Meeting minutes
New facilitator
Jan Jaap de Groot is the new Task Force facilitator since 4th of January, 2024.
New direction
Focusing on installable apps on Android and iOS, e.g. any app which is an .apk / .ipa, thus; web apps are not included.
Responsive design is already covered in the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. The Mobile Accessibility Task Force focuses on mobile apps.
Goal for 2024: publish Working Group Note for applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Apps
Covers all success criteria, including triple A, and not just the new WCAG 2.2 ones.
Subgoals: WCAG-EM for mobile apps, e.g. how to carry out an accessibility audit for a mobile app. Apps do not have URL's like websites, therefore some changes are needed to be able to follow WCAG-EM 1:1.
Aspirational goal: Techniques for mobile apps, ways to meet Success Criteria, including code samples for multiple frameworks/programming languages.
Archival goal: update relevant resources, deprecate outdated resources and ones that are no longer relevant
Testing goal: contribute to existing ACT Rules, add new ones for mobile apps
Collaboration goal: collaborate more often with COGA (The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force) and APA Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group
Features goal: publish document listing available accessibility features on Android and iOS
Community goal: creating a place for the mobile accessibility community to come together
Timing change
Mick: prefers working hours, in GMT+0 timezone, evening also works
JJ: prefers working hours, in GMT+1 timezone, evening also works
Options: 7 PM GMT+0 would work for both JJ + Mick
Mick: Monday works nicely to kick-off the week, Wednesday/Friday don't work
JJ: Monday works well, other days are also ok, prefer earlier days in the week
WCAG 2.2 mapping
Review existing resources, wait for new partcipants before moving forward.
Considering using Markdown / Github to create the new Working Group Note
Work together async using Slack
New Task Force members
JJ: Lots of interested people in LinkedIn, hope to get 5+ people in the MATF as invited experts; have ±15 people in mind to reach out to.
JJ: Also try to get people interested to contribute outside of the MATF in the community
How can we make our resources beginner friendly?
Compare existing notes and figure out which ones are good examples.
COGA uses icons in their Note: https://
Getting started document: https://
Ten tips guidance: https://
Publish official note, and publish unofficial guidance on W3 Wiki / Appt.org?
Moving forward
Make samples in Markdown
Figure out how to collaborate efficiently
Reach out to potential MATF participants, try to plan meetings in January
Work out 1 Success Criteria to show how it could look like in the Note
E.g. do we map to mobile apps as a whole, or map to Android / iOS seperately
Figure out if we can collaborate with Google for Android and Apple for iOS
Check how we link to their existing resources, e.g. Material Design Guidelines / Core App Quality / Human Interface Guidelines
General guidance for all mobile operating systems, add exclusions for Android / iOS where applicable?
Guidance is mostly different on the techniques, e.g. how to achieve it, what should be achieved is the same; such as adding a label to images.