Accessibility Minutes 2013 10 28

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Contents

Present

  • Ann Abbott (IBM)
  • Marc Johlic (IBM)
  • Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM)
  • Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
  • Nicholas Hoyt (University of Illinois) - scribe

Minutes

AInspector Sidebar

NH: Main changes in latest prototype relate to recently added rules.

NH: Also tweaked the UI layout to improve consistency across platforms (Mac OS X, Win 7 and Win 8).

Rules and Rulesets

Coverage of WCAG

JG: http://dev.oaa-accessibility.org/rulesets/wcag20/

JG: Link shows mapping of our current rules to WCAG 2.0

JG: The only guidelines where we're lacking rules are 2.2 Timing and 2.3 Seizures

NH: Also do not have rules for 1.3.3, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.4, 1.4.5 and 3.2.4, 3.3.1, 3.3.3, 3.3.4

RS: If you have valid attribute from HTML 5 and ARIA invalid, that is a problem

JG: Want to spend some time going over new rules recently added

Ruleset Constituency Groups

JG: Want to validate that IBM is mainly interested in ARIA-STRICT ruleset

AA: Yes, that is true

JG: Still need to validate our main constituent group for ARIA-TRANSITIONAL

JG: Probably will change the name of the latter ruleset

JG: Based on: What is the first thing a developer typically wants to do: workflow, where to start?

Questions re. new rules

JG: Nested heading rules

JG: Have rewritten some of these recently

JG: HEADING 5 is global nesting rule for headings

JG: LANDMARK 6 only looks at nesting of headings within landmarks

NH: IANA is Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

NH: They assign all of the language codes, such as en-US

JG: Re. nesting rules, how should we differentiate between entire page and within landmarks?

JG: In my mind, within a landmark, you should always start with heading level 1 or 2

JG: A stricter rule would say that the only landmark you would start with h1 would be MAIN; other landmarks you could/should start with h2

RS: What about multiple h1s?

JG: Should the rule re. heading levels within landmarks be recommended?

NH: Consensus among AA and MJ: let's make the rule recommended

RS: Recommended is fine

NH: Specifically, re. which heading levels should be used (start with) in various landmarks

JG: Also, global heading rule will be taken out of ARIA-STRICT

JG: MAIN landmark - something that we want on every page, also NAVIGATION

NH: Last entry applies to new section: Landmark rules

JG: Under 2.4.1: every page must have MAIN and NAVIGATION landmarks

JG: 3.2.3 and 3.2.4 are about consistent navigation

JG: and these latter SCs are website scope, where the former is page scope

JG: We could give users the options to say: Don't analyze these pages as part of a website, in which case we would disable rules with website scope, such as those rel. to 3.2.3 and 3.2.4

JG: Is it okay to have the lack of MAIN landmark cause you to fail not one but three rules

JG: Second question: If you only have one MAIN and one NAVIGATION, you probably shouldn't have any labels on them, right?

JG: If you have more than one MAIN or NAVIGATION, then you need labels on each of them

JG: Everyone's okay with violation when you don't have MAIN or NAVIGATION on every page of website?

AA: I think we're going to need user option to switch on or off whether page should be considered as part of website

JG: Another question: I changed rules rel. 2.4.1 re. BANNER and CONTENTINFO landmarks

JG: Do you require both of these at IBM

RS: We require MAIN and that everything being in a landmark

AA: Only one CONTENTINFO landmark is permitted, and is not permitted without presence of MAIN role

JG: What about SEARCH

AA: If you have search function, then you need SEARCH role

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