2025‐05‐02

Minutes from meeting on May 2nd, 2025

Attendance (10): Mike Gower, Francis Storr, Ken Franqueiro, Giacomo Petri, Dan Bjorge, Scott O'Hara, Steve Faulkner, Patrick H. Lauke, Akash Shukla, Lori Oakley

Regrets: Bruce Bailey

Agenda and Announcements

• Working on items from email sent to AG WCAG 2 proposed changes (review due by May 6).
• FCPWD for Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications (WCAG2Mobile) expected to publish soon. Please consider setting aside time for your personal or organizational review. We do not plan to provide feedback as a TF.
• Per email to list, this is our standing agenda for today.

For Discussion

• PR #4291: Tweak G13, on-input understanding, F37
  • Further discussion between Detlev and Patrick; suggestion by Mike
• PR #4147: 2.4.6-headings-and-labels-descriptive-icons
  • Agreement on call; moved to Fully Reviewed
• PR #1790: Tweak understanding for 1.2.3 and 1.2.5
  • Conversation continues; topic of silent movies may warrant a separate issue/thread
• PR #4282: Update redundant-entry.html
  • 2 folks (one in PR comment, one on call) voiced preference for "process" (which is what the original PR did)
  • Mike clarified history of the original PR; moved this back to Sent for Approval
• PR #4290: Is it possible to turn on a platform's 'increase contrast' mode when testing WCAG SC 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)?
  • Conversation continues
• PR #4122: Update user-inactivity.html
  • Closing due to feedback

Drafted

• PR #4335: Some editorial updates to Understanding SC 2.5.3
  • Still looking for another reviewer; now assigned to Patrick
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4355: Replace incorrect/outdated statement about tech support in 3.3.1 understanding
  • Restoring something that got clobbered
  • Ken spotted that # in link is likely a mistake (though it is consistent with the PR it's restoring)
• PR #4365: Update understanding conformance and technique G73 to remove mention of longdesc
  • longdesc remnants; Francis comments that they must've been missed during earlier removals about a year ago
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4351: Add link to NIST SP 800-63B 2nd public draft rev 4 to 3.3.8 / 3.3.9 understanding
  • Adds a reference to a NIST draft about allowing password managers / copy and paste, to accessible authentication
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4357: (editorial) Extra whitespace in 5.3.2 Optional Components of a Conformance Claim
  • Bugfix to remove leading whitespace
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4359: Remove periods from end of definition
  • Definition punctuation consistency fixes - erratum
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4361: Update seizures-and-physical-reactions.html
  • PR fine as-is; may be worth breaking off separate issues for surveying across all docs for 2.0 → 2 edits and removal of "future technique"
  • Create new issues for each future technique as we remove the HTML; Dan suggests replacing "future technique" with a comment to the future issue
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• PR #4325: Removed 1.2.7 reference from note 1
  • 2 thumbs-downs; leaving for now
• PR #4362: Add note about transaction-amount to 1.3.5 understanding
  • Floating as a first draft for review/discussion; still some wordsmithing likely to be done
• PR #4209: Update reading-level.html
  • Removes a bunch of wording that alludes to Flesch-Kincaid formula/tests
  • Needs review to confirm removals are appropriate and aren't removing more than necessary
• PR #4366: Correct numbers and formulae for focus area calculations
  • Lots of updated measurements; discussion still ongoing, about whether "2px thick perimeter" is satisfied by CSS border
  • PR set to draft status; see recap of options in comment