[Accessibility-testing] June 18 meeting summary (and homework assignments)

[fur kle]

Yep, IE is officially done, 11 is within the support window still but there
will (barring very unexpected circumstances) never be a new major version.

And I think your instincts are correct re: versions. In general, I think
any user with a pre-evergreen browser is going to run into such significant
issues with compatibility and accessibility that it's not worth the time to
investigate or assist. I also have the impression that the majority of
users with very old or non-conforming browsers are 1) users of horrific
enterprise software like EMRs tied to early IE versions, 2) non-english
speakers, and 3) mobile users on small-share browsers, none of which are
really our target audience.

But again, anyone should feel free to correct us if there's disagreement,
with the proviso that goal #1 here is good, not perfect.

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018, 9:17 PM Jason McIntosh <jmac at jmac.org> wrote:

> On Jun 19, 2018, at 9:02 PM, fur kle <furkleindustries at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Q: By MSIE, do you mean Internet Explorer, or do you actually mean Edge?
>
> Oh! …Maybe? People mentioned "Edge" in the call yesterday but I didn’t
> realize until now that it was MSIE under a new name.
>
> > If the former, what's the version cutoff? 11? 10? 8? More generally, are
> we including browser versions in any sense in the matrix?
>
> My current stance (and please correct if I’m mistaken, y’all) is that we
> certainly should note versions testers use, and will instruct testers to
> use the most recent compatible-with-their-hardware releases of all relevant
> software. (Without compelling them to buy any software they don’t already
> have, anyway.) We’ll accept that this’ll lead to some variance, and will
> consider two version of the same browser on the same OS to be equivalent
> for basic test-coverage purposes.
>
> (I hope that isn’t hopelessly naive? I’m just wary of exploding the height
> of the coverage table by adding in a new row for every dang version of
> everything...)
>
>
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