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WAI UA Telecon for September 9th, 1998


Chair: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wednesday, September 9th
Time: 11:00am to 12:00noon Eastern Standard Time
Call-in: +1-617-252-1038


Agenda

11:00-11:10 Guidelines reformatting issues

11:10-11:30 Keyboard access features

11:30-11:55 Tables

11:55-12:00 Action items


Attendance

Kitch Barnicle

Jon Gunderson

Judy Brewer

Jim Allan

Harvey Bingham

Scott Luebking

Denis Anson


Action Items and Conclusions

Kitch and Jim will rewrite a principles section

Jon and Ian will reformat presentation adjustment section

Jim Allan will contact IBM about F2F

Judy will contact Microsoft about F2F

Kitch is recruiting assistive technology vendors

Jon will contact Will Walker

Jon and Ian will update tables section

Minutes

JG: Concerned about Microsoft not participating in the Working Group

JB: Netscape update, and W3C AC representation, they have first agreed and then resources were not allocated

Every time there appears to be progress , there is a lack of follow through

Opera is interested, but resources are limited. Can ask him to comment on WD

pwWebSpeak has been participating

Microsoft has been participating

KB: Voice activated browser companies

JG: Thank you to Kitch for recruiting people for the face-to-face meeting.

JB: If you do plan to attend, please register.

JG: Reformatting issues

JB: There are two core principles:

1. Bottom line UA should have an accessible user interface

Redundancy of controls

Usability features

2. Explain what non-proprietary standards can be used to accomplish this

We need to do some melding of current guidelines into these principles

SL: Grouping of controls?

JB: My two underlying principles

The current status of the principle section? Does it need to be rewritten

KB: We want to more clearly state the principles of general accessibility design

JA: We need to be blatently clear about our principles

JB: We need clarity, for people who will be looking to comply

Kitch if you could send me the information, I could try to write a draft

JB: I am looking ahead, PA and UA are moving to recommendation status

We are looking at issues that might come up in the recommendation process.

Guidelines need to be well structured and consistent with other WAI documents

A multi-tier document that:

Principles section

Techniques sections

Detailed implementation

Example would be the table section in the current WD

We may need to mock up a section

The challenge is time

What are peoples reaction

DA: The implementation should be separate

JB: The detailed implementation is separate

DA: Principles stay the same

KB: We are talking about that tables

JG: Is Ian Jacobs working on this

JB: Conversation with Philip Hoshka, about multi-media. I will send to the list

SL: Idea off topic, useful for the access board to request a copy of the guidelines

JB: Out of scope for working group

HB: IBM and SUN should also be participating

JA: I will contact IBM

HB: Netscape has Bingham

KB: Who else should we be contacting

JB: Will Waker might

JG: Should we have demonstrations?

KB:

HB: The various tools bring up ideas

JA: A good idea

HB: Critic

JB: Brief descriptions, relate to guidelines, short

We want to wrap up the process, we need to focus

JB: Issues list needs to be finished

Process issue: go off line

Chunking

Not alot of work since last meeting

Tables

JG: tables

HB: Added comments and recast the tables, move to techniques document

A question based on row rendering

Wrapping within a table cell

Examples of wrapping is not needed

The folding would not necessarily add meaning

As the descriptions of rows and column content, rendering the header lists

There was a 3x3 table and the row and column

The naive approach would be to blast out the type of cell

JA: Are you talking about a 3x3 table with TH and TD tags

DA: Need to recast the data cells for data tables

SL: There is no row and column numbering. I think that this will be important for people to tell you

JA: We should use real words

DA: Are headers used appropriately

HB: They are used appropriately used and some time not

He gave an example

SL: An additional complication with tables that TH are used for captioning

This is tricker

Headers are used

JG: Keyboard commands to switch rendering

DA: How will people remember these commands

SL: Use a pop up meeting

DA: Properties menu that is keyboard accessible

SL: A explore function, provide attributes that lets a person to explore the table

HB: Examine rows and columns

SL: Display or data rendering.


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