Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 04-04-2013

Attendees

• Joe Humbert

• Gonzalo Silverio

• Neal Caidin 

Agenda

Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Review

A11y Jiras that need testing/review

• Jira issues the AWG needs to review:

  • PRFL-640 - Accessibility label for wall is identical to the kudos label - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-640 

  • SAK-23188 - Roster - Search  - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23188

    • Joe will verify by next teleconference

  • SAK-23342 - Create a Table of Contents Style view for Syllabus -  https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-23342

    • Joe will verify by next teleconference

  • SAK-22618 - Updated preferences Success message is not apparent to users of screen reading software on the Notifications page of the Preferences tool - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22618

    • Joe will verify by next teleconference

  • SAK-22718 - Multiple date selection combo boxes Announcements, Resources, Assignments and Calendar are unlabeled - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22718

    • Joe will verify by next teleconference

  • PRFL-773 - Numerous form controls are unlabeled on the My Profile page of the Profile2 tool - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-773

    • Jira needs additional work.  This may be closed and a new JIRA may be created

  • Jira filter for resolved accessibility issues that need testing for 2.9.2:

    • New filter - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/issues/?filter=13696

  • Giant list of A11y Jira issues:

    • http://bit.ly/current-a11y-jiras

Any Other Business 

Sakai A11y Help Documentation

• Comparing current help documents with draft updated documents

  • Current: http://kb.iu.edu/data/arkn.html

  • Draft: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1m-kAuXkIbXBgXbAsMLOrgY2irI8yM9rQjnWkjnXL30E 

•  Statement for Help Documentation:  

  • The following URL is provided for people with disabilities who would like to experience the accessibility enhancements of Sakai. 

  • https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Sakai+2.9+Accessibility+Help+Documentation

• i18n Process

  • i18n Group had some concerns with moving the help documentation out of Sakai

    • The are concerned about non-English using being able to access the translations

  • Joe and Neil will have a teleconference with members of the i18n group to work on a possible solution

• Joe will seek out comments from user of screen reading software who is not familiar with Sakai

• We missed cut off date for 2.9.2. We will target 2.9.3

   

Sakai Accessible Content Creation Guidelines

• Gonzalo suggested we focus on content created through the rich text editor (CKeditor)

• A big concern will be HTML files/code directly uploaded

• Gonzalo suggested the Guidelines should be based on the capabilities of the CKeditor

  • Use the CKeditor help files as a starting point

  • Joe will research capabilities

    • create a skeleton structure and send it out to the AWG listserv

• WCAG 2.0 as basis for guideline?

  • WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

  • WebAIM

    • http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist

    • http://webaim.org/resources/designers/

      • text version: http://webaim.org/resources/designers/#text

How to demarcate Jira issues for A11y across projects

• Current Sakai of how to Demarcate Jiras

  • based around Sakai performance issue Jiras

  • 3 month study of the effectiveness of "labels"

    • Results in June

• Downside of using labels is that adding them to Jira tickets does not automatically assign the Jira ticket, unlike a component

• Joe biggest concerns

  • Hard to search for A11y issues across tools and projects

• We need consistency across projects

• We need to make sure we are capturing all A11y issues and addressing them

  • Suggestions to accomplish

    • A11y group tag

    • Come up with policy

    • Create components

      • Joe suggested we wait to create A11y components until label study is done

    • Add both a label and component

• Label to use if we decide to use a label

  • A11y

  • Neil cautioned labels are free form and can't be controlled

Sakai Accessibility Working Group Email List

• First Topic: ARIA application role

  • We need to develop or publicize Guidelines for use of the application role

  • Concrete examples of problems application role

    • Gonzalo: Lesson Builder

      • Top level wrapper of tool

• Joe will send out starter email before next teleconference

Next Meeting is April 18th, 2013