IRC log of html-a11y on 2012-07-05

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Zakim, this will be 2119
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ok, trackbot; I see WAI_PFWG(HTML TF)10:00AM scheduled to start 59 minutes ago
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Meeting: HTML Accessibility Task Force Teleconference
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Date: 05 July 2012
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-John_Foliot
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+John_Foliot
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+Cooper
15:00:26 [janina]
zakim, call janina
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ok, janina; the call is being made
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+Janina
15:01:16 [MichaelC]
agenda: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2012Jul/0006.html
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Zakim, call Mike
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ok, MikeSmith; the call is being made
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+Mike
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+Judy
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agenda+issue 194 (transcript) status update
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agenda+issue 201 (canvas) status update
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agenda+issue 204 (ARIA attributes and hidden) status update
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agenda+issue 206 (meta generator): resolution to support CP?
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agenda+ bug 13357 schedule discussion for next week? (and invite Bob Lund)
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agenda+text subteam report
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agenda+ARIA mappings subteam report
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agenda+bug-triage subteam report
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agenda+Other Business
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agenda+Actions Review http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/open
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agenda+Identify Scribe for the next TF teleconference http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List
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+??P6
15:07:56 [JF]
scribe: JF
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zakim, take up item 1
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agendum 1. "issue 194 (transcript) status update" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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scribe: MikeSmith
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JF: status is that we're at a point where we're in general agreement
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... there's an appetite for find a solution
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... comes down to a question of syntax
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... both schools of thoughts are that we would introduce a transcript attribute
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... Silvia proposes that it should take a URL
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... sort of looks and feels like a magic longdesc
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+[Microsoft]
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JF: The proposal for Ted and Eric is that it would take a list of IDREFs
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... which would allow you to link to multiple transcripts
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JF: I think at this point what needs to be communicated to he chairs is that there will be multiple change proposals
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... and we will need to have a WBS survey
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q?
15:12:04 [paulc]
I have very intermittent Internet access and may drop off at any point.
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JF: I think we are going to need some more time, maybe around middle of July
15:12:38 [paulc]
Both Silvia and Ted have said they will update their CPs by the end of this week.
15:12:46 [MikeSmith]
janina: can you say more about the disagreement is?
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JF: Apple feels the single URL solution is too limiting
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JF: Either proposal satisfies our primary use case
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janina: I wonder if we're worried about space-delimited sets being robust
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RRSAgent, make minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/07/05-html-a11y-minutes.html MikeSmith
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chair: MikeSmith
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janina: what happens when things don't work right?
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JF: I think you'd get a 404
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JF: it's an authoring error
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JF: what happens now if I reference an ID that's not actually in the page?
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q?
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scribe: JF
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MS: sounds like a survey for Issue 194 is inevitable
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so the TF should start thinking about looking at the emergent proposals to determine which the TF could/should endorse
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zakim, who's nlisy
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I don't understand 'who's nlisy', JF
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zakim, who's noisy?
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JF, listening for 10 seconds I heard sound from the following: John_Foliot (13%)
15:19:06 [janina]
zakim, mute me
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Janina should now be muted
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?me contiune?
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zakim, take up next item
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agendum 2. "issue 201 (canvas) status update" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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q+
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MS: is Rich here?
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Steve F: posted some questions to the list about the CP
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have some serious reservation around the light-weight object stuff
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I've been asking about this, but have heard nothing to date
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lurking
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MS: looking at the next steps from WG side
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don't believe there is a deadline
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not sure what to do next
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http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-201
15:21:34 [paulc]
>John asked questions about current CP. Awaiting feedback from Frank/Ted.
15:21:37 [janina]
zaim, unmute me
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zakim, unmute me
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Janina should no longer be muted
15:21:51 [paulc]
I believe we are waiting for answers to John's questions.
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s/John/Steve/
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MS: when did you pose those questions?
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email to html working group on canvas http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2012Jun/0180.html
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SF: asked here
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MS: the HTML WG call has been cancelled this week
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should bring it up there
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JS: perhaps Steve can re-post the question and note that there has been no response to date.
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PC: will send a note to Ted/Frank and ask if there is any progress, but note that US holiday was Wednesday
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SF: Did also pose these questions after the F2F, so they are not new.
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q?
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quite happy if someone else can explain this, but with no response at all there remains some concerns
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ack steve
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q-
15:25:23 [paulc]
My Internet access is very bad so I am at risk of dropping off. Sorry.
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zakim, take up next item
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agendum 3. "issue 204 (ARIA attributes and hidden) status update" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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MS: who is driving this issue?
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JS: believe we are waiting for Ted/Jonas response
15:26:18 [paulc]
John F provided a revised CP on Tue Jun 26. Next step is to gather support for this within A11Y TF and with Ted/Jonas.
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MS: Jonas is back from vacation now
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Q+
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ack JF
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JF: latest CP is about as far as we can go w.r.t. tab focus issue
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next step would be to seek TF backing
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JS: need to hear back from Ted/Jonas to see what they think
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q?
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MS: perhaps another note out to Ted/Jonas?
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PC: sending of that note now
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zakim, take up next item
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agendum 4. "issue 206 (meta generator): resolution to support CP?" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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s/sending of/ sending off/
15:29:56 [JF]
MS: this is a new issue from the Chairs, based on what we were calling Issue 31c
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deadline for (Counter) Proposals is later this month (24? 27?)
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it would be good to see if we have TF support for this CP
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q+
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MS: likely that there will be alternative CPs to try and address the same use case
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but for now, the only CP is to drop this exception
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ack judey
15:31:15 [MikeSmith]
ack Judy
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JB: it is specifically to drop the exception around whether or not there is alternative text, and not to drop the generator tag
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q+
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JS: Mike S are you suggesting that there may be other ways to avoid checking for missing alt
15:33:01 [janina]
zakim, call janina
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ok, janina; the call is being made
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+Janina.a
15:33:07 [JF]
MS: the issue is if the document is machine generated that requires alt text,but no human is involved and images are missing alt, then it shold be recognized as a machine generated page
15:33:20 [Judy]
Link to the re-updated re-open request, on which we're requesting TF support, to be followed by a request for PFWG support, and based on which the topic was re-opened: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ChangeProposals/Issue31cMetaGeneratorUpdated
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ack Stevef
15:33:29 [JF]
believe that henri S believes this is a valid use-case
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validator based on validator.nu provides means to filter out any errors not desired author http://validator.keegan.st/
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SF: want to point out that a validator can be set to NOT check for anything
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-Janina.a
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-Janina
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The question is what is required for validation
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q+
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zakim, who's here?
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On the phone I see John_Foliot, Cooper, Mike, Judy, ??P6, [Microsoft]
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On IRC I see richardschwerdtfe, paulc, Stevef, Judy, Zakim, RRSAgent, janina, JF, davidb, MichaelC, MikeSmith, trackbot, [tm]
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+??P15
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ack Judy
15:34:44 [JF]
MS: what we want to do on TF side is to consider if we want to take a Resolution to Support from the TF
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JB: missed a part of what was being said
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+Rich_Schwerdtfeger
15:35:52 [JF]
one thing discovered is that pages may be processed by multiple tools at multiple times. Very difficult to determine if a page is machine generated alone
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not sure what may be coming forward
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q+
15:37:42 [JF]
MS: what Henri has argued in the past is that he does not want the Validator reporting errors if/when a tool is designed to generate pages that contain images (bulk photo uploads), that people who make those tools, and the validator generates errors
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then the makers of those tools will respond by adding 'bogus alt content' to silence the validator
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JB: this is not a new speculation
15:38:46 [JF]
hope he provides evidence of that, else it sounds like a 2-layer speculation. Concerned that it will start a loop
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ack Stevef
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MS: would like to get consensus from Henri, but unsure if he will write another CP
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SF: Understand the concern, but this is why we have <figcaption>
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Authors/machines can put 'some' some differentiating text, that is clearly identified as a caption, and not an ALT
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SF: these tools already are providing something so we prefer that they use the caption instead of a crummy alt text. never seen a tool that doesn't provide some text that could be used as the caption
15:42:27 [JF]
MS: I need to discuss this further with Henri. Note that a document-wide switch is an anti-pattern.
15:42:40 [JF]
JS: we also need some evidence. this seems to be based on speculation
15:42:56 [richardschwerdtfe]
dropping off
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JB: still concerned that a partial solution still creates most of the same problems we were concerned about
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-Rich_Schwerdtfeger
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Q+
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MS: this has been about validator behavior from the start
15:43:35 [MikeSmith]
http://validator.keegan.st/
15:43:45 [JF]
one is to look at the link that Steve posted
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if handled correctly, i believe this can be "good"
15:44:26 [Stevef]
q+
15:44:33 [JF]
this does not allow / hide any error messages initially, but it also allows the author to go in and filter error messages
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gives control over which error messages they have to "hear"
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however even if it suppresses the error messages, it does not claim "validation" if there are still errors
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MS: believe this is a smarter way to handle it
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JB: so the person doing the validation would hve to be pro-active - to consciously choose to suppress error messages
15:46:34 [JF]
JS: it's a filtered view
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JB: perhaps the results would need to have a disclaimer?
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that it is not giving a conformance indication
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MS: believe that this site is existing proof that this can be done. What we don't want is people shopping around for a validator that doesn't tell them they have errors
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so we likely want to try and accommodate the need here.
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q?
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ack JF
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q+
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ack Stevef
15:49:21 [JF]
JF: an error is an error. We should be worried about end-users, and not Validator tools
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if a page does not meet user-needs (images with no alt text) then it is an error
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-??P15
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SF: the filtering issue allows to have a non-wordy report, but still not generate a "Valid" result
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+??P15
15:50:45 [JF]
allowing the author/tester to set preferences with filters is a good tool choice
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JB: speculation - if there are an annoying number of validation errors, then tools will insert bogus values. What if, instead we speculate that tool vendors will inprove their tools
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s/inprove/improve/
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tools are emerging that when people take photos they can tag them at that time
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perhaps the error messages will drive innovation and solutions that actually address the problem
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MS: agreed, it keeps the problem visible
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JB: solves the right problem
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q?
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ack Judy
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MS: think I can talk with henri and get metagenerator dropped
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zakim, take up next item
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agendum 5. "bug 13357 schedule discussion for next week? (and invite Bob Lund)" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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s/and get metagenerator dropped/and see if we can get closer to agreement, and maybe metagenerator will end up being dropped without counter CPs/
15:56:20 [JF]
will defer agenda item 5 to next week
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zakim, take up item 6
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agendum 6. "text subteam report" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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JB: there was no meeting this week. still working on buggy alt guidance and buggy alt text
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evolving discussion there,
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JS: David MacDonald is back and able to assist
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zakim, take up item 9
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agendum 9. "Other Business" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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MS: anything else?
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JS: 1 point - what to do with bugs that we might want to revisit
15:59:07 [JF]
lately discovered that the media elements should be directly focusable, and not explicitly rely on controls
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JF: suggest that next week we have a generic "media bugs" topic
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MS: should invite Bob to the call next week
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JF to invite Bob to next weeks call
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JS to work on Silvia's media focus bug
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zakim, next item
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agendum 5. "bug 13357 schedule discussion for next week? (and invite Bob Lund)" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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zakim, take up item 10
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agendum 10. "Actions Review http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/track/actions/open" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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zakim , item 11
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zakim, take up item 11
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agendum 11. "Identify Scribe for the next TF teleconference http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/index.php?title=Scribe_List" taken up [from MikeSmith]
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-??P6
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-Mike
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-Judy
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-Cooper
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-??P15
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-John_Foliot
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rrsagent, make logs public
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2012/07/05-html-a11y-minutes.html JF
16:03:08 [paulc]
quit
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zakim, please part
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leaving. As of this point the attendees were John_Foliot, Cooper, Janina, Mike, Judy, [Microsoft], Janina.a, Rich_Schwerdtfeger
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rrsagent, please part
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I see no action items