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December 10th (Chuck)

• WCAG2ICT scope [tentative]
• Publishing First Public Working Draft (FPWD) of Mobile Accessibility: How WCAG 2.0 and Other W3C/WAI Guidelines Apply to Mobile https://w3c.github.io/matf/ [tentative]
• Year end wrap and timeline for 2025
• Sub-group working session

Holidays break

NOTE: AG will be taking a break December 17th-January 3rd.

January 7th (Alastair)

• WCAG2ICT scope (tentative)

CSUN 2025, March 10th

AGWG will have a hybrid meeting the day before CSUN which will include at least a retro.

Items to Comment On (Ongoing Agenda Items)

Please subscribe to issues you will be reviewing.

• Terminology
• Accessibility Supported
• Assertions
• Sufficient coverage and Accessibility Supported
• Deceptive Patterns

Items to Review (Not Yet Agenda Items)

• Parking Lot
• Issues
• Github Discussions

Currently Active Subgroups

• Keyboard - Bruce
• Section Labels - Giacomo
• Implied Meaning - Julie
• Non-Text Contrast - Alastair
• Haptic Stimulation - DJ?

Upcoming Subgroups

• Voice Control (Exploratory) - Giacamo?
• Text Contrast - DJ?
• Text to Speech - Shawn?
• Define Views - JJ?
• Keyboard - Bruce

Future Subgroups

• Deceptive Patterns

Previous Agendas (Most recent agenda at top)

December 3rd (Alastair)

• WCAG 3 publication discussion (if needed) https://w3c.github.io/wcag3/guidelines/
• Content Related Definitions (text, image, content, interactive component, etc.) https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/140
• WCAG 2.2 review of updates https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-issues/2024Nov/0012.html
• Sub-group working

November 26th (Chuck)

• Introduction to FPWD Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile (WCAG2Mobile)(JJ) [15 minutes]
• Discussions of issues with publication (if needed)
• Communications
• Subgroup Work (2nd hour assuming publication discussions are done)

November 19th (Alastair)

• Keyboard wrap up briefings (tentative)
• Issue 2296 https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/2296/files
• EN 301 549 Tool (Gregg) [10 min]
• Discussion of WCAG 3 https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/129 and WCAG 3 Guidelines Update Preview (As needed)
  • Check acknowledgements
• Subgroup Work (2nd hour)

November 12th (Chuck)

• Subgroup wrap up briefings
• Discussion of WCAG 3 https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/129 (As needed)
  • Check acknowledgements
• Discussion of Explainer https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/116#issuecomment-2444491152 (As needed)
• (New) Subgroup Work (2nd hour)

November 5th (Alastair)

• Announcements
  • Reminder about the group mentor/buddy request
  • WCAG 2.x errata CFC
• Subgroup wrap up briefings
• Discuss Explainer https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/116#issuecomment-2444491152
• Discussion of WCAG 3 Guidelines and Requirements https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hc5fwRKZVdWPoEp-HzrCu4TTsXF36sozE45OfcYUnKU/edit?tab=t.0
• (Existing) subgroup Work (2nd hour)

Oct 29th (Chuck)

• Brief subgroup status updates
• Review WCAG 3 and Explainer Publication Kickoff (Tentative)
• Current subgroup working sessions

Oct 22nd (Alastair)

• Announcements: Onboarding & buddy programme, Sub-group participation
• Requirements Publication https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/117
• WCAG 2.x issues https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-issues/2024Oct/0002.html
• Work Time (Continue breakout on refining technical statements)

Oct 15th (Chuck)

• Discuss what to include for conformance in upcoming publications
  • Please review and respond to the Conformance Next Steps GitHub Conversation before the meeting
• Work Time (Current subgroups and continue breakout on refining technical statements)

Oct 8th (Alastair)

• Requirements Publication Review Kickoff, differences, comments in the github thread 117
• Review Pros and Cons document
• Break-outs for:
  • Refine statements as consistent outcome based language
  • Refine grouping of outcomes into guidelines

Oct 1st (Chuck)

• Review Conformance Model Options
• Deciding on outcome formatting
• Break-outs for:
  • Rewrite outcomes statements as consistent outcome based language
  • Refine grouping of outcomes into guidelines
  • Categorize outcomes as prerequisite, required and enhanced

Sept 23rd / 24th TPAC

Register to join

• Retrospective (Monday morning)
• Conformance model (Monday afternoon & Tuesday morning)
• Sub-group work (Tuesday afternoon, tentative)

September 17 (Alastair)

• Subgroup check-in
  • Section Labels
  • Non-text Contrast
  • Haptic Stimulation
  • Keyboard Only
  • Implied Meaning
• Focus appearance and Text alternatives, PR, Preview - End of Review Period
• Accessibility Supported PR Introduction
• WCAG 3 Explainer Introduction
• TPAC Retrospective Introduction
• WCAG 2.2 updates [30 minutes]

September 10 (Chuck)

• WCAG2ICT Review intro [5 minutes]
• Subgroup check-in
  • Section Labels
  • Non-text Contrast
  • Haptic Stimulation
  • Keyboard Only
  • Implied Meaning
• Subgroup PR https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/112 and https://deploy-preview-112--wcag3.netlify.app/
  • Focus appearance
  • Text alternatives
• Terminology conversation https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/113#discussion-7138461

September 3 (Alastair)

• Publication sub-group report (Wendy/Juanita) - possible slip to following week
• Subgroup check-in and assertions exercise. For each sub-group, review methods/decision tree and review or suggest assertions that could be included.
  • Section Labels
  • Non-text Contrast
  • Haptic Stimulation
  • Keyboard Only
  • Implied Meaning
• Should assertions be available to meet a conformance level?
• Do assertions need to be made in a place that is viewable by people who have access to the system or only in a conformance statement that is provided by the author?

August 27 (Rachael)

• Subgroup check-in [10 minute]
  • Publications
  • Focus Appearance
  • Voice Interaction (Not started)
  • Section Labels
  • Non-text Contrast
  • Haptic Stimulation
  • Keyboard Only
  • Implied Meaning
• WCAG 3 Requirements updates (if needed)
• Focus Appearance draft outcome
• Assertions template
• How to document “sufficient” coverage? (tentative)

(Chuck out)

August 20 (Alastair)

• Subgroup check-in [10 minute]
• WCAG 3 Requirements updates
  • Combined Diff of all previous changes, these are all the things from the 'Done' column of the requirements project.
  • PR of latest changes
• WCAG 2.2 review for this week
• Documenting "Good Enough" for defaults

August 13 (Chuck)

• Assertions Exercise (60 minutes)
  • Assertions Github Discussion and Slide Deck
  • Assertion Template
• Accessibility supported / Prerequisite level
  • Proposal in Github discussion

August 6 (Alastair)

• Priority of supporting user control vs. authoring provided support in exploratory prerequisite levels https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/104 [30 minutes]
  • Conformance Slide Deck
• Assertions continued
  • Assertions Github Discussion and Slide Deck
  • Assertion Template

July 30 (Chuck)

(Alastair out)

• Subgroup meeting [60 minutes]
• Assertions Discussion

July 23 (Rachael)

(Alastair out)

• Assertions Introduction
• Subgroup meeting [90 minutes]

July 16th (Alastair)

• Subgroup meeting 60 minutes
• WCAG 2 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-issues/2024Jul/0003.html

July 9th (Chuck)

• Subgroup meeting Kickoff
  • Introduction
  • Subgroup meeting
  • Questions and Discussion

July 2nd (Alastair)

(Rachael out)

• TPAC reminder
• WCAG 2.x issues (up to 30 minutes)
• Review consolidation - including moving the adjustment requirements.
• Review Template for the subgroups
• Assigning prerequisite/baseline/enhanced

June 25th (Chuck)

• Announcements
  • Subgroups (Questions / support) https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/subgroups-june-24/
• WCAG2ICT to wide review draft (15 minutes)
  • Resolution to Call For Consensus (CfC)
  • Diff
  • Issues
• Starting discussion on consolidating outcomes (15 minutes)
• Conformance
  • Conformance Presentation
• WCAG 2.x issues (30 minutes)

June 18th (Alastair)

• Introduce next steps in subgroups https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/subgroups-june-24/
• Continuing the conformance conversation by exploring a baseline structure
  • Conformance Presentation

June 11th (Chuck)

• WCAG2ICT update (TBD)
• Conformance - What would a baseline include?
  • Conformance Presentation
  • Discuss Required Outcome Survey

June 4th (Alastair)

• Conformance and structure continuation (Slides, will be updated)
• WCAG 2.2 issues https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-issues/2024May/0014.html

May 28th (Chuck)

• Use of AI for minuting
  • Announcement - W3C Health and Safety for TPAC
  • Announcement - Old branches https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/3602
• Introduction to Conformance conversation
• WCAG2ICT Review Discussion (tentative)
• Refining WCAG 3 structure continued https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/87

May 21st (Alastair)

• WCAG2ICT Review Discussion https://github.com/w3c/wcag2ict/labels/Please%20Review
• Text alternatives update https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit
• WCAG 2 issues https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wcag2-issues/2024May/0008.html

May 14th (Chuck)

• WCAG2ICT Coming
• ACT Rules format 1.1 https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/3616
• Publication Approach Subgroup Mid-Brief
• Focus visible subgroup initial brief
• Accessibility supported proposal 2nd draft

May 7th (Alastair)

• CFC Discussion (if needed)
• Accessibility supported
• WCAG 2 issue resolutions

April 30th (Chuck)

• CEPC Reminder
• Discuss Publishing Pull Request https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/62
• Text Alternatives [Needs link]

April 23rd (Alastair)

First 90 minutes

• Introduce Outcomes Pull Request https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/pull/62
• Text Alternatives Conversation Continued https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit#heading=h.cu8l0ohk9n2q

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2 Issues

April 16th (Chuck)

• Subgroup updates
• Exploratory Guidelines and Outcomes https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/60#discussioncomment-9072721 [timebox 30 minutes]
• Text Alternatives Conversation Continued https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit#heading=h.cu8l0ohk9n2q

April 9th (Rachael)

(No Alastair) First 90 minutes

• Subgroup updates
• Exploratory Guidelines and Outcomes https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/60
• Text Alternatives Conversation Continued https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit#heading=h.cu8l0ohk9n2q

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2 Issues

March 26th (Alastair)

(No Rachael)

First 90 minutes

• Subgroup Updates
• Accessibility supported
• Introducing List of Outcomes
• WCAG 3 Requirements

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2 Issues

March 19th (Rachael)

(No Chuck & CSUN)

• Working Session - Alternative Text Outcome

April 2nd (Chuck)

• New IRC client
• Subgroup updates
• Continue text alternatives work https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit#heading=h.cu8l0ohk9n2q

March 12th (Alastair)

• Next Publication - Updated Placeholder Guidelines and Outcomes https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/54
• Universal Essential Exception https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/55
• Begin Working Session - Text Alternatives Outcome https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wkQ8ZKiRnNnax9ENaDXfQhl6kh-iYlXx7gMEhKMTQBU/edit

March 5th (Chuck)

First 90 minutes

• Introduce Accessibility supported
• Card sort results
• WCAG 3 Requirement updates [45 minutes]
  • Backwards compatibility addition from issue 559 resulting in PR 730.
  • Scope requirement updates from issues issue 729 and issue 224, resulting in PR 734.
  • Update the "Multiple ways to display" requirement from issue 726 with PR 733
  • Will it be possible to tell whether a site fully or partially conforms? Response to issue 425
  • Will WCAG 3 provide guidelines for non-web technologies? Response to issue 611
  • Do research across all the proposed guidelines. Response to issue 587

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2 items for review

February 27th (Alastair)

Full 2 hours

• Check in on project plan
• WCAG 3 Requirements updates [45 minutes]
  • Minor editorial updates in PR 619
  • Use well defined normative language
  • Update requirement 4.7 motivation
  • Issues with responses (scroll down for the "proposed response"):
    • Including informative documents as a design principle #307
    • Guidelines focus on functional user needs #311
    • Require AT testing in Design Principles and Requirements #344
    • Add an automated test level
    • Refine the design principles
    • Needs don't tend to fit the true/false model
• Pick first set of outcomes https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/51
• Continue conversation on Structure with Examples

February 20th (Chuck)

First 90 minutes

• Structure [45 minutes]
• Introduce Normative/Informative Conversation [45 minutes]

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2.x errata
  • https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3380
  • https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3536
• WCAG 2.x updates https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2024JanMar/0025.html

February 13th (Alastair)

First 90 minutes

• Review How To Template (Kevin)
• Card Sort Next Steps (Alastair)
• Outcome Language and Normative Conversation (Rachael)

February 6th (Chuck)

First 90 minutes

• Card Sort Results
• Prioritizing Outcomes
• Discuss Outcome format and level

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2.x updates

January 30th (Alastair)

(Chuck Out) Full Meeting

• Announce European meeting
• Writing Testable Outcomes
• Intro to Outcome format
• Guidance Modules

January 23rd (Chuck)

First 90 minutes

• Decision about Publication Approach to WCAG 3

Last 30 minutes

• WCAG 2 Issue Resolution

January 16th (Alastair)

(Chuck Out)

• Announce CSUN (lack of) activity

First 90 minutes

• Introduce Card Sort of Outcomes and User Needs [tentative]
• Evaluation Criteria for Conformance Models (added to agenda before the Nov 21st meeting)
• Continue Publication Approach to WCAG 3

Last 30 minutes

• ACT-Rules Format 1.1 FPWD

January 9th (Rachael)

Hour 1:

• Publication Approach to WCAG 3

Hour 2:

• WCAG2ICT Parsing Issue (15 minutes)
• WCAG 2.x issue resolutions (30 minutes)
  • Proposed substantive changes (changes that meaningfully add or alter existing non-normative guidance)
    • Tweak 3.3.2 understanding benefits to align with intent
    • Failure F46 for markup in layout tables doesn't taken into account role presentation or none
    • Added third line to In brief section of 2.0 SCs
    • Reword F23 to clarify ‘mechanism’
    • Tweak understanding for 1.2.6: Sign Language (Prerecorded)
  • Proposed editorial changes (small improvements to language intended to clarify existing guidance)
    • Links with different names pointing to equal resources in Related Resources in Understanding SC 3.3.8: Accessible Authentication (Minimum)
    • Tweak 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose understanding intent
    • Code fixes to 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose understanding

January 2nd

No meeting - Leadership work day

December 26th

No Meeting

December 19th

No meeting - Leadership work day

December 12th (Chuck)

(No Alastair)

• New ACT rules
• WCAG2ICT issues
• WCAG 3 sub-groups
  • Keyboard Support (Chuck / Wendy)
  • User Control (TBD)
  • Color and Contrast (Rachael)

December 5th (Alastair)

• Taskforce Process Overview [15-20 minutes]
• TPAC Subgroup Work
  • Keyboard Support (Wendy/Chuck)
  • Pointer Support (Alastair)
  • Provide Help (Rachael)

November 28th (Chuck)

• Input conversation (Alastair) [15 minutes]
• TPAC Subgroup Work

November 21st (Alastair)

• Control Semantics Brief [10 minutes]
• TPAC Subgroup Work
  • Pointer Support (Alastair)
  • Prevent Harm (Rachael)
  • Keyboard Support (Wendy)
  • Clear Purpose (Chuck)

November 14th (Chuck)

• Announcing: WCAG 2 approvals and mailing list, reminder to re-join (accept emails / as AC reps)
• TPAC Subgroup Work
  • Pointer Support (Alastair)
  • Prevent Harm (Rachael)
  • Keyboard Support (Wendy)

November 7th (Alastair)

• Press release survey https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/WCAG22PressRelease/
• Review Project Plan (30 Minutes)
• TPAC Subgroup Work
  • Pointer Support (Alastair)
  • Prevent Harm (Rachael)
  • Keyboard Support (Wendy)

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