Fourth quarter 2004: WCAG 2.0 Development

The WCAG WG published four Working Drafts on 30 July 2004. Our current goal is to publish internal Working Drafts on 3 September and 8 October and our next public Working Draft on 3 November.

Goals/Milestones
Timeline: July through December
Plan for 3 September 2004 internal Working Drafts
- 3 Sep Milestones
- 3 Sep Editing tasks
Plan for 8 October 2004 internal Working Drafts
- 8 Oct Milestones
- 8 Oct Editing tasks
Plan for 19 November 2004 public Working Drafts

Goals/Milestones

Prioritize existing bugzilla issues to determine scope of next WD, set agenda for next few calls
Update Requirements documents (both for WCAG 2.0 as well as Techniques/Checklists)
Publish second WD of Gateway to Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Publish 3rd WD of HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Publish 2nd WD of CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0
Publish internal drafts of scripting techniques
Settle on a Conformance Scheme, address all outstanding conformance issues
Technical editor pass of document (particularly Introduction)
Draft initial FAQ for transition from 1.0 to 2.0 (perhaps replace or expand upon existing
Publish initial drafts of checklists

Timeline: July through December

July

30 July 2004 public drafts of

August

9 August Request for Review to WAI IG (until 10 September 2004)
10-19 August additional Requests for Review to other lists and people

September

3 September internal Working Drafts of:
- WCAG 2.0
- Gateway to WCAG 2.0
- CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0
- HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0
10 September internal Working Draft of Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0
10 September end of review period for 30 July 2004 WDs

October

Bugzilla issues associated with 8 October 2004 milestone
8 October - Gateway to Techniques internal WD
- Text for 5 more Guidelines
8 October - WCAG 2.0 internal WD
- concept of delivery unit in the draft (or whatever term we determine to use)
- numbering

November

Bugzilla issues associated with 3 November 2004 milestone
3 November - Gateway to Techniques internal WD
- Text for all 14 Guidelines
8 November requests for review (until 20 December?)

December

20 December - end of current review period?
~22 December to ~ 3 January - holidays. not much activity.

Plan for 3 September 2004 internal Working Drafts

3 September Working Draft Milestones

Bugzilla issues associated with 3 Sept 2004 milestone
3 September - WCAG 2.0 internal WD
- Updated 1.2
- Updated 2.4
- Unicode defn and action item
- Link to more Gateway techniques
- Reference to ATAG in Intro
3 September - Gateway to Techniques internal WD
- Text for 5 more Guidelines
3 September - HTML Techniques internal WD
- handle techniques submissions
- rollover previous issues
- issues listed in 30 july draft
- ednotes
- cull w3c-wai-gl and w3c-wai-ig for issues (other lists as well?)
3 September - CSS Techniques internal WD
- issues listed in current draft
- ednotes

Editing tasks and teleconference agendas needed to meet 3 September milestone
	Week of 16 August	Week of 23 August	Week of 30 August
WCAG 2.0			Ben: add ATAG paragraph to intro, add links to 1.3 in Gateway, add new 1.2, and new 2.4 (1.2 and 2.4 after Thursday's discussion)
Gateway	John and Tom: text for guideline 1.3 - reuse info from core	John: send proposal for 1.3 to the list by 30 August (monday). pick next guideline to tackle and begin work on. Wendy: prep to incorporate into source for 3 sept draft.	Wendy: incorporate 1.3 into source (depending on outcome of Ben's action) Ben: fix xslt so generates links to HTML and CSS techs documents John: start discussion on the mailing list about issues with gateway John: start drafting gateway section for 1.2
HTML	Michael: add Chris's techniques (~20 issues), handle five other issues	Michael: if no objections, add proposals to the source. Handle five more issues for HTML.	Michael: incorporate changes for internal draft on 3 sept and help with publication. (except for header - will repropose w/ednote). something related to summary="" discussion (ednote? proposal?)
CSS	Wendy: comments from Jens, +5 additional issues	Wendy: handle five more issues.	Wendy: Handle issue 1022, incorporate image replacement technique?
Checklists			Chris and Ben present new checklist prototype (at minimum: issues with creating a checklist)
Test suite
TTF telecon		25 August agenda: running tests?	1 September agenda: Check-in on publication of new internal drafts Gateway 1.3 proposal CSS image replacement technique (becky's proposal) Walk some of the HTML technique proposals (if time) summary="" discussion on IG? what's in our HTML draft? ednote in internal draft to that discussion? (if time) Test suites - review Chris' proposal (structure, how aligns w/jenae's process, wcag resource)
WCAG telecon	19 August agenda: IG comments 4.1 4.2 javascript and alternatives	26 August agenda: TTF summary and discussion (25 minutes) end-to-end analyses test files Gateway AUWG's proposed paragraph for introduction (15 minutes) Volunteers for action items (15 minutes) reading tasks? proposals for informative sections? creating test files, writing test procedures, running tests (to help gather until user agent support information) javascript and alternatives (30 minutes)	2 September agenda: TTF summary (Michael - 5 minutes) 1.2 issue summary (Wendy - 30 minutes) 2.4 issue summary (Yvette - 30 minutes) javascript and alternatives (15 minutes) prep for internal draft the next day, process reminders ("latest internal draft"), planning - (10 minutes) (if time and if proposal) gateway issues

Plan for 8 October 2004 internal Working Drafts

Week of 6 September

10 September - scripting Techniques internal WD
- *first* internal draft

Gateway: 3.1 the week of 6 sept?

Planning for 19-22 October Face-to-face in Dublin

Requested agenda items:

Lisa would like to see some of the metadata experts (who are planning to attend the DIWG workshop the week before) attend our F2F to discuss metadata.
Checklist - initial prototype by 3 nov WD?

8 October Working Draft Milestones

8 October WCAG 2.0 Internal WD
- Link to 2.4 in Gateway
- Have Overview of WCAG 2.0 (produced by EOWG) in place
- Text, non-text content, and Unicode definitions
- Updated 1.2
- Updated 2.4
- Updated 1.1
- Updated 4.2
8 October HTML Techniques Internal WD
- rollover previous issues
  - issues listed in 30 july draft
  - ednotes
- cull w3c-wai-gl and w3c-wai-ig for issues, possibly other lists and other public resources
- deal with as many more of the bugzilla issues as possible
- deal with as many public comments received as possible
- incorporate the redline comments Ben has been working on
- do a sanity check on links, link texts, short names, tasks, etc.
- update links to WCAG 1.0 resources to the corresponding WCAG 2.0 resource
- do an overall review on level of detail, language style, etc.
- propose additional techniques that are sitting in Michael's toolbox but haven't been discussed recently
- move external links in techniques bodies to references section
- index the HTML elements and attributes referred to and see if any seem to be missing or incomplete
8 October CSS Techniques Internal WD
8 October Gateway Techniques Internal WD
8 October Scripting Techniques Internal WD

Editing tasks and teleconference agendas needed to meet 3 September milestone
	Week of 06 September	Week of 13 September	Week of 20 September	Week of 27 September	Week of 04 October
WCAG 2.0	Wendy working on 1.2 (incorporate feedback into new proposal) Ben: proposal about moving subitems of criterion 1 into separate criteria	John and Yvette working on 2.4 Gregg and Ben revisit work on 1.4 and 1.5	John and Yvette: continue work on 2.4/1.3 Wendy: response to 1.2 questions	Wendy finish 1.2 work. John finish 2.4 and 1.3 work. Ben working on 1.4/1.5 combination and 1.1.	Ben and Wendy: change log
General	John working on 2.4 and relationship to 1.3, familiarizing self with xmlspec dtd	John rework 1.3 draft	John: Continue rework of 1.3 draft	John get 1.3 to wendy for review, then get to the group 2.4 (for 8 oct draft) John: read IBM comments on gateway Update 1.4/1.5 and 1.1 references	3.1 (for 3 nov draft) Lisa, Becky create proposal for use of blink for Gateway, work with John
HTML	Ben will send detailed comments to Michael, Michael can begin working on	Michael: address Ben's comments update references and links (from 1.0 to 2.0, html spec, etc.) address other discussion the wai-gl list from the last 2 weeks generated index of elements/attributes and techniques Added 16 bugs	Michael continue clean up related to working draft milestone list. Added proposals from list to document.	Address feedback from mailing list and other sources. Add bugs to bugzilla. Update 1.4/1.5 and 1.1 references Becky: write up techniques for the four label things for Wendy and Michael to include in docs
CSS	Wendy: no CSS work this week	Wendy: no CSS work this week	Wendy: no CSS work this week	Tom and Wendy work on CSS (items TBD). Update 1.4/1.5 and 1.1 references. Address issue re: screen shots and absolute positioning, proposals from Becky? (or in scripting?) Becky: write up techniques for the four label things for Wendy and Michael to include in docs Wendy: add image replacement to CSS techniques based on Becky's post Wendy edit CSS blink
Scripting		Matt: address comments from list, handle one open issue	Matt: no scripting work this week	Update 1.4/1.5 and 1.1 references becky submit Javascript blink technique matt - address becky's technique
RDF		Wendy working with Lisa, will try to draft an introduction (postponed)		Wendy draft intro for RDF Michael, Wendy, Lisa: coordinate on time and way to present RDF techniques to WG Lisa: create RDF techniques for associating text alternatives with images, and for having alternate versions of images (e.g., a larger, higher contrast one)
Checklists	Ben checklist prototype (ongoing)	Ben Send proposal for techniques to help make checklists possible Specific proposal/prototype for guidelines 1.1 and 1.3. Checklist prototype.	continue work	continue work. goal to have something before f2f
Test suite				tests related to 1.3 Jenae: work up transfer document, work with QA editor
TTF telecon	8 September telecon (agenda) CSS blink Null summary discussion IG. Current technique Test suites - review Chris' proposal Specific tests for discussion posted by Chris Test suite process (pointer from Jenae) 8 September Action items (irc log)	15 September telecon Renaming Gateway - to General? labeling form controls Scripting techniques internal draft Checklist - brainstorming?	22 September telecon Acquiring test materials from QA Handbook Specific tests and implications for test suite RDF Techniques Revisit 1.3 and structure of Gateway/General Invisible labels with CSS Image text with CSS Meeting minutes	29 September telecon Discuss transfer process of test materials (draft proposal from Jenae) Specific tests and implications for test suite Invisible labels with CSS (proposals from Becky) Image text with CSS (proposals from Becky) HTML proposals and issues Prohibit URLs with javascript protocol Create link text technique Provide a site map APPLET alt text and alternative content Use markup instead of other formats Provide a link to download an accessible plugin Relative size in HTML Require submit button for forms Navigational supports with LINK When possible according to Lisa's availability: RDF Techniques	6 October telecon th on data tables and null summary from IG checklist, discuss levels ala Ben's proposal test suites: discuss mapping to success criteria css issue? finish up discussing html proposals
WCAG telecon	9 September Telecon (agenda) TTF summary (5 minutes) javascript and alternatives, baseline and technology support, conformance profiles (30 minutes) Possible characteristics Application of content profile ideas Notes from brainstorm, including links to open issues and other documents Robert Fentress' message that started most recent thread unicode defn proposal (15 minutes) WCAG 2.0 overview (20 minutes) Discuss Gateway - purpose, contents, relationship to other documents How much of the overview to incorporate into introduction to WCAG 2.0? 9 September action items (irc log)	16 September Telecon TTF summary (10 minutes) Naming of Gateway/General (update on TTF discussion) Guideline 1.1 Reorganization proposal (15) Does 1.1 apply to scripts or interaction? (15) Defn of non-text content (15) Check-in about future face-to-face meetings (Boston for technical plenary, 28 February to 4 March?)	23 September Telecon TTF summary (5 minutes) Guideline 1.4/1.5 (Gregg and Ben) Guideline 4.2 and baseline technology (20) Guideline 1.2 and scoping (Wendy)	29 September Telecon TTF summary Guideline 1.2? Combining 1.1 and 1.2? baseline technologies programmatically located/derived programmatically	7 October Telecon TTF summary Guideline 2.4 (John and Yvette) (move to following week?) Guideline 1.1/1.2 combo? authored unit/delivery unit (following week?) baseline? checklist? issues/proposals for drafts specific comments from reviewers (DRC/City University, JIS, etc.)

Plan for 19 November 2004 public Working Drafts

review by technical editor - didn't get to this...can 5 people (2 for wcag 2.0 and general, 1 for html, 1 for css, 1 for scripting) agree to proof documents next Tuesday with results by Thursday?

Editing tasks and teleconference agendas needed to meet 19 November milestone
	Week of 8 November	Week of 15 November	Week of 22 November
WCAG 2.0	Work with Shawn to update Overview of WCAG 2.0 Negotiate publication date with webmaster	Publish pubrules conformant internal WD on 16 Nov WCAG WG blessing on 18 November Publication on 19 November	Requests for review Comments reflected in this draft Structure/overview, questions about purpose/structure of General Techs Possibility of UAAG 1.0 conformance as baseline Target UAWG, asst tech developers, UA developers, and users with the UAAG baseline question.
General		Publish pubrules conformant internal WD on 16 Nov WCAG WG blessing on 18 November Publication on 19 November
HTML	Update with backlog of approved changes	Publish pubrules conformant internal WD on 16 Nov WCAG WG blessing on 18 November Publication on 19 November
CSS	Update with backlog of approved changes	Publish pubrules conformant internal WD on 16 Nov WCAG WG blessing on 18 November Publication on 19 November
Client-side scripting	Domain lead approval for 1st public WD Secure short name Director's approval for 1st public WD	Publish pubrules conformant internal WD on 16 Nov WCAG WG blessing on 18 November Publication on 19 November
Checklists
Test suite	Finish Chris' IE application process Set up Chris' CVS access	Move test suite to w3c space
TTF telecon
WCAG telecon	Conformance 2.4 2.5 1.2

CSS Techs-specific to dos

Issues to address

POSTPONED We've talked about issue 307 (support for xx-small - xx-large). @@resolution in minutes? John sent results from testing with a few screen readers. Is this an accessibility issue? Delete? [need to catgorize css techs ala p1/p2/p3/optional/kill]
CLOSED Issue 725 is marked as pending, but the proposed changes were made.
DONEIssue 734 - color names. Becky's test results are included in the issue. @@resolution in minutes? Is the accessibility issue color contrast and not conveying semantics? (ala issue 739) IAC Canada recommends emphasizing web safe colors (Issue 1201). Ednote?
- Latest edits should close these issues 7.1 Specifying colors by keyword or hex value
DONE Issue 736 - buttons with text labels - closed by Becky's propsal for labels? invisible labels for form elements - display:none, invisible labels for form elements - 0 length
- latest edits should close these issues 5.5 Creating Invisible labels for form elements
POSTPONE Issue 738 - if we adopt the assumption that user agent's conform to UAAG 1.0, then if we were to keep this technique it would be a repair technique, since user agents should provide an interface to interact with nested lists. More of an issue for HTML Techniques.
DONE Issue 1013 - add ednote to these techniques with the question, "Is it acceptable from an accessibility standpoint, to have a fixed width layout specified in pixels and text specified in em's?"
POSTPONE Issue 1020 - already an ednote associated with it. Any way to close this in the next week? [nope]
POSTPONE Issue 1021 - blink - should be addressed by one of Becky's proposals. [she added user agent support info, but does not resolve issue. group still needs to discuss]
DONE Issue 1022 - This needs to be cleand up before next draft (content wasn't copied properly from last draft. Need to link to screen shots OR totally rewrite). [it's a little clumsy because the description of the images appear before the code and the images...but at least all the info is there now. also, am linking to images from CSS Techniques for WCAG 1.0 rather than copying into local directory. should update at some point]
POSTPONE Issue 1160 - add this technique? Have not discussed in TTF. send msg to list to get opinions from folks? [didn't get proposal sent to group and discussion started. too late to add for this draft]
POSTPONE Issue 1200 - terminate properties? Ensure that all examples validate and if yes, close this issue. [add ; to ends of rules]
DONE Issue 1202 - In section "Creating stylized text with CSS rather than using raster images" change <img...> to <img.../>

Action items from minutes

From the October face-to-face

POSTPONE ACTION: nobody finish providing links to the CSS Spec in the reference sections.
DONE ACTION: nobody finish mapping each technique to a success criterion and guideline. [waiting for mapping from David]
POSTPONE ACTION: wendy proposal to address Issue 253 - generated content and DOM
DONE ACTION: Becky add IBM comments about CSS to bugzilla.
DONE ACTION: Becky add image replacement technique to xml source (Wendy help as needed)
- 9.1 Creating stylized text with CSS rather than using raster images
- close issue 298, and perhaps also issue 735 (drop caps)?

HTML Techs-specific to dos

DONE Issue 249 looks easy to close (add a link to a reference)
POSTPONED Issue 251 - agreed to incorporate, find minutes?
- There is a link to issue 251 from Linear reading order of tables. It might be best to reference I18N documents. Unsure how much to invest in this issue if it potentially becomes a repair technique (ala UAAG baseline).
POSTPONED Issue 300 - look at minutes. proposal on list?
- Not quite enough information to move forward.

From the 10 November minutes

DONE ACTION: michael move techniques that exist b/c they were in 1.0 but are deprecated to an appendix
- Are there other techniques that should be moved? I only grabbed those that specifically had an ednote about transition support from WCAG 1.0 Techniques.
DONE ACTION: michael remove 9.11 and 9.12
DONE ACTION: michael remove 10.4 and add issue to bugzilla

From the 03 November minutes

POSTPONED ACTION: michael propose techniques based on this discussion
- Would need more time to review proposal before incorporated into a draft. @@make sure captured in bugzilla
DONE ACTION: michael remove technique 7.2, moving the info to both 7.1 and 7.3
DONE ACTION: michael move layout table to intro, ednote for repair techniques and ednote about css issue
- first draft done, but have questions about correct interpretation of the minutes

From the 6 October minutes

DONE ACTION: michael split HTML:10.5 into 2 techniques, a future and a today.
- done, but needs to be cleaned up. Not sure interpreted minutes correctly.

Client-side scripting-specific to dos

From the 10 November minutes

DONE ACTION: matt and wendy work on intro for scripting

From discussion with Judy and proofread of the doc

DONE Clearly indicate that this is a first attempt and more on the way. More ednotes throughout.
DONE Add "First Public Working Draft" to status section
DONE Update status section to reflect what was sent to Steve and Tim
DONE: Add idrefs to guidelines and success criteria (e.g., fill in the applies-to elements)
DONE: Either delete resource elements or add references (to get rid of extra headings)
DONE: Add ref to ECMA spec from 1st paragraph in intro
DONE: Link to techs submission form from "Future Work" on text, "Submissions of additional techniques..."
POSTPONE Why does the ednote for semantic web techniques only apply to the Forms section?
DONE: Fix example markup in 1.2 "Images as submit buttons" where good technique is included in deprecated box.
DONE: Link to issue 1073 from ednote in 2.1 javascript URIs
DONE Typo in 2.2 Dynamic content generation - "Assistive technologies Additionally..."
DONE Add an ednote to the same section "assistive technologies that do support script" (deleted technique?)
POSTPONE Link to HTML techniques from "2.3 Changing focus" where it says, "covered elsewhere in the techniques documents"?
DONE Add ednote to 2.3 Changing focus to address the @@tabindex?
DONE Clarify that 2.4 Device-independent events and 2.5 The onactivate event are placeholders (use similar approach to 11.3 Alternative content for programmatic objects?) (more info added)

Non-tech specific

From the 6 October minutes

DONE ACTION: tim draft paragraph for intro of each techniques document that says something along the lines of, "techniques are illustrative examples such that if employs somehow more likely to satisfy related success criterion as measured by tests in test suite...and there can be alternate paths than following our techniques, although we think our techniques is the best path...and if find other path, let us know so can include"
- WAC modified paragraph, added to HTML techniques abstract
- Add to CSS and Scripting techniques abstracts
FIXED Printing bugs because of style sheets??
DONE Clean up references, specifically link to ERT WG, indicate status for WCAG 2.0
DONE Get rid of extra spaces - stylesheet issue

$Date: 2004/11/18 19:36:30 $ Wendy Chisholm