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Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 03-07-2013

Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 03-07-2013

Dec 07, 2021

Attendees

  • Gonzalo Silverio

  • Mary Stores

  • Neal Caidin

  • Scott Williams

  • Joe Humbert

Any Other Business

Accessibility Certification (NFB)

  • Neil did some research and found out that there is a European body similar to the NFB that can certify a specific level of accessibility (e.g., WCAG 2.0).

  • If Sakai is certified my the European body it will be honored by the NFB or vice versa

  • Neil believes receiving WCAG certification will be easier to achieve than the NFB certification

Sakai MOOC Group

  • This group has just been formed to investigate how to use Saki as a platform for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

  • Neil will be keeping us updated on the groups progress because he is sure that there will be accessibility concerns that need to be addressed.

Sakai A11y Help Documentation

  • Multiple group members voiced concerns about the wide variety of experience levels most AT users posses

  • Joe asked Neil about Sakai member institution upgrade plans

    • Neil said most will upgrade within one year to a year and a half

  • Neil said the future of Sakai utilizing the IU knowledge base for help documentation is not certain

  • The Documentation Group is looking into alternatives

    • Edia Knowledge base (http://edia.nl/)

    • The Documentation Group's goal is more frequent updates

  • The AWG has decided until the Documentation group has chosen a new platform for help documentation, we will replace the current Sakai a11y help documentation with a link to a page on the AWG wiki

  • This will allow the AWG to keep the information more up to date

  • Goal for changes to the help documentation is April 18th

Apereo Conference

  • Neil asked if anyone from the AWG will be attending the new Sakai conference which is now called Apereo Conference after the merge

    • Gonzalo will be going

  • The conference and new Apereo foundation is a collaboration with the Jasig Group

  • Neil thought the conference would be a good recruiting opportunity for the AWG

  • Neil and Gonzalo will co-present an accessibility Bird of a Feather presentation

  • Joe is willing to participate via video

  • Mary can create a assistive technology demonstration video, if needed

Sakai Accessible Content Creation Guidelines

  • Joe inquired if we could borrow guidelines from other institutions

    • Gonzalo said that could raise copyright issues

  • Should be base on currently A11y Guidelines, possibly WCAG 2.0

  • Our first priority should be creating guidelines for creating accessible documents using the CK Editor

  • Guidelines should be human readable

  • Try to limit guidelines to one page

Sakai Global Accessibility Preferences/Chat Room Accessibility Preferences

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

    • Focused Topics

  • Potential Topics

    • Problem/ solution conversations

    • documentation

    • Sakai tool specific ARIA landmarks

    • ARIA application role

    • ARIA live regions

  • Potential topics will be discussed at future teleconferences

Sakai Release Information

2.10 release

  • Neil stated that 2.10 release planning has not started yet, so he has no updates yet.

  • Neil will update the group

Release Team Meeting

  • 2.9.2 development and testing is underway will continue through the end of March

  • 2.9.2 priorities

    • QA will continue through the end of April

    • priority is on timely maintenance releases

    • Focusing on fixing currently open high priority Jira issues

  • There might be opportunities for the AWG to collaborate with the QA team for improved and efficient testing.

Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review

 

Next Meeting March 21, 2013