Accessibility WG Teleconference Minutes 05-02-2013

• 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

• 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