Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 03-08-12

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The current release is still in Beta 2.
Joe will try to input Jiras from the past accessibility review.
He will try and update the test server this upcoming weekend. Data may have to be re-entered after the update.

An e-mail was sent because several people were looking at QA servers and were wondering if the critical issues documented on 41 pages of Confluence were ever addressed.
The e-mail stated that only one Jira was pushed for 2.9.
They were wondering what has been addressed on the 2.9 review.
They asked How have critical accessibility issues been dealt with historically?
A lot of issues have not been logged yet.

Accounts have been created and data is going to be maintained on the test server
.
Joe is hoping to have 5 or 6 test accounts set up so collaborative testing can happen.
The version on the test server has very few 1.2 features.
Scott has already added his name for testing signups.
The focus is to get high priority functional areas reviewed.
The target date is April 12 to have all the testing done.
Testing officially starts today.

The majority of walkthrough scripts are drafts, so Joe is modifying those to use language that indicates a universal, user-friendly experience, e.g., Instead of "click here" put other language, and replace visual icons with words.
He plans to have all of the walkthroughs done by March 14.

Joe would like to create an overview of the state of OAE to outline accessibility thus far - where it's lacking, where it needs to be improved, and what improvements have been made since version 0.1.
Joe hopes to have that document draft to submit to the WG Accessibility list by April 20.

Once version 1.3 is release on April 18 and there are standard features from the LMS, more schools might implement CLE.
IU maybe possibly considering a pilot deployment in the fall or spring of next year.
Michigan has a pilot planned for next year.
There may be issues with a hybrid incorporation of CLE and OAE.
Joe is hoping that testing can be done this fall or later this spring to determine if there could be accessibility issues from the hybrid.
Gonzalo predicts that any issues that pop up will be fairly minor. The integration is smooth.

Joe is working with particularly Kent Fitzgerald to get accessibility testing done earlier on.
Some of his plans to do that have fallen through because someone vacated a position.
Joe is continuing to address jira tickets for Sakai OAE and logging new ones.

The 1.1 review will give the OAE developers an idea of the biggest areas that may need to be adjusted from the development level.
One of the biggest challenges is that the developers feel that some of the changes may change the complexity and design of the functional areas.
Joe has seen pushback in a lot of those cases.
Gonzalo was hoping to come up with a user preference way of setting things such as activating accesskeys, show scheduling, or things that involve design changes.
This will be a topic for the next conference call.