Meeting minutes
Schedule reminder - Jan 16 off (MLK)
sharon: reminder no meeting next week.
A11y for Children group meeting - January 19, 2023 9:30-10:30 AM Boston time.
janina: I will send 18th a11y for children for community group in the W3C use of distraction / simplification
… , they have some great use-cases
… , join on the 19th, and they may join us on the 23rd / 30th.
… , strong use cases to bring back to TAG
… , no mention of advertising as this is a hot button
Symbol Module Implementations
Lionel_Wolberger: sent out an email…
… , thinking on who can implement ADAPT.
… , zero Project (David Banes - board global symbols)
… , asked for a meeting : will bring EA with him.
… , what kind of implementation to get out of this. I don't understand Global Symbols - Open AAC? Not sure, we will ask about potential implementation.
janina: first response file an issue.
… , gramatical is fine as we add other languages, we haven't dived into this yet. on the Registry spec. Not ADAPT.
Lionel_Wolberger: not sure we need it on this. may be a different email.
… , David agreed to a meeting thats it. We need to Notify Lisa
janina: good to send her an email today.
Lionel_Wolberger: Meeting time is tomorrow @ 7AM Baltimore,
… , Looked at Global Symbols which I found a specification on recording on what is on a symbol board.
… , JSON format output, symbol and symbol ID's same symbol gets a different ID. which looks to be problematic.
… , OBF standard but the ID's are not persistent / robust and they may be able to use our IDs.
janina: make sure they are aware on our work around Bliss symbolics
… , looking at annotating
… , web content.
… , we need to think about this more globally.
Lionel_Wolberger: If we can get Global Symbols using our work, this would be use on implementations.
… , Janina needs to be on this call
janina: I will be there. Not use to Ea, but new to David.
Lionel_Wolberger: they have "low-tech" symbols
… , low-tech paper getting wet, crumpled, A4/Letter paper and print a symbol so they can point at something they want.
… , they can share with HTML / symbol markup could be interoperable vs. a PDF
janina: this is a possibility, need to find out if they thought about this.
Lionel_Wolberger: show what Matt has done.
… , Open AAC what is their relationship to them. Not sure who is on that board etc. OBF / OBZ to store symbol layouts.
janina: Is Steve Lee Open AAC.
Roy: he is retired W3C.
janina: I believe he is on OpenAAC
<Lionel_Wolberger> Steve lee link, https://
Lionel_Wolberger: Steve Lee asked the question how to record symbols in mulberry git.
<Lionel_Wolberger> low tech AAC, https://
Lionel_Wolberger: , I will reach out to him.
janina: There is not agreement from symbol set providers.
Lionel_Wolberger: they are all about communication, communication is very localized
<Lionel_Wolberger> Picseepal is a housing for printed symbol pages. Those pages are distributed in PDF format generally
janina: this is what has prevented this from web content due to this localization issues
Lionel_Wolberger: lot of AAC in the home / medical use
… , could be the right moment to work with HTML and the explosion of low cost tablets
janina: Registry spec is a beginning this process with a FPWD. Lost of room for improvement to see if there is a "there there"
Lionel_Wolberger: I will contact Lisa about this meeting.
… , I will also track Steve Lee on my radar.
… , Access Board with Bruce
… , can ping Sales Force and Oracle
janina: James Craig from Apple is interested as he filed an issue with us.
… , also inquiries from Google.
… , Firefox code? is symbols included
Charles: Yes I believe symbols was included in that code sample.
janina: This came out of TPAC Saporo
<Lionel_Wolberger> Link from Sharon, https://
<Lionel_Wolberger> Brief discussion https://
Charles: Will Hawkins was the developer
… , email address in that issue to get in touch with him.
janina: Roy make sure Coga knows about our CR and our FPWD for symbols was released
Roy: Sure
Gap Analysis
sharon: I think we need Matthew.
… , Next we need more work on recruiting.
janina: as long as we continue moving forward. We may be in trouble if we don't get implementation of symbols.
… , general recruiting can slow you down as you bring new people up to speed.
Lionel_Wolberger: I have a conflict on the 19th