DPUB IG Telco, 2015-07-27: Portable Documents, STEM Update, Math Role

See minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions.

Portable Documents

The IG has been talking about the abstract concept of a package. Tzviya Siegman presented a draft document outlining requirements for a portable document. The group discussed the distinction between the package as an offline state, functioning as an extension of the browser cache, and a truly portable publication that exists without a network and is persistent. The group will clarify the document to distinguish these issues and add comments about maintaining identifiers.

STEM Survey

Peter Krautzberger reports that the STEM task force is cleaning up the data from their survey and slicing it in interesting ways. They have created a spreadsheet that will contribute the TF's note.

Math and the role attribute

Peter Krautzberger, MathJax manager, discussed concerns about the ARIA role "math" that he encountered in conversations with AT vendors. The role is primarily useful for content that is MathML (uses the <math> tag). However, most browsers do not support MathML. Role="math" is more valuable for polyfills and converters, but the role conveys very little information. It would be helpful if ARIA exposed some of the underlying of MathML to AT. The IG will pass Peter's discoveries on to PF.

DPUB IG Charter Renewal

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