WAI UA Telecon for March 28th, 2002

Chair: Jon Gunderson
Date: Thursday, 28 March 2002
Time: 2:00-3:30 pm Boston Local Time, USA (18:00-19:30 UTC/GMT)
Call-in: Longfellow Bridge (+1) (617) 252-1038

Agenda

Review Action Items

Announcements

1. Next meeting 4 April

Discussion

1. DOM requirements for UAAG 1.0 (AT developers invited)
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2002JanMar/0085.html
   AT Developers invited:
   • Aaron Smith (GW-Micro), confirmed
   • Cathy Laws (IBM), confirmed
   • Glenn Gordon (Freedom - Scientific), confirmed
   • Randy Marsden (Madenta), confirmed
   • Mark Nelson (AI-squared)
   • Jill Thomas (Ion Systems), confirmed
   • Loretta Guarino and Richard Potter (Adobe), confirmed
   • Larry Lake (Alva), sending a representative
   
   Central question is whether the W3C DOM should be the only way to satisfy communication between user agents and assistive technologies. We really need to understand what AT developers need from mainstream developers in terms of communication of web content information. We have long held the position of the W3C DOM, but there has not been much implementation of this technique by AT developers. Is this still the direction UAAG 1.0 needs to go or are other options needed to satisfy this requirement?
2. Ian's proposals based on UAAG evaluations with developers
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2002JanMar/0085.html
3. XForms inclusion of UAAG requirements
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-wai-pf/2002JanMar/0236.html (member private)
4. Implementation Report Update
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/implementation/report-cr2.html

Attendance

Chair: Jon Gunderson

Scribe: Ian Jacobs

Present:
Lee Bateman (HP)
Glenn Gordon (Freedom Scientific)
David Poehlman
Loretta Guarino (Adobe)
Richard Potter (Adobe)
Harvey Bingham
Cathy Laws (IBM)
Randy Marsden (Madenta)
Tony Pitman (Madenta)
Jill Thomas (ION)
Pat Brannan (ION)
Roberto Gonzalez (Alva)
Jos Eckhart (AI Squared)
Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C, DOM WG)
Tim Lacy (MS)
Aaron Smith (GWMicro)
Aaron Leventhal (Netscape)
Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM)

Regrets:
none

Action Item Summary

Open Action Items

1. RS: Write up paragraph about the importance of thread-safe access for in-process ATs.
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2002JanMar/0100.html

New Action Items

1. RS: Talk to Arnaud Le Hors about this issue, for re-raising in the DOM WG.
2. ALL: Send to the WG the top 5 things you need through an API.
   Deadline: One week from now.
3. IJ and JT: Coordinate on EMonocle evaluation.

Completed Action Items

1. JG: Schedule a teleconf with AT developers for two weeks from today
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2002JanMar/0100.html
2. TL and JG: Review initial implementation report for IE 6.0 and comment
   Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001JulSep/0191.html
   Done: http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/implementation/eval_win_ie6.html
3. DP: Jaws 4.01 and IE 6.0 evaluation
   Done
4. HB: Contact ION Systems for a review of their e-reader with UAAG guidelines
   Source: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ua/2001OctDec/0082.html
   Ian will coordinate with Jill Thomas

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