Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 08-25-2011

Attendees

• Mary Stores

• Brian Richwine

• Joe Humbert

• Scott Williams

JIRAs

Drop-Down Menus

• SAK-11199 - Drop-down menus don't work with Screen Readers (Global)

• Brian sent an email requesting advice on how to proceed, and got no replies.

• The e-mail request submission is here

• Fix identified - needs implemented before 2.9 QA Servers get built

• Tied fix with fix for SAK-21031

• Updated Fix to reflect 2.9

Add and Action Menus

• SAK-20631 - The "Add" and "Action" menus are difficult for screen-reader users to navigate/use in the Drop Box and Resources Tools

• Brian will begin work where Gonzalo and Kiran left off .

• Brian received another (very frustrated) student JAWS user complaint on this.

CKEditor News

• The vote of whether to include CKEditor in Sakai 2.9 has not been determined yet, although there has been CKEditor discussion.

• Brian wrote a note about the implications of not includingCKEditor.

• The most important statement in the note is the accessibility certification process would not be able to occur until 2013 if it was not included.

• The deadline for voting is August 25 at midnight.

• Peperdine University is running CKEditor in production and seeing benefits : For example, less tech support calls than FCKEditor.

Walkthrough Scripts Needed

• Portal (Does role matter?)

• Messages - Instructor and Student Personas

• CKEditor - Putting it through its paces

• Assignments (Instructor Persona) should be simple to write.

• Calendar (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Announcements (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Drop Box (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Podcasts (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Polls (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Site Info (Instructor and Student Personas)

• Samigo Test & Quizes (Instructor Persona) may be more complex to write

• Brian is willing to help over the phone for walkthrough script creation.

Sakai 2.9 Review

• The accessibility Testing Training / Call-out email asking for volunteers needs to be sent.

• Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review Pages need to be posted
  *These two things will be done by September 1.