2025‐08‐22

Minutes from meeting on August 22nd, 2025

Attendance (10): Alastair Campbell, Francis Storr, Giacomo Petri, Adam Page, Baldino Morelli, Ken Franqueiro, Lori Oakley, Filippo Zorzi, Patrick H. Lauke, Gundula Niemann

Regrets: Bruce Bailey, Mike Gower

Agenda and Announcements

• AGWG feedback due Monday. No down votes so far. These will be merged and new set to be sent Tuesday 8/26.
• See our standing agenda.

For Discussion

• #3542
  • Giacomo proposed closing this, wanted to confirm with group
  • Alastair converted an existing comment to a Task Force answer, closed issue
• #3812
  • Giacomo brought up edge cases and how screen readers apply heuristics
  • The scope of 2.5.3 is about speech input rather than output
  • At most could add a note to encourage testing - probably can't mandate case-sensitivity
  • Patrick up for creating PR, might ask a colleague who uses Dragon to help with testing
• #4413 (Placeholders)
  • Long discussion; conversation still happening. Mike and Bruce have weighed in on the thread but aren't here.
  • Moved to To do
• #4521 (Also placeholders)
  • Moved to To do; Patrick to make an initial attempt
• #1130
  • Giacomo wanted to understand history and options; who decides which design feedback points are relevant and what we do with it?
  • Alastair: The group as a whole decides
  • Patrick interested in prototyping a PR
  • Moved to In progress
• #3808
  • Giacomo proposed adding a note
  • Adding something within Understanding document seems fine
  • Moved to To do, for Giacomo to work on based on what he proposed
• #4500
  • Multiple in TF not convinced we need or want an example for this case, especially when this technique is not exhaustive
  • Response-only; moved to Ready for approval

Drafted

• #4523
  • No objections from TF; technical bugfix that doesn't need to go through group process
• #4551
  • Moved to Ready for Approval
• #4555
  • Francis to review
• #4563
  • Moved to Ready for approval

In progress

• #4573 (draft PR)
  • Resolved some questions
  • Identified a couple of things for Ken to fix or check in the build system