Accessibility Minutes 2015 04 24
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Present
- Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois) - Chair
- Nicholas Hoyt (University of Illinois) - Scribe
- Ann Abbot (IBM)
Discussion continued from last week's meeting
Jon: https://github.com/paypal/skipto
Jon: http://disability.illinois.edu/
Agenda
1. Use of GitHub for bug and feature tracking
https://github.com/opena11y/oaa-rules
2. Update on rules and messaging related to supporting HTML5 Section elements and default landmark role rules
3. Update on rule for error prevention for legal and financial transactions
4. Document linearization rule (manual check)
5. Do we have all the rules we need for version 1.0?
Agenda item 1: 1. Use of GitHub for bug and feature tracking
Jon: enhancements and defects can be entered there
Agenda item 2. Update on rules and messaging related to supporting HTML5 Section elements and default landmark role rules
Jon: talked to Steve Falkner, discussion on HTML5 sectioning elements
Jon: Steve says there's enough support to make them landmarks
Jon: modifying rules to support HTML5 sectioning elements as alternative to ARIA landmarks
Jon: If need to support IE8, must use ARIA landmarks and not use both
Jon: still working on changes to messaging
Jon: general editing of rules also
Agenda item 3. Update on rule for error prevention for legal and financial transactions
Jon: has not had time to update that rule
Agenda item 4. Document linearization rule (manual check)
Jon: change to include general doc reading order rule.
Nick agrees
Ann: would become page level rule from element level rule
Jon agrees
Agenda item 5. Do we have all the rules we need for version 1.0?
Ann: as long as we have rules for all WCAG requirements, should be ok
Jon: http://fae20.cita.illinois.edu/rules/sc/
Jon: link shows rules for WCAG success criteria
Jon: http://fae20-dev.cita.illinois.edu/rules/sc/
Jon: http://fae20-dev.cita.illinois.edu/rule/sc/VIDEO_4/
Jon: http://fae20-dev.cita.illinois.edu/rule/sc/VIDEO_7/
Jon: 128 rules currently
Jon: correction: 123 rules for HTML5 and ARIA
Jon: need to move fwd with testing and polishing
Jon: can collect future rules, for example links to nonHTML documents
Jon: another may be to check for role="<role>" and not aria-<whatever>
Nick: looks like nav landmark may have an issue with HTML5 nav element
Jon: may have a bug in reworked rules for HTML5 nav elements
Jon: may be a browser issue
Jon: http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/semantics.html#the-form-element
Call ended at 2:56pm Central
