IRC log of wai-wcag on 2005-03-09

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Agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2005JanMar/0575.html
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Chair: Michael
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zakim, this will be WCAG
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ok, wendy, I see WAI_WCAG(techniques)10:00AM already started
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see John_Slatin, ??P7, ??P9, [IPcaller]
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test
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zakim, ??P9 is Ben
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+Ben; got it
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+Wendy
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zakim, [IPcaller] is Chris
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+Chris; got it
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zakim, ??P7 is David
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+David; got it
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+Tim_Boland
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+Ken_Kipnes
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+Becky_Gibson
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type, /me message
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+Don_Evans
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+[Microsoft]
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zakim, [Microsoft]
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I don't understand '[Microsoft]', wendy
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+Michael_Cooper
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zakim, [Microsoft] is Jenae
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+Jenae; got it
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scribe: wendy
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jenae summarizes mon-wednesday
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ja: we met mon and tues. wed there were 330 folks.
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ja: we had a few folks who don't usually call in joined on monday.
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ja: the highlight of the day was steve bratt joining us in the afternoon to talk about getting through rec track.
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ja: he wasn't able to give us concrete steps, but suggested going to last call sooner than later.
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ja: we talked about what "2 implementations" means for us.
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ja: he talked about test cases and that can help us get through CR.
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ja: next steps: probably another WD, then last call, then CR (test cases), PR, and REc
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ja: Tuesday we met with PF and UA WGs about making javascript accessible. exciting demo.
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ja: wednesday there were several topics.
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ja: at lunch we talked about test cases.
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ja: the whole group into talbes of 8 and found out that about 40% of specs have test suties.
15:18:07 [wendy]
ja: all the groups reported back. lots of people in the same place. pushback that there aren't enough resources.
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ja: people don't understand why we need them and what makes a good test case.
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ja: other highlight - the WAI site redesign presentation by Shawn Henry.
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ja: good stats on the current usability of the site and also on the new design.
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ja: thought it would be helpful if we ran our html test cases against the redeisn to ensure it will be accessible.
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js: on wednesday, got my attn: versioning at the beginning of the day (thought provoking discussion. diff points of view. shelf-life of different specs. planning for obsolesences)
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js: thinking about that as an integral part of the process, not that it means failure.
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js: several presentations about multimodal applications - speech-activated with text-to-speech out that had interesting applications and implications for us.
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tb: on friday - al, wendy, and michael presented to request that specification consider accessibility.
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tb: believe that there is a possible way forward for specGL to have an annex or appendix that lists additional considerations.
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tb: help get accessibility into specGL as a best practice.
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dmd: on mon and tues, a bit slow start to getting started. we revisted some issues that we thought we had resolved. e.g., do we ask the main group about doing a 1.1 or 1.5 instead of a 2.0.
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dmd: made us revisit what is working and what is not.
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dmd: mc thought about moving the principles up as an overarching principles to frame all of the guidelines (atag, uaag, wcag, xag).
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dmd: we met with UAWG on thursday at lunch.
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dmd: we talked with them about this. got a maybe.
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dmd: it's a proposal taht we may want to discuss w/the main group.
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mc: I've been asked to send it to the list before tomorrow' mtg.
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bc: while you were doing that, wac and i met with richard ishida about i18n.
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bc: while ago had shared techs dtd.
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bc: believe their work provides us with a model to fit our needs for techniques.
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mc: mon focused on requirements - what are we doing.
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mc: supposed to be an hour, but took the day.
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mc: others have identified issues that came up from that discussion.
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mc: clear that we need to solidfy the requirements. stop the target from moving.
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mc: need to be braver about saying, "an issue has been dealt with and is closed."
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mc: also braver that consensus does not have to mean unanymity. can find ways to move forward.
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q+
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mc: on tuesday, we met with other groups, but a major goal was to create a project plan.
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mc: we worked on the outline of a plan and will work on some more.
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mc: the idea is that we will have a clear list of tasks to accomplihs, timeline for each task, try to break them into 1 or 2 hour chunks to decrease the daunting factor to get people plugged in.
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mc: once we agree on the timeline we need to hold ourselves to it.
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mc: have a rough outline will complete in the next few weeks.
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js: strong consensus of those present that making a decision about baseline and form of checklists are "blocker issues" that are preventing us from moving forward.
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js: the outcome of those will have impact on deliverables.
15:30:40 [Michael]
ack wendy
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scribe: Michael
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wac: relation of CSS and HTML techniques
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e.g., a CSS test may depend on an HTML test, e.g., structure in HTML -> CSS presentation
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action to create proposals, and Jenae will create tests
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look at testable assertions
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some questions from first day made it clear that we need very good documentation of our decisions
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when a repeat question comes up, we just point to the decision and rationale
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more of an internal document for now but could become an FAQ or WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 transition material
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issues with WCAG 2.0 are important points, but hopefully we can provide clarity within this work
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this review helpful for minutes
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action: everyone send trip report to Wendy
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js: met with UA group while they met with SVG to review UA responses to SVG draft
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SVG group creating examples, planning to have an accessibility chapter
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request from Peter Korn instead that they make all the examples demonstrate accessibility
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accessibility chapter then focuses on more complex, subtle things
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they seemed receptive
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-Chris
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wac: met with Dean Jackson and Chris Lilly (SVG)
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accessibility techniques for SVG note
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also met with ERT group Friday morning to discuss test suites and EARL
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we want them to do test suites, but their main focus is EARL
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discussion of what we can provide so they can create test suites
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changes in WCAG 2 that might affect EARL
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js: had an informal conversation thursday a.m. with jim allan and jon gunderson from UAWG.
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scribe: wendy
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js: had questions about how they describe conditional content.
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js: uawg hadn't meant it to be exclusive,that should get title with other info. but that's not clear from way written.
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fyi: david, /me comments are not logged.
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js: discussed creating a joing working group note that could help clarify.
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js: another way to help get interoperability between guideliens, w/out going through the rec track.
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js: so, a lot of coordination with other groups.
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tb: there were 3 issues in coordinating with WCAG (via QA).
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tb: at the close of the meeting on friday, wac is going to look at qa responses.
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tb: qa wants wcag to identify deprecated features by providing mapping between 1.0 and 2.0.
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action: jenae and wendy review and respond to qa responses to specgl comments (by the end of march)
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js: lunch on wednesday was assigned seating to meet new people and discuss test suites.
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js: didn't talk a lot about that, but did discuss machine tests versus human tests. no one else had thought about human testability.
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js: all of their stuff is narrowly tech specs. everything is algorithmically testable.
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js: we had a good discussion about what quality alt text might sound like. tbl was in the discussion.
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dmd: thursday during the day we mapped 1.1 to uawg.
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js: in relation to thinking about baseline issue and if we adopt uaag 1.0 what does it say about a certain technique.
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zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see John_Slatin, David, Ben, Wendy, Tim_Boland, Ken_Kipnes, Becky_Gibson, Don_Evans, Jenae, Michael_Cooper
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On IRC I see DonFEvans, Becky_Gibson, Tim, ken, Michael, David, RRSAgent, ChrisR, Zakim, wendy, ben
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wac: many aciton items about requirements documents. when get those done and get back to discussion?
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js: i am presenting on wednesday.
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js: could use it as an opportunity to try out the persona notion
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wac: what action items need to be completed before the CSUN F2F?
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wac: seems like planning and requirements document-related action items.
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js: do w have test files that have been reviewed for all of guideline 1.1
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mc: believe we're in good shape
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js: some revision work that needs to happen with guidelien 1.1.
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js: other things that techs group needs to focus on to prep for public WD?
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mc: there are open action items on all docs, particularly css and html.
15:55:13 [wendy]
mc: don't think we can at this point.
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mc: particularly need scripting updates, has gone througha couple rounds with no changes. partly b/c not sure what to do until resolve baseline.
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mc: i have many action items that probably won't get done until end of march.
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js: could those be delegated?
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mc: except editorial, yes.
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js: also at plenary discussed modifying the technique submission form to make it easier to use to harvest techs from people.
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js: cna send somethingt o bc today or otmorrow.
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bg: i can spend time on css or something else. don't have a lot of time, b/c traveling.
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zakim, who's on the phone?
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On the phone I see John_Slatin, David, Ben, Wendy, Tim_Boland, Ken_Kipnes, Becky_Gibson, Don_Evans, Jenae, Michael_Cooper
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brb
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-Tim_Boland
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-Michael_Cooper
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-Wendy
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-Ben
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-Jenae
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RRSAGent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2005/03/09-wai-wcag-minutes.html wendy
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-John_Slatin
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WAI_WCAG(techniques)10:00AM has ended
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Attendees were John_Slatin, Ben, Wendy, Chris, David, Tim_Boland, Ken_Kipnes, Becky_Gibson, Don_Evans, Michael_Cooper, Jenae
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logging to http://www.w3.org/2005/03/09-wai-wcag-irc
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RRSAgent, make log world
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RRSAgent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2005/03/09-wai-wcag-minutes.html wendy
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RRSAgent, bye
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I see no action items