Meeting Summary

• Meeting started by Piñeiro at 16:07 CET.
• Meeting ended at 17:03 CET.
• Participants (Lines Said):
  • Piñeiro - API (95)
  • Joseph - clown (82)
  • Magdalen - magpie_ (39)
  • Joanie - joanie (30)
  • Mike - mgorse (6)

• Log

GSoC Update

• Magdalen put together a patch for the FocusCaretTracker, and uploaded it to the bugzilla. (Congratulations).

• Jasper reviewed it, and made some interesting points.
• Joseph responded to his review, and has been ruminating over it since.
• Joseph believes the way to address them is to answer a few technical questions:
  1. Should the tracker be a singleton?
  2. Where should Atspi.init() be done? (probably in main.c).
  3. Should event registration with Atpsi happen in the constructor?
  4. Should clients have the opporunity to respond to focus event separate from slection events?
• While these issues are discussed with the "experts", Joseph feels that Magdalen should proceed with changing the magnifier to use the tracker as is.
• Magdalen sent a copy of APIs advice chat log to the mentors
• At the moment it's in the constructor since update

• LINK: https://github.com/thisMagpie/GSoC/blob/master/javascript/focusCaretTracker.js

• Joseph feels that Magdalen should leave the tracker alone for the time being.
• Magdalen sent (as she info'ed) an email showing an IRC log of the converstaion with API about where Atspi should be initialized (question 1. above).
• Joseph responded to that this morning.
• Joseph is throwing the question to the Atpsi experts: where is the best place to do this?
• Regarding GSoC "adminstration": Joseph is going on a two week vacation at the beginning of August. If there is any GSoC stuff he must do, that should be discussed soon. Also, there should be a plan for some of the other mentors to take over in his absence.
• Magdalen wrote another blog post but it was not very detailed so thinks she should talk more about the gjs work in shell soon.
• Magdalen has got further on the magnifier.
• Magdalen also uploaded the work to github with the focuscarettracker
• Magdalen is not sure how to change from global.get_pointer() without changing a lot of the mouse codes in magnifier.

• LINK: https://github.com/thisMagpie/GSoC/blob/master/javascript/focusCaretTracker.js

• LINK: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647074#c18

• ACTION: Mike will test AT-SPI's behavior when registering multiple event listeners in the same process and comment on the bug

• ACTION: Joseph will summarize the 4 main questions about the FocusCaretTracker, and send that to the accessibility dev list.

W3C Update

• The ARIA working group desires to put together a "Last Call Draft" of the User Agent Implementation Guide, by the end of the month (July).
• As editor, Joseph will be making the final edits in preparation for that publication.
• Hopefully, there will be a Last Call Draft by August.
• Then, the public is invited to make comments on that draft, and request changes, clarifications, etc.

Marketing

• Juanjo sent an email to the anaconda developers to inform the about out a11y BoF in GUADEC

Miscellaneous Time

• (nothing logged)

Action Items

• Mike:
  • Test AT-SPI's behavior when registering multiple event listeners in the same process and comment on the bug
• Joseph:

  • Summarize the 4 main questions about the FocusCaretTracker, and send that to the accessibility dev list.

Ongoing / Rolled-Over

• Joanie:
  • Email Mark Sadecki about our team meetings and invite him to join us to provide W3C updates.
  • Do a full evaluation of the accessibility breakage in Evolution 3.6 and file bugs accordingly.
• Juanjo:
  • Take a look at the current a11y material in order to make an action plan.
• Piñeiro:
  • Ping mousetweaks maintainers in relation with their plans towards Wayland.
  • Send a email to accessibility-dev, just in case the Wayland Accessibility section needs to be filled.
  • Compose a "what accessibility needs from Wayland, how to use it" email, ask for review, send to the Wayland Developer's list.
  • Ping GNOME designers, so hopefully some default keybinding will be available for 3.8.
  • Create some usability-configurability related bugs, using Bryen's mail as a starting point.

  • Update the AtkObject:children-changed documentation, as this could be also used on ATK implementors.