Accessibility Minutes 2009 03 11
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Participants
- Ann Abbott (IBM)
- Jon Ferriaolo (IBM) - OAA Director
- Ken Jacobi (IBM-Rational/Watchfire)
- Nathan Jakubiak (ParaSoft)
- Preety Kumar (Deque)
- Sueann Nichols (IBM)
- Tony Salcedo (ParaSoft)
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM - chair)
- Derk Stegemann (FIT)
- Michael Squillace (IBM)
- David Todd (IBM)
Minutes
Jon, anything that generates multimedia is an issue in terms of automatically playing
Rich: flash generates the script that changes the page
Jon: you don't if the flash is generating audio or video. You don't know if it is audio or not
Jon: many media types are getting supplanted by flash
Jon: we probably need to look at two parts for every rule
Jon: Flash generates ambiguity
Rich: Flash has a number of accessibility issues to start with
Flash falls into its own category
Rich: how much should we focus on flash
Preety: we would be excluding a large amount of content
Jon: there are a lot of problems with flash/flex
Jon: we should focus on dhtml and aria first
Jon: point to the Adobe site first
Rich: need Adobe to attend on this discussion
Nathan: prefer a phased approach
Preety: prefer a phased approach
group: agrees to phased approach - dhtml first then flash/flex
Jon: background audio would be a violationrich: would need knowledge about the resource to determine if it had captions
Jon: we should mark warnings as a check - otherwise people will ignore them
Nathan: a warning is such that you can't tell if something is a problem
Nathan: what happens once the user has checked them? should be able to turn them off
Preety: there is a fine distinction here. Whether the check is completely manual or whether the tool needs additional input from the user. Give me more data.
Jon: there are things that will be a warning no matter what we do
Rich: determining that keyboard implementations match the style guide are problematic
Jon: we feel best practices should generate an error
Michael Squillace to chair the March 18 call and will send out the agenda. Rich and Preety will be traveling at CSUN