Accessibility Minutes 2010 06 30
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Present
- Mike Squillace (IBM)
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM)
- Ann Abbott (IBM)
- Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
Minutes
Rich: http://openajax.org/pipermail/accessibility/2010-June/000315.html
Rich: Charter review: /member/wiki/Accessibility_Charter
Rich: Who's writing the rules format document?
Mike: The biggest problem is that it needs to be transformed from wiki to HTML
Mike: Will talk to Jon F. about templates, formats, etc. for deliverables
Rich: Rules format and first rules drop in Oct
Jon: Following DYlan's comments about performance; should format include group of rules
...one function returns result for gruop of rules
...already in Firerox A11y Extension
...these x rules can use same function
...example: rules for headings - duplicate text, uniqueness, properly nested
Mike: Problem is separating individual rules that might be leveraged by individual guidelines
Jon: Define what WCAG2 means both in terms of requirements nad recommendations
...rules format should be able to specify that
Mike: Another solution is to have engine cache collections associated with a context
Jon: in a dynamic environment, might be hard to determine when cache is stale
[09:24am] annabbott joined the chat room.
Mike: RESOLUTION: Rules format and first rules drop in Oct 2010
...simultaneously at Oct 31, 2010, as opposed to original Sept 2010 for rules format
Rich: Performance issues: http://openajax.org/pipermail/accessibility/2010-June/000312.html
...alot of cycling through the attribute list repetitively
...alot of redudant code and little attempt to save/cache
...merge tests or make them distinct rules
Jon: Global rules that identify non-use of WAI-ARIA or using it improperly
... rules that identify invalid use of WAI-ARIA e.g. design patterns
Rich: The problem is multiple errors if we combine tests
Jon: return multiple validationResult objects, each containing a reason/error code corresponding to a msg/severity in the ruleset
Ann: NFB Nonvisual Accessibility Web Certification - Criteria for Nonvisual Accessibility Certification http://www.nfb.org/nfb/certification_criteria.asp?SnID=995176606
Ann: Most common failure is links that ought to be button (i.e. role='button')
...will we be able to do checks like that?
Jon: may be a design pattern for that e.g. onclick with no href
Mike: Press release looks good. moving ahead
Jon: Regrets for next 3 weeks
Mike Squillace (scribe), posted by Ann Abbott