2025–10–10

Minutes from meeting on October 10th, 2025

Attendance (probably incomplete, feel free to edit): Mike Gower, Alastair Campbell, Patrick H. Lauke, Ken Franqueiro, Giacomo Petri, Baldino Morelli, Dan Bjorge, Lori Oakley, Gundula Niemann

Regrets: Bruce Bailey

Agenda and Announcements

• Reminder about Audio Descriptions in WCAG2 survey, open to AGWG participants through October 21

For Discussion

• #4539: Updated the description for the textarea example B H91
  • Plan to follow up on Patrick's points in a separate PR, since they're peripheral to the change in this PR
  • Moved back to Sent for WG approval
• #4431: Add section on native browser form validation to 3.3.1 understanding
  • Discussed as to whether the additions are contradictory, or unclear as to whether the approach is being recommended or not
  • Left in For discussion, for further comments from the TF/WG #4534 - Scott brought up a question RE <form> - restored previous sentence with a wording tweak; Ken cleared out classes on inline code tags

Drafted

• #1024: Update G206
  • No movement since last week; still pending revisit of line 5 changes
• #1035: Update F3
  • Draft response resurfaced after separate issue created (still in To do) to address a separate concern
  • Left in drafted for further review of response
• #4682: Updating language around full screen
  • Proposes removing awkward "on a full-screen window" definition
  • Discussion/debate over losing meaningful information if this term is dropped; left in Drafted
• #4666: Aria2 as advisory technique for 3.3.2 and 3.3.1
  • No strong disagreements; Adam to review further; Baldino has since commented on the PR
• #4679: Captions: Adjust "that has a video player" to "with a video player"
  • Follow-up from suggestion by Mike in #4509 (the associated techniques data migration PR)
  • Closed due to concern that the new phrasing may morph meaning in a way that is problematic for e.g. videos provided as downloads rather than embeds (example raised by Dan)
• #4683: Tweak inline code and preformatted blocks
  • Not discussed on call, but Patrick encouraged folks to test these CSS changes across various pages containing inline code, preformatted text, and/or code blocks
  • Note edge cases flagged in Ken's comment on #4193