Rossen's addition after
item #2
<Rossen> Thank you!
astearns: Anything else people would like to change?

Easing functions to CR
======================

birtles: I don't have anything that needs to be added. Ready to go.
astearns: No more edits?
birtles: Not that I'm aware of
astearns: This isn't the first time to CR so there's not much
besides deciding to
birtles: Good point

<fantasai> only open issue is https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3205
<fantasai> which is editorial
<fantasai> significantly editorial, but still editorial :)
birtles: That's [the open issue] probably worth doing
fantasai: Worth doing but not block CR. Nothing technically wrong
with document and won't effect impl. Editorial that can be
done during CR. We should signal this spec is done and
people should impl and deploy
astearns: Not concerned with review before this change?
fantasai: This change is about making spec easier to reuse in area
that need timing mapping but aren't animations and
transitions so I don't think that will make a difference
to implementations. I don't think it needs to prevent CR
astearns: birtles what do you think? Change in first or CR update?
birtles: Can I do the change today and get a resolution?
fantasai: Sure. I just didn't want to wait for some indefinite years
AmeliaBR: We're agreeing to change words timing function to easing
function and relating edits? That's all you're changing?
birtles: Yeah and all the descriptions that say these can be applied
to animations to say things like animations
florian: But it's a generalization of sentences, not a deep re-write
birtles: Yep
florian: Then I see no problem resolving before edits
<Rossen> Ship it!

astearns: Objections to Take Easing Functions to CR once these
editorial changes are made?

RESOLVED: Ask to take Easing Functions to CR once these editorial
astearns: Thanks birtles to getting to those edits

CSS Environments
================

------------------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3685

astearns: This was introduced last week, discussion of scope and
that it's not useful in all situations. What else did you
want on this florian?
florian: Not much to add, just cut by clock. I think it would be
useful to be able to access doc title from env. tantek
pointed out this is not powerful enough for general problem
florian: The generic solution pretty much calls for regions, though.
This is much simpler and solves some cases so I think it's
good to do. I recognize it's not a full solution

AmeliaBR: One thing is that CSS has a mechanism for what florian
wants in GCPM module. That is a much more complex and
nuanced system of pulling bits of text from a heading and
reusing in other parts of layout.
AmeliaBR: I don't know if there's any interest in getting that
cleaned and into browsers or if we want the quick win
florian: I think we should do this regardless. Other is slightly
more powerful, but it's still plaintext only and only works
in paged margin boxes so if you don't paginate you get
nothing. So this is less expressive but more applicable and
simpler
florian: I was discussing in context of Viviostyle and there were
cases to not invoke the whole complex process, just I want
the title and put it there.
florian: I don't think I wouldn't be pushing if we didn't have nth
function. We have the mechanism so this is exposing a value
through it

Rossen: Main motivation is in paginated scenarios?
florian: Commonly seen in paginated but this doesn't have to be
restricted. With nth works everywhere. If you want
something pagination-like you can invoke things like this
Rossen: Just curious use cases
florian: Same type of layout as paginated media but actual
pagination with css level of page is one thing, but
something that visually looks like pages is another. I'm
aware of wanting to do things that look page-like is a use
case

fantasai: Concern is this is too simple for what's wanted. If we go
in this direction we'll be too limited. Don't know how
urgent this is. If it's not something we have to do really
soon might be worth trying to sort out more generic that
solves this class of problems rather then special casing
this
<bkardell> it seems like we have maybe a lot of things that are
almost related to this
florian: Don't think particularly urgent. In that sense okay with
punting. More generic is way more complicated. I don't see
this as trying to solve whole problem. If want to expose
more through nth it seems reasonable.
fantasai: If it would solve 80% use cases it's worth, but seems
closer to 20% so I don't know it's worth introducing a new
pattern if we're not planning to pursue patterns
florian: I think for ebook this would solve most of the problems.
Depends on how you say 100%
fantasai: But they also want page number and chapter
florian: But in ebooks, chapters are HTML files, so, it is
sufficient for that case. It is simple

bkardell: I'm interested in this use case. I feel like I would like
to talk to florian a bit to understand more off call. If
it only can give you the plain text would you not be able
to achieve most by setting a custom prop for now? I think
we said it's just plain text so the 20% of use cases
wouldn't they be served equally as well with a css custom
property?
astearns: It's content duplication and you run the risk of out of
sync. This is slightly better then duplicating in custom
properties
florian: ebook with 25 chapters if you use nth you pull from doc,
custom prop you have it for each chapter
bkardell: That's what I'd like to understand more. They're not input
manually, they're built.
bkardell: Would mean multiple rules
astearns: Prob enough for now. Not hearing enough to pursue for now.
Maybe if we saw use of custom properties for this could
make better solution

florian: I'm hearing sufficient skepticism we're punting
AmeliaBR: florian worth looking if there are similar doc properties
where worth a common mechanism. Doc URL or parts of URL
might be similarly useful. Have permalink on a file. I
haven't looked and it's a matter of looking at what people
are actually using to insert into the generated content
florian: We can think of a few more, but that's enough for the topic
today. We can go offline

High contrast spec
==================

Rossen: I don't have a github issue for this
Rossen: I had an action after the F2F to go and put what we had in
an explainer and add more spec text to introduce high
contrast feature as is defined and working inside of edge
and IE
Rossen: The pretty print of the HTML is linked above
Rossen: Request is to move this out of my github and into CSSWG repo
as one venue or pursuing this. Or identify parts of spec
that will go to currently worked on specs. I can see a MQ go
to MQ spec, cascade going to cascade. That's what I wanted
to get from WG and figure out next steps

Rossen: Not sure if anyone had a chance to review, it's fairly short
fantasai: I haven't but TabAtkins and I plan to tomorrow. I can get
review by next week
Rossen: Sounds great. I just want to take it out of private repo and
get it into CSS
Rossen: I'm okay breaking this apart into appropriate specs or keep
as one until it solidifies more and then break. Either is
okay
fantasai: Ultimately want all MQ to go int MQ5. High contrast props
should go together, don't know spec
<fantasai> there was a printer color adjust control as well that
should go together with this
Rossen: This is something...this is why I wanted to keep it as one
spec to begin so it brings whole picture together in terms
of what the high contrast feature does. Once this is better
understood we can break apart into appropriate modules
florian: Depends how many we want to break into. Mostly together
makes sense. I'm interested in splitting MQ early because
the whole thing is interaction between that MQ and others
in that domain. I'd hate to go too far and it doesn't mesh
Rossen: You suggesting break MQ out now and add to MQ5?
florian: And the rest in the stand alone ED and work on that
AmeliaBR: Looking at Rossen's draft there isn't a lot of the rest.
Any problem with all into MQ5 for now and maybe we find a
better place for the extra property later?
Rossen: Not opposed
fantasai: Makes sense. Not stay indefinitely but for current state
of discussion makes sense to have a section that deals
with color adjust stuff

florian: Rossen do you want to be a coeditor of MQ5?
Rossen: Sure

astearns: Do we want to resolve to add this to MQ5 now or give a
week for review?
<fantasai> MQ is re-used outside of CSS, so definitely shouldn't
stay there :) But fine to be there for a few months while
we figure out where things should go
<heycam> +1 to move it all into MQ5 for now
Rossen: Comfortable with either. If people feel this is better in
MQ5 and this is where we're going to go let's just go. We
can always make changes
fremy: Agree with Rossen. We can start to files issues against it
which is better then filing issues when it's not official. If
we all agree it's in MQ5 let's agree on it
fantasai: I'd say wait a week. I can do a review and maybe we have
clearer idea of what we want to assign
fremy: I have issues I'd like to file but I don't know where
fantasai: We do have a single repo so you can file and tag later

Rossen: If it's okay with WG I cam move spec as-is right now knowing
it's unofficial into CSS Repo. I'm attending blink-con next
week during call so I'm not going to be present. I would be
happier if people started shooting issues into a repo and
tag against spec
florian: Okay with that
astearns: I'd rather not put it in repo as-is if going to put it
into MQ. Rather open issues on repo and tag later. Just @
Rossen and melanierichards

<AmeliaBR> We also have another proposal for a "media-query
adjacent" CSS property in supported-color-schemes,
which should probably go in the same place as this
high-contrast override property.

florian: There's 2 parts in this to me. MQ and high-contrast-adjust.
high-contrast-adjust is a pattern I think we'll see so it
belongs. The new cascading border doesn't belong. It's got
the backdrop in there?
Rossen: It's not there. It's not currently expressed as a reachable
entity through style layer. If you recall the discussion I
did point out to be successful for impl. There was some
interest this could apply to things like captions. In event
that we believe this new feature should surface on CSS layer
I can add the spec text. For now not exposed because can't
be reached by author
florian: That part just doesn't feel like it should be in MQ
Rossen: Agree, totally different. Maybe it's B&B if anything

astearns: Let's keep in Rossen's repo for now. Please review doc and
open issues on our repo and we'll descide after a bit of
review what we'll do

CSS Text
========

text-transform's design, intent and reality resolution
------------------------------------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3775

astearns: Wanted to have this introduced so can make a bit of
progress before bringing in more people
bkardell: I don't see where this was spec originally in the design,
but at some point it became a stated thing we have talked
about about the intent of text-transform and what it
exposes to screen readers and why
bkardell: Feel like I dropped the ball a bit on kana discussions
because I know it wasn't reality and assumed other people
did too. Some of the text stuff I don't feel I can comment
so wasn't paying close attention
bkardell: Opened a different issue requesting something that is
inline with how screen readers work. That changes to how
we have designed to not expose text to screen readers.
It's come up that it does not match reality
bkardell: AT and browsers have chosen universally to expose
transform text. I'd like to consider that so that we can
properly discuss the other issue
bkardell: My position is that the ones that exist and in wide use
are stated design principle is out of touch with reality.
It's a conscious choice that's what users want. At a
minimum our principle needs some finesse

florian: The discussion is a bit long winded, I'll jump to where we
are. I don't see the same contradiction as bkardell if we
look a little deeper. Don't think it's interesting to
debate what screen reader users what, the experts have
said. Screen readers do not give access to raw doc, they
present it. It's easier to include the transform. I don't
think that makes semantics change
florian: I don't think we could do that. There are places where we
don't present CSS so we can't say that text-transforms are
an intrinsic part of doc that can't be removed. If screen
readers as one UA think best way to present is to apply the
text-transform, great. But I don't think we can go from
there to never not allow them to be applied. If you
introduce a new text-transform old browsers won't know
florian: I think we have to recognize that the doc is the doc and
the text-transforms need to be allowed to apply. I think
the claim that case transforms are desirable is credible,
but I don't want to generalize to say all transforms always
must be preserved. I think cjk and i18n transforms you want
the other way.
florian: I think we need to discuss transform by transforms, but
can't say all must be preserved

fantasai: I agree with florian that text-transform can't be
intrinsic part of doc semantics. They were designed as a
way to have this distinction partly. If we don't have them
to different doc and visual rendering we'll have to find a
way to do it.
fantasai: Someone suggested creating a custom font, I don't want to
get into that arms race
fantasai: I'm not sure how deeply this was investigated in the past.
I don't see anything in bugzilla. Chrome issues had people
arguing on both sides. I don't know if this has been
investigated deeply enough. We need to talk to the people
we need to talk to and figure out what to do. It's
possible the current situation is what fell out of
original implementations, and screen readers just dealt
with it but it's not ideal. If no discussion on Gecko it's
probably what's convenient

IanPouncey: Few points, to reiterate bkardell's point it seemed to
those of us who work with screen readers that this was
common knowledge, that's on us. For what florian said I
think misconception about where problem lies. It's not
screen readers doing transform, it's the browser and
a11y tree exposing it
IanPouncey: It's not screen reader doing anything in most modern
browsers. Any of the ideas of a screen reader making a
decision about what to present is problematic because
you cannot reverse a transform to uppercase because you
don't know what char were uppercase
IanPouncey: Speculating on this, I wonder if there's a similar issue
for content on the radar. I think there was an
assumption when property introduced that it's not
exposed to screen readers and it is now. I wonder if
there's a similar problem there
<fantasai> Point about delivering transformed text through AT
meaning screenreaders can't access original text even if
they want to is imho important

Rossen: Way screen readers work is a long discussion. How text is
represented also heavily depends on current platform support
and AT consuming that information. nvbia on windows will
have different characteristics to express richness of text
compared to narrator using ui automation
Rossen: One thing I know from interacting with the community and
a11y wgs and impl a11y the thing I can tell you is a lot of
people think of screen readers for the blind. It's part of
the users but not all. Most people are those with low
vision. They can see parts of the screen. So when you start
producing disparity between rendered results and what screen
reader represents it becomes confusing
Rossen: Consider editing scenarios- most people will navigate text
by character to check spelling. If at that time you have
text-transform that caps for example for them to not know
it's upper case will be confusing. Same reason why we map
ital to em, lots of font features that map to a11y prop I
don't see why this should be unique
Rossen: Other thing I want to give a big shout out, CSSAAM would be
ideal place to continue this discussion
<fantasai> wrt checking spelling in editing environment... ideally
you want to know what text you're actually typing, for
when the text-transform goes away -- source text should
be following standard capitalization rules, would be
problematic if ::first-line { text-transform: uppercase;}
led someone to type in all-caps when replacing one word
with another in the first phrase of a para
<fantasai> generally, editing text with text-transform turned on is
going to be very confusing regardless...

AmeliaBR: There's 2 aspects to the discussion. What should happen,
how is best way to expose full information. Then specific
practical issue in that we have recently added values of
text-transform with some impl and this new prop for math
variants
AmeliaBR: By putting it all in text-transform it forces us to treat
them the same for exposing before or after transform values
AmeliaBR: Even if not complete agree on optimal for exposing case
changes I'm trusting florian that exposing CJK
typographical is a problematic situation from a11y.
AmeliaBR: If mathML comes through it's very important to expose
transformation.
AmeliaBR: With these different semantic impacts it might be worth
discussing if these should be split up, even if it's
transform to long hands that could all reset by a
shorthand but there is a text-transform case that's
different then CJK text-transform. If we separate to
different properties we can start talking semantics and
what strange transformations happen
AmeliaBR: Especially in terms of what's exposed to a11y, innerText,
copy/paste APIs, lots of places where people use
text-transform and if they're not all equal maybe use
different properties
<fantasai> reason to have separate longhands is needing them to
cascade separately... if the only concern is what impacts
they have, we can categorize within the spec

florian: I am aware about difference IanPouncey mentioned between
what screen readers do and what's in at. Idea is that text
in AT would be end transformed text and have the original
information so screen readers can make decision. In case of
case transforms if every screen reader wants to do the same
thing with it and the current AT does the transform already
it will be uphill to un-transform. For case transforms if
it's a standard today fine let's leave it
florian: But that's what I want to Japanese which is keep
untransformed text and keep information about transforms so
that screen readers can add extra information if they want.
The Math case I think is kind of related. I don't think we
can rely on the transforms to change document semantics.
florian: If we want to introduce a new semantic differences we have
to introduce it in the document and that can impact the AT
tree. We can't just change the font and claim it lets us
introduce semantic differences that would change the
meaning of the document. Upper case is useful but not
changing doc meanings. If we want to introduce math it will
fail in all cases

astearns: To respond to AmeliaBR- I think the idea of separating
properties is interesting but maybe not entirely
necessary. If we want we can spec what happens to values
or properties and they can differ.
astearns: To respond to florian I think there is prob a fallback
that can work for new math transforms. If you see support
you get fractor, if you don't you do extra styling
florian: And it disappears in reader modes
astearns: Fair
florian: If you want to style that's fine. Introducing fundamentally
different semantics won't work.

IanPouncey: Cautious +1 to expose detail of transform and original
content. I can see if there's any appetite for that.
Hopefully we can get idea if that's possible. Also
acknowledging the prompt to add CSSAAM to this discussion

AmeliaBR: Follow up on florian's concern about semantics in
document. The request for math transforms is from MathML
as a way to describe behavior of MathML attribute in a way
that can be consistently impl. That is something where
there is semantics in doc level but nice to be able to
describe it. Maybe also use same effects in more
decorative cases
florian: Fair and useful so thing into a11y tree is the transformed
and may be useful

astearns: We're at time. The call bridge will stay open if people
want to chat and then put the discussion in the issue
astearns: Thank you all very much


## Re: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Charles LaPierre (charlesl@benetech.org) • April 03, 2019 • Permalink

Hi Sina,
I think it would be good for you to review/comment on these two pull requests they will be discussing tomorrow.
* https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/923

* https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/924

Thanks
EOM
Charles LaPierre
Technical Lead, DIAGRAM and Born Accessible
Skype: charles_lapierre
Phone: 650-600-3301

On Apr 3, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Sina Bahram <sina@sinabahram.com<mailto:sina@sinabahram.com>> wrote:

I’m at a conference, so my regrets on this, but I’m really passionate about this topic. Please let me know if there’s questions I can answer or things I can comment on/provide feedback for.

President, Prime Access Consulting, Inc.
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From: Charles LaPierre <charlesl@benetech.org<mailto:charlesl@benetech.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:04 PM
To: public-mathonw. <public-mathonwebpages@w3.org<mailto:public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>>
Cc: Sina Bahram <sina@sinabahram.com<mailto:sina@sinabahram.com>>; George Kerscher <georgek@benetech.org<mailto:georgek@benetech.org>>
Subject: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Hello everyone,
I wanted to let you know that in tomorrows ARIA WG call the topic of new Braille Properties added to ARIA will be discussed.

Unfortunately I can not attend as I am presenting at that time, but I hope those who joined the ARIA WG from this group will be able to attend.
Here is the agenda Item and information regarding the call which is tomorrow April 4th at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern
* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Time:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA&iso=20190404T13&p1=43&ah=1

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* New issue triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+

* New pull-request triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+

* Quick status check of active role-parity issues:
- fieldset/legend: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/911

- label: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/886

- time: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/895

* Quick, straw-poll-level discussion:
- Keep children-presentational on math role?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/425

- Do we want aria-rowtext, aria-coltext, and/or aria-listitemtext?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/667

* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Previous Meeting Minutes:
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## RE: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Sina Bahram (sina@sinabahram.com) • April 03, 2019 • Permalink

I'm at a conference, so my regrets on this, but I'm really passionate about
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Subject: ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let you know that in tomorrows ARIA WG call the topic of new
Braille Properties added to ARIA will be discussed.

Unfortunately I can not attend as I am presenting at that time, but I hope
those who joined the ARIA WG from this group will be able to attend.

Here is the agenda Item and information regarding the call which is tomorrow
April 4th at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern

* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Time:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA&iso=20190404
T13&p1=43&ah=1> &iso=20190404T13&p1=43&ah=1

If you would like to add an item to the agenda please reply to this mail.

* New issue triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93
<https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+cr
eated%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+>
&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+
* New pull-request triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-0
3-28+
* Quick status check of active role-parity issues:
- fieldset/legend: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/911
- label: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/886
- time: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/895
* Quick, straw-poll-level discussion:
- Keep children-presentational on math role?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/425
- Do we want aria-rowtext, aria-coltext, and/or aria-listitemtext?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/667
* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Previous Meeting Minutes:
https://www.w3.org/2019/03/28-aria-minutes.html

IRC: irc.w3.org:6665 <http://irc.w3.org:6665>  #aria

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## ARIA WG Meeting tomorrow to discuss the new Braille Proposal

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Charles LaPierre (charlesl@benetech.org) • April 03, 2019 • Permalink

Hello everyone,
I wanted to let you know that in tomorrows ARIA WG call the topic of new Braille Properties added to ARIA will be discussed.

Unfortunately I can not attend as I am presenting at that time, but I hope those who joined the ARIA WG from this group will be able to attend.
Here is the agenda Item and information regarding the call which is tomorrow April 4th at 10AM Pacific / 1PM Eastern
* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Time:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ARIA&iso=20190404T13&p1=43&ah=1

If you would like to add an item to the agenda please reply to this mail.

* New issue triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+
* New pull-request triage:

https://github.com/w3c/aria/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E%3D2019-03-28+
* Quick status check of active role-parity issues:
- fieldset/legend: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/911
- label: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/886
- time: https://github.com/w3c/aria/pull/895
* Quick, straw-poll-level discussion:
- Keep children-presentational on math role?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/425
- Do we want aria-rowtext, aria-coltext, and/or aria-listitemtext?
https://github.com/w3c/aria/issues/667
* New braille properties:
- aria-roledescription-braille
- aria-label-braille

Previous Meeting Minutes:
https://www.w3.org/2019/03/28-aria-minutes.html

IRC: irc.w3.org:6665<http://irc.w3.org:6665> #aria

Call Details: https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_aria

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## Using MathML-Based Speech to Edit Math in Different Math Models

Source: Murray Sargent: Math in Office • MurrayS3 • March 28, 2019 • Permalink

This post discusses how an Assistive Technology program (AT) can use Presentation MathML to create consistent speech for editing equations created with different math models, such as OfficeMath and MathType. A goal is to make the speech and editing experience be as similar as possible, even though the underlying math models differ in significant ways. An important aid for editing is that the editor handle navigation so that the insertion point (IP) and speech are synchronized. When navigation occurs in a MathML copy of the math zone, editing isn’t possible unless there’s a way to convert a location in the MathML copy to the corresponding character position (cp) in the document. Such synchronization is also needed in calculating the bounding rectangles of the math being spoken. Math keyboard input is facilitated by sophisticated input methodology, such as special hot keys, autocorrection, and autocompletion. The AT should not attempt to handle math keyboard input.

The post Speaking of math… describes two granularities of math speech: coarse-grained (navigate by words—siblings), which speaks math expressions fluently in a natural language, and fine-grained (navigate by characters), which reveals the content at the insertion point (IP) in enough detail to enable unambiguous editing. It seems clear that an AT can generate the same coarse-grained math speech from the MathML for an equation regardless of the underlying math model. The question arises as to whether the fine-grained math speech can also be the same for different math models.

## Math speech generality

To create math speech for all math models, the MathML and the speech generated therefrom need to be rich enough semantically to describe the union of all arguments of all math objects (fractions, subscripts, integrals, math functions, etc.) of the various math models. The post Integrands, Summands, and Math Function Arguments compares some math objects for OfficeMath, Presentation MathML, Content MathML, [La]TeX, MathType/Equation Editor, and Nemeth math braille. To illustrate one difficulty, Presentation MathML, LaTeX and Nemeth braille don’t have explicit ­N-ary elements, while the others do. If the same fine-grained math speech is to work for all models, they all need to supply MathML that lets the AT announce that the insertion point is at the end of an integrand, for example.

Another case is the OfficeMath math-function object which has a function-name argument and an argument for the function. For example, in memory sin 𝑥 is stored as a math-function object with the name “sin” and the math argument 𝑥. It’s important for fine-grained speech to announce, “end of function name” when the user navigates past the ‘n’ and “end of argument” when the user navigates past 𝑥 but not yet out of the math-function object. That notifies the user that subsequent keyboard input will be in the function name or argument, respectively. The user might want to change sin 𝑥 to sin 𝑥², for which the math-function argument is 𝑥² and thereby not mean (sin 𝑥)².

Math semantics are important for correct math speech. For example, most superscripts represent raising a base to a power, so that speaking 𝑎² as “a squared” is correct. But in tensor analysis, superscripts are used as indices and 𝑎² should be spoken as “a superscript 2” or “a sup 2”. Presentation MathML 3.0 doesn’t have a way to distinguish between these cases. Adding new MathML attributes could provide a concise way to convey the semantics for speech. Alternatively, the <semantics> tag could be included with the corresponding Content MathML, but that approach is probably too involved for most ATs.

## Differences in MathML and OfficeMath models

To illustrate differences in computer math models, consider how MathML, MathType, and OfficeMath represent sin 𝑥. In the PowerPoint and RichEdit OfficeMath memory layouts, sin 𝑥 appears as <U+FDD0>sin<U+FDEE>𝑥<U+FDDF>. Here the Unicode character <U+FDD0> is the math-object start delimiter, the <U+FDEE> is the argument separator, and the <U+FDDF> is the math-object end delimiter. Word also has such delimiters but with different values. Starting at the <U+FDD0>, each → arrow key moves past one of these characters. In a math model that doesn’t have the math-function object, no → arrow key is needed to move to the start of the function name or to move out of the math-function argument. That’s a basic difference in UI between models that affects fine-grained math speech. It doesn’t affect coarse-grained math speech, which in English is “sine x” for all math models.

Ideally the Presentation MathML for sin 𝑥 is

<mrow><mi>sin</mi><mo>&2061;</mo><mi>𝑥</mi></mrow>

How do you relate a position in this MathML to the corresponding position in the OfficeMath memory? Do the <mrow> and </mrow> each have a character position (cp)? They do for OfficeMath, but not for MathType. Are <mi>sin</mi> and <mi>𝑥</mi> separated by a character? They are in OfficeMath, but not in MathType. MathType represents the difference between the sin and the 𝑥 by character formatting and doesn’t use object delimiters for math functions.

Another cp mapping example is <mfrac><mi>a</mi><mi>b</mi></mfrac>. In MathML, there’s nothing between the numerator <mi>a</mi> and the denominator <mi>b</mi>, while in the OfficeMath backing store, there’s the U+FDEE argument separator. In a MathML model, when at the start of <mi>a</mi> the → arrow key might move directly into the denominator, while in OfficeMath it moves to the end of the numerator, allowing the user to insert characters there. It takes an additional → arrow key to move to the start of the denominator.

In addition to location differences in MathML and math-zone spaces, there are text-length changes resulting from automatic conversions of ASCII and lower-case Greek letters to math-italic letters, hidden text, revision marks, and special objects not representable in MathML such as images, hyperlinks, and fields. So, mapping from MathML space to editing space needs special assistance.

## Navigating in MathML space

MathPlayer uses a MathML representation of an equation and navigates in the abstract MathML space, not the editing space. Hence it needs a way to transfer MathPlayer locations to the user selection for inserting/deleting/selecting text and displaying bounding rectangles. In principle, the MathML writer can create a cp array indexed by the MathML-tag index. Every MathML tag would have an entry in the array, including all closing tags. Then a new UIA method could allow an AT navigating in the MathML space to set a client selection end to the cp for the nth tag. In particular, the AT could set the edit insertion point and bounding rectangles corresponding to locations in the MathML space.

This approach requires that the AT keep track of the MathML tag indices. The post Math Accessibility Trees compares a display tree to a semantic tree for the equation

This equation appears in Nemeth braille as

⠹⠂⠌⠆⠨⠏⠼⠮⠰⠴⠘⠆⠨⠏⠐⠹⠨⠈⠈⠙⠨⠹⠌⠁⠬⠃⠀⠎⠊⠝⠀⠨⠹⠼⠀⠨⠅⠀⠹⠂⠌⠜⠁⠘⠆⠐⠤⠃⠘⠆⠐⠻⠼

There are nodes in both trees to attach the MathML tag indices to. Each node needs to cache the tag indices for the start and end tags that delimit the node.

This approach isn’t likely to be implemented by Microsoft Word since Word creates MathML by converting the OMML for the requested math to MathML using OMML2MML.xsl, a process that doesn’t keep track of MathML tag cp’s. Word would have to create a native MathML writer to implement a tag-cp mapping array. Such an array could be implemented in the RichEdit native MathML writer, thereby enabling tag-cp mapping in PowerPoint and OneNote. The RichEdit MathML writer was created before the OfficeMath build up/down facility was written. That facility uses a subset of the TOM interfaces that is implemented by Word and OfficeArt enabling them to use the facility. The RichEdit MathML reader also uses the TOM subset and in principle could be used by Word instead of converting MathML to OMML using MML2OMML.xsl. In contrast, the RichEdit MathML writer is pretty RichEdit-specific. Math zones can be copied from Word into RichEdit, but the original Word cp’s aren’t copied.

## Navigating in editing space

If navigation is done in the editing space, the post Editing Math using MathML for Speech describes two ways for an AT to produce fine-grained math speech from MathML: 1) the MathML contains an <maction> element that gives the explicit math speech for the content at the insertion point, or 2) the MathML represents the math object in which the insertion point is located and includes an <maction> element identifying the insertion point. The first approach typically leads to different speech for different programs.

Character navigation in the editing space depends on the order in which math-object arguments appear in memory and how the arrow keys are handled. All math models put the numerator of a fraction before the denominator and can in principle be traversed using the ← and → arrow keys. MathType puts the integrand of an integral object first, followed by the lower limit and then the upper limit, while OfficeMath puts the limits first followed by the integrand, which is the visual order. Also, MathType uses ↑ and ↓ to navigate between N-ary object arguments vertically, perhaps because the arguments aren’t located in visual order and the ← and → arrow keys are strictly geometric and don’t traverse every character in an equation. In OfficeMath, the ← and → arrow keys move logically, rather than purely geometrically, and traverse every character in an equation. For example, the → arrow key at the end of a numerator moves to the start of the denominator. The MathML <mroot> puts the index after the radicand, while OfficeMath puts it before (in display order).

The most straight-forward approach is to navigate in the editing space as done with character and word (sibling) navigation with OfficeMath speech and Narrator. Then the insertion point is always synced to the speech. Characters are entered and deleted correctly, and information that MathML doesn’t represent is retained. MathPlayer was designed to explore equations and wasn’t intended to be used for creating and editing equations. The MathType editor has no accessibility support so editing equations using speech wasn’t a design scenario. In contrast, it was an essential design scenario for OfficeMath. It wouldn’t be hard to duplicate the richer MathPlayer navigation experience in OfficeMath but by navigating in the editing space rather than in a virtual MathML space.

One might ask whether it’s desirable to have a one-size-fits-all fine-grained editing experience. It might be unexpected or even confusing to say “end of argument” after the 𝑥 in sin 𝑥 in environments that don’t have a math-function object. That coupled with the differences in the way math text is laid out in memory makes the goal of identical fine-grained speech for all math models seem impractical. But for coarse-grained speech, these details are hidden, and it should be possible to have the same coarse-grained math speech for all math models.

It’s a pleasure to thank Doug Geoffray, Ron Parker, and Neil Soiffer for very helpful discussions on these topics.

## [CSSWG] Minutes San Francisco F2F 2019-02-25 Part I: CSS Values, MathML Summary, WPTest Center, CSS Color, CSS Pseudo Elements [css-values] [css-color] [css-pseudo]

Source: www-style@w3.org Mail Archives • Dael Jackson (daelcss@gmail.com) • March 26, 2019 • Permalink

=========================================
These are the official CSSWG minutes.
Unless you're correcting the minutes,
Please respond by starting a new thread
with an appropriate subject line.
=========================================

CSS Values
----------

- RESOLVED: We will use the bracket range notation (Issue #355:
Define value syntax that limits <integer>, <number>,
<length>, etc. to ranges)
- Flag against the issue all specs that need to have their grammar
updated and authors can remove the flag once they have made the
changes.
- Bikeshed might need an update to correctly parse the new syntax.

MathML summary
--------------

- There is a new community group called MathML Refresh that is
working on rewriting the MathML spec. It's starting to surface
questions and issues for the CSSWG in github and those
interested in Layout should take a look.

WPTest Center
-------------

- TabAtkins did a demo on http://wptest.center/ and how it can help
the group in writing tests.

CSS Color
---------

- RESOLVED: Updated WD of css-color-4

CSS Pseudo Elements
-------------------

- RESOLVED: pseudo() must always return the same object. Note that
object can be GC'd if this is unobservable. (Issue
#3607: Identity of Element.pseudo() return value)

===== FULL MINUTES BELOW ======

Agenda: https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/sf-2019

Present:
Rachel Andrew, Fronteers
Rossen Atanassov, Microsoft
Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Invited Expert
Tantek Çelik, Mozilla
Emilio Cobos, Mozilla
Dave Cramer, Hachette Livre
Elika Etemad, Invited Expert
Jihye Hong, LGE
Brian Kardell, JS Foundation (phone)
Chris Lilley, W3C (phone)
Cameron McCormack, Mozilla
Theresa O'Connor, Apeoplee
François Remy, IDLAB
Manuel Rego, Igalia
Florian Rivoal, Invited Expert
Hiroshi Sakakibara, BPS(Beyond Perspective Solutions)
Jen Simmons, Mozilla
Hyojin Song, LG Electronics
Greg Whitworth, Microsoft
Fuqiao Xue, W3C

Scribe: gregwhitworth

CSS Values
==========

--------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/355#issuecomment-458324757

AmeliaBR: Currently we have something like <length-percent> and in
the prose it says negative values are invalid
AmeliaBR: The idea is to get that into the actual syntax grammar
AmeliaBR: Especially with various houdini APIs we're providing
AmeliaBR: The issue is to discuss what this syntax looks like
AmeliaBR: My proposal was to look like something like sgml
attributes, we're using angle brackets for data types
AmeliaBR: fantasai concern is that that can get verbose
AmeliaBR: If you go down to the second to last issue I have the
different options with 4 real world examples
AmeliaBR: Any pros/cons - I've listed mine but would like to hear
people's feedback
fantasai: I like my proposal
fantasai: I really don't want to make things too verbose, the more
the grammar has to wrap lines the harder it is to read
fantasai: I prefer the more human readable version
<astearns> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/355#issuecomment-458324757

[TabAtkins shows options on screen]
[TabAtkins explains the various proposals in the link above]
fantasai: A minimum in human readable could be 0+

TabAtkins: I'm most a fan of the bracket range syntax
fantasai: If you're going to use multipliers, it uses similar syntax,
so anyone reading the grammar already needs to learn the
pattern.
TabAtkins: This is already in the syntax
TabAtkins: I agree with the idea in general
TabAtkins: I agree with AmeliaBR that with Houdini we need to

heycam: A non syntax question
heycam: When we have prose that restricts these values, when we have
calc expressions, when we have negative inside the calc -
would a change to this syntax make some values invalid
earlier?
TabAtkins: This shouldn't change anything this is just moving the
prose into the grammar
TabAtkins: calcs() are still valid and clamp to the range
heycam: If you have a property number 1-1000
heycam: and you use any calc inside that
TabAtkins: Yep, that should work

astearns: Does anyone have any objections to bracket notation
astearns: I would prefer to have explicit rather than empty
TabAtkins: What about writing infinity rather than the symbol
fantasai: No, too long
iank: Are we allowing the word infinity?
iank: I'm biased to the Javascript
TabAtkins: What about both?
iank: I'm fine with both
AmeliaBR: That sounds the best for me
AmeliaBR: The infinity symbol is nice in a spec but not necessarily
for typing in code
<myles> +1 to what AmeliaBR said
heycam: Rather than brackets and commas you can use ..
heycam: Some languages include two dots others use three dots
<astearns> ∞ in the grammar is the start of a slippery slope to
writing css specs exclusively in emoji
gregwhitworth: I would prefer no on that
AmeliaBR: As fantasai noted the brackets are known in CSS in the
grammar
iank: Also the ... may get confused with the destructioring in JS
TabAtkins: We will go with the bracket version and allow Infinity
and the infinity symbol
TabAtkins: I would never propose the infinity symbol for CSS itself,
this is for syntax

florian: Bikeshed feature request, convert infinity word to symbol

fantasai: There is an infinity code and ampersand version
<TabAtkins> &infin;

fantasai: What's the case sensitivity of the infinity keyword?
TabAtkins: In JS it's Infinity
fantasai: As a string?
TabAtkins: it would be <number [1, Infinity]>

<AmeliaBR> Proposal: Use the bracket range notation (from the
issue), but with infinite ranges (no max/min) represented
by either Infinity or &infin; (or negative thereof)
AmeliaBR: It's not a string it's a token within the syntax

fantasai: Question, is our syntax types case sensitive
TabAtkins: The Houdini syntax cares
fantasai: Yeah we're consistent in our specs but I was curious
<TabAtkins> syntax: "big | BIGGER" in registerProperty() is
astearns: Any objections to the proposal

RESOLVED: We will use the bracket range notation

Go through the specs and update the grammar
-------------------------------------------

AmeliaBR: I can maybe do some PM on that, but I'm hoping the spec
editors will do some work
<myles> I can do fonts
<chris> I can do color
heycam: Does that require Bikeshed changes?
TabAtkins: No
TabAtkins: We can tag the specs that need the changes and then untag
as you make the changes
astearns: If you could please make sure that they all get changed

florian: Do we do that for specs that are RECs?
TabAtkins: Do it to the ED and wait for it to get to rec - it's an
editorial change
<fantasai> We need to push out the changes to css-values-3 first

<chris> did people hear? I asked that Rec changes get propagated to
errata
[working on getting chris audio]
astearns: Unless there's a really good reason to do that extra work,
I would prefer not to [in relation to chris's question]
<chris> I'm not sure why not update the errata
<chris> it's much less than making a new Rec
astearns: I'm just looking at it as make work, this isn't adding
anything to the Recs it's just a shortcut
<chris> ok in his case, yes, no normative change

MathML summary
==============

rego: This is a quick point - we were talking with Google about the
state of things
rego: Wanted to make everyone aware
rego: There has been work to update the spec and align closer to how
the browser works
rego: There is a new CG called MathML Refresh to write a new spec
that focuses on what browsers do
<rego> BTW some related links
https://people.igalia.com/mrego/mathml-refresh-community-group.html
rego: Basically they are starting to move this to a Github repo
rego: There is a MathML core there to implement in Webkit
rego: This was planned to be implemented in Chromium but we need to
clarify some issues with CSS, etc
rego: There are WPT tests and we'll be creating more tests and
porting the ones from webkit
rego: There are some new CSS proposals, but just in case someone is
interested in it to go take a look
rego: That's mostly all of it, Igalia has begun implementing MathML
in LayoutNG in collaboration with Google. It's currently in a
private Igalia fork
rego: Let me know if you have any questions
<gsnedders> there's a whole load of tests for the MathML subset
Opera supported in the old presto-testo repo, though I
don't know if they're very useful (they probably aren't
reftests :()

TabAtkins: These CSS proposals, they haven't showed up in the group
at all?
rego: No - people are just starting to talk about it, if people are
interested they can take a look
TabAtkins: Can you open an issue to link to the ideas so that we can
go look at them?
astearns: I was going to say similar, as things get further along it
would be good to bring them here
iank: I'm going through and filing some core issues with MathML
today and tomorrow, how should margin collapsing work in
MathML? Because there is currently no interop, etc
iank: Those that know layout and have opinions should probably chime
in
rego: That's all

dauwhe: How is the quality of the current MathML spec
dauwhe: Had to look at it and it's written in this older style that
is hard to follow
rego: The meaning of the group is meant to work on that, I can't
necessarily speak to the quality of the spec
rego: You can implement in many different ways, the spec didn't
necessarily define how to implement things
<bkardell> I believe one task the group wants to do is also spec it
out more like the newer HTML specs
dauwhe: Are they considering splitting out the presentational markup
from the content markup?
<bkardell> yes that is my understanding
<bkardell> to what dauwhe said
bkardell: One task group wants to do things like newer HTML specs
TabAtkins: Yeah, that's what they're currently doing
dauwhe: That's good to hear
dauwhe: afaik semantic MathML is only used in XML  toolchains,
is not exposed to the Web

WPTest Center
=============

TabAtkins: A little while ago fremy gave a presentation about
wptest.center
TabAtkins: I've been using it to write the CSS syntax tests from the
past 5 years
[TabAtkins shows a demo on how to do this]
TabAtkins: Syntax tools are almost all in JS
<bkardell> this is awesome
<chris> is there a way to add reftests?
<astearns> no reftests from this tool
<bkardell> thank you astearns
<chris> I like that this lowers friction for a quick test
fremy: It's primarily to help unblock the CR so people can quickly
submit a test
astearns: I was going to encourage everyone to take a look and try
it out
astearns: and we need to be writing more of these tests, maybe the
ease of this will be nice to add a reftest for this
astearns: It's OSS so it may be nice to add a file picker to add a
reftest
TabAtkins: You don't have to deal with the repo
astearns: We are still waiting on hearing from external people

[20 min break]

CSS Color
=========
Scribe: fantasai

Updated WD of css-color-4
-------------------------

chris: Hello everyone!
chris: Quick request to update Color
chris: Someone was saying "oh, there haven't been changes since
2016" and I realized they were looking at /TR
chris: Over weekend I made a list of changes
chris: Lots of issues still open, but just asking for updated WD
<AmeliaBR> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-4/#changes-from-20160705

fantasai: Any changes in scope?
chris: No just improvements to what's there
chris: Actually, one change in scope, removed color modification
function
chris: It was problematic and people weren't happy with it
chris: We need functionality like that, but not that particular thing
chris: Became an issue that people were trying to implement what was
on /TR and we didn't want that implemented

astearns: any objections to publishing?
<florian> +1 to publication

RESOLVED: Updated WD of css-color-4

CSS Pseudo Elements
===================

Identity of Element.pseudo() return value
-----------------------------------------
github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3607

heycam: Last time we discussed this on a call, I was suggesting that
the pseudo() function which returns a CSSPseudoElement object
heycam: should always return the same object regardless of what
values content has
heycam: just so that we don't have to rely on what the current style
state is to know when these objects should be dropped and
recreated
heycam: It felt a little strange at the time
heycam: One thing that might argue against returning same object is
if we have an API in the future that can create from script
one of these objects and insert it into the tree
heycam: Might be problematic to have stable object identity created
for style, vs created from script
heycam: But that's similar to what we do for @font-face

TabAtkins: If you re-parse the style sheet, we'll create new objects
myles: Actually, I spent a week of my time making that not true.
TabAtkins: Can you open an issue on not doing that?
myles: I originally wanted to do the thing you said
myles: It was brought to my attention that it was very common in JS
that authors would tack on properties to random objects
myles: so you can't just delete and recreate them
futhark: For Blink implementation, we used to recreate the
pseudo-element internally when content changed, but we
don't do that anymore
futhark: When content property changes, we regenerate ... but the
object stays the same
emilio: But you still regenerate when you switch content property to
none and back again, right?
TabAtkins: If you turn content to none and then ask for the pseudo,
you do return an object that you can return style on
right?
futhark: Are you talking about the pseudo() method or gCS()
TabAtkins: pseudo()
futhark: We don't implement it

emilio: Do we want to keep them lightweight objects or do we add
.style?
emilio: If we add .style we need to keep the ? around anyway
fantasai: Currently we've dropped .style from the spec
TabAtkins: Wait, we dropped .style?
heycam: We kept .type and .element and it's an event target
TabAtkins: OK
emilio: If you add some stateful thing that we don't want to
disappear randomly, then keeping object itself around is not
a huge deal because you need to keep that info around
emilio: but if not, then recreating it would be better
TabAtkins: I think it should have .style
TabAtkins: later
TabAtkins: Because pseudos act like DOM elements, they fill a
similar purpose
TabAtkins: Having object identity work it's nice
TabAtkins: Without that it's more annoying
TabAtkins: ...

TabAtkins: Myles's argument about FontFace objects suggests that
they should stay around on these objects, too.
myles: I don't know how applicable that argument is to pseudos
dbaron: I think one other comment about expandos is that CSSOM
objects are historically one of the objects where expandos
don't stay around
dbaron: They stay around in lots of places, but not in CSSOM objects
TabAtkins: Is it just font face objects that are connected, or
[missed]
myles: Font face rules will change... I don't remember.
<AmeliaBR> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Expando
"Expando properties are properties added to DOM nodes
with JavaScript, where those properties are not part of
the object's DOM specification"
<AmeliaBR> in case anyone else hadn't heard that JS jargon before...

florian: Another argument in favor of long-lived is if they're not,
we need to specify in detail what their lifecycles are
florian: And if we don't we'll expose a lot of implementation details
florian: Do you regenerate on content property changing from one
string to another? Flip to none and back? a display : none
subtree?
florian: etc.
TabAtkins: If we just make the element have a weak ref to its
pseudo, then expandos let you observe GC.
TabAtkins: Need to be either long-lived or regenerated on every call
myles: Most important part is that right now it's undefined when the
CSS engine decides to reparse rules or recreate derived
objects
myles: That's pretty important for optimization
myles: so tying JS-visible semantics to that schedule would be scary
myles: Instead we should define something more rigorous

dbaron: Why is your GC idea not viable?
TabAtkins: It allows you to detect when GC happens by seeing how
long the expando survives
dbaron: Traditional way around that is that the expando makes it not
collectible
TabAtkins: OK. My idea was to just hold it as a weak ref
dbaron: I think your weak ref idea is workable if we make expandos
not collectible.
myles: It's true in our engine also
TabAtkins: If that's the case, then all the exposed possibilities
for GC are handled if expando force a strong reference
TabAtkins: Incompatible with .style

fantasai: One concern was about keeping around a lot of memory if
you iterate the entire tree
fantasai: If the pseudo doesn't generate a box, you return null, but
as soon as you generate a box you generate the object and
keep it around
emilio: That's also incompatible with making that API work with
stuff like selection
emilio: For ::first-line ::first-letter, fine, but won't work for
some other stuff
TabAtkins: I think returning null is OK only for things that don't
exist, like the name is invalid
<fremy> +1
fantasai: Shouldn't that throw an error?
TabAtkins: No

florian: How long-lived is it?
heycam: So we always return the same object, and it's kinda like
it's connected to the element you call it on
TabAtkins: You're allowed to drop the object if doing so is
unobservable
TabAtkins: e.g if no expando, no references, can drop it and
recreate it
TabAtkins: I guess you can't observe object identity without a
reference

smfr: Same object in IDL?
TabAtkins: That's advisory in the IDL. Have to say in algorithm what
happens
myles: Can we make another IDL attribute that means "for real"? :)
heycam: What it means for a particular API is not particularly
clear, so need to say in the prose what type of object and
stuff.
myles: So it means nothing
heycam: It's a hint to the JS engine, that's all.
florian: There's a hint to the spec reader that there's some prose
somewhere that matters?
TabAtkins: Yes

astearns: So afaict, the proposed resolution is that pseudo() will
return the same object always
astearns: and we will have text suggesting that this can be GC if
that is unobservable
<TabAtkins> Proposed Resolution: pseudo() must always return the
same object (up to observability)
<TabAtkins> "same object" for a given element/pseudo pair
astearns: Objections/concerns?

RESOLVED: pseudo() must always return the same object. Note that
object can be GC'd if this is unobservable.


## Re: meetings

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Han (laughinghan@gmail.com) • March 21, 2019 • Permalink

Shoutout to Peter for all the organizational work you've done.

Han

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:36 PM Kaveh Bazargan <
kaveh@rivervalleytechnologies.com> wrote:

> I need to thank you too for all your effort, although I have not been able
> to make any of the meetings. What you all are doing is an important subject.
>
> Regards
> Kaveh
>
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 19:30, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:
>
>> Also please remember that with respect to accessibility support, the
>> ARIA Working Group is happy to help in any way we can.
>>
>> A number of members of this CG have already joined ARIA, which is great.
>> And any math-specific needs can be raised at the dedicated
>> first-meeting-of-the-month math-topic slot. (They can, of course, be
>> raised at any time; the dedicated slot is to prevent people from having
>> to go to meetings that might be irrelevant to them.)
>>
>> If there's anything else I or ARIA can do to help the effort, you know
>> where to find me. :)
>>
>> --joanie
>>
>> On 3/21/19 12:32 PM, Daniel Marques wrote:
>> > Hi Peter,
>> >
>> > That's a pity but fair. I would like to thank you for all efforts done
>> > during all this time.
>> >
>> > But remember that despite no meetings, maths are already in the browser
>> > in one way or another.
>> >
>> > Good luck! We are in time to setup a meeting if the occasion arises!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Dani
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM Peter Krautzberger
>> > <peter@krautzource.com <mailto:peter@krautzource.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Hi everyone,
>> >
>> >     Due to the lack of interest, there will be no meetings until further
>> >     notice.
>> >
>> >     Best,
>> >     Peter.
>> >
>> >
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > MathType 7 is out! Check the new version at wiris.com/mathtype
>> > <http://www.wiris.com/mathtype?utm_source=emailfooter>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Kaveh Bazargan PhD
> Director
> River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter
>


## Re: meetings

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Kaveh Bazargan (kaveh@rivervalleytechnologies.com) • March 21, 2019 • Permalink

I need to thank you too for all your effort, although I have not been able
to make any of the meetings. What you all are doing is an important subject.

Regards
Kaveh

On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 at 19:30, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs@igalia.com> wrote:

> Also please remember that with respect to accessibility support, the
> ARIA Working Group is happy to help in any way we can.
>
> A number of members of this CG have already joined ARIA, which is great.
> And any math-specific needs can be raised at the dedicated
> first-meeting-of-the-month math-topic slot. (They can, of course, be
> raised at any time; the dedicated slot is to prevent people from having
> to go to meetings that might be irrelevant to them.)
>
> If there's anything else I or ARIA can do to help the effort, you know
> where to find me. :)
>
> --joanie
>
> On 3/21/19 12:32 PM, Daniel Marques wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > That's a pity but fair. I would like to thank you for all efforts done
> > during all this time.
> >
> > But remember that despite no meetings, maths are already in the browser
> > in one way or another.
> >
> > Good luck! We are in time to setup a meeting if the occasion arises!
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dani
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM Peter Krautzberger
> > <peter@krautzource.com <mailto:peter@krautzource.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi everyone,
> >
> >     Due to the lack of interest, there will be no meetings until further
> >     notice.
> >
> >     Best,
> >     Peter.
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MathType 7 is out! Check the new version at wiris.com/mathtype
> > <http://www.wiris.com/mathtype?utm_source=emailfooter>
>
>
>

--
Kaveh Bazargan PhD
Director
River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter


## Re: meetings

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Joanmarie Diggs (jdiggs@igalia.com) • March 21, 2019 • Permalink

Also please remember that with respect to accessibility support, the
ARIA Working Group is happy to help in any way we can.

A number of members of this CG have already joined ARIA, which is great.
And any math-specific needs can be raised at the dedicated
first-meeting-of-the-month math-topic slot. (They can, of course, be
raised at any time; the dedicated slot is to prevent people from having
to go to meetings that might be irrelevant to them.)

If there's anything else I or ARIA can do to help the effort, you know
where to find me. :)

--joanie

On 3/21/19 12:32 PM, Daniel Marques wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> That's a pity but fair. I would like to thank you for all efforts done
> during all this time.
>
> But remember that despite no meetings, maths are already in the browser
> in one way or another.
>
> Good luck! We are in time to setup a meeting if the occasion arises!
>
> Regards,
>
> Dani
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM Peter Krautzberger
> <peter@krautzource.com <mailto:peter@krautzource.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everyone,
>
>     Due to the lack of interest, there will be no meetings until further
>     notice.
>
>     Best,
>     Peter.
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MathType 7 is out! Check the new version at wiris.com/mathtype
> <http://www.wiris.com/mathtype?utm_source=emailfooter>


## Re: meetings

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Daniel Marques (dani@wiris.com) • March 21, 2019 • Permalink

Hi Peter,

That's a pity but fair. I would like to thank you for all efforts done
during all this time.

But remember that despite no meetings, maths are already in the browser in
one way or another.

Good luck! We are in time to setup a meeting if the occasion arises!

Regards,

Dani

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:43 AM Peter Krautzberger <peter@krautzource.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Due to the lack of interest, there will be no meetings until further
> notice.
>
> Best,
> Peter.
>

--

MathType 7 is out! Check the new version at wiris.com/mathtype
<http://www.wiris.com/mathtype?utm_source=emailfooter>


## meetings

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • Peter Krautzberger (peter@krautzource.com) • March 20, 2019 • Permalink

Hi everyone,

Due to the lack of interest, there will be no meetings until further notice.

Best,
Peter.


## Re: Styling Content in <img> Elements

Source: www-style@w3.org Mail Archives • Tab Atkins Jr. (jackalmage@gmail.com) • March 13, 2019 • Permalink

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:19 PM Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com> wrote:
> CSS Working Group,
> MathML Refresh Community Group,
>
> In a recent MathML Refresh Community Group teleconference call, we briefly discussed styling content (e.g. SVG) loaded via <img> elements.
>
> If there isn’t already a means of utilizing CSS to style content loaded via <img> elements, I would like to propose a new combinator – perhaps “>>”.
>
> img >> svg { background-color: blue }
>
> What do you think?

I've moved your email to a GitHub issue:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3730

~TJ


## Styling Content in <img> Elements

Source: www-style@w3.org Mail Archives • Adam Sobieski (adamsobieski@hotmail.com) • March 13, 2019 • Permalink

CSS Working Group,
MathML Refresh Community Group,

In a recent MathML Refresh Community Group teleconference call, we briefly discussed styling content (e.g. SVG) loaded via <img> elements.

If there isn’t already a means of utilizing CSS to style content loaded via <img> elements, I would like to propose a new combinator – perhaps “>>”.

img >> svg { background-color: blue }

What do you think?

Best regards,


## Regrets RE: Meeting today

Source: public-mathonwebpages@w3.org Mail Archives • George Kerscher (kerscher@montana.com) • March 11, 2019 • Permalink

Regrets flying to CSUN/g

From: Peter Krautzberger <peter@krautzource.com>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2019 7:49 AM
To: mathonweb <public-mathonwebpages@w3.org>
Subject: Meeting today

Hi everyone,

Regrets from me today, I have a conflict.

Best,
Peter.


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