W3C

– DRAFT –
RQTF meeting

05 February 2025

Attendees

Present
janina, jasonjgw, scott_h, stacey
Regrets
-
Chair
jasonjgw
Scribe
jasonjgw, janina, scott_h

Meeting minutes

Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI.

jason: AI draft moving to a public list

josh to progress in the next two weeks

possible 1PWD for March

potentially have less formal AI dicussion at his same time

raja: may be good to consider CSUN discussions

janina: will lok to see if W3C discussions coudl be included at CSUn

Characterization of Research Questions Task Force in APA Working Group Charter and revised W3C/wAI Web site.

jason: next APA charter under development

looking at how to characterise RQTF and web accessibility website

Janina sent draft charter with 3 clauses

Proposed Draft Description:

the Research Questions (RQ) Task Force supports the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) working Group by identifying accessibility barriers and knowledge gaps in emerging and future web technologies; by publishing

research findings to assist in ameliorating those gaps and barriers; and, when feasible, by supporting APA's horizontal review activities as those technologies mature and are normatively specified.

all in agreement this is a good representation

janina: APA has repsonsibility to review everything in W3C, especially normative specs

looking to create a human readable summary for API work

jason: good to clarify how RQTF nteracts iwth other WGs

janina: covered in work statement

jason: so looking at the WAI website

has a page for the APA task forces

draft has been provided for RQTF text

janna: all landing pages getting update from w3.org/wai onwards

jason: lets continue conversation, RQTF will reivew when the opportuity arises

https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Overview_of_Current_Work

jason: may be worht revisitng work statement at some point too

Miscellaneous topics.

jason: will be absnet next wek, Scott to run meeting

specific focus on AI meeting next weke

raja: funding landscape in the US, concern there

OpenAI announced research agents

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 242 (Fri Dec 20 18:32:17 2024 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: janna, jason, raja

All speakers: janina, janna, jason, raja

Active on IRC: janina, jasonjgw, scott_h, stacey