DPUB IG Telco, 2016-08-08: Annotation, Use cases, TPAC

See minutes online for a more detailed record of the discussions.

Annotations

Benjamin Young gave an overview on the status of the Web Annotation specifications (those include a model, vocabulary, and a protocol). The documents are currently in Candidate Recommendation, i.e., testing possible implementations to check whether the recommendations are error-free and consistent.

There were some discussions on the relationships with accessibility, more exactly whether the new specifications have (or not) accessibility implications. The agreement is that the documents themselves, as they do not define user interface or user agent behavior, do not have any accessibility aspect, but it is nevertheless important that implementations would avoid using, e.g., images for annotations (instead of accessible content). That, however, is not under the purview of the current testing period.

Use Case Documents update

There were some evolutions in the document, primarily in the section on manifests. There is a separate branch with a new version; in this version, manifests and packages are separated. The use cases for manifests have been cleaned up, relationships to the fundamental requirements have been added, and two new use cases have been added on how to find a manifest and whether the final manifest should be, possibly, a combination of several ones. The second requirement may lead to specification and implementation complexities, though.

TPAC

The group spent some time on planning the TPAC meeting insofar as finalizing which other groups in wants to meet and on what topics exactly.