2026–01–16

Minutes from meeting on January 16th, 2026

Attendance (13): Scott O'Hara, Priti Rohra, Alastair Campbell, Lori Oakley, Adam Page, Bruce Bailey, Baldino Morelli, Francis Storr, Filippo Zorzi, Patrick H. Lauke, Giacomo Petri, Duff Johnson, Ken Franqueiro

For Discussion

• #4118: Add note markup to user inactivity definition
  • No further comment from Mary Jo when prompted on the related issue #4117; decided to close PR
  • Will leave more detailed comment on #4117
  • While the change seems small, it would technically slightly change scope
  • Daniel Montalvo (W3C) offered to bring it to Mary Jo's attention since he meets with her regularly
  • Scott raised the question of whether WCAG 3 will be more amenable to "re-chizzling the stone" than WCAG 2 is in the sense of making normative fixes when issues are found
• #4874: Does the SC 1.4.3 Contrast minium exception apply to text outside a disabled control?
  • Started as a WCAG 2 issue, question still valid for 2.x work; was moved to w3c/wcag3#160 in Jan 2025
  • Agreed to move back to WCAG 2; moved back to To do
  • Was still at an impasse in terms of agreement

Drafted

• #4859: Fix example section nesting in H91 and PDF9
  • Fixes incorrect nesting of trailing example sections
  • Moved to Ready for approval
• #4863: Nullify WAI blockquote styles
  • Removes spurious quotes around blockquote children (inherited from WAI stylesheet)
  • Moved to Ready for approval
• #4857: Skip "New" paragraph when scanning definitions to make link titles
  • Fixes "New" in definition link tooltips
  • Will likely be queued for quarterly errata
  • Moved to Ready for approval
• #4845: Consistency: "user agent" rather than "user-agent"
  • Agreed that "user agent" is already more consistently used, and nouns typically make more sense without hyphenation
  • Moved to Ready for approval
• #4840: Update definition for "status message"
  • Rewriting "status message" definition
  • Scott suggests a complementary update to Understanding to help distinguish things that fall under status messages and 4.1.3, vs. those that do not, e.g. to avoid live region overload
  • Agreement on moving this to Ready for approval, with expectation that any informative change would likely get through prior to this making it into quarterly errata
• #4686: Technique using progressbar role
  • Patrick had previously commented that the example doesn't necessitate use of aria-progressbar, given the inclusion of a live region
  • Expand explanation of technique to be clearer
  • Possibly even re-title to focus on what specifically passes
  • Francis to update, TF will review again (left in Drafted)
• #4813: Better clarify the "Supported Interface" exception for device motion in understanding
  • Attempts to clarify based on a 2019 question in #727
  • Much wordsmithing ensued
  • Moved to Ready for approval