Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 02-24-2011

Gonzalo has done work for the list navigator buttons, e.g. the buttons that use the < and > symbols.
Scott has been doing accessibility reviews, but he cannot give an update since he is not on the call.
Brian is starting to put together a framework for the new, current accessibility documentation.
This will be the first review we've done since we've come up with the accessibility statements, so the documentation will include those.
Everyone should look at the statements to see if they are still in agreement with them.
Brian will publish an outline on showing each page in the wiki and see how the documentation applies.
Gonzalo has been going over open issues in Jira, and there is still a long list.
Some have been resolved but not closed.
accessibility issues include: link text not meaningful, unlabeled check boxes, etc.
So accessibility issues list needs updated.

Mike sent a spreadsheet of consulting groups that might provide certification for Sakai to the Accessibility WG mailing list yesterday.
Mike is familiar with NFB and SSB because he has seen them at conferences.
A couple people will do usability testing with people with disabilities, but that will be more expensive.
DEQ does the actual testing for the NFB.
*Jon Gunderson responded, along with one other person.
Jon's opinion is that the NFB would be the most important since they do functional testing with people with disabilities.
NetCentric is primarily a PDF organization, so they probably won't make much since to use them for the Sakai certification process.
Mike knows quite a few people from the Pacielo group, but he has not seen their work.
WebAIM is well respected and have a large number of people with disabilities that follow them.
Also WebAIM does the screen reader survey, but Mike has not seen their work.
The rest he doesn't know about.
The next step, with Nate Angell's feedback, is to identify the core tools, subset of the tools, ones typically in bundle that people use.
Return Nate Angell's communication back to the Sakai Accessibility WG, and include the list Mike has put together in a letter to Alan Berg so the process can move forward.
The goal is to have this done by March 10.

the Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Center (ATAC) at IU will be giving a presentation on Monday to faculty who are interested in creating accessible content for Oncourse.
Then on Tuesday, the ATAC will be presenting to Oncourse developers.
* On March 16, there will be a CSUN conference session comparing four LMSs: Sakai, Desire2Learn, Blackboard and Moodle. Brian will be a co-presenter.

There is a group at MSU that is going to work on the 2,9 portal. Gonzalo will be involved and will be asking for accessibility feedback.
So far it's graphic-based markups.
2.9 will be released a year or so from now.
2.9 is already in the trunk. it might be a branch or set of options in the trunk. Gonzalo will send an e-mail to the list.