Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes for Wednesday April 12, 2017

Attending:

Matt Clare BrockU,
Neal Caidin Apereo,
Ron and others ISU,
NYU crew,
Tiffany Stull UVa
Sanghyun(Pomona)

Agenda:

Sakai releases

Sakai 12 schedule (from https://groups.google.com/a/apereo.org/forum/#!topic/sakai-pmc/7vJh0EWqxFQ ):

New Schedule

Q2 2017 - Cut Branch (After Open Apereo June)

Q3 2017 - Release 12.0 (Late September)

Q4 2017 - 12.1 (November before Thanksgiving)

Q1 2018 - 12.2 (February/March after Sakai Camp)

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?filter=15796

Rationale

* We have not cut the branch yet due to a number of reasons. There is no realistic way to adhere to our original target dates. (happy to provide details of why the branch has not been cut, upon request. "on list" is fine. Just trying to keep this email from getting TL;DR).

Benefits of new Schedule

More high-demand features are likely to get into Sakai 12 including Rubrics, NYU skin improvements, Morpheus (mobile) improvements, Accessibility (Ra11y plan) Improvements, Tagging and perhaps other features as well.

An experiment to see if this is a better rhythm for a regular and predictable release timeframe that may make it easier for summer (Northern Hemisphere; aka May/June/July) adoptions.

Sakai 11 branch

Sakai 11.4 planned for pre-Open Apereo release

Likely some feature backports from 12, if not in 11.4 then in an 11.5 release.

Samigo Extended Delivery feature is in 12, but has not been tested thoroughly enough yet, and is not easy to backport to 11. Seems likely to be backported but timing may mean that it does not make 11.4 .

Turnitin integration plans have not changed to my knowledge, since last update. Western continues to work on the LTI integration for their local Sakai 11 upgrade this summer, then will focus on porting to Sakai master. More details upon request.

Is there anything that we feel urgently needs to get into 11.4 relase?

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-32364

-NYU's team looking , will bring in TPG if needed

- Matt C to try to replicate with static HTML

rA11y Update https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/rA11y+Plan

We're making progress on remediating issues from the first review. More than 2/3 of the issues are resolved in some way.

We have a slight-less-than $12,000 estimate from SSB to do a follow-up review and issue a compliance statement, presumably with a higher compliance rating than the previous one. We're about $5,000 towards that goal (thanks to past contributors, and recently Pepperdine) through the Apereo FARM project http://farm.apereo.org/home/current-projects/in-progress/sakai-ra11y

Remaining Issues

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-31629

Ensure simulated controls are keyboard accessible

Unassigned 22-Feb-2017 AWAITING REVIEW

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-31573

Ensure ARIA roles, states, and properties are valid - Assignments

Unassigned 13-Oct-2016 AWAITING REVIEW

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-31548

Avoid inappropriate use of ARIA roles, states, and properties - Resources

Matt Clare 05-Oct-2016 AWAITING REVIEW

https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-31590

Ensure custom controls provide proper textual roles and descriptions - Details expansion - Resources/Content