Minutes of 20 Feb 2003 UAWG teleconference
Present: Jon Gunderson (Chair), Cathy Laws, David Poehlman, Harvey
Bingham, Colin Kotoles, Ian Jacobs.
Regrets: Matt May
Previous meeting: 6
Feb 2003
Next meeting: 27 Feb 2003. Regrets: DP, IJ
The UAWG meets ftf 6-7 March in Boston. We decided we didn't need teleconf
capabilities.
Review of FTF agenda
Discussion of Agenda
- - QA Docs to be reviewed
- - Dependency tracking tools
- - Process for groups requesting specific test suite cases
- - Status of UAWG test suite work
- - Getting UAWG desired tests into test suites of other groups.
- JG: For discussions with PF/HTML WGs, we have a list of things to
talk about based on our test suite work.
- CL: I'll do demo with telephony Friday morning.
- Action UAWG: Read XHTML 2.0
- [To be discussed next week]
- JG: QAWG has published three docs in last call
Implementation reports and test suites
- JG: Lots of activity in this area.
- -- Matt submitted new review of IE5 Mac
- -- I have some students working on reviews
- IJ: QAWG has asked that we allow review of UAAG 1.0 against QA
guidelines to be made public. Is that ok?
- Resolved: Yes
- Action IJ: Say to Lynne Rosenthal that we are fine with that; maybe
by talking to her we can get AAA.
- JG: In terms of current evaluation reports, students working on IE,
Realplayer, Mozilla. CL is working on HPR.
- JG: People are going through the current test suite.
- IJ: See the QAWG guidelines for info about contributing tests.
- [UAWG notes that there are well-formedness errors in xml files of
HTML test suite]
- Action Colin: Debug this XML problem in test suite
sources
- Test suites
- JG: Being well-used right now. We will have some new tests soon; some
of the tests are broken (markup) and we'll fix.
- HB: What about EARL usage?
- JG: We are not yet using EARL.
- IJ: We should give them input based on our experience.
- IJ: I am not tracking EARL progress.
- JG: Could talk to Wendy at ftf meeting.
- JG: Advantages of EARL are, e.g., testing tools.
Involving Beijing
- JG: Difficult for folks in Beijing to join given our current
schedule.
- What about 8am ET/7 am CT?
- JG: I'd like to have an intro call first, before we reschedule a
bunch of meetings.
- HB: Would be good to find out what Chinese policies relate to
accessibility.
- Action JG: Set up an intro meeting in the morning
with Beijing folks.
Education and outreach
- JG: We're meeting with JB and EOWG at ftf meeting
There is also a meeting on Friday to discuss the WAI
Glossary (IJ, HB to attend)
- IJ: UAAG 1.0 reference really old!
- * UAAG10: Working Draft User Agent Accessibility Guidelines,
2000-07-28 UAAG 1.0
- Action IJ: Ask glossary authors if they can/intend
to update the references to UAAG 1.0.