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.