Information

Building it in vs. Bolting it on - Making Accessible Specs, and Updates to the accessibility horizontal review process
  • Upcoming
  • Tentative
  • Breakout Sessions

Meeting

Event details

Date:
– Japan Standard Time
Status:
Tentative
Location:
R07
Participants:
Matthew Atkinson, Fredrik Fischer, Mike Gifford, Ananya Kittane Yogananda
Big meeting:
TPAC 2025 (Calendar)

We want to make it easy for you to add features that enhance and deepen the accessibility of the platform on a document level. There are a number of existing and forthcoming to support you in this.

In this session, we’ll share with you some recent updates to several of these resources, as well as details on further enhancements we’re working on. Most importantly, we want to get your feedback, to ensure that the work will help you out.

A full agenda is given separately, but at the highest level, we’ll cover the following, before having a group discussion, so we can answer your questions and get your feedback:

  • Recent and planned ease-of-use improvements to the horizontal review process for accessibility - including the need for early help and support, and how we’re making it easier for you to request that.

  • What exactly the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) WG can provide you with in reviews; where that advice comes from; and how you and the review process might contribute to it.

  • A new, more concrete, direction for the Framework for Accessibility in the Specification of Technologies (FAST), which aims to reduce the amount of things that come up in review, by supporting you in writing specs that consider, promote, and enhance accessibility from the outset.

Credit to Peter Korn for the ‘building it in vs. bolting it on’ concept.

Chair attendance expectations: @matatk, (in-person), @fredrika11y, (remote), @ananya-ky, (possibly;, in-person)

Agenda

Chairs:
Matthew Atkinson, Fredrik Fischer, Ananya Kittane Yogananda

Description:
We want to make it easy for you to add features that enhance and deepen the accessibility of the platform on a document level. There are a number of existing and forthcoming to support you in this.

In this session, we’ll share with you some recent updates to several of these resources, as well as details on further enhancements we’re working on. Most importantly, we want to get your feedback, to ensure that the work will help you out.

A full agenda is given separately, but at the highest level, we’ll cover the following, before having a group discussion, so we can answer your questions and get your feedback:

  • Recent and planned ease-of-use improvements to the horizontal review process for accessibility - including the need for early help and support, and how we’re making it easier for you to request that.

  • What exactly the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) WG can provide you with in reviews; where that advice comes from; and how you and the review process might contribute to it.

  • A new, more concrete, direction for the Framework for Accessibility in the Specification of Technologies (FAST), which aims to reduce the amount of things that come up in review, by supporting you in writing specs that consider, promote, and enhance accessibility from the outset.

Credit to Peter Korn for the ‘building it in vs. bolting it on’ concept.

Chair attendance expectations: @matatk, (in-person), @fredrika11y, (remote), @ananya-ky, (possibly;, in-person)

Goal(s):
To update people on improvements to accessibility horizontal review that have been made, and are planned, and to get feedback on them.

Agenda:

  • Short presentation

    • Myths around the horizontal review process.
    • Getting review earlier, and making the process easier.
    • How the pieces fit together: TAG, FAST, APA, others, and where our guidance comes from.
    • Speeding up: How FAST is being retooled.

  • Group discussion. Suggested topics:

    • Answering questions about the current process, and recent changes.
    • What you need from resources like the FAST.
    • Collecting your feedback, and giving you options for providing more.
    • How we could use your help, and your organization’s help.

Materials:

Joining Instructions

Instructions are restricted to W3C users . You need to log in to see them.

Export options

Personal Links

Please log in to export this event with all the information you have access to.

Public Links

The following links do not contain any sensitive information and can be shared publicly.

Feedback

Report feedback and issues on GitHub.