Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 09-06-2012
Attendees
Joe Humbert
Jane Berliss-Vincent
Gonzalo Silverio
Scott Williams
Sakai 2.9
Sakai 2.9 Release and Accessibility Testing
Potential new beta or release candidate release the week of September 10.
The group has been continuing to address outstanding blockers for 2.9 release
Looking to QA 2.9 in late October or after October 12th.
2.9 Accessibility Review
Discussion of Critical and Major Issues Culled from the Review Results
The group discussed the priority levels of the accessibility issues discovered during the 2.9 review and currently open accessibility JIRA tickets:
Potential Student Facing Critical Issues
Profile 2
The majority of the form controls on the main Profile page (Basic Information section, etc.)
Determined: Major
Birth date text entry read as "read-only edit". The SR user has no idea they are on a click-able element that activates the date picker.
Determined: Critical
Calendar icon graphic is announced as "graphic select your birth date. You can control the display of your birth year".
Determined: Major
Clicking on the graphic results in getting bounced out of the modal area.
Determined: critical
If for some reason you knew you activated the date-picker, it would not be announced and you couldn't manipulate it with the keyboard.
Determined: Critical
When adding a connection the resultant modal window is announced "profile frame" after clicking "Add as a connection" link. Focus is on "add connection" but not announced. Arrowing down announces "cancel" button. Must arrow up to get to rest of information on the modal window.
Determined: Major
When saving Privacy and Preferences settings, nothing is announced when using screen reading software.
Determined: Major
Messages inside the profile tool use color as the only indication for read/unread messages.
Determined: Major
Worksite Setup
Summary list of site settings table is complex. the elements aren't being correctly associated with the cells.
Determined: critical
The "(i)" links don't make sense out of context and don't make much sense in context, either. The title attribute on the links is unavailable to most users.
Determined: fixed
Worksite titles are heading level 4, however there no level three heading exists.
Determined: Major
List navigator next and previous buttons are labeled only with ASCII symbols '<' and '>' which will not be announced or meaningful to most screen-reader users.
Determined: Critical
"Check All" checkbox label isn't clear.
Determined: Major
The "Email will be sent asking for authorization for you to create this site." and "Please enter additional comments that may help us authorize your site request." instructions on the Course/Section Information page found in the process of defining a new course will not be noticed by most screen-reader users because they will be in forms mode and only form controls and form control labels will be announced.
Determined: Major
Select element for id="importSites" to choose site to import from when reusing material from other sites is not labeled. The special instructions in the "Note: To select more than one item..." text will not be noticed by most screen-reader users.
Determined: Major
The <h4>Re-use Material from Other Sites You Own</h4> should be a legend for the two (Yes, No) radio buttons.
Determined: Major
Publish / Leave as Draft radio buttons do not have a legend to provide context as found on the "Course Site Access" page while defining a new site.
Determined: Major
Limited to whom I add manually and Allow anyone to join radio buttons do not have a legend as found on the "Course Site Access" page while defining a new site.
Determined: Major
The required field notification asterisk on the "Academic term" select box under the "course site" radio button on the new site “site type” page found in the course of defining a new course is outside of the label and the form instructions don't mention that the required field indicator is to be expected.
Determined: Major
Announcements
On the Announcements main page the "Show ___ items" combo box is not explicitly label.
Determined: Major
The page titles do not change when viewing the details of an announcement.
Determined: Major (site wide issue)
Assignments
The file upload form control in the attachments section on the test assignment submission page is not explicitly labeled.
Determined: Major
Potential Admin/instructor Facing Critical Issues
Users
Required field is indicated, but not explained (no instructions). Also the star is not part of the label text for the form element.
Determined: Major
Sites
Published, Joinable, Public View, Custom View radio buttons do not have a legend. For instance, tabbing to the Joinable No radio button simply says "No Radio button checked 2 of 2" and does not say what you are saying no to.
Determined: Major
Button text does not make sense out of context. For example when tabbing to the "Add/Edit properties" button, it simply says "Properties".
Determined: Major
Worksite Setup
The required field notification asterisk on the "Authorizer's username:" text input on the Course/Section Information page found in the process of defining a new course is outside of the label and the form instructions don't mention that the required field indicator is to be expected.
Determined: Major
“Worksites list table” table summary is incorrect.
Determined: Minor
Site information table needs row headers
Determined: non-issue/fixed? More research needed
The table summary for the table holding information on site participants is incorrect.
Determined: Minor
Become User
Input user id textbox is not labeled.
Determined: Major
Announcements
The remove checkboxes on the announcements main page do not have unique labels.
Determined: Major
The Access and Availability radio buttons on the Post and Edit Announcement pages are not in a fieldset. in addition, the Availability specify Dates check boxes are not in a fieldset. This would also apply to the display options on the options page.
Determined: Major
Multiple Combo boxes on the Post and Edit Announcements pages are unlabeled.
Determined: Major
Multiple "edit" links exist on the Announcements main page
Determined: Major
On the Announcements Options page, the "Display Options" radio buttons do not make sense out of context.
Determined: Major
Assignments
The Grading and Released Grade Notification Email Options radio buttons on the Add and Edit Assignment pages are not in a fieldset. in addition, the Availability specify Dates check boxes are not in a fieldset. This would also apply to the display options on the options page. As well as the "please choose the display option for grading assignment page" on the options page.
Determined: Major
Multiple Combo boxes on the Add and Edit Assignment pages are unlabeled.
Determined: Major
Multiple links on the Assignments Main page have non-unique link text.
Determined: Major
There are 3 "add" links on the Add and Edit assignments pages that do not have a href attribute, but are still clickable.
Determined: Major
The "find (Name, ID or Email)" edit field is not labeled correctly and the label is the same as the submit button.
Determined: Major
The "Assign this grade to participants" edit field is not labeled correctly. All of the check boxes which gives the instructor an option to allow the selected students to resubmit the assignment are unlabeled. - critical
Determined: Major
Gradebook
Multiple form controls on the All Grades page are unlabeled.
Determined: critical
Multiple form controls on the Course Grades page are unlabeled.
Determined: critical
Multiple form controls on the Grade page are not explicitly labeled.
Determined: critical
Multiple radio button and checkbox sets need a fieldset and legend on the Gradebook Setup page.
Determined: critical
Multiple form controls on the Course Grades Options page are unlabeled.
Determined: critical
Multiple form controls on the Gradebook Item Summary page are unlabeled.
Determined: critical
The "Student Name/ Find" input form control on the All Grades page is unlabeled. The "View - All Section/Groups", "and - all categories" and "show 50" combo boxes are also unlabeled.
Determined: critical
The "All Grades" text and three button form controls are all part of the same heading level 2 on the All Grades page.
Determined: Major
On the All Grades page there are two tables that have no table headers. The tables visually appear as one table and scroll together as one table. They each have visual table headers coded as lists above their respective tables.
Determined: blocker
Critical Sakai Accessibility Jiras logged but not worked on/verified
SAK-21797 - The "Type of Site" Heading on the Login Page Site Browser Tool is misleading to low-vision/ blind users. It should be changed into a legend for the radio button set.
SAK-21801 - Login Page Site Browser Tool is missing reset feature
SAK-21802 - When no search results are returned for Login Page Site Browser Tool, the search criteria is missing from the instructions text
SAK-21803 - There is no way for a user to modify their search terms, using the Login Page Site Browser Tool
SAK-21804 - Academic Term search options for the Login Page Site Browser Tool can be specified without selecting the parent form control
SAK-21805 - Form control values are maintained after validation errors occur on Login Page New Account Tool
SAK-21806 - User search feature should not appear in the Users Tool action bar
SAK-21808 - There are multiple accessibility issues with required fields on the new user page of the Users Tool
SAK-22309 - NeoPortal Worksites Menu ARIA Utilization Is Incomplete and Interferes with Screen-Reader Access to the Sites Menu
Collaborative Testing
Joe will setup multiple doodle polls to determine the best date and which tool to test
Possible dates and times:
September 11 10am-12pm
September 11 2-4pm
September 13 2-4pm
September 17 10am-12pm
September 17 2-4pm
September 19 2-4pm
September 21 10am-12pm
September 21 2-4pm
Possible tools to test:
Assignments
Chat Room
Forums
Polls
Test & Quizzes
Wiki
Any Other Business
None