Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 05-02-2013

Attendees

• Joe Humbert

• Gonzalo Silverio

• Neal Caidin

Agenda

Any Other Business 

Sakai A11y Help Documentation

• Discussion of progress on updating Sakai a11y help documentation

  •  Joe added Gonzalo's draft to the AWG wiki.

  • He also made numerous edits and additions to improve the documentation. However, more work needs to be done to improve the documentation.

  • Gonzalo said he would be willing to take a stab at updating the documentation.

  • Joe said he will reach out to the AWG listserv to solicit more help

CK Editor Accessible Content Creation Guidelines

• Discuss skeleton outline

  • CK Editor Accessibility Guideline Categories (CK Editor v3.6)

    • Alternative text descriptions for Images

      • alt (heuristics TBD), if complex add a paragraph, if paragraph is a problem then longdesc

      • Requiring of alternative text for image links

        • needs a alt if image is anchor for a link

    • Heading structure

      • start with an h4, can use h5, h6 - except HTML Resource, all headings are allowable

      • what can be a heading candidate (short, title-like)

      • separate structure from visual styling (h6 with font size of 22)

    • Semantically coded lists

      • Proper list nesting

        • when not to use a  list (one item)

    • Use of only color to convey information. For example, "click the blue button on the left."

    • Color Contrast

      • Example

      • link to checker

      • link to color picker tool

    • Inclusion of Skip navigation links

      • heuristic? when to do this?

      • not possible? target blank - bring up with community see KNL-1001 - https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-1001

      • would describe as Table of Contents

    • Unique and Descriptive link text

      • make descriptive sense, identify uniquely

      • Identifying downloadable files

        • report (pdf)

        • identify file type in link text 

    • Unique and Descriptive page titles (This may only be needed for external tools and Web pages).

      • only in HTML attachments

• Joe will add the skeleton to the AWG wiki so that it can be collaboratively created.

• Joe stated we need users, accessibility experts, and developers to provide examples and heuristics for these guidelines

• At the next meeting we need to discuss a target date for completion of the guidelines?

  • June 30th, 2013?

Meeting ended early

Next Meeting is May 16th, 2013