W3C

– DRAFT –
Accessibility Conformance Testing Teleconference

20 August 2026

Attendees

Present
giacomo-petri, Godwin, Helen, JennC, Karen, Kathy
Regrets
-
Chair
Helen
Scribe
Kathy

Meeting minutes

Introductions

Helen: intros since we have some new attendees

Ongoing projects

<Helen> https://github.com/orgs/act-rules/projects/2/views/1

helen: sharing ACT project screen
… Old rule projects and backlog not active, In progress are active...

godwin: I need to respond to review comments on glossary page
… it was decided terms will be presented as disclosures but don't think it looks right
… it's all headings but it looks off
… when they're all collapsed

helen: how is #2390 subjective judgment going

armagan: some disagreements have been discussed

jennc: will take a look

<Helen> act-rules/act-rules.github.io#2390

helen: can use slack to connect
… #2400 migrate rules to ARIA 1.3

shunguo: I opened the issue with 3 subissues

giacomo-petri: aria specs have a JSON file. maybe can use to update rules dynamically
… maybe discuss at TPAC

shunguo: for now, first focus is test cases that conflict with aria 1.3

TPAC agenda

helen: plans made for Tuesday and Friday

<Helen> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/wiki/TPAC-2026-agenda

helen: wcag 3 meeting on Friday won't have the wcag 3 chairs
… karen interested in wcag 3 subgroup
… will talk with karen

Review open PRs

<Helen> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues

helen: several new issues

shunguo: 4 are ARIA 1.3-related

<Helen> https://github.com/act-rules/act-rules.github.io/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22help%20wanted%22

helen: "help wanted" tagged issues
… and "beginner issues"

<Helen> act-rules/act-rules.github.io#2115

helen: for new members, get access to github
… email Wilco and cc me

<Helen> wilco.fiers@deque.com

<Helen> https://act-rules.github.io/pages/about/

https://dristachi.site/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/about/

helen: add your email if you'd like to join w3c slack

giacomo-petri: can we clarify a label on dashboard when issue was closed as addressed or closed without addressing?

helen: Done means completed. when done because it's old but still needs work it is on the dashboard as old project
… this was to clean up the issue list
… will ask wilco to clarify

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/aragan/armagan

Maybe present: armagan, shunguo

All speakers: armagan, giacomo-petri, godwin, Helen, jennc, shunguo

Active on IRC: giacomo-petri, Godwin, Helen, JennC, Karen, Kathy