Meetings/TPAC 2022

APA WG Meetings at TPAC 2022

The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group will meet at the Technical Plenary (TPAC) 2022 in Vancouver, Canada the week of 12 September 2022. See the overall meeting page for conference, hotel, and travel logistics. Registration is required.

Official W3C TPAC 2022 Calendar: https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2022/

All times are given in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) UTC-7:00. Use the session hyperlinks to ascertain agenda items in your local, dialin time.

Logistics are on the Group Schedule page.

Remote Participation

Remote participation is available via Zoom. People who can are encouraged to attend as the face to face opportunity is valuable for the work, but W3C expects many people to be unable to attend and plans to provide quality remote participation support.

TOC

• Pre TPAC
1. RQTF & Web of Things
• Monday
1. APA & AG Joint Meeting -- Functional Needs
• Tuesday
1. APA: Adapt & COGA Joint TFs Meeting
2. APA & Web Performance Joint Meeting
3. Unblocking the Adapt CR
4. APA & ARIA Joint Meeting -- Spoken Presentation
5. Coordinating comment guidance and WG participation responsibility (APA Hosted Discussion)
6. APA & WHAT-WG Joint Meeting
• Thursday
1. APA & Publishing Joint Meeting
2. Real Time Communications & APA Joint Meeting
3. CSS & APA Joint Meeting
4. APA & Verifiable Credentials Joint Meeting
5. Timed-Text & APA Joint Meeting
6. Spoken Presentation APA Task Force
7. WebRTC WG; Media WG; MEIG
• Friday
1. ARIA & APA Joint Meeting

Before TPAC: Tuesday 6th

Web of Things Accessibility

Particulars

• Finished: 0900-1000 U.S. EASTERN TIME, Tuesday the 6th
• Access details: The W3C TPAC calendar entry gives access info; the entry is for 8am to 10am ET, but APA is joining at 9am ET. W3C TPAC calendar entry for WoT and APA meeting
• Minutes: https://www.w3.org/2022/09/06-wot-minutes.html#t12
• Description: Understanding the accessibility barriers, your terminology, and our next steps together
• Key Invitees: Web of Things WG
• Contact: Michael McCool

Topics

1. Accessibility barriers posed by apps, sites and services that form required, or key, parts of a WoT ecosystem.
2. Terminology (we call these "middleware" but we want to understand what you'd call it).
3. Steps we could take to identify and overcome these barriers.

Notes

• https://github.com/w3c/wot-usecases/issues/21
• https://github.com/w3c/wot-usecases/issues/64
• https://github.com/w3c/wot-architecture/issues/578

Monday 12th

AGWG and APA Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 0830-1000, Monday the 12th in AG space (TPAC calendar entry)
• Minutes: The main topic was Functional Needs (draft minutes). However, we also stayed for the conversations on all of the following agenda items that day, which included COGA Test proposals, and Equity (which follow in the minutes linked above).
• Description: Collaborative working, and functional needs
• Key Invitees: COGA
• Contact: AG Chairs

Topics

• Review CEPC
• Review W3C Guidance for Hybrid meetings
• Timeboxing conversations and moving conversation forward
• Functional Needs

Tuesday 13th

APA: Adapt & COGA Joint TFs Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 0800-0900, Tuesday the 13th in COGA space (TPAC calendar entry)
• Minutes: "Getting to know Adapt" Draft Minutes
• Description: COGA & Adapt intersections
• Key Invitees: COGA, Adapt
• Contact: COGA & Adapt facilitators

Topics

1. A "getting to know Adapt" session with COGA

Notes

• Full day's agenda from COGA (covers more than this meeting) can be found in COGA's Google Doc

APA & Web Performance Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 0930-1030, Tuesday the 13th in Web Performance space (TPAC calendar entry)
• Minutes: Web Perf + APA draft minutes (Google doc)
• Description: Addition of accessibility endpoints to the Reporting API
• Key Invitees:
• Contact: Chairs

Topics

1. Opportunities we see for accessibilty endpoints in the Reporting API
2. Creating a spec on how we may explrore these
3. What rate of usage is the API designed for?

Notes

• RQTF: Reporting API Use Cases: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Reporting_API_Use_Cases
• RQTF: Verifiable Credentials Use Cases: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Some_use_cases_for_verifiable_credentials

Unblocking the Adapt CR

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1100-1200, Tuesday the 13th in APA space (TPAC calendar entry for Tuesday)
• Minutes: Unblocking the Adapt CR (draft minutes)
• Description: Resolve any remaining concerns re WAI-Adapt Content Module 1.0 CR
• Key Invitees: PLH (Confirmed); TAG (Unconfirmed--see Notes below)
• Contact: TAG; WAI-Adapt TF; Ping PLH in IRC

Topics

• W CR Transition Blocked? We need to untangle why.

Notes

• Initial Email Outreach
• Escalation Requested
• Urgent from Janina to PLH and Ralph; cf
• IMPORTANT: PLH's identified blocker issue

ARIA & APA Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1330-1430, Tuesday the 13th in APA space (TPAC calendar entry for Tuesday)
• Minutes: ARIA + APA (Spoken Presentation) draft minutes (Note: there was no heading for this, but this link takes you to the start of the minutes for this meeting.)
• Description: Collaboration with ARIA on Spoken Presentation approach
• Key Invitees: Spoken Presentation TF
• Contact: Chairs; SP Co-Facilitators

Topics

1. Spoken presentation counterproposal

Notes

Paul, Irfan, please provide pointer.

Coordinating comment guidance and WG participation responsibility (APA Hosted Discussion)

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1500-1600, Tuesday the 13th in APA space (TPAC calendar entry for Tuesday)
• Minutes: Coordinating comment guidance and WG participation responsibility (draft minutes)
• Description: Coordinating comment guidance and WG participation responsibility
• Key Invitees: Chairs and interested parties from all WAI WGs
• Contact:

Topics

1. Comment guidance
2. WG participation responsibility

APA & WHAT-WG Open Issues Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1600-1700, Tuesday the 13th in APA space (TPAC calendar entry for Tuesday)
• Minutes: WHATWG joint meeting (draft minutes)
• Description: Open Issues
• Key Invitees: WHAT-WG
• Contact: Anne van Kesteren

Topics

1. Reserved prefix for WAI-Adapt Content Module 1.0
2. Opportunity to enhance navigational semantics (emerging from epub)
3. Explore TTS reqs, e.g. historical lang designation
4. Explore thoughts on accessible interlinear approaches
5. Try to resolve open notifications issue (check for github href)

Notes

• Find notifications href

Thursday 15th

APA & Publishing Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 0800-0900, Thursday the 15th in APA space (TPAC calendar Thursday entry)
• Minutes: APA and Publishing meeting (draft minutes)
• Description: Updates and questions from APA for Publishing
• Key Invitees: Publishing CG and EPUB 3 WG
• Contact: George, Avneesh
• Chair: Janina

Topics

1. Update on Adapt
2. Update on Spoken Presentation
3. Do we need another a11y horizontal review of EPUB 3.3 the change log is at: https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/#change-latest
4. Updates for accessibility documents being developed in Publishing CG.
5. Interlinear e-texts (e.g. Opera parts)

Notes

• Adapt: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/adapt/
• Spoken Presentation: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/

Real-Time Communications & APA Joint Meeting

Note: this isn't actually including RTC; the title hasn't been changed to ensure URLs don't break. This is actually a meeting with the MEIG (and Timed Text).

Particulars

• Scheduled: 0800-1000, Thursday the 15th in MEIG space (APA will join for the 9am hour)
• Minutes:
• Description: APA needs a better understanding of current Media related W3C work
• Key Invitees: Media & Entertainment Interest Group (includes joint session with Timed Text WG)
• Contact: RQTF Co-Facilitators; RTC Chairs

Topics

1. Media Accessibility User Requirements(MAUR)

Notes

• TBD

CSS & APA Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1030-1130, Thursday the 15th in CSS space
• Minutes: hopefully at https://www.w3.org/2022/09/15-css-minutes#t06 but currently gotta dig it out of https://www.w3.org/2022/09/15-css-irc or run that through the online minutes generator
• Description: Collaboration with CSS
• Key Invitees: CSSWG
• Contact: CSS Chairs

Topics

1. CSS-APA liaison
2. contrast-ratio()
3. Media queries in relation to Adapt (demo page forthcoming; https://github.com/w3c/adapt/issues/170 for background)
4. The work on navigation mentioned in the CSSWG charter
5. CSSWG's agenda [we recall seeing it; can't find it in the invite]

Notes

• CSSWG added various color-contrast() issue to their F2F agenda: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7361
• Adapt and Media Queries:
  • Demo page: http://matatk.agrip.org.uk/personalization-semantics-explorations/distracting-sign-up-form.html
  • https://github.com/w3c/adapt/issues/170
  • https://www.w3.org/2022/08/01-adapt-minutes#t01
• The meeting in CSSWG's wiki: https://wiki.csswg.org/planning/tpac-2022
• Historical CSS & APA re Navigation at Sapporo TPAC (2015) minutes

APA & Verifiable Credentials Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1315-1415, Thursday the 15th in Verifiable Credentials WG's meeting space
• Minutes: VC and APA draft minutes
• Description: Leveraging VC tech for a11y
• Key Invitees: Verifiable Credentials WG
• Contact: Manu Sporny; VC Chairs

Topics

1. Killing CAPTCHA
2. Explain RQTF's potential use cases
3. Explore the opportunity
4. Including: enabling people to access their settings across all devices, i.e. autopropogation across a user's devices;

Notes

• RQTF: Verifiable Credentials Use Cases: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/research-questions/wiki/Some_use_cases_for_verifiable_credentials

Timed-Text & APA Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1430-1530 on Thursday the 15th in APA space (TPAC calendar Thursday entry)
• Minutes: Timed Text and APA (draft minutes)
• Description: Making SAUR normative;
• Key Invitees: Timed Text WG
• Contact: Nigel
• Chair: TBD

Topics

1. SAUR documents multiple research studies that give acceptable time envelopes for media synchronization.
2. APA needs SAUR to become normative, so that other normative specs, such as WCAG 3, can normatively reference acceptable tolerances for caption synchronization, etc.
3. APA seeks help from Timed Text to move SAUR to being a normative spec as doing so alone arguably exceeds APA's scoping remit.

Notes

• SAUR: https://www.w3.org/TR/saur/

Spoken Presentation (APA Task Force)

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1530-1630, Thursday the 15th in APA space (TPAC calendar Thursday entry)
• Minutes: Spoken Presentation (draft minutes)
• Description: SSML & EML
• Key Invitees: Dan Burnett, Debbie Dahl
• Contact: SP Co-Facilitators

Topics

1. Specifying age and gender in TTS
2. Specifying emotion in TTS
3. Other SSML open issues

Notes

• TBD

WebRTC; Media WG; MEIG

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1530-1730, Thursday the 15th in WebRTC/MWG/MEIG space - APA attendance not confirmed yet; need to arrange to sit in from 1630
• Minutes:
• Description: -
• Key Invitees: -
• Contact: Scott Hollier

Topics

1. Sit in on the meeting to keep up to date with any developments from RTC and Media WGs that relate to accessibility.
2. Media Accessibility User Requirements (MAUR)
3. Real-time communications Accessible User Requirements (RAUR) publication and feedback.
4. Accessibility of Remote Meetings.
5. Anything RTC/Media would like to raise with us.

Notes

• RTC Accessibility User Requirements (RAUR): https://www.w3.org/TR/raur/
• Accessibility of Remote Meetings: https://www.w3.org/TR/remote-meetings/

Note: RTC informs us they have no issues for us Also, RTC conversation will be 1530-1730

Friday 16th

ARIA & APA Joint Meeting

Particulars

• Scheduled: 1030-1130, Friday the 16th in ARIA space
• Minutes: ARIA and APA (draft minutes)
• Description: Live regions; Decorative images; Simplifying content in general
• Key Invitees: Adapt TF
• Contact: ARIA Co-Chairs; ADAPT Co-Facilitators

Topics

1. Update on navigation (discussion with CSSWG) [informed chair; not discussed in meeting, as we already had full agenda]
   1. Linear navigation of variable granularity
   2. Spatial navigation
2. Expanding upon what live regions can encompass
3. Simplification of content - e.g. decorative images

AG Meeting

Whilst not planned, we sat in on the discussions around outcomes/user needs, and conformance:

• AG Friday TPAC 2022 Calendar entry
• AG (draft minutes)

Unscheduled Meetings

Internationalization

Particulars

• Scheduled: [date and time]
• Minutes: We were able to discus the topics proposed here in the Spoken Presentation meeting, above!
• Description: Issues arising from Spoken Presentation's use cases and gap analysis
• Key Invitees: Internationalization WG; SPTF
• Contact:Addison Phillips ; SP Co-Facilitators

Topics

1. APA requests I18N begin specifying for aural interface environments.
2. Cross-platform way to specify historical dialect of a language; current lang doesn't do this.

Notes

• Spoken Presentation: https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/task-forces/pronunciation/
• Spoken Presentation use cases and gap analysis: https://w3c.github.io/pronunciation/gap-analysis_and_use-case/

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Notes

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