Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 11-15-2012
Attendees
- Neil Caidin
- Mary Stores
- Joe Humbert
- Jane Vincent
- Scott Williams
- Gonzalo Silverio
Julie Prianos & coworkers - Illinois State University
Sakai 2.9
Sakai 2.9 Release
- 2.9.0 was released on November 9th, 2012
- The release team plans on pushing out a 2.9.1 maintenance release that will focus on merging issues that didn't make it into 2.9.0
- This release will come out before the Christmas Holiday
- Any Jira issues that people would like considered for inclusion should already have a someone working on a patch, be patched, but not verified, or be verified and awaiting merge.
- This issues should be marked with the tag/label "291triage"
- Issues must be tagged by November 25th.
- Already on the list were a couple accessibility issues
- Joe is going to push to get the Critical Tests & Quizzes Jira ticket (
SAM-1295
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Getting issue details...
STATUS
) included in the release. (Sam-1295 is the issue where radio buttons are grouped correctly, and not labeled so AT may confuse the wrong text.)
- A lot of the accessibility fixes for Samigo that have been resolved and verified rely on 1295.
- If you can’t use multiple choice questions, any accessibility enhancements won’t work if you can’t answer a question.
- 1295 does not have a patch.
- Neil says if he can get developer attention to fix the issue and QA volunteers as well, there would be a shot at getting it in to 2.9.1
- It needs be in trunk and QAed by first week of December.
- Neil will reach out to Karen at Samigo team. Neil will write directly to team and inform everyone.
2.9.0 Release notes
- Neil asked the group to write accessibility related release notes to discuss improvements.The draft went around to the WG listserv
- New members can go to http://collab.sakaiproject.org to join the accessibility WG listserv or read the archives
2.9.1 Release
There are about 10 Jiras that will marked for inclusion into 2.9.1
There are other issues that did not get targeted at all, so perhaps they can be resolved in 2.9.2 release.
Sakai Accessibility Help Documentation
- Accessibility specific help info for Sakai can be improved to help users get around to familiarize themselves with the issues.
- Jane and Gonzalo volunteer to do a first draft and review the current information.
Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review
Reviews in Progress
- Scott and a Michigan student have be investing a great deal of time in the Sakai accessibility review work. They have posted numerous review on the Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review (2012) web page.
- They will continue to go through the high priority tools.
Fixed/Resolved/Verified Jiras
- List navigator buttons with ASCII characters have been fixed.
- SAK-11653 - Getting issue details... STATUS
- Profile2 birth date form and calendar widget.
- PRFL-762 - Getting issue details... STATUS
- Some unlabeled form fields have been patched.
Discuss Escalating Minor issues to Major
- The maintenance team does not the resources to address at any issues marked with minor or below.
Due to the fact that any Jira issues marked as "Minor" many never get address, Joe proposed changing significant minor issues into Major issues if the group deems it necessary.
- Going though current outstanding minor issues, there are 10.
- They are very insignificant.
- Example, not useful table summary, missing table summary, not descriptive alt text. It may be documented in help documentation.
Scott proposed that we change the definition of a Minor issue in our review definition to include the fact that no Jira will be submitted if an issue is marked as Minor.
Any Other Business
- Collaborative test and quizzes testing is tabled till the next meeting. A doodle poll with times will be sent out to the group.
- Accessibility Preferences will be pushed off until after Christmas break.