Accessibility Minutes 2009 08 19

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Participants

  • Anne Abbott (IBM)
  • Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
  • Suanne Nichols (IBM)
  • Nathan Jacobiak (ParaSoft)
  • Vio Onut (IBM)
  • Michael Squillace (IBM)
  • Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM - chair)
  • David Todd (IBM)
  • Sandy Foltz (University of Illinois)

Minutes

Rich: Code repository set up at Source Forge - refer to email for instructions

Sandy: JQuery is a lot slower than XPath

Nathan: how does Javascript fit in with XPath?

Mike: was using Webelo

Mike: what do tools vendors need?

Jon: looking at Firebug with XPath

Jon: IE6 doesn't support XPath

Nathan: still unclear where using XPath

Rich: analysis of page/walk the dom/analyze elements using JQuery or XPath to analyze the dom

Rich: how to implement JSON rule set? Is using XPath an issue?

Nathan: probably fine for both IE and FF - will have to test

Nathan: question for Sandy - using XPath, how long does it take?

Sandy: has not timed, but noticable difference from using JQuery. Simple pages are almost instantaneous, complex pages are few seconds using approx 40 rules

Rich: need to make decisions on which rules to execute when focus changes

Nathan: agrees need to limit on events

Jon: IE fires focus events before element gets focus/FF fires after

Rich: watch for activedescendent also

Vio: currently uses XPath to access DOM

Rich: trigger rules once page load settles and a subset of rules on focus change

Jon: I agree

Consensus: We will use XPath over JQuery

Rich: also focus changes on activedescendent inside a grid

Rich: activedescendent doesn't cause dom focus event change, but at OS level

Jon: add dom mutation event sync'd with kbd event

Rich: look at this issue further

Rich: what about liveregions?

Jon: group needs to lobby browsers for way to enumerate event handlers

Jon: important in order to identify interactive widgets

Jon: anyone using HTMLUnit?

Nathan: is using

Jon: takes a long time to get change incorporated

Sandy: using YSlow library

Sandy: engine originally based on YFlow with mods, manages and executes rules

Sandy: runs under Firebug

Mike: will have to write something more generic

Nathan: not sure how much they can use beyond rule set

Rich: has to be as generic as possible

Vio: would be able to use rules and need to be as generic as possible

Sandy: that's what we're doing now

Jon: long-term goal is to have report generated on server, then be able to send URL so anyone can access report

Rich: Nathan & Vio - can you determine how portable rules are for your framework, then write some of the rules?

Nathan: will start looking into that

Rich: next talk about reporting best practices

Rich: Nathan & Vio - post input to wiki

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