Minutes: August 31, 2006 Meeting

Attendees:

Steve Noble

Chieko Asakawa

Malte Timmerman

Rich Schwerdtfeger

Peter Korn

Janina Sajka

David Clark

Tatsuya

Hiro Tagaki

Pete Brunet

Meeting Minutes from previous week were unanimously approved

Peter: First Drafts of sections are due September 7

Peter: We started reviewing the charts that Chieko had provided last week

Chieko: I will just ask some questions for this week

Chieko: I want to gather more charts to proceed although I have provided some example charts.

Chieko: I would like example charts from people.

Peter: I have slides from public JavaOne conferences that we can share. Someone would need to troll through them to find the interesting ones

Chieko: We will check the website if you provide the URL

Peter: The URL is: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/

Peter: One of the kinds of diagrams I did not see was the arrow diagram where you have a line moving along a 2 dimensional line with points along the line (history, time lines, etc.)

Janina: Do we have PERT and GANTT charts in there?

Peter: This does not appear in Chieko's slides

David: Do applications like Star Office come with libraries of simple presentations to make sure we are covering all the bases?

Peter: I don't recall this. I recall a library of presentation templates.

Rich: Can I give you my ICCHP charts? These are architectural in nature.

Rich: This was inititated at FSG. Is this to address the effort there or here?

Peter: Here. It did not gain traction at FSG.

Rich: I will send my charts to Chieko

Peter: I may be able to get ODF version of some of our documents that are interesting

Hiro: I would like to get ODF presentation files

Peter: Hiro and Pete Brunet have done a first draft of the subtable issue

Rich: I will post today

Janina: I raised the alt text discussion for background images at the WAI PF call

Janina: The group thought we needed at least an alt text event though WCAG generally discourages the use of background images

Janina: The PF group thought this group was the place for this to happen

Janina: Some background images like "draft" have semantic meaning

Janina: The information should be in a machine readable format. There was concern that any information not be used to badger the user

Janina: Office applications need to be able to remove the background images

Rich: The alt text should be at page boundaries. This is a raising the bar issue.

Janina: Information should be placed at the top or bottom of the page.

Peter: Should we do this or should PF

Rich: Us

Peter: We need this to be an action item

Rich: Do we all agree this is a 1.2 item?

David: Absolutely

Peter: Agree

ACTION: Janina pursue further investigation of alt text on background images

Peter: Have our organizations give ODF testimonials

Peter: We do not need IBM and Sun because of their extensive involvement

Rich: What about Jerry Barrier?

Peter: Good idea.

Janina: What about Curtis Chong?

ACTION: Janina contact AFB and APH and Brian Charlson (Mass.)

Janina: APH is an "icon" partner with Marc Mulcahey

Peter: He is not going to be ready and he is no longer president

Janina: They are doing Orca testing at the Carol Center

Peter: Any other items?

Peter: Chieko and Hiro. We have addressed your issues for today?

Hiro: We need to categorize.

Peter: I gavel this to a close.

Rich Schwerdtfeger

Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist

Chair, IBM Accessibility Architecture Review  Board

blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/schwer