“EN 301 549 vs WCAG” – Study Group Meeting Notes

Participants

• Simo Hellsten
• Pär Lannerö
• Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli (taking notes)
• Sander Nijsingh
• Nadia Törnroos
• Christer Janzon

Meeting notes 2025-01-09

1. Quick go through of past meeting notes
   • Stein Erik contribution of test procedures? Erik asks about progress.
   • Discuss repo https://github.com/Nordic-Accessibility-Community-Group/working-with-EN-301-549 usage. Agreement on it’s value.
2. Talk about the discussions thread referencing Etsi
   • It is hard to land common understanding regarding 11.7.
     • Wish for easy to use feedback: This is what 11.7 should be and why.
     • Pär will add a discussion thread in the repo.
3. Preconditions will probably sort out issues with websites/ app and ICT.
   • Example: “For ICT that has a physical button”.
4. Discussion about https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/#support-a-personalized-and-familiar-interface-pattern and how different cognitive accessibility writings can be a bit confusing.
5. IAAP Nordic in Helsinki February 3-4.
   • Workshop for 3 hours.
   • Discuss 11.7?
   • Give feedback on discussion ideas to Nadia.
   • Address concerns from the ETSI discussions such as: https://labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/-/issues/23#note_16520
   • Nadia will add a discussion thread in the Github repository for the group to contribute ideas.
6. Discussion around 7.1.5 Spoken subtitles
   • Maybe should dialects be included?
   • Local languages such as “suburb slang”.
   • Speech to text can pick up captions on Mac.
   • Pär requests help to explore how Windows reads out captions. Adds discussion thread to the repository.
   • Domain restriction might limit assistive tech to pick it up.
7. Erik will plan new meeting dates with Tobias.