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Open A11y Working Group Conference Call (2007-11-20)

Participants

Janina Sajka (chair)
Stew Benedict (SB)
Steve Lee (SL)
Gregory J. Rosmaita (GJR/scribe)
Gunnar Schmi DT (GS)
- regrets: Olaf Schmidt (OS), Willie Walker (WW)

JS: Willie Walker off all week; a lot of people are off in the U.S. for Thanksgiving

For Reference

Preliminary Items

Approval of Past Minutes

Minutes from 13 November 2007 A11y Call

GJR: could JS provide the view from 20,000 feet as requested by SL to supplement the minutes? (apologies for not catching your original comments)

JS: ok, we'll defer the approval of minutes until I provide a summary of 20,000 foot view vis à vis testing and APIs

Action Items Status Review

Summary of Action Items from 2007-11-13 Open A11y Conference Call

New Action Items

ACTION GJR: Set up test page with links to tests for collaborative editing
- status: completed (resource created 14 October 2007)

Continued Action Items

ACTION JS: identify someone with organized approach to take the time to straighten out GNOME A11y Project Documentation, possibly in conjunction with GJR
- status: pending

ACTION JS: ask OlafS and GunnarS to replicate EarlJ's tests on GNOME
- status: begun with Gunnar during 2007/10/30 conference call; JS will follow-up with email to Gunnar and Olaf

Summary of Resolutions from 2007-11-13 Open A11y Conference Call

RESOLVED: The minutes from the 30 October 2007 Open A11y call approved and made immutable.

Meeting Minutes

Topic 1: SIG Updates

JS: Expert Handlers SIG is getting grip on how to achieve what we want to achieve; liaising with natural allies; next Monday, Expert Handlers will meet with Al Gilman, chair of Protocols & Formats working group (performs the most technical engineering work in the WAI activity); if anyone wants to join that call, it is at 2pm EST (1900 UTC) Monday 26 November 2007

JS: early January plan on having a major Expert Handlers update at this, the general Open A11y meeting, with a full quorum of AT developers to ensure that we are in sync with them and they with us;

JS: Expert Handlers CSUN 2008 proposal has been accepted

scribe's note: FYI The Open Accessibility CSUN 2008 Presentation has also been accepted.

Topic 2: Testing the Keyboard Access Functional Specification

JS: Keyboard Access Functional Specification report referenced in continued action items, Gunnar?

GS: if use the same test framework EJ used to test GNOME, Olaf and I will do the same for KDE, right?

GJR: will send JS, GS and OS info behind continued action item

JS: EJ has logged bugs with GNOME; before we finalize the Keyboard Access Functional Specification, it would be very advantageous to say with confidence (and evidence) to the executive board of the Linux Foundation that it works on KDE, as well; wherever problems have been encountered, bugs have been filed; one problem is that there is not currently a maintainer for XKB technology upon which the Keyboard Functional spec depends -- it was Bill Haneman, but no one apparently stepped up and took ownership from him;

New Business

JS: one key important item: finally have a spreadsheet for all of our expectants of our NSF grant; will be finally getting that done late December/early January

Website Update

GJR: a new Reference page for ATK/AT-SPI created, as well as a ATK Test Page

Identify Topics for 27 November 2007 Teleconference

Wrap Up

Summary of New Action Items

ACTION GJR: email JS, GS and OS with background for continued action item

Summary of Continued Action Items

ACTION JS: identify someone with organized approach to take the time to straighten out GNOME A11y Project Documentation, possibly in conjunction with GJR
- status: pending

ACTION JS: ask OlafS and GunnarS to replicate EarlJ's tests on GNOME
- status: begun with Gunnar during 2007/10/30 conference call; JS will follow-up with email to Gunnar and Olaf

Summary of Resolutions

NONE LOGGED

meeting adjourned: 1425 EST/1925 UTC
next Open A11y conference call: 2007-11-27

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