Accessibility Conformance Testing Task Force Meeting Resolutions
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2025
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19 June: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Input Aspects - Keep input aspects, the TF doesn't think source is any clearer
- Editorial suggestions - Aprove editorial changes
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5 June: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Rename test cases to examples - Accept PR 596 as is
- Backward compatibility - accept PR 597 with suggestion
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27 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Add assumption that text has metadata specifying its language and writing direction - The group agrees to propose these three changes to the i18n working group
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16 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Rules format editorials - Accept PR 582 as amended
2024
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5 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Add note to glossary - PR 580 approved
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7 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Updated Work Statement - Daniel - ACT TF approves Work Statement
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1 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- cantTell in consistency - Merge #558 and add to FPWD
- Subjective applicability - Merged PR #555 and add it to FPWD
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18 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Subjective applicability - Accept PR 555 with edits for first public working draft
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11 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Backward compatibility to ACT Rules Format 1.0, PR to Identify Rules Format Version - Accept PR 556 for FPWD
2023
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30 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Update ACT Rules Format for secondary req and acc support - Accept PR #540 as ammended
- Update ACT Rules Format background and change log - Accept PR 550 as amended
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9 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFCs from last week - Accept CFC'ed rules as ready for the working groups
- Defining implementations - Accept PR 541
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26 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFCs from last week - Approve CFCed rules for review by the working groups
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7 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Deprecating 4.1.1 rules - Deprecate 4.1.1 rules as soon as WCAG 2.1 is republished
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6 July: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Responses to AGWG feedback - Accept response to AG on issue #226 with editorial changes
- Responses to AGWG feedback - Accept response to AG on issue #224 with editorial changes
- Responses to AGWG feedback - Accept response to AG on issue #223 with updated rule title and editorial changes
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25 May: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Decide if we want to continue using "test cases" as a term, along with example - Continue using "test cases" as the main heading, and "examples" as sub-headings
- 23 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
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23 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Heading has non-empty name, discussion - Remove 1.3.1 from empty-headings rule and deprecate the rule
- Heading has non-empty name, discussion - Remove 1.3.1 from empty-headings rule and deprecate the rule
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9 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Displaying deprecated ACT rules list - Accept PR #185 to separate the list of deprecated rules
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26 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Images of text rule - Accept Images of text rule as ready for AG
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5 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- secondary requirements & Editors draft - Accept editors note, and put out editors draft for ACT rules format 1.1
2022
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17 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Linters as ACT Implementations - add ember-template-lint to ACT implementations list as first Accessibility Linter
- Revisit secondary requirements - Put secondary requirements proposal into a PR and send out as call for review
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10 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Several CFCs - Accept new 4 new rules CFCed last week for review for AG
- Table header cell has assigned cells - There should be a rule that checks that data cells has a header (in a table with headers)
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3 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Migrate ACT Implementation Report pages to WAI website - Approve report pages after #156 is addressed
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27 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CfC: HTML page title is descriptive, ready for AG - Accept title descriptive rule, pending PR #1964
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18 August: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Line height in style attributes is not !important - Accept rule as-is pending confirmation with Chris
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11 August: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC for Meta element has no refresh delay - Accept meta-refresh for AG with the update of PR 1908
- 4 August: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
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7 July: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Report examples as untested when there is an open issue? - Accept current untested examples, going forward, do not skip examples with open issues
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23 June: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Call for consensus: Audio element content has text alternative - Accept Audio element content has text alternative
- Call for consensus: Element with aria-hidden has no content in sequential focus navigation - Accept Element with aria-hidden has no content in sequential focus navigation
- ACT rules sheet - Move "Meta viewport allows for zoom" to CFC
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16 June: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Update from ACT implementations on WAI website - Accept pull request 103 for merger
- CG issues are getting stale, should TF commit to answering open issues? - Wilco to talk to CG chairs about them coming up with a policy on how quickly to address issues
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26 May: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Update from ACT implementations on WAI website - Agree with the direction of the updated ACT pages
- Update from ACT implementations on WAI website - Accept PR #104, pending agreement between Wilco & Daniel
- role attribute has valid value (674b10) - Do not map Role attribute valid value to WCAG, only to ARIA
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19 May: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Open ACT pull requests https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/pulls/ - merge implementation matrix after editorial changes & progress bar removed
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28 April: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Meeting May 5th? - No meeting May 5th, Kathy will let TF know about other meetings in May
- CFC AG recharter & ACT - Accept ACT portion of AG recharter as proposed
- svg element with explicit role has non-empty accessible name (7d6734) - Accept SVG has name rule for AGWG
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24 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Survey response: Element with aria-hidden has no focusable content - Accept the case in 1807 as inapplicable for the aria-hidden rule and add an assumption
- Survey response: Element with aria-hidden has no focusable content - Replace passed example 4 with pass and fail example of a modal
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3 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- How do we test iframes? https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/pull/1464#issuecomment-72548015 - Update iframe rule to allow no accessible name with role=none
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24 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC Missing input aspects - Adopt changes as proposed in the pull request and send out second CfC
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17 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Missing input aspects - Accept PR #526
- Missing input aspects - Accept PR 526
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3 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Approve "Element with presentational children has no focusable content" - CFC ready for approval
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27 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Accept "headers attribute refers to cells in the same table element" - Accept "headers attribute specified on a cell refers to cells in the same table element" for AG
- Updated WAI rule pages design - Accept new WCAG Test Rule design for publication
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20 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Accept "headers attribute refers to cells in the same table element" - Extend CFC until next meeting
- Heading has non-empty accessible name (1ec09b) - Will to test failed examples in AT, if it turns out these are ignored in heading list, the ACT TF recommends the rule to be deprecated.
2021
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9 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1759
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1758
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1757
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1753
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1752
- Mapping rules to fewer success criteria - Task force decided not to adopt PR 1750
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2 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Update common input aspects - Accept PR 524 for publication
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11 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- ACT rules sheet and Surveys - Accept updated rules for re-publication.
- ACT rules sheet and Surveys - Karen and Will to review pull request #739
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28 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing –
- CFC: Accept Lang valid tag, and form non-empty name rules - Accept Lang valid tag, and form non-empty name rules
- CFC: language input aspect update - Accept language input aspect update
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21 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC: Accept Autocomplete and Decorative not exposed rules - Accept Autocomplete and Decorative not exposed rules
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14 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Surveying proposed rules - Wilco will put "Form field has non-empty accessible name" into CFC
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7 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- language input aspect update - put the pull request 521 into cfc
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30 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Update website migration - Accepting Table of Contents, but will try to add expand and collapse later
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23 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC Update CSS Styling input aspect - Accepted PR 520 as is.
- ACT rules sheet - request AG to add advisory rules to Test Rules list
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9 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Surveying proposed rules - word-spacing rule ready for AG
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19 August: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Surveying proposed rules - Rules are accepted as they are, agreed to work on updates later
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17 June: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC publishing proposed rules - Publish this rule as it is done in PR 53
- TPAC 2021 - ACT-TF is not having a dedicated meeting for TPAC, but we will try to participate in other groups meetings
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21 May: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Do Methods need applicability? - Add applicability to the WCAG 3 methods, similar to how ACT rules have an applicability
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8 April: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Feedback from AG: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/act-process-03-2021/ - Only TF Facilitators should merge pull requests that publish to the WAI website
- Feedback from AG: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/act-process-03-2021/ - Rename annual review to annual check
- Regular Joint ACT TF/CG meetings - Start regular joint CG/TF meetings next week
- Migrating to the new publication process - Older rules should be checked before they get published as proposed rules. New rules follow the new process
- 1 April: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
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25 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Propose updating the ACT review process - Process update accepted after editorial changes are made
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4 March: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Joint meetings with ACT-Rules CG - wilco to reach out to CG to see who is interesting to join TF/CG joint meeting
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18 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Scrollable element is keyboard accessible (CFC) - Scrollable element is keyboard accessible accepted for publication by TF
- Survey, Rule review of "Menuitem has non-empty accessible name": https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTMenuItemName/results - Rule ready for CFC as soon as PR #1550 is merged
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11 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Scrollable element is keyboard accessible (Can this rule go to CFC?) - Updates were minimal to resolve issue 484: https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/484 - "Scrollable element is keyboard accessible" rule can go to CFC
- Survey, Rule review of "Headers attribute specified to a cell refers to cells in the same table": https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTCellHeader/ - rule needs to go back and will need re-survey
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4 February: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CFC results: Visible label is part of accessible name - no objections, rule is accepted, ready to pass on to AG
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28 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Issue 502: minor update to the background section - https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/502 - Change "Bibliography" to "Other Resources" and flip the order of the headings
- Survey - Rule review of "Visible label is part of accessible name": https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTVisibleLabel3/ - Put the visible label rule into CFC and close survey
- Rule tracking table - get status and update: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/wiki/Rule_Publication_Tracking - Try to move tracking table to spreadsheet
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7 January: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- ARIA required context role: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTARIAContextRole/results - ARIA required context role rule, ready for CFC after editorial change in background
2020
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17 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- meta element has no refresh delay: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTMetaRefreshDelay/results - "meta elements has no refresh delay" can go to CFC after editorial changes are made
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10 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Visible label is part of accessible name:https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTVisibleLabel2/results - send out for CFC, assuming Detlev has no further changes he wants to see
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3 December: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Iframe test cases - Issue 473: https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/473 - iframes without an accessible name should have a rule for SC 4.1.2, that rule must include passing examples using aria-label and aria-labelledby
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12 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Autocomplete attribute has valid value: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTAutocomplete/results - autocomplete rule needs editorial changes, can go to CFC as soon as those are made
- Object element rendering non-text content has non-empty accessible name: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTObjectName2/results - Object name rule can go to CFC after editorial changes as suggested in survey
- Text has minimum contrast: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTMinContrast2/results - Once small edits are made and an implementation is documented, the Text has minimum contrast rule goes out for CfC to the TF.
- 5 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
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22 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Review the draft of the ACT TF decision-making process: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTDecisionProcess/ - policy, including proposed edits to go to CfC
- 'Audio' or 'video' avoids automatically playing audio: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTAudioPlaysAuto/ - recommend to restructure these rules into a single atomic rule
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24 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Image filename is accessible name for image: https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/93339/ACTImageFileName/handler - discuss with author to take the rule to AG
2018
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22 November: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- "Optional items" section + renaming "Assumptions" #305 - ATH and SES will change pull request
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26 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- CSS Selectors - remove MAY requirement on CSS Selectors
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5 October: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Issue 225: ACT security checks https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/225 - ACT TF did not identify any relevance to the security checks
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20 September: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Issue 264: Clarify definition of Aspect under Test https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/264 - We will remove the statement
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26 July: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
- Issue 226: ACT security checks - https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/226 - ACT-TF has not identified any security concerns