WCAG Weekly Telecon

<jslatin> thanks, roberto!

<rscano> ;-)

<ben> scribe: Christophe

<Sorcha> IP caller sorcha moore

Organisations who are considering WCAG 2.0 implementation (for CR phase): contact John, Judy and Wendy.

After LC there will be a five week review period; reviewers will be asked to use a format defined by the WG (spreadsheet or web based).

<rscano> zakim [IPcaller is Marco_Bertoni

WG participants - contact Ben if you are available for proofreading.

<marco_bertoni> 03zakim, I am Marco_Bertoni01

<ben> unanimous consent:

<ben> (from Misc. Questions for 13 April 2006 Telecon)

<ben> Definition of "general flash threshold", Failure due to using script to make div or span a user interface control in HTML, Issue 505, Issue 835, Issue 1014, Issue 1144

<ben> (from Team B Survey (13 April))

<ben> Adding links at the top of the page to each area of the content, Providing Heading elements at the beginning of each section of content, Providing a list of links to all other Web units, Identifying content's relationship to a larger collection, Using an icon or text to indicate current location within navigation bars, Providing a function to search an on-line dictionary, Providing the pronunciation immediately following the word, Linking to pronunciations

Resolution: accept all of today's survey items that are marked as 'accept' or 'accept with edits'

Misc. Questions for 13 April 2006 Telecon

What constitutes EMPTY alt text?

<rscano> IWA/HWG don't agree to use "&nbsp;" or " "

<rscano> ok

Resolution: leave technique unchanged (alt=" " is acceptable, but alt="" is recommended); non-breaking spaces and other types of white space are not allowed.

<scribe> ACTION: GV to review techniques to make sure they agree with ALT decision and to add a note about avoiding "running two words together" problem [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/04/13-wai-wcag-irc]

Updates to WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 Mapping

<scribe> ACTION: editors review the updated mapping and check with Christophe and Andi to make sure that edits are incorporated and that the issues are addressed. [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/04/13-wai-wcag-irc]

Team B Survey (13 April)

Failure due to using scripting events instead of anchor or area elements to create links

Resolution: change title to "Failure due to using scripting events to create links"

General Technique: Including a character cue whenever color cues are used (e.g. asterisk next to red items)

Resolution: accept technique with change of title to "General Technique: Including a character cue whenever color cues are used", and updated example so that it does not use an asterisk

<scribe> ACTION: John to contact Makoto about example for character cue other than asterisk [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/04/13-wai-wcag-irc]

General Technique: Adding a link at the beginning of a block of repeated content to go to the end of the block

Resolution: accept the technique with edits that address Makoto's concern
... about translation

Using frame elements to group blocks of repeated material

Resolution: accept the technique with edits that address the concern about frame titles

Providing links to navigate between related Web units

Resolution: accept with edits

Providing a concept map

Resolution: remove the technique (move to boneyard)

Providing a checkbox on the first page of a multipart form that allows users to ask for longer session timeout or no session timeout

Resolution: accept technique (session timeout) with edits to procedure and expected results.

should we have an upper limit on seizure disorder?

Resolution: add note "3. The flashing is below 50 hz." to the definition of general flash and red flash

definition of Level 3 conformance

Resolution:make all descriptions of AAA conformance "50% of all Level 3 success criteria that apply to the content"