Accessibility Minutes 2009 08 26
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Participants
- Anne Abbott (IBM)
- Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
- Nathan Jacobiak (ParaSoft)
- Michael Squillace (IBM)
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM - chair)
- Sandy Foltz (University of Illinois)
Minutes
Sandy: FF 3.7 has added event handling checkers and is adding support for grids
Mike: possible to create generic code store
Nathan: should probably establish name convention/spaces to avoid colliding with content on page.
Sandy: must have name spaces for Firebug
Mike: should use OAA name spaces
Rich: sending note to John F about name spaces
Nathan: needs to be logic for attaching rules and determining when & how they fire - is this group creating that logic or leaving it up to tool developers
Rich: this group probably needs to create that logic
Rich: on focus change events, only analyze changes, not entire DOM
Rich: include accessibility in HTML 5
Mike: will set up separate call with Nathan, Preety, Sandy and Vio
Rich: check with Adam Peller for localization for javascript
Rich: Best Practices for error reporting
Best Practices
Best Practices Page: /member/wiki/Accessibility_Reporting_Best_Practices
Rich: probably different scenarios for different test tools: Dev, Test, Crawler
Rich: need ability to annotate report so can determine where error occurred
Sandy: Firebug includes where in DOM error was found
Rich: can that be converted to a log?
Sandy: want that much detail?
Rich: include info on specific role/attirbutes
Mike: should strive to make generic for branding/look feel/privacy/etc
Jon: added kbd event handlers checking
Jon: anyone using HTML 5?
Rich: browsers implementing various portions of HTML 5
Rich: wait till Dec/Jan to incorporate HTML 5 in our work
Rich: working with Apple to make Canvas accessible
Nathan: can get competitive advantage with reporting
Mike: when discussing reporting - what does a violation look like?
Rich: have rule set, envisioning having specified what data store looks like and what is actually being tested based on event trigger
Sandy: need version of rule as well