2009-108 Minutes

February 25, 2009

PDF/UA Working Group Teleconference Minutes

PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) Working Group Draft Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, February 25, 2009,  3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. ET

Conference Call Information
International Dial-in: +1-303-928-2600
U.S. Dial-in: 1-888-742-8686
Conference ID: 7083945

Roll Call

Duff Johnson, DJ - Chair Appligent Document Solutions
Robert Blatt, RB - EID
Cherie Ekholm, CE - Microsoft
Mark Gavin, MG - Appligent Document Solutions
Greg Pisocky, GP - Adobe Systems
Chad Robbins, CR US Dept. of Commerce
Leonard Rosenthol, LR - Adobe Systems

Regrets from Peter Abrahams and Neil Soiffer

Review PDF/UA 2007-107 Agenda

Gavin / Blatt

Approval of pdfua-2009-02-11-minutes

Rosenthol / Ekholm

Develop Agenda for AIIM Standards Week F2F meeting in Philly

Business with respect to Hamburg.

DJ to discuss with Betsy Fanning of AIIM.

First ISO meeting in which PDF/UA is considered.

GP: What exactly will be taking place in Hamburg as far as PDF/UA is concerned?

LR: Assuming the New Work Item is approved by the voting national bodies. The official PDF/UA ISO committee gets formed. The committee will elect officers. This includes a Convener, a Chair, and a leader (formerly the Editor). Once those individuals are known, then business gets conducted. First order of business will be to review the comments that were submitted as part of the NWI submission: accept, accept in principle, not accept. This first order of business is mandated and is required. New items cannot be submitted to the group at Hamburg, because it has not been submitted in advance to the national bodies.

DJ: I understood you could present an item, you just couldn't get a decision.

LR: You can have generic discussion items, but you cannot submit new text for inclusion in the standard.

DJ: We expect to get some text back from Hamburg and then we'll take that input back and work with it.

DJ: Comments at this point will be part of the

DJ: Let's complete the Philly Agenda

LR: First and most important thing is to decide what the US position is regarding other national body comments.

LR: The other thing we have to do related to that is we have to agree on the official US delegation and determine who will be the chief US spokesperson and head of delegation. Only one person can be authorised to issue a vote. We need to make a determination as to who that person is in Philadelphia. A lot of Philadelphia will certainly be preparation for Hamburg.

Address Action Items

 [The Secretary experienced an interrruption in Internet and Phone service. Some discussion was missed regarding Artifacts].

Structure Types: No update

Relationship to WCAG / Section 508: No update

Okay with text as is regarding redaction.

Motion to Adjourn Early:

Rosenthol / Gavin

Motion passed

Wrap up

Meeting adjourned at 4:13 pm eastern

Next meeting

March 16, 2009 3:00 - 5:00 pm eastern

Conference Call Information
International Dial-in: +1-303-928-2600
U.S. Dial-in: 1-888-742-8686
Conference ID: 7083945