Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 02-21-2013

Attendees

• Joe Humbert

• Neal Caidin

• Gonzalo Silverio

Sakai 2.9.x

Release Team Meeting

• 2.9.1 was released on February 12, 2013

• 2.9.2 planning has started

  • Released date targeted for End of April or early May

  • Neil will determine areas of focus in the next few weeks

• Accessibility (A11y) issues that may be included in 2.9.2

  • One new issue that will be included in 2.9.2 is the web content tool will not longer use iframes

  • SAK-23047: The velocity base classes need to set the default human languageClosedPreview

  • https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SAK%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Accessibility%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20292triage%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC

  • https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SAM%20AND%20component%20%3D%20Accesibility%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20292triage%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC

• 2.9.1 resolved the following A11y issues:

  • https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SAK%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%20%222.9.1%22%20AND%20component%20in%20%28Accessibility%2C%20accessibility%29%20AND%20%222.9.x%20Status%22%20%3D%20Resolved%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC

• Several issues Gonzalo patched need to be reviewed:

  • https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SAK%20AND%20component%20in%20%28Accessibility%2C%20accessibility%29%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20patch_added%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC

Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review

Chat Room Accessibility Preferences

• Joe and Gonzalo talked over the Phone outside of normal teleconference

  • Gonzalo found out the last developers on the tool were from Indiana University so we will need help from IU

  • Chris Mauer (the last developer on the tool) is currently busy

  • Megan May, IU's Sakai lead, said all IU devs will be busy till the end of April, but they may be able to help after April.

New Test Server

• Joe is working with Chris Mauer from IU to use QA3us for A11y testing

• Neil thinks it would be good to use QA3 for both QA and A11y testing

  • Beneficial to use one server

    • less maintenance

    • could potentially use QA testers to test for A11y issues and fixes

    • The AWG has no specific needs for a test server that would warrant separate servers

• QA3 is currently being updated to the latest release of 2.9.x, but is not ready for testing yet

• Chris Mauer will be taking a screenshot of Database

  • This will allow our group and the QA group to preload content that will be retained after a server refresh

  • Joe will work with Neil and Chris to coordinate the content creation before the snapshot.

Any Other Business

Increased Participation in group

• Gonzalo asked Neil what other Sakai groups are doing

  • Neil is working with Alan Berg

  • Gave presentation at EuroSakai

  • Meetups at Apereo conference  (Formally Sakai conference) in San Diego

  • Institution allocation

• Neil's suggestions

  • Sakai Fellows participate in groups

  • Improve Jira Ticket Information

  • Reduce Boundaries

  • Ask for institution participation

  • Grants

Other Topics of Interest concerning Sakai that may impact Accessibility

• Apereo Merge

• Code contribution

  • Non-american contributions

  • What are Universities Goals?

• There needs to be procedures to bring work back to core (e.g., i18n)

• Core areas need to be addressed by a group

  • possibly interstate

• There is a need for a Sakai Community needs assessment

Sakai Accessible Content Creation Guidelines

• Gonzalo believes the guidelines could be crowd sourced

  • based on currently A11y Guidelines

    • the AWG group could borrow guidelines from other LMSs or Universities

      • Joe will research current guidelines and share will the group

    • AWG customize for Sakai

Sakai Global Accessibility Preferences

• AWG should consider hiring an intern to work on programming the A11y preferences

  • Possibly Human Computer Interaction student or other relevant major

  • Gonzalo will look into finding an intern at University of Michigan

• We need to boil down options to make the choices simpler

  • Crowd Source

Sakai Accessibility Working Group Email List

• Gonzalo would like to see more traffic on the listserv

  • Related to discussing accessibility topics or issues that people are currently working on

• We should find out who is on the listserv

• Find out Who would be most active on the listserv if there is more traffic

• Potential topics will be discussed at future teleconferences
  
  

Next Meeting March 7, 2013