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WAI UA Telecon for June 16th, 1999


Chair: Jon Gunderson
Date: Wednesday, June 16th
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm Eastern Standard Time
Call-in: W3C Tobin Bridge (+1) 617-252-7000


Agenda

Review working group proposed charter

Review guidelines working draft

Review techniques working draft

Issues Discusssion

Techniques Document Development


Attendance

Chair: Jon Gunderson

Scribe: Ian Jacobs

Present: Marja Koivunen

Charles McCathieNevile
Rich Schwardtfeger
Glen Gordon

Regrets:Harvey Bingham
Mark Novak
Jim Allan


Completed Action Items

Continued Action Items

New Action Items


Minutes

Agenda:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999AprJun/0200.html

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/1999AprJun/0202.html

1) Review of Action items

CMN: Write techniques for 7.2.2 and 7.2.6 CMN deferred until publication of

Note by Rich and Mark. Status: Will wait for new draft. Status: Continued

JG: Techniques for 7.2.2. Status: In progress. Status: Continued

IJ: Implement proposal to simplify the guidelines, separate techniques from checkpoints, make checkpoints more global, move technichy checkpoints to technique document. Status: Done in 11 June draft.

IJ: Include specific navigation checkpoints for the following elements: forms, form controls, tables, in next draft. Status: Done in 11 June draft.

IJ: Include checkpoint: Scripting events should be part of navigating to active content checkpoint Status: Done in 11 June draft.

IJ: Include checkpoint: Allow user to configure elements that are part of active contents Status: Done in 11 June draft.

IJ: Include checkpoint: Allow user to simulate event activator that an element could respond to Status: Not done.

IJ: Include checkpoint: Orient user to events an element can respond to Status: Not done.

IJ: Include checkpoint: Allow user to navigate to elements that can respond to events Status: Done in 11 June draft.

IJ: Include checkpoint:: Add checkpoint: turn on/off access key at priority 2 level Status: Not done.

IJ: Poste message to begin discussiion of fotification of scripting events. Two main issues to be discussed: 1) What requirements on browser for notification of changes to AT? 2) What required of AT to make these changes known? Status: Done

JG:: Send URL of new charter to group. Status: Done

2) Review of charter [1] [1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/wai-ua-charter.html

CMN, IJ, JG, RS: Charter looks ok.

/* Some discussion of dependencies on other WGs*/

3) Discussion of new draft.

a) Three levels of conformance. Consensus: Good thing.

b) IJ: Should keyboard be brought out as its own guideline?

RS: Yes. Have other ones cross-reference it.

IJ: The slice "keyboard access" exists in techniques doc.

CMN: I prefer in techniques doc too.

GG: I agree with Rich. So many people go out of the way to avoid keyboard input, the more places people have it under their noses, the better.

ACTION: Ian: Create a keyboard guideline for the next draft to try it out.

Proposed (Rich) additional checkpoints: a) Be consistent with keyboard bindings between releases of software.

IJ: Should this be more general? Consistency across versions?

JG: Two-edged sword - keep the good stuff, drop the bad stuff.

CMN: I think good in general for consistency, sometimes changes need to be made.

IJ: Avoid arbitrary changes.

GG: If you make changes, provide a compatibility mode.

RS: Tell people to take care when changing default bindings.

CMN: Call this out in "observe system conventions"

RS: Yes, and cross reference this from keyboard guideline.

Proposed: General consistency guideline (Priority 2).

CMN: I think this is part of the existing guideline 11. Calling out keyboard access is more important.

ACTION: Ian propose to two options to list

/* Ian explains navigation as technique for accessing information */

7.2 (restore point of regard).

RS: Restore focus as well.

RS: Do people always want to return to where they were?

IJ: Do you return to the anchor? What if you scroll down two pages?

IJ: If you have no focus, where do you return to?

RS: I think return to point of focus.

CMN: Lynx:

RS: Ok with current wording of 7.2

7.3 (table cell info)

GG: What must desktop browsers do to work with this?

JG: See checkpoint 11.4

Proposal: Combine 7.4 and 7.5. "Allow the user to navigate among active elements.

Proposal: Allow the user to navigate among all elements.

CMN: Isn't this 7.8 (doc tree) or part of it? I think 7.8 is more important. (CMN's action item in fact is to write about 7.8)

RESOLVED:

IJ: Rendered content only or all?

Consensus: Search on rendering structure is minimum requirement.

IJ: What about attribute names and/or values?

CMN: cool, but no higher than P3. Very useful when attribute specifies alternative content.

MK: May be cases when author gives semantics to key words.

OPEN:

  • No consensus about scope of searching (e.g., attribute values for alt text)
  • No consensus about navigating "all elements".
  • ACTION: Ian will propose some changes to this section.


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