IRC log of wcag-act on 2016-11-23

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Zakim, this will be
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I don't understand 'this will be', trackbot
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Meeting: Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference
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Date: 23 November 2016
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scribe: shadi
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chair: Wilco, MaryJo
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15:00:10 [Wilco]
present+ wilco
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present+
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present+ MaryJo
15:01:07 [Wilco]
agenda+ Req "negative tests" discussion
15:01:21 [shadi]
zakim, clear agenda
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agenda cleared
15:01:25 [Wilco]
zakim, clear agenda
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agenda cleared
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agenda+ Req "negative tests" discussion
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agenda+ Req WCAG scope discussion
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agenda+ Update management section https://w3c.github.io/wcag-act/act-framework.html#quality-updates
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agenda+ Open Actions Items https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/track/actions/open
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15:04:34 [shadi]
present+ Charu
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present+ Romain
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regrets+ Moe
15:05:06 [cpandhi]
me personely not a big fan
15:05:12 [Wilco]
zakim, next item
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agendum 1. "Req "negative tests" discussion" taken up [from Wilco]
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zakim, next item
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agendum 1 was just opened, Wilco
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zakim, take up agendum 2
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agendum 2. "Req WCAG scope discussion" taken up [from Wilco]
15:07:30 [shadi]
https://github.com/w3c/wcag-act/issues/5
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Wilco: comment came up, suggest not limiting to WCAG
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..."Silver" coming up, and will likely be broader than WCAG alone
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...would likely include aspects of ATAG and UAAG
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...think need to support that
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...put proposal in my comment in GitHub
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[[To show that the ACT Framework is capable of targeting different accessibility requirements, the following accessibility requirements are used: WCAG 2.0, ATAG 2.0, ARIA Authoring Practices 1.0 and EPUB Accessibility 1.0.]]
15:09:59 [shadi]
MaryJo: can see the relationship to ARIA and ePub as semantic markup formats
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...but not sure how easy it would be to do ATAG or other such specifications
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q+
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Wilco: put ATAG and not UAAG
15:11:03 [shadi]
...lots of CMS tools are web-based
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...think we could address some aspects
15:11:31 [shadi]
Romain: had same reaction as MaryJo
15:11:55 [shadi]
...if you are considering web-based authoring tools, then you are testing WCAG not ATAG
15:12:04 [cpandhi]
q+
15:12:16 [shadi]
...what do we mean by "accessibility requirements are used"
15:12:25 [maryjom]
q+
15:12:28 [shadi]
...need to be explicit
15:12:39 [shadi]
Wilco: wasn't going to be that explicit
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...but think sufficient if we can cover at least one role
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s/role/rule
15:12:55 [Wilco]
ack s
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Shadi: think we need to separate document formats like ARIA and ePub from user accessibility requirements like WCAG, ATAG, and UAAG
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q?
15:16:04 [shadi]
...think we may be covering some ATAG and UAAG aspects
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ack c
15:16:37 [shadi]
...maybe we can say "will address WCAG, which may address some aspects of ATAG and UAAG", and provide an example or two
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...may address some mobile aspects of UAAG
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Charu: agree with Shadi, should differentiate the different aspects
15:17:21 [rdeltour]
q+
15:17:25 [shadi]
...document formats and accessibility requirements
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...but also WCAG and others
15:17:47 [shadi]
Wilco: think ePub goes beyond WCAG
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s/ePub/EPUB Accessibility 1.0
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ack m
15:18:37 [shadi]
MaryJo: ARIA Autoring Practices are not normative
15:18:47 [shadi]
...think may want to stick to the normative specs
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q+
15:19:58 [shadi]
Wilco: suggestion to follow ARIA Authoring Practices as they go beyond WCAG
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ack r
15:20:28 [shadi]
...but agree would be good to stick with normative specs
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Romain: ePub a11y follows WCAG to 90%
15:20:51 [cpandhi]
q+
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...goes beyond on only some few aspects
15:21:07 [shadi]
Wilco: but it is its own requirements doc
15:21:12 [rdeltour]
http://www.idpf.org/epub/a11y/accessibility.html
15:21:19 [shadi]
Romain: yes but links back to WCAG
15:21:36 [Wilco]
ack s
15:23:19 [shadi]
Shadi: can we describe the type of testing that we will cover rather than the guidelines?
15:24:02 [shadi]
...will it be content, browser chrome, OS mappings?
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q+
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Wilco: like the approach but not sure
15:25:28 [shadi]
...broader than web content but not all aspects
15:25:34 [Wilco]
ack c
15:25:36 [shadi]
...maybe content and ePub?
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shadi: think ePub is type of content
15:25:58 [shadi]
...maybe can also spell out some use cases
15:26:09 [shadi]
...and what we are *not* focusing on
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Charu: think ARIA aspects will likely become part of WCAG
15:26:49 [Wilco]
ack r
15:26:56 [shadi]
...might help us say the type of content that we are targetting
15:27:17 [shadi]
Romain: elephant in the room when we talk about digital publishing is PDF
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...and that may be the difficult part
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q+
15:28:12 [shadi]
Romain: in response to Charu, trying to provide this back into WCAG
15:28:15 [maryjom]
+1 to what Romain just said. Want to be specific enough in our scope to limit to web-based content.
15:28:21 [shadi]
...IDPF and W3C working together
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...creating a shared working group
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...and also sent issues to WCAG WG
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Charu: want to target normative work
15:29:07 [Wilco]
q?
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...especially if it will be covered by WCAG
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ack s
15:31:13 [shadi]
shadi: on PDF, will our *format* (Framework) not be applicable to PDF?
15:31:24 [Wilco]
"To show that the ACT Framework is capable of targeting different accessibility requirements for web content and digital publications."
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...versus the rules that we will initially develop
15:31:41 [shadi]
Wilco: don't see why the format should not be applicable to PDF
15:32:02 [shadi]
...but the rules that we will create initially to complete the standard will be mostly HTML based
15:32:03 [rdeltour]
suggest s/digital publications/web-based digital publications/
15:32:16 [maryjom]
+1
15:32:30 [shadi]
+1 to romain
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present+ Katie
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present+ Alistair
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To show that the ACT Framework is capable of targeting different accessibility requirements for web content and web-based digital publications.
15:33:37 [shadi]
+1
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+1
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Present+ Katie_Haritos-Shea
15:34:56 [shadi]
shadi: maybe put the use cases as an appendix to the requirements, and link to them from this section?
15:35:03 [shadi]
Wilco: like that idea
15:35:16 [Wilco]
action: Wilco to update scope description
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Created ACTION-20 - Update scope description [on Wilco Fiers - due 2016-11-30].
15:35:42 [Wilco]
zakim, take up item 1
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agendum 1. "Req "negative tests" discussion" taken up [from Wilco]
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zakim, close agendum 2
15:36:11 [Zakim]
agendum 2, Req WCAG scope discussion, closed
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I see 3 items remaining on the agenda; the next one is
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1. Req "negative tests" discussion [from Wilco]
15:36:33 [shadi]
Wilco: thread did not really come to a conclusion
15:36:51 [shadi]
Alistair: not wild about what we will not be doing
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...more interested in what we will be doing
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...including the reason for failing
15:37:31 [Wilco]
The ACT Framework will focus on defining rules that enable clear reasons for non-compliance to be given to the user. Breaking accessibility requirements down into rules lets us get meaningful results from testing parts of an accessibility requirement, where it may not be possible or practical to have rules that cover the full accessibility requirement. e.g. “images must have an alternative text”, but not "the text alternative must be descriptive". Wher[CUT]
15:38:14 [Wilco]
The ACT Framework will focus on defining rules that enable clear reasons for non-compliance to be given to the user e.g. “displayed content in a page flashes more than three times per second”. Where possible, ACT Rules should map to [WCAG 2.0 Failure Techniques](https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/failures.html).
15:40:14 [shadi]
Alistair: in your suggestion, you switch from what we will do to what we will not do
15:40:52 [shadi]
...we can have a different example than the flashing but think should keep the focus on what we do
15:41:22 [shadi]
Charu: think nicely clarifies what the rules will be testing for
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...maps to sucess criteria and outlines the failure condition
15:42:10 [shadi]
...the second one (the initial proposal)
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Katie: also agree with the second one
15:42:43 [shadi]
q+
15:43:12 [shadi]
Wilco: better examples we can use than three-flashes?
15:43:23 [shadi]
Alistair: can send you a selection of examples
15:43:25 [Wilco]
ack s
15:44:00 [Wilco]
+1
15:44:09 [maryjom]
+1 to "failure condition"
15:44:14 [cpandhi]
+1
15:44:16 [shadi]
Shadi: like the term "failure condition" from Charu
15:44:35 [Wilco]
zakim, take up item 3
15:44:35 [Zakim]
agendum 3. "Update management section https://w3c.github.io/wcag-act/act-framework.html#quality-updates" taken up [from Wilco]
15:44:35 [shadi]
...should use it when we need to differentiate from "failure techniques"
15:46:21 [rdeltour]
q+
15:46:27 [shadi]
+1 to "update management" (rather than "change management")
15:46:34 [Wilco]
ack r
15:47:19 [shadi]
Romain: think sequence of major - minor version numbers may be backwards
15:47:43 [shadi]
...if you change the API or break existing behavior, that would be a major update
15:48:07 [shadi]
...concerned about "which could lead to a different result" in minor update
15:48:22 [shadi]
Wilco: was thinking what would impact users
15:48:43 [shadi]
...new user violations are major impact
15:49:03 [shadi]
...chaning major function would lead to remediation effort
15:49:21 [shadi]
Romain: better understand where you are coming from
15:49:36 [shadi]
...may be clearer if we phrase it in terms of violations
15:50:24 [shadi]
...maybe along the lines "documents will pass future versions when only the minor version is changed" or such
15:50:39 [shadi]
Alistair: we don't version the tests but the entire suite
15:51:05 [shadi]
...may be a nightmare to version the individual tests
15:51:10 [shadi]
Katie: agree
15:51:29 [shadi]
Romain: are you talking about the rules or the steps in the rules?
15:52:11 [shadi]
Alistair: good point but may be difficult to have individual tests with different states
15:52:47 [shadi]
...for example, if you correct a spelling mistake in a CSS selector, is this minor or major change?
15:52:53 [shadi]
Wilco: sounds major to me
15:53:19 [shadi]
Romain: if it produces new failures then it is major, correct
15:53:36 [cpandhi]
q+
15:53:39 [shadi]
Alistair: you'll get a lot of major versions
15:53:52 [shadi]
Wilco: don't have a problem with that
15:54:24 [shadi]
Katie: example of dot-version update?
15:54:41 [shadi]
Wilco: anything that doesn't cause violations to go away
15:55:23 [shadi]
...change of values that does not cause new violations
15:55:34 [shadi]
Katie: violations is the only parameter?
15:56:38 [shadi]
Wilco: would typo in CSS selector make it to publishing?
15:56:48 [shadi]
Katie: possibly not
15:57:07 [shadi]
...but versioning should be suite not the individual tests
15:57:48 [agarrison]
q+
15:57:50 [shadi]
Charu: maybe would be better to describe the versioning in terms of impact rather than the change
15:57:56 [shadi]
ack cp
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+q to charu
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+1 to charu
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q-
15:58:21 [shadi]
ack ag
15:58:28 [shadi]
Wilco: agree
15:58:58 [shadi]
Alistair: probably want to claim conformance to entire test suite rather than individual tests
15:58:59 [rdeltour]
q+
15:59:11 [rdeltour]
q- :)
15:59:11 [shadi]
...do we actually need versioning for individual tests?
15:59:16 [agarrison]
q-
15:59:42 [shadi]
topic: Next Meeting
15:59:50 [Wilco]
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/conformance-testing/track/actions/open
16:00:05 [shadi]
No meeting next week, 30 November
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topic: Action Items
16:00:44 [shadi]
Charu: still working on my action, should be ready for the next call
16:00:57 [shadi]
...added IBM column in the test description#
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Wilco: yes, saw that - thanks!
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Romain: pending questions on my action
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trackbot, end meeting
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Zakim, list attendees
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As of this point the attendees have been Alan, Katie, Shadi, Haritos-Shea, Moe, Charo, MaryJo, Romain, Jemma, MoeKraft, Alistair, CPandhi, JaEunJemmaKu, Katie_Haritos-Shea, wilco,
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... Charu
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RRSAgent, please draft minutes
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I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2016/11/23-wcag-act-minutes.html trackbot
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RRSAgent, bye
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I see 1 open action item saved in http://www.w3.org/2016/11/23-wcag-act-actions.rdf :
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ACTION: Wilco to update scope description [1]
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