2025‐07‐11

DRAFT minutes for meeting on July 11th, 2025

Attendance (8): Bruce Bailey, Dan Bjorge, Ken Franqueiro, Mike Gower, Patrick Lauke, Gundula Niemann, Lori Oakley, Francis Storr

Regrets: Alastair Campbell, Scott O'Hara, Giacomo Petri

Agenda and Announcements

• WCAG 2 proposed changes (feedback due by 7 14 July) was only item on the agenda for the Tuesday AGWG call before subgroup breakouts. No significant discussion on the AG call. The eight items are listed below but were not addressed on our call as a set. Several are light on thumbs up, so please considering adding your.
• CFC - WCAG 2.2 and 2.1 errata successfully concluded Thursday 26th. Errata will only be listed on the errata pages until there is a re-publication of WCAG 2.1/2.2.
  • Add new errata to both 2.1 and 2.2 #4370 now cleanly shows just the relevant commits for the CFC.
  • Backport June 2025 errata to 2.1 #4470 addresses earlier approved errata.
• Per agenda email, our usual agenda.

For Discussion

• Briefly discussed Add links to Understanding of SC 2.4.2 (Page Titled) #1025 as change seems find, but its not the change originally in PR, nor in the associated issue. Left in For Discussion. Flagged for Monday TF facilitators call, as we might want to have informal policy about such situations in the wiki.

• Briefly discussion on "Web" to "web", "Success criteria" to "success criteria" #4428 on a couple uses of uppercase and flagged "web fonts" as part of title of citied article. Also use (or not) of colon and domain name in MSDN link text. Left in For Discussion. Flagged for Monday TF facilitators call, as we might want to have informal guidance about link text in the wiki.

4428

4461 only a few thumbs up

4452 only a few thumbs up

4374

4386

Paused to ask if anyone wished for input on To Do or In progress.

Drafted

4489

4482 looking for volunteer to review, because hard to isolate changes. Ken will generate a Diff link.

4474

4476 . Francis will see if he can find source of comment. Previously we want to reference to evergreen living standard. anachronisms in the context of WCAG docs is...appropriate

It was Andrew Kirkpatrick who didn’t want references to HTML 5.2 to change back in 2022: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/2490#issuecomment-1261491550

4475 Adds codes so that use of PRE code does not get inappropriate highlighting added to HTML code. Sent for approval.

4381 Patrick to incorporate change suggested on call and then move to Sent for approval.

4465 Bruce noted

2016

4472 Patrick working on changing "color blindness" to color vision deficiency. This PR might not get them all.

4404 Discussed on call previous and Ken had provided feedback since then. Keeping in Drafted.

Open Discussion

For Monday call

• practice/policy for rewriting PR?
• Style guide address MDN and use of colon?
• Lower uppercase / for success criteria used in a list
• Request for automated lint rule? It would cause thousands of conflict.
• Add instructions for DIFF tool for TF members?
• Read.me file update

For Monday TF Coordinators call

• Advance or re-open WCAG 2 proposed changes
• "Web" to "web", "Success criteria" to "success criteria" #4428 to add something to Style Guide wrt how descriptive link text should be be?

Sent for AG Approval

These were not directly addressed during our backlog call. Feedback from AGWG initially requested by July 7th and open for discussion on AG call July 8th where feedback date postponed to July 14th.

The following outlines the updates proposed and implemented by the WCAG 2 Issues task force, providing a two-week window for Working Group members to review non-normative WCAG 2 updates, and consists of changes in several categories.

Proposed normative change

In addition to the non-normative changes in the sections below, the Task Force has identified a normative change for the Working Group. If the working group members are in general agreement during this review period, it will be queued for a CFC process for publication at a later time.

• Editorial (Normative): "Web" to "web", harmonise when SC is upper or lowercase #4461
• Replace archaic-looking "e-mail" with "email" #4385

Proposed editorial errata changes

Changes that do not meaningfully alter informative language in a normative document.

• Fix note structure in abbreviation definition #4452

Proposed substantive changes

Changes that meaningfully add or alter existing non-normative guidance.

None this cycle.

Proposed editorial changes

Small improvements to language intended to clarify existing guidance.

• Add note to 1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose about "input" not just meaning HTML input element #4384
• "Web" to "web", "Success criteria" to "success criteria" #4428
• Replace mentions of "WCAG 2.0" with "WCAG 2" #4387
• Correct F99 - keyCode is not an attribute #4374

Proposed responses to issues

Response-only items for which we are not going to create a PR.

None this cycle.

Implemented bug fixes

These are trivial editorial corrections such as typos and broken links.

• Chore: Remove invalid closing and , self-closing slashes, xml:lang and xmlns #4386