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Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Teleconference

08 Oct 2019

Attendees

Present
Rachael, alastairc, Raf, Detlev, Fazio, Justine, Laura, Jennie, Brooks, Chuck, MarcJohlic, stevelee, Katie_Haritos-Shea, mbgower, david-macdonald
Regrets
Jake, BruceB, JohnKirkwood, Nicaise
Chair
SV_MEETING_CHAIR
Scribe
Jennie, Chuck

Contents


Possible Face-to-face meeting spring 2020

<Jennie> scribe: Jennie

<Detlev> I would consider meeting in EU

<Chuck> +1, but not sure I'm attending.

+1 if arranged soon, so I have time to get permission to go

<alastairc> Interested in a separate meeting from CSUN?

<Rachael> +1 but funding trave is always a challenge

<Justine> +1 but not sure about feasibility of attendance

<Brooks> +1 to CSUN meetup

Rachael: the advantage of CSUN is we are already there
... it is a benefit to get together because we get a lot done.

Alastair: I may be able to host but this may not make it easier for anyone in the U.S.

<Fazio> +1 to Rachael

Alastair: funding may be an issue for people.
... it can be tricky to have people in multiple locations but it may be better to have a dedicated day or two
... a completely virtual conference
... could you block off a couple of days?

<Rachael> +1

<Chuck> +1 would love to (even expect to) if I get permission to go.

Most likely +1 but it depends on when.

Chuck: my +1 is face to face

<stevelee> +1 remoting to a f2f is always hard work

Michael: multiple people at different locations has been tried in the past, but proved difficult.

Alastair: I will discuss with Michael and Andrew on Thursday.

Michael: I think the Silver task force wants to meet at CSUN anyways.

Alastair: yes, and that is probably the priority.
... if you have any other ideas, please share on the list.

WCAG 2.2 status and planning https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9dm8rFsyPLu_LeSmdJRKdNdXmQ2nlUFcC7clUFglzw/edit#gid=0

WCAG 2.2 Reflow 'down to' https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/wcag22reviews/results#xq19

Alastair: this one was not discussed at TPAC.
... a few negative comments came in.
... Bruce thought it should be a new success criteria.
... was skeptical about the testing aspect.
... I have not found the testing difficult.

Brooks: I'm not sure I totally understand the implications. From a practical standpoint, how are we going to train our QA teams to do the testing.
... narrowing of the view point in the browser...the logistical details. I'm not sure if it is scoped in a way that allows it to be understandable and efficient.

Alastair: In practice our testing is generally: take a browser, have a resize button. For me, you would check if there was a loss of functionality as you move down to that point.
... for the things we look at, it wouldn't be that tricky for us.
... the reason we didn't do it previously was because we had some concerns about people with legacy sites that didn't work at all sizes.
... I'm struggling to think of any of our clients that have that kind of set up anymore.
... Has anyone else had that kind of experience?
... ok. Andrew had similar testability concerns. Kim had thought we were not changing existing SCs at all.

<Detlev> voted on Reflow - in line with my earlier approval

Alastair: we have been generally adding success criteria rather than editing them, but it could be possible to do a modification to 2.1
... is that because you do testing of sites and no one has had trouble with the inbetween states?

Detlev: we usually flag that, and say it is formally met at different widths. It works, we still flag it as an issue.
... I think Patrick has mentioned the potential to just meet it at this one point, and not meet it at other points. I don't see any harm extending it across the entire range.
... because users will zoom in, and if there are things disappearing, it will be a real issue. I think it is a good thing to catch.

Rachael: I do some testing on government sites, and they do have this issue with reflow. The shift in the wording is not going to affect what they have to do.

Alastair: not the in between bit making it harder, it is doing it at all?

Rachael: exactly.

Alastair: it is rare for there to be issues with the in between points. It is also rare-ish to want to have an exception in between.
... we have niche conditions on either side of the argument.
... for those that are skeptical, we need to take it to the next stage.
... we need practical examples, practical testing.
... this is the last one of our initial reviews. I think it is the nature of the concerns, seems to be around testing, and the practical aspects.
... I think we should test those practical aspects.
... we don't have to resolve anything for this one. Any other questions or comments?

WCAG 2.2 status and planning https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9dm8rFsyPLu_LeSmdJRKdNdXmQ2nlUFcC7clUFglzw/edit#gid=0

Alastair: timeline in the spreadsheet is week by week up to the recommendation stage for WCAG 2.2 which is scheduled for October 2020.
... 1st wide review is March 2020, which doesn't give us a lot of time.
... we have many scheduled in already. Thanks to COGA and Rachael for working on most of those.
... we are trying to plan out when the reviews. I'm hoping we will have a few weeks of near final reviews before the final drafts.
... I have emailed all the authors.
... for anyone that has not responded yet, I will be getting back in touch again.
... any questions on our current project plan and review sequence?
... these are not set in stone. If you are not going to be there one week, please let me know and we can shuffle things around.

WCAG 2.2 Focus Visible (Enhanced) https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/focus-vis-enh-acceptance/

Alastair: this is the next up on the new success criteria.

<alastairc> https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/focus-vis-enh-acceptance/results

(without ") https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/focus-vis-enh-acceptance/

Alastair: 1st question: does the text meet the requirements?
... people generally think these are met.
... Detlev says the text is not easy to grasp.
... this came up partly because it was not covered as effectively as we wanted in 2.1
... from looking into it more, it would have been more difficult because of adjacent colors.
... we really needed a new way of defining the physical part.
... there were 3 main visual things.
...1: how different is the contrast before focus.
...2: how big is the change of contrast.
...3: an adjacency factor. If you put a dark outline around a dark object it is not as easy to see as a light one.
... we want it to contrast with the control, or be thicker.
... the approach seems to be reasonable.
... in terms of defining it as a minimum baseline for 2.2, it seems like a reasonable approach.
... Detlev, is there a way to make it easier?
... those that managed to get to the Understanding Document thought it was ok.
... I added a bit which should be highlighted as a suggestion.
... people were happy with the techniques. We already had one from David MacDonald.
... we can point to some examples where it does work.
... proposal and next steps: some happy to accept, some editorial suggestions from Bruce.
... I have incorporated those into the working document.

Detlev: would it make sense to add an invert contrast type technique?
... inverting foreground and background. It is a bit crude, but it would meet this, correct?

Alastair: yes.
... there are probably quite a few techniques we could add which are fairly general.
... any other questions, comments, objections?
... ok.

<alastairc> https://alastairc.uk/tests/wcag22-examples/focus-visible-enh-examples.html

Alastair: if you do think of anything later, I did a set of examples.
... slides, tabs
... a good page to start off with.
... it is a good exercise to see if a site you use would pass those indicators. If you find good examples, please send them in.

Detlev: that's a nice selection of examples.

Katie: yes, they are great, thank you.

Alastair: if no objections, can we resolve to accept this into editor's draft?

<Detlev> +1 for adding

<Ryladog> +1

<laura> +1

Brooks: I have a question.
... when the focus visible enhanced would be required.
... there is no exception for using browser defaults?

Alastair: in the 1st couple of examples, you can see how varied it can be between browsers.
... this was one of the problems we had. It was very sticky, tricky, as to whether changing the background behind a button.
... it was a bigger loop hole than we were comfortable with.

Brooks: so relying on the browser default visible indicator is not going to cut it.

Alastair: this one comes in at AA.

Brooks: I will have to custom style every focus indicator on every page?

Alastair: it does depend on your conformance statements.
... if you are doing Windows based browsers only, with a white background, you would be fine.
... if you have a consistent background, you would only need one focus style.
... one example had every area had its own focus style.

Brooks: I have some practical concerns in terms of development time, and testing.
... I think it would be important to consider the time it would take content authors to design and vet their designs.
... I would like to have more discussion on this topic before passing it through the editor's draft.

Alastair: ok. In my experience, our clients have already been defining focus styles.
... it has generally been a matter of getting them to do it well.

Brooks: I have worked with a lot of clients too, and this has not been my experience.
... design considerations as well as testing.
... it is not that I am opposed to it, but want to look and see how much extra time this may add.

Alastair: ok, well, I am happy to open that up. Does anyone else have similar concerns?

Katie: Since we were not able to get things to work properly through the browser requirements, and that something specific has to be the background
... it is important to see where we can go with this.
... we will be putting this out for public comment, and at that time we can get a bigger feel for how big a lift it is.
... I think the comments will be good.

Alastair: in editor's draft doesn't mean it is in, it means we are happy for it to go to wider review.
... Brooks - if you have examples where it may be difficult, it would be good to find out about that. Describing the scenario where it may be difficult to change the outline.
... I did have discussions with GDS in the UK, and after non-text contrast I had extensive conversations with them.
... they are working with hundreds of departments, and have a components library.
... they have to do a lot of work to apply the intent. They went through that, and have done it,
... and in my opinion, when you are working on a significant scale, once it is in place it is quite straight forward.
... I do appreciate getting there can be a big ask.
... anyone else have questions or comments?

Mike: I think that Brooks is right - this will be some effort for teams.
... even if theoretically orgs settle on a design pattern set, teams have variations.
... it will affect the dev cycle. There won't be a way of automatically testing it.
... some effort will be required.
... I think it is a worthy thing to put in front of people, but will have a fair impact on some teams.

Alastair: in terms of getting it in front of people, getting it into the editor's draft will do this.
... any objection to taking it to the next step? Once in the editor's draft it will be open to comments in github.

Mike: will this have to be met by a team in all different themes?

<jon_avila> Perhaps the question is about consistency across focus indicators.

Alastair: it is the same thing as color contrast.
... anyone else have thoughts on that?

Katie: it is kind of unusual. It has to be available on every location.
... I think that means, by default, all of the content would need to meet this requirement.
... But, it being something you turn on or turn off would be a different story.
... all content would need to be able to meet this, if we are going the per page route.

Alastair: yes, I think it comes down to the usual conformance we have regarding page variations and that sort of thing.
... any other comments?
... ok.
... let's keep it in the schedule for next week, but I will line up a second success criteria for next week.

WCAG 2.2 status and planning https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9dm8rFsyPLu_LeSmdJRKdNdXmQ2nlUFcC7clUFglzw/edit#gid=0

WCAG 2.2 Essential controls https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35422/essential-controls/

Alastair: Rachael has been working on with the COGA task force. Looks like less people have gotten to this one.

<Rachael> Examples at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lUh2ZsQXRlC_S2gtJE5mMSIHEwB1K2gBBc0VL3hL4Yk/edit

<alastairc> For main navigation as well as controls needed to initiate, progress or complete a process, at least one of the following is true:

<alastairc> 1) a mechanism is available to ensure is visible without scrolling or interaction when it is possible to progress,

<alastairc> 2) the importance of the control can be programmatically determined;

Alastair: Bruce's comments were around how the importance of the control was defined.

<Rachael> Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DPtCqWHjrhj3QZ4afsqzmWDd-zMSf39RsMqSpR2QGCg/edit

Alastair: I had slightly other suggestions.
... Rachael, have you had a chance to look through those?

Rachael: I am doing that now.

Alastair: my main concern is catching pages or sites which are not necessarily a problem.
... e.g. a registration form has many buttons off screen which would fail.
... you could put the button at the top, or make it sticky, but I have noticed usability issues with people pressing it too soon.
... which is worse? Not having the button on the screen, or having them not notice the button.

<Fazio> hitting button too early

Fazio: if you show a button, it is an indicator that it needs to be pressed.
... don't show it unless it is ready to be utilized.

Alastair: yes, Microsoft used to have this pattern

Rachael: I think there are 2 points of confusion. I don't have a good suggestion.
...1: the save button or whatever it is having to be visible at the initiation of the process.

<Fazio> showing a buttonI think this is a good COGA sc

Rachael: the button of the control vs the hamburger
... the examples I have pulled show the intent, but I don't have good wording to solve it.
... if the submit button does not have to be visible until ready, does that address your concern?

Alastair: sort of.
... Depending on how people fill in the form, when you fill in the last input, you may not have that button in view
... if you have a moderately long form, you might not have that last button in view while completing the last input.

Rachael: I have had trouble finding a form where that is

<Rachael> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lUh2ZsQXRlC_S2gtJE5mMSIHEwB1K2gBBc0VL3hL4Yk/edit

Rachael: I moved the example up
... the example should be open to you now
... in the mobile version, they broke it down into small pieces.
... in this case, they changed the form so you only see 2-3 items before you get the next action. That is one possible solution.
... if you scroll down to #7, Craig's list
... what is interesting there is based on the spacing, continue may or may not show up based on the radio button you select.
... where you run into the problems is where you have optional or very long fields.
... some of this is layout, some is spacing. There is the need to mark it up with the alternative.
... the importance.

<Zakim> mbgower, you wanted to say it is also not clear how required versus unrequired fields relate

Mike: 1st: there are lots of scenarios where there may only be a few required fields.
... it is not clear to me how this will interact in a situation like that.
... at that point of time do you have to be near the parameter?
...2nd: it doesn't really seem to accommodate low vision at all. It appears to assume an unzoomed page.
... with minimum level of magnification, sometimes a button is no longer present in a specific view port.
... I don't see that this in the current form is considering that for low vision users.

Alastair: I'm trying to understand/imagine how that would pose an issue.
... example 2
... it is a form that reflows, transforms as you go.

Mike: in this specific one, if there are no situations where a user uses magnification and reflow which triggers a new format, that's true.

Alastair: to go back to Rachael's response, using the importance option is a solution, that feels like what people will rely on.
... is this success criteria needed, or could we bring it into information and relationships.
... marking up navigation using some of the language from the success criteria.
... adding marking things with the importance attribute

Mike: getting back to my first point. It is possible to progress as soon as you have completed the required forms, but it doesn't mean the form is complete.

Alastair: another comment I had was around the initiate.
... is it possible we could tackle it in Understanding.
... for commerce sites with a long list of products, and a buy button next to each item.
... it seems like there could be quite a few examples where you can initiate a process, some of which would be "under the fold"
... makes me wonder how important those things are
... would we create a lot of noise. So I'm wondering if we should remove the word initiate.

Katie: under 1.3.1 makes me feel like this is delegating this to programmatically associated.
... we do want things to work with AT, but this technique may limit it to this.
... I'm not sure.
... there will be plenty of people not using cognitive AT.

Rachael: the original intent was to make it easy to find important items. I am also hesitant to just make it programmatically associated.
... it makes it a viable alternative when visible is not possible, but seems to lose the intent.
... I am ok taking out the word initiate. This may make the most sense for moving it forward.
... we may say at some point that this is something we need to defer to Silver. I would rather make that decision as a group if that is appropriate, instead of creating something that is only a partial solution.
... that is a personal opinion.

<Ryladog> + I agree to that

Alastair: even if that is the route we take, it is useful to have these discussions.
... Silver may have more flexibility around assigning tasks.
... it is suddenly easier to say what is important, what is not.

Rachael: it is

Alastair: what about the term "high rank and call"
... do we need this?
... if the attribute is a good way to approach this, we may need to scope this for technologies that do not have that spec.
... like identify spacing or purpose.
... any other questions or concerns?

<Chuck> scribe: Chuck

detlev: From looking at this, seems from discussions and examples, there are many cases quite difficult to pin down.
... from testability and requirements. too many combinations from where controls might go, not hopeful it can meet the criteria of testability
... I agree with Rachael, better for Silver.

Alastair: Doesn't necessarily have to be easy. But I appreciate what you mean.

DM: Is the sc assume that a spec is ready for 2.2 for personalization and level of importance for attributes?

Alastair: We think personalization is ahead of wcag, but can mark as at risk.

<Zakim> mbgower, you wanted to say I'd like to see examples where design has failed to visually distinguish important control

mg: Rachael, the example is useful. There aren't may failure examples. Is there commonality in the examples that could help define this better? 4-square example.
... Maybe important controls are persistant on screen. Maybe compiling a list of problematic pages would give more insight.
... If there are common design patterns that are problematic.

Alastair: Good to know that things can be successfully implemented. It would help to have some failures as well.

dm: Is there a missing word in point #1? <reads>

mg: I flagged that too.

dm: What's the word?

Alastair: "it".
... or "the control"
... Does that make sense Rachael?

Rachael: I think so.

dm: Trying to figure this if it's a case of bad design or needing to supply good design to support coga.

Rachael: I think that a lot of it is bad design. In my opinion is that bad and good design overlap, but become disproportionate for coga.
... That's another problem we run into in these sc.

dm: Is there a way of wording to enforce good design? There's more than good design here. Lots of examples of surveys and inputs.

<alastairc> Rachael - Typeform would be an interesting case to look at.

dm: Submit button not visible on screen, but apparent going through a vertical implementation.
... ...that may be another way of isolating where good design is still failing to make the step.

Rachael: I'll work on suplementing examples. Or do we need a call outside?

Alastair: Yes we can... It's kind of scoping aspect that's tricky for which examples help.
... Ideally we would try and work on that up until Thursday and make sure everyone can see updates Fri, Mon and Tue.
... If not we could shuffle this back and pull another one forward, give you more time.

Rachael: Let's finish this out. I had trouble finding long forms.
... If anybody is aware of long forms and send to me, that would be helpful. Hopefully not behind firewalls or account processes.

<Zakim> mbgower, you wanted to say my last point getting back to David's 1.3.1 comment is that it would be good to understand visual failures: 'Information, structure, and relationships

Alastair: I've an example to send you.

mg: Back to 1.3.1, I think if we get personalization, if there's presentation that's making things clear on importance, and we add on programatic determinality
... That solves some of this. 1.3.1 can solve this. We can focus on where 1.3.1 fails right now.

Alastair: Yes. I feel like there's a whole new spec and see what sc can be applied.
... Good to know.
... This is our first review sprint. It went faster than expected.
... We have 1 sc that has some reservations but it's not blocking progress (tightly scoped). And this one which is more "wider"
... newer in concept. We've had a good review, there's a few things to try.
... May be better for silver (not a prediction though).
... Feels like maybe we can do 3 sc a week (that's our velocity), if it's similar to this one.
... And we are out of agenda.
... Opening it up....
... Rachael we can discuss after the call, separately.

mg: Wondering if multi-step process owner is on the call.

Alastair: Who was multi-step....
... John Kirkwood?

Rachael: John had undo.

Steve: The undo one we renamed to "confirm before submit". That's a multistep.

Alastair: Information in steps. David Fazio.

mg: I think I found some language that would address things we had last week.

<mbgower> In a multi-step process, all of the following are true: • A summary of entries in each step is presented before submission. • A user can traverse completed steps without affecting entered data

mg: I came up with "traverse".
... <reads>

<alastairc> I think this one? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e46eqQnVYqdSyqo29pyJoY1QynRH9v95YW8soTTbfsU/edit

mg: I think that addresses the idea that steps are completed, "traverse" gives the idea that one is moving through steps.

Steve Lee: Moving forward.

Alastair: I like that.

Steve Lee: Planning to work on that this week.

<Fazio> verbiage sounds nice

mg: exception already saying that if data affects further steps. This tighten this ups.

Steve Lee: Pros or bullet points.

mg: Either is fine with me.
... I couldn't find the sc doc, so I did it here.

Steve Lee: Will work on it this week.

mg: Send me link and I'll help.

<alastairc> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Main_Page

Alastair: Any similar questions, use wiki page.

<alastairc> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Upcoming_agendas

Alastair: It's a good starting point, it's my bookmark for how I find things. If I can find it, hopefully everyone else can.
... And I'm updating the agenda's page for future meetings.
... I'll put in 'tbc' if not scheduled.
... After today I'll put in each of the review sprints with survey as far into the future as I can go.
... It was difficult until today, now easier to keep up to date.
... Open session now. Any q about sc they are working on or others are working on. Or what is coming up.
... I have next, icon descriptions, dm was happy with that.

dm: I'm fine with going on with icon descriptions. I have some simple suggestions around mobile. Only concerns at TPAC.

<alastairc> Icon desc:

<alastairc> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HzSsCGelWfz_Z-M7NyUzJOvl1A1kAStyl8epYdpZhoA/edit

dm: Other thing is the whole affordances conversation on visual indicators. From TPAC and comments it appears that this will be difficult to mandate borders.

<alastairc> Visual indicators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WhZAbswvPHs7A3stfqM_ATsaBHPeGbHtARcmaKMck1U/edit?usp=sharing

Visual indicators

dm: Visual indicators on. I have a counter proposal we've been discussing online. If anybody from coga is on, we can discuss and see what the thoughts are.

Alastair: We have a few on from coga.
... Do you want to make the proposal?

dm: Will drop into irc.

<david-macdonald> https://tinyurl.com/y657clzw

dm: a few things to discuss, this sc came from a number of different conversations. Coga discussed, low vision was concerned...
... buttons, links, interactive controls. We have been going back and forth on language. Seems like it's going to be difficult to get sc in 2.x
... when they seem kind of difficult, have to take a step back. I thought that I could create a plugin that you hit one button where all affordances go in.
... it would be very simple. On styles, just on buttons.
... links or borders would be other button. You'd have full control over it.

<jon_avila> How would I access this on my mobile phone or tablet?

dm: just two simple buttons via plugin.
... What we have been missing for coga is killer apps.
... tts is a killer app. game changer. existed before we started wcag. If we did things to build to it, it would make a difference.

<alastairc> jon_avila - that's always tricky, just exploring alternative ways forward.

dm: Maybe we would get more traction if we modeled it after 1.4.12 which says "don't get in the way of buttons that enhances styles".
... Kept it as simple as possible, take it from that perspective... <reads from proposal>
... Modeled after 1.4.12. Buttons, input borders, upper limits. That's the thought of stepping back and taking new direction.
... From wcag 2.x model, this will get much better traction.

Rachael: Like last conversation, I have mixed feelings about not addressing visual side, but I like the approach to get it through the framework.
... This is a way to get it through. Sad we don't have user agents. We are missing the aps that take advantage.

dm: I agree. If we were to rely on styles, conversation on TPAC would be totally valid. Idea of downloading that gives a button to make stuff show up is a reasonable ask.

Alastair: User agents aspect of it... we know about things like NVDA. I hope there are some user agent side technologies. I'm aware of one...
... It's in research.
... I'm wondering if there are others. Just want to check that we aren't re-inventing the wheel.
... Other aspect of operationalizing the requirement. Even within a constrained space of focus styles, there's a huge amount of variability.
... Getting down to bottom of example page, Cards with a 1 pixel outline, didn't occur to me before hand. Asking for visual indicators across all kinds of things.
... Not knowing which is harmful and which isn't in advance. We would need a lot of examples and research to make sure we cover...
... ourselves and make a good case that it's a beneficial thing to do and not unnecessarily restrictive. Not saying it isn't impossible. But lots of work to go through scenarios.

<jon_avila> you can move on.

<jon_avila> sorry.

<jon_avila> please put me back on the queue

df: Are we talking about sc allowing for developers to use a plugin to meet the requirement?

Alastair: For visual indicators, we are talking about taking a step back and taking a personalization approach to allow for a plugin to work.

<jon_avila> I have several comments on the topic that I would like to share on this.

df: What plugins would be applicable to coga?
... Another thing about the community is that with multiple disabilities, we identify with one and not all. With AT we utilize one type AT for one disability, and don't know to look for all.

dm: If we go to 2nd page where it says "rationale", I did POC. I'll stick my neck out and say I can create a pluggin with one button that does this type of css
... May have slider to offer some control, maybe pick a color.
... Just the way that Steve Falkner came forward, we were having difficult conversations. Made an app that checks contrast.
... I don't think it's a great amount of effort. May be able to provide a button that does this, in chrome store for example.

<Ryladog> Bravo David!

dm: Someone with a cognative issue would find it not too difficult.
... May have a setting button to change thickness or color. I think in wcag 2.0 we thought about the standard as a partnership between community that met with developers half way.
... we assumed that they would know their AT and have AT available. We provided a standard developers could build to. This is same concept.

Steve: Lots of points there. <reads from sc>. I'm not getting what you are trying to say.

dm: I'm proposing we step back from first section, this is a proposal that's a new approach. I'm seeing very good substantial objections to current direction.

Steve: A good objection.. flat design, they don't have borders. Some have shadows.

dm: I wouldn't say "material design". We can make a strong stand to say "may be fashionable, but not good for accessibility".
... We may be hurting cognative by forcing... We take the same position as text spacing. "Don't get in the way".

Steve: Another point, there are a large number of AT. Not many aimed at coga specifically.
... One of those is a javascript bookmark that injects code. They provide a number of options for user. Effectively AT.
... A good point raised here. there's a trade-off, we stop saying to content authors "you must", but define symantics
... With coga stuff we've been saying we'll tell content authors what to do. Good points. Didn't realize spacing was already like this.
... For screen readers there's a lot of stuff not in sc.
... Saying "yes". Screen readers have been around for long time. We don't have much for that. There's emmersive reader.
... Others before that.
... That's one tiny area of the coga picture. Personalization is an interesting topic. Once size fits one helps to not annoy others.

Andy: A couple of questions regarding deadlines for 2.2. I've been involved in silver, but did want to work on these sc's.
... What are the deadlines and milestones for 2.2?

Alastair: For new things, it was about 4 weeks ago.

<alastairc> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11IKqjRFvkRd2dAfUiyc5whhB3yIYXvSiirWct7KQIB0/edit#gid=0

Alastair: We have a list of 18ish that ... these are current ones. Focus indicator ones are what I would appreciate you looking at.
... You may be interested in others. For newer ones, that will be longer terms. If we did a 2.3, we'd be starting that in a year.
... Most are hoping that everything goes into silver after 2.2.

Andy: My concern is the one I've been working on but haven't submitted yet, font weight. So many web sites that use fonts with 1 pixel stroke width.
... Even black and white is an issue. Fonts are just too thin to render that makes things readable. It's taking me longer to get that together. Sounds like I missed for 2.2.

<jon_avila> I agree with Andi, I am seeing the same thing. The user agent is not rendering the font in a way that is dark.

Alastair: It's hard to predict future. In 2.1 we struggled to get things in before the deadline. Difficult process.
... IN 2.2 we don't accept everything. If we got towards the deadline and decide we have everything we want, maybe we can add.

Andy: Makes sense.
... Prominent changes in silver. I wanted to create some bridges from wcag 2.2 to silver.
... Burried with silver activities. time got away from me.

Alastair: Don't throw it away please.

Andy: Don't worry! Part of silver.

ja: For dm, I realize there's a give and take with user agents and authors. It's not as simple as you stated.
... Authors could have a widget to enhance it, but google sheets, focus was hard to see. I tried to address it, extremely difficult and complicated. Not as easy as it seems.
... Can't just overwrite, it's at the document level. Selector is at higher level, in my experience.
... Other concern is that if we do it here, why have a focus indicator requirement if user can override? Why have a language if at can determine?
... Where is the stopping point? We have to go beyond "it's available".
... We should do a lot of things that don't require special user agents, and available to everyone.

<Fazio> well said

<Zakim> alastairc, you wanted to ask about current user agent 'stuff', and say that this could be proof of concept that could be integrated with other UAs.

Steve: Inclusive design is key.

Alastair: Asking about current user agent stuff. My experience is that coga and usability testing they rarely use a particular technology.
... People do use chrome pluggins we advertise.

<Fazio> I use text to speech in apple pages

<Fazio> all the time

<Fazio> helps with cognitive fatigue

Alastair: What dm is working on could be a poc for showing if it's feasible. Hopefully if there's an all-around solution, it could be built into or copied.

<Fazio> Microsoft Word's version requires too many tasks to execute so I don't use it in word

Alastair: To John's point, we do and try to work out the line of what we can ask of authors vs user agents. More or less objection based process of getting consensus.
... WCAG is accepted because if it gets through the process it's reasonable to ask of authors. I'm happy to push forward.
... My concern with visual indicators is complexity of working out "if button needs border or not" how do we know how to apply?

<Jennie> Options like Read And Write provide options in multiple environments. Some in our environment use Microsoft Immersive Reader for spacing/font changes.

Alastair: I'm sure that there's good research. We also need research that talks to "in this scenario this is what would apply".
... There are a lot of scenarios.

katie: I agree with a lot of what John said. The other reason I'm on queue, if there's a plan...

Alastair: Not for ag but for silver, we were asking for a separate face to face in EU or US, but got luke warm response.
... Getting funding for another trip is tricky.

dm: For every sc, there's going to be situations where it doesn't help. But if you can determine it helps a lot, and it's reasonable, then
... There's a good case to move forward. Working on 80-90 sc for years, it's not likely that THIS sc will get through. Based on my experience.
... I've put up a little stylus thing. One button, person would select, all buttons would get outlines with a click.
... We could decide if we use underlines, changing colors, thicker, that's the idea. 1-3 buttons.
... Just google pluggin. such as axe pluggin chrome.
... That's my thought. If we want to get something through in next version.

Alastair: good discussion to have.
... next week we'll continue with these 2 and add another one.

<laura> bye

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