There are bug bashes going on for the 1.3 Release candidate, which will definitely be released before the Sakai conference on June 10.
There will be a much longer time after the 1.4 release before the next release.
The 1.4 release is targeted for performance optimizations. So a lot of accessibility issues won’t make it in until 1.5
Review of OAE 1.1
The report is being worked on by Joe. It is eight pages long currently.
Joe will meet with Brian tomorrow to go over the report, and it Will be sent out to the group either Friday or Monday.
The target audience for this report is managers and other OAE groups.
In the report there will be issues flagged as work being done for 1.2.
After the report discussion by the Accessibility WG next week and before publicly being talked about at the conference in June, Joe will give a talk to OAE developer’s about the report. Feedback from that talk will be relayed to the group.
The last bit of the review is adding issues that don’t have Jira tickets to the jira system. A page will be created for the open issues, and another page for resolved issues for OAE on Confluence.
Issues Being Resolved for OAE
Gonzalo has been doing more work on skip navigation links, as well as making sure OAE has a good headings structure.
Tweaks have been added as sub-tickets or new tickets.
Also he is resolving the issue of non-unique text for some links.
He is working to make sure the skip navigation is the first link past the body tag. It is currently after branding.
Plans After OAE Review
Once the review is wrapped up, Joe will be working with the QA group on walkthrough scripts and TestPad to see if that can be made accessible.
TestPad has no semantic markup with lots of divs and sub-divs visually styled to look a certain way.
Ken Fitzgerald talked to the owner/developer of TestPad, who is open to making it more accessible.
Joe would like to merge the efforts of the QA and accessibility testers.
The worst case scenario is to have someone not using AT to add an AT user’s results in until TestPad can be more useable.
Other Business
Accessibility Tool Recommendation
Joe past along the recommendation for developers to use the Worldspace FireEyes plugin for Firefox because it will give the most accurate and up-to-date results, eliminating false positives and false negatives.
This recommendation was based on a decision made by the Accessibility WG at the last teleconference.