Accessibility Minutes 2009 07 01
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Participants
- Anne Abbott (IBM)
- Nathan Jakubiak (ParaSoft)
- Vio Onut (IBM)
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM - chair)
- Michael Squillace (IBM)
Minutes
Rich: can be used (Eitan Isaacson from Selenium/Speclenium) - Rich will investigate.
squillace: http://www.openajax.org/member/wiki/Accessibility-Reorganization
squillace: http://openajax.org/pipermail/accessibility/2009-June/000067.html
annabbott: Discussion re: M (Manual) severity
annabbott: Decision reached to continue to use M severity
annabbott: Rich has sent heads-up to WCAG 2.0 team that further updates will be coming.
annabbott: Mike requesting assistance for adding technique links
annabbott: Rich will add as he identifies instances - like describedby
annabbott: Ann will contact Mike for primer so she can assist
annabbott: Mike questioning whether Level AAA should be included (ie. 2.4.4 and 2.4.9) - may need input from David Todd or Jon Gunderson
annabbott: Rich thinks Level AAA will be manual tests
annabbott: Nathan - 2.4.9 may be easier to test with automation
annabbott: Rich - trying to ensure tools can test, so may want to flag Level AAA as manual
annabbott: Nathan - would like this group to provide guidance
annabbott: Rich - Microsoft is targeting AAA
annabbott: Vio - Policy tester is targeting A and AA
annabbott: Vio - suggested AAA at a later stage
annabbott: Nathan - agreed
annabbott: Mike - will update policy as AAA = TBD
annabbott: Mike - table rules need work, especially layout table rules
annabbott: Rich - layout table should be role = presentation
annabbott: Mike - lots of rules that can be checked with automation
annabbott: Rich - can vet layout table rules with Freedom Scientific
annabbott: Ann - will find the FS issue requiring a proprietary tag for table markup and send to Rich
annabbott: Mike - do we want a separate section on supporting WAI-ARIA or is it part of meeting WCAG 2.0
annabbott: Rich - incorporate into rules for meeting WCAG 2.0
annabbott: Rich - covered under ROBUST section, need semantics to meet design pattern
annabbott: Vio - incorporate into existing table, not in separate section
annabbott: Mike - 2.4.4 rule, not sure about violation
annabbott: Mike - not sure where section on event handlers goes
richardschwerdtf: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-wai-aria-20090224/#global_states
annabbott: Rich - 2.4.4.needs technique to include ARIA properties or global states as Description or Label?
jakubiak: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG-TECHS/SCR20.html
annabbott: Nathan - event handlers are 2.1.1 and 2.1.3
annabbott: Rich - add title attribute to test case
annabbott: Vio - question about 111pv01 - should be V not PV?
annabbott: Mike - agreed
annabbott: Vio - 111pv02 - should be V?
annabbott: Mike - separate out
annabbott: Rich - ARIA role = link should have title attribute as well
annabbott: Rich - title attribute can occur on any element
annabbott: Mike - started a Requirements doc for language for expressing rules
annabbott: what does it look like in XML or Javascript or...?
annabbott: Mike will continue to work on wiki
annabbott: Rich will work on Selenium
annabbott: Rich will take care of minutes
