Research Questions Task Force Weekly Teleconference (cancelled)
2026-04-29 09:00 - 09:55 (America/New_York)
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/77744cfb-8871-4f30-8d35-78f6a92a6ba9/20260429T090000/

Agenda

## Overview

The main purpose of this meeting is to coordinate work on our *Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI* draft, and to consider related issues that directly or indirectly affect the Task Force's activities in this area.

Please consult the open issues at <https://www.github.com/w3c/ai-accessibility/issues/>. Append the issue number to this URI to visit the Web page of each individual issue.

## Agenda
agenda+ Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI draft.

agenda+ Miscellaneous topics.

## References
See the [overview page](https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Overview_of_Current_Work) on the wiki for references to current Task Force documents.

* [Accessibility of Machine learning and Generative AI: open issues](https://github.com/w3c/ai-accessibility/issues).
* [Accessibility of Machine Learning and Generative AI](https://w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility/).
* [Web and AI Interest Group](https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/webai/).
* [Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning](https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmachinelearning-ethics/).
* Canadian standard: [Accessible and Equitable Artificial Intelligence Systems](https://accessible.canada.ca/creating-accessibility-standards/asc-62-accessible-equitable-artificial-intelligence-systems?mode=full-html).
* [References on Accessibility, Machine Learning and Generative AI](https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/References_on_Accessibility,_Machine_Learning_and_Generative_AI).
* [Proposed RQTF page on W3C/WAI Web site](https://deploy-preview-1018--wai-website.netlify.app/about/groups/task-forces/research-questions/).
* [Recommendations for accessible captions in 360 degree video](https://w3c.github.io/immersive-captions-cg/360-captions/).
* [Media accessibility User Requirements](https://www.w3.org/TR/media-accessibility-reqs/). See also the [new repository location](https://github.com/w3c/maur/).
* [Media Accessibility User requirements: open issues](https://github.com/w3c/maur/issues).
* [Accessibility Guidelines Working Group coordination page](https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/W3C_Accessibility_Guidelines_3.0,_Research_Coordination).
* [Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA (Public Working Draft)](https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/).
* [Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: open issues](https://github.com/w3c/captcha-accessibility/issues).
* [Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements](https://www.w3.org/TR/naur/).
* [Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements: open issues](https://github.com/w3c/naur/issues).

## Minutes of Previous Meeting
Please see the minutes at <https://www.w3.org/2026/04/22-rqtf-minutes.html>.

## Key Terms
* 360-degree video.
* Immersive captions.
* Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee Meetings (TPAC)..
* Git (revision control software).
* GitHub (a Web site/application that hosts Git repositories).
* Pull request (a formal request on GitHub to merge changes into the main branch of a Git repository).
* WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editing.
* CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test).
* Media and Entertainment Interest Group (MEIG).
* Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
* Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG).
* Version 3, sometimes referred to as "Silver".
* Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group.
* Media Accessibility User requirements (MAUR).
* Captions; audio descriptions; transcripts.
* Learning and Cognitive Disabilities Accessibility Task Force ("COGA").
* Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
* Generative AI.
* Wiki page.
