Web and Software:January 31

Miscellaneous

• Minutes from January 24, 2007 approved.
• TEITAC meeting next week
  • Face to face meeting logistics
    • Wednesday, February 7th 9:35 - 11:10 AM
    • Transportation Security Administration, 601 South 12th Street, Arlington, VA 22202
    • Note: If you plan to attend in person, you must contact Tim Creagan. Security at TSA is extremely tight. If you have not notified Tim ahead of time of your plans to attend, you will not be able to attend the meeting.
    • Agenda
      • Content - Katie Haritos-Shea will post a proposal per her action item below by close of business Wednesday to give time for review before next week.
      • API Requirements Proposal (tentative) - Sub-team members have all been traveling. Peter Korn will try to post an updated proposal by close of business Thursday. Note name change from "API Proposal" to "API Requirements Proposal" which clarifies that this is not a proposal for a specific API but rather a proposal for the requirements an API proposal needs to satisfy.
      • Other unfinished business - Andi Snow-Weaver to look back through our discussions for unfinished items.
  • Subcommittee report
    • Add a little more detail about consensus items, issues and projected timeline.
    • Mention the issue as to whether or not content is within our scope - get clarification from the Access Board at the TEITAC meeting.
    • Add in anything relevant at the close of next week's face to face meeting.

Review of action items from January 24th.

1. IN PROCESS: Judy Brewer to send requirements for W3C copyright notices. WCAG working group is documenting how to reference WCAG standards. Judy will have something for us in two weeks (January 31st).
2. Rich Schwerdtfeger to give a presentation in mid-February on the future of Web and Software applications. Curtis to check with Jim Thatcher about providing a presentation on where graphical applications are going.
3. ONGOING: Gregg Vanderheiden to do some research with the low vision community to see what they want with regard to color and contrast. Gregg is working with Lighthouse exploring the contrast issue. Developing and refining method of defining minimum contrast between text and background. Doing this for WCAG work and will share back with this group. Will post to this group when ready.
4. IN PROCESS: Gregg Vanderheiden, Curtis Chong, Sean Hayes, Don Barrett, Earl Johnson to continue to refine the keyboard proposal for the Web requirements. Need to determine what it is reasonable to ask someone to do and then work on the wording for it.
5. Katie Haritos-Shea to develop a proposal for authoring tools requirements and a set of Q&As based on the W3C Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines. Will post a proposal by close of business Wednesday, January 31st, for discussion at the face to face meeting February 7th.

Attendees

1. Tom Brett
2. Jim Allan (W3C)
3. Andi Snow-Weaver (IBM)
4. Blene Bekure (LMIT)
5. Nick Truesdell (IRS)
6. Rex Lint - ITAA
7. Mike Fratkin (SSA)
8. Eric Damery (Freedom Scientific)
9. Amy Chen (Oracle)
10. Bruce Bailey (Access Board)
11. Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
12. Alex Li (SAP)
13. Jonathan Hahm
14. Jared Smith (NCDAE)
15. David Oyola (Ricoh Corporaion)
16. Earl Johnson (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
17. Ken Kipnes (Oracle)
18. Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe)
19. Donald Evans (AOL LLC)
20. Judy Brewer (W3C/WAI)
21. Katie Haritos-Shea
22. Ellen Crowe (Veterans' Administration)