IRC log of svg-a11y on 2015-05-15

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Zakim, this will be WAI_PF
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I do not see a conference matching that name scheduled within the next hour, trackbot
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Meeting: Protocols and Formats Working Group Teleconference
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Date: 15 May 2015
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chair: Fred
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Meeting: SVG Accessibility Task Force
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Present+ Rich_Schwerdtfeger
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Present+ Fred_Esch
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Present+ Leonie_Watson
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Present+ Doug_Schepers
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https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-a11y/2015May/0023.html
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agenda above
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scribe: Rich
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chair: fesch
13:02:15 [fesch]
zakim, who's here
13:02:15 [Zakim]
fesch, you need to end that query with '?'
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zakim, who's here?
13:02:26 [Zakim]
sorry, fesch, I don't know what conference this is
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On IRC I see fesch, LJWatson, Zakim, RRSAgent, richardschwerdtfeger, chaals, shepazu, MichaelC, trackbot
13:03:41 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Doug: I spoke to the ChemML people in 2009 and they have a lot of stuff that most chemistry applications do use. Their use of ID is inconsistent with all other XML markup
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Topic: Working with Coga
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q+
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fesch: I am looking for volunteers to coordinate requirements with Coga
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doug: I think it is more important to find out what we want to do there
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q?
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ack shep
13:05:17 [chaals]
zakim, this is svg
13:05:17 [Zakim]
chaals, I see WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM in the schedule but not yet started. Perhaps you mean "this will be svg".
13:05:30 [chaals]
zakim, this will be svg
13:05:30 [Zakim]
ok, chaals; I see WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM scheduled to start 5 minutes ago
13:05:32 [richardschwerdtfeger]
doug: I had a discussion with Michael Cooper about this. They are very early on. I suggest we take the low hanging fruit
13:05:39 [richardschwerdtfeger]
doug: I suggest we incrementally do it.
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q+
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zakim, who is here?
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WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM has not yet started, chaals
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On IRC I see AmeliaBR, fesch, LJWatson, Zakim, RRSAgent, richardschwerdtfeger, chaals, shepazu, MichaelC, trackbot
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+RichS
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+DougS
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zakim, who is here?
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WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM has not yet started, chaals
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On IRC I see cpandhi, AmeliaBR, fesch, LJWatson, Zakim, RRSAgent, richardschwerdtfeger, chaals, shepazu, MichaelC, trackbot
13:06:17 [fesch]
rs: agrees with Doug we need to work with coga in an iterative way, not developer ready
13:06:19 [chaals]
zakim, this is svg
13:06:20 [Zakim]
chaals, I see WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM in the schedule but not yet started. Perhaps you mean "this will be svg".
13:07:21 [chaals]
[I'd like to understand what the ChemML people do differently with ID. But I am not having any success connecting to Webex]
13:07:24 [fesch]
rs: we can take low hanging fruit, and take from a aria-coga spec,
13:07:59 [LJWatson]
+1 to working iteratively with CogA
13:08:06 [richardschwerdtfeger]
q?
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ack richardschwerdtfeger
13:08:14 [fesch]
rs: we have to scope what to take in, Fred is proposing new scopes for roles, Cogo is 3-5 year effort
13:08:32 [richardschwerdtfeger]
doug: I agree. navigation has implications beyond coga.
13:08:43 [richardschwerdtfeger]
doug: we can identify overlapping things with coga
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doug: we send those new features to the coga task force to get sign off
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doug: they mary or may not have use cases
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doug: there were one or two things that I thought were functional things that we could do that were unique to coga
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doug: these could be actionable items for SVG
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q?
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q+
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ack fesch
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fesch: what if we include media query like things?
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ack me
13:10:37 [richardschwerdtfeger]
fesch: What about their request on media queries?
13:11:48 [fesch]
rs: may have to wait for charters, may affect media queries - if there is any metadata we need to support media queries coordinate with
13:12:18 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Rich: To deal with media queries, coordinate with new ARIA working group which will work with CSS working group on new functionality
13:12:25 [AmeliaBR]
q+
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fesch: should we plan for it?
13:12:45 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Rich: yes, but it is a longer roadmap item
13:13:59 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: So, yeah I do agree if there is work that is going on elsewhere we should keep it in mind and not try to duplicate it. More generally, it sounds like there are a couple areas to address. There are things to keep in mind wrt. author guidance but don’t involve technical work.
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Amelia: we need to ensure we don’t impact other user groups
13:15:12 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: there were discussions on overriding styles. There are other use cases where for visual impairments you might want to override styles. These could be handled with browser add-sons but that we need semantics that other tools can work with
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Doug: at least you can get in
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Fred: We don’t need active participation. We will iteratively take things in. We will accomodate what we they need in the infrastructure.
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RESOLUTION: We will take the low hanging fruit from COGA and incorporate it with the work being done and continue to work with them
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Topic: Chemical Examples Provided by Volker Sorge
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q?
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http://progressiveaccess.com/chemistry/
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http://progressiveaccess.com/chemistry/data/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction#/media/File:Baeyer-Villiger-Oxidation-V1.svg
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Amelia: these are use cases for chemistry but they look like a network graph type diagram
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Present+ chaals
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q?
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Fred: an input is the interactivity of the drawings
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ack Ame
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ack AmeliaBR
13:24:59 [richardschwerdtfeger]
fesch: will come back to chemistry examples in 2-3 weeks
13:25:20 [richardschwerdtfeger]
fesch: ARIA does not chang behavior
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amelia: Could we use roles more than a way than effected accessibility technology
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13:26:25 [richardschwerdtfeger]
amelia: the role in SVG should be more powerful to be used for more than just accessibility
13:26:46 [richardschwerdtfeger]
amelia: if it is a button then all the normal keyboard controls for activating a button should be applicable
13:26:56 [fesch]
q?
13:27:01 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Leonie: this has been discussed in the HTML arena
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ack LJW
13:27:18 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Leonie: Such as when a label is being used to label an element
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Leonie: there are problems with backwards compatiblity
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Rich: but not in SVG
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Leonie: If we do it in SVG can we do it in another
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ack chaals
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ack me
13:28:27 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: So, yeah, I am a big supporter of doing this. It is a logical thing to want
13:28:42 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: one of the things is we want to influence SVG
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chaals: You either trap stuff and prevent default or slide it off to the element
13:29:30 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals. We need to look at backward compatibility. I will put this on the agenda
13:29:52 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: The ARIA folks have asked if they can camp on this meeting?
13:30:02 [chaals]
-> https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/HTML/wiki/Meetings/HAT2015-zaragoza HTML a11y TF meeeting (with some aria time)
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[July 8-10 in Zaragoza, Spain]
13:30:44 [fesch]
rs: this insn't the only place this is happening, digital publishing want to do this too
13:30:48 [chaals]
s/one of the things is we want to influence SVG/This works fine in SVG, but we want to look at it for HTML/
13:31:07 [fesch]
rs: to do this effectively, we are putting a process to extend into a module so we can do this
13:31:49 [fesch]
rs: but they have to do an API mapping spec, but designed to avoid name collisions... ARIA working group won't be a bottleneck for the web
13:32:18 [fesch]
rs: will try to get it on SVG working group agenda
13:32:32 [richardschwerdtfeger]
ack richardschwerdtfeger
13:32:38 [fesch]
rs: makes a lot of sense
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q?
13:33:28 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: Both Doug and I are on that call. So, we can take requirements over
13:33:49 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Doug: The SVG working group has never pushed back on accessibility requirements
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Doug: They don’t have expertise so the burden is on us
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q?
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Fred: A related item was role=“text”
13:35:26 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Rich: Yes, Amelia and Doug agreed to take this forward if Rich put the proposal together and put it on the proposal
13:36:10 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: Is the appendix done?
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Rich: Yes, if I add wcag support that Jason wanted
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Doug: I am hopeful that SVG2 could reach a state of completion by the end of the year.
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Doug: I will have time to work on connectors in 2 months
13:38:05 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Rich: It is done with the wcag feature provided we don’t have new semantics and navigation
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Topic: Markup
13:38:51 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Fred: I have been using jQuery to navigate treelike. The taxonomy and how it will be used is an interesting intellectual thought.
13:38:57 [AmeliaBR]
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Fred: What should we consider with the markup. What guidance we can give. I think role should be inherited
13:39:23 [shepazu]
q+ to ask what "markup" means in this context
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Fred: We need to work on markup to find out what will and won’t work
13:39:56 [AmeliaBR]
s/Topic: Markup/Topic: Sample Markup for defining Navigation order/
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q?
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Fred: Navigation and AT support must be the easiest things to work on
13:40:38 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: I think when we are talking about navigation, there are 2 layers. What type of navigation do we want to support and how do we put this in the markup
13:41:50 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: We need to agree on the syntax and agree on a common goal. I have been meaning to write things up. There are 3 modes of navigation: navigation, hierarchical (whether it is based on strict documetn tree architcture or attributes to adjust it), and geometric 2 dimensional navigation.
13:42:01 [fesch]
q?
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Amelia: is it conceptually possible to have all three modes.
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ack Ame
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Ameiia: how are authors going to communicate about these.
13:43:32 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: there are several other navigation modes. …. A semantic navigation of a directed graph or structure (as opposed to geometric navigation). We may want to allow multiple topological navigations. We need to determine what types are navigation for an image/drawing
13:43:56 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: We are trying to describe the administrative boundary hastily
13:44:37 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: there is a further thing I wanted to respond to. assistive technology … I don’t have control over their function
13:44:55 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: here are the sort of things we see and get a better sense of scope for these
13:45:11 [LJWatson]
+1 identifying problems before we look for solutions.
13:45:17 [AmeliaBR]
s/Ameiia: how/Amelia: Only after we've decided that, then we can discuss how/
13:45:25 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: it is not harmful to describe solutions. We may not want to define a single pattern for everything
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q?
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ack chaals
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ack chaals
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Doug: I do think that there Amelia is right that we have different navigation mechanisms.
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Fred: That is what chaals was proposing when he said topological
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chaals: yeah, connector is a form of topological navigation mechanism
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q?
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ack shepazu
13:46:49 [Zakim]
shepazu, you wanted to ask what "markup" means in this context
13:47:33 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: I will follow up on that. Connectors are one form of vehicle for communicating a navigation approach.
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q+
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q?
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Amelia: The idea of navigation … hierarchical is a subset of topological. You can talk about hierarchical but you can’t talk about loops and nodes
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Leonie: We don’t want to be too prescriptive
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q?
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ack LJWatson
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ack shepazu
13:48:50 [chaals]
[+1 to Léonie]
13:49:18 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Doug: say I have some sort of flow chart. If I am at start point A and I have options A1 and A2. That would be the outcome of a logical flow of navigation. I could choose to abandon that.
13:49:41 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Doug: not by picking a choice but by a navigation. That should be an option. That does not seem too prescriptive.
13:50:08 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Leonie: if you say move to the left it does not mean a lot. We need relationships to determine that
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q?
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q+
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q+
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Amelia: We want navigation to be based on semantics and logic. For sighted users using the keyboard we are talking about layout which conveys information. Hou should have a way of conveying that. So if you have dots on a scatterpoint that refer to names on a scale. … Go to the next item in sorted order based on this scale.
13:52:10 [richardschwerdtfeger]
leonie: you have provided a number of related information. for different modalities of input your navigation mechanism will very
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s/very/vary/
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q?
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ack fesch
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fred: what do you mean by layout?
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ack fesh
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Amelia: geospatial inforamtion inherent in the graph
13:53:04 [chaals]
-> https://www.w3.org/wiki/SVG_Accessibility/Directed_Graphs Some directed graphs in SVG, where layout can be important.
13:53:06 [richardschwerdtfeger]
Amelia: In a map e.g. it is east, northwest, south, etc.
13:53:49 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: Leonie and Amelia are both right. So, going left is inherently a differnt mechanism than moving back
13:54:08 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: +1 to not saying how the navigation should work
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chaals: ARIA keyboard navigation made it difficult
13:55:36 [fesch]
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13:56:09 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: although we gain consistency . ..
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ack chaals
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fred: do we want to start markiing up examples?
13:56:49 [chaals]
s/made it difficult/specifiying the interactions reduced a lot of space for innovation in user interaction/
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ack fesch
13:57:00 [richardschwerdtfeger]
fesch: do we do this on a meeting or via email
13:57:28 [richardschwerdtfeger]
jason: we need to define what types of navigational operations should be suported by SVG
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jason: what type of command set they want to associate with that
13:58:02 [richardschwerdtfeger]
jason: the encoding of relationships is fundamentally important.
13:59:16 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: I will describe what happens in other systems to an extent - Opera
13:59:28 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: it is helpful to do some of this on email and on these meetings
13:59:50 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: so where is your stuff and until I can see what you are doing I can’t comment
14:00:04 [richardschwerdtfeger]
fesh: I can put it in on git or on the wiki
14:00:27 [richardschwerdtfeger]
chaals: it is better to put it up on the wiki so that we can call
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s/call/compare/
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doug: I am setting up a meeting in a couple with the CSS UI people
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present +AmeliaBR
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Present+ Jason
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present+ fesch
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rrsagent, draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2015/05/15-svg-a11y-minutes.html chaals
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rrsagent, make log world
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RRSAgent, make log public
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Present+ AmeliaBR
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RRSagent, draft minutes
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14:03:00 [AmeliaBR]
zakim, who's here?
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WAI_SVGTF()9:00AM has not yet started, AmeliaBR
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present- fesch
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