Accessibility Minutes 2012 07 16

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Present

  • Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois - Co-Chair)
  • Ann Abbott (IBM)
  • Prasanna Bale (University of Illinois)
  • Nicholas Hoyt (University of Illinois) - Scribe
  • Richard Schwerdtfeger (IBM - Co-Chair)

Minutes

Update on OAA Library

JG: Implemented some of the heading and landmark rules

JG: Need to discuss adding to each rule and explicit Rule Category property

JG: Also some API issues re. filtering and getting a group of rules from a rule category

JG: Some issues with updating the format of the rules documentation

JG: Plan to release an update of Cache Inspector with some newly implemented rules

JG: Seems to be a bug with hidden/visible determination of elements in CI

NH: Recommend looking at new version of Cache Inspector with new dialogs for element properties and rule information

Rational Policy Tester

JG: Rational Policy Tester question: invited to demo this afternoon: there is a different ruleset used internally within IBM; if I were to recommend that they use that ruleset, what could I tell them

RS: Tell them that you understand that IBM is updating the WCAG 2 compliance ruleset that IBM uses for its internal products and making that available in RPT

RS: and that you would like to have that ruleset and that you participate in WG with RS

JG: Is there a name I can give them? That the IBM sales rep could talk to Constantine Grancharov product manager for policy tester

RS: If you're negotiating a deal, would like to have it include the next major update of RPT

RS: includes any IBM-specific rulesets for WCAG compliance

JG: We badly need it here (e.g. Travel Expense Management system which is inaccessible)

RS: WCAG 2 compliance rules are very abstract; to get something that works, we really need something that has been tested by dev. community and end users that addresses rich web app accessibility

JG: /member/wiki/WCAG_2.0_Principle_2_Operable_Rules

Discussion of headings and landmarks rules

JG: Would like to go over some of the issues with landmark rules; have been working on them in the past week

JG: /member/wiki/WCAG_2.0_Principle_2_Operable_Rules#Requirement_2.4.1_Bypass_Blocks

JG: Under Bypass Blocks, let's look at HEADING_1 rule: Each page must/should contain at least one h1 element and each h1 element must have content

AA: Should HEADING 1 be required or recommended?

AA: For transitional ruleset, do you already have requirement for at least one h1 on a page?

JG: We do internally, but there has been pushback.

AA: What is their reasoning?

JG: For bypass block, some feel that it's not absolutely necessary; could make it required in Strict Ruleset

JG: WCAG WG interpretation: if you do use headings... requirements are AAA

JG: WCAG 1.3.1: If you have things that look like headings, you should use h1..h6

JG: Next rule relates to h1's being used with main landmarks

JG: HEADING 2: h1 elements must/should be used as labels for main landmarks

AA: Will HEADING 2 rule cause redundant content read by screen readers?

RS: They could be different, but in practice they may not be.

RS: Would recommend that we not make it a strict requirement, even in ARIA Strict

PB: What about case where we have more than one h1?

JG: If more than one main landmark, each should have just one h1 per main landmark.

NH: Is this just an AT problem, and they should be able to avoid reading redundant content?

JG: Forms are different because of the way that focus induces AT to read accessible name.

JG: Will review this one next week.

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