rA11y Plan
RA11y Plan (Review Accessibility Plan)
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The RA11Y Plan (Review Accessibility Plan) is an initiative by the Sakai Accessibility Working Group to commission a substantive review of Sakai’s accessibility by an NFB-like group with a goal of obtaining a certification, including a VPAT and WCAG2-based review, that would assure potential adopters and current users alike. Sakai has a good history of accessibility but resources are limited and new developments in Sakai need to be reviewed and brought up to standard.
Phased Plan
Timeline updated November 9, 2017
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As items are identified and resolved issues and tools will move through parts one and two. All parts will need resources. Areas of Sakai might move through phases one and two at different paces, but they should culminate in phase three together.
As the Longsight partial audit is incorporated, a revised list of unreviewed areas of Sakai can be generated, prioritized based on the 2014 tool use survey and the scope of a complementary partial review can be identified. Based on the prioritized list, the new partial review project cost can estimated and the estimate used to seek contributions.
The partial review will no doubt identify issues that need resolution before a full review and accessibility statement can be sought. Additional contributions responding to these issues will be needed. Contributions would include modifying components directly or contributing funds to support work by commercial partners.
A recording of the update webinar can be found on YouTube.
Timeline
- Short term, Winter 2015
- Incorporate outstanding issues from 2013 Longsight partial audit into JIRA2 (in progress, LSNBLDR-456 already addressed!) and relate issues in JIRA to Longsight partial audit.
- Update identified list of unreviewed areas of Sakai.Sakai 11 developments will be accounted for and the list will also be prioritized based on the 2014 tool use survey and the scope.
- Medium term, Winter 2015 ~ Summer 2015
- Encourage work on identified issues from the short term.
- Fundraise for partial accessibility audit and remaining issues in Sakai.
- Commission partial audit of Sakai.
- Identify the scope and resources required for identified work.
- Encourage work on newly identified issues.
- Long term, After Completion of Phases 1 and 2.
- Phases 1 - Fall and Winter of 2015
- Verify that Sakai is ready to be reviewed and seek an accessibility statement
- Create a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) as a self study before submission for a full review and interim certification.
- Agree on a reviewer like the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) or a similar established commercial reviewer.
- Fundraise for full review
- Verify that Sakai is ready to be reviewed and seek an accessibility statement
- Phase 2 - Summer and Winter 2016
- Commission full review
- Work to address idenfited issues
- Phases 1 - Fall and Winter of 2015
- Outcome
- Verification or conditional statement of accessibility from a reviewer like NFB and confirmed or conditional WCAG 2 Level AA status for Sakai.
1 VPAT - Voluntary Product Accessibility Template - {+}http://www.state.gov/m/irm/impact/126343.htm+
2 Sakai Jira - {+}https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse+
Issues Identified
453 instances have been consolidated to 51 JIRA-issues, listed below or searchable in Sakai's JIRA.
Some trends of key issues have been identified:
- SAM-2217 Identifies that there needs to be a valid label for form fields throughout the delivered assessments in Tests and Quizzes. This is a JavaServer Faces (JSF) related issue, and would benefit from Java developer's attention.
- There were a number of issues associated with the Signup tool
- Adding ARIA roles
- Keyboard navigation
Full List
Updates
Early Fall 2015 Update
Fully funded!
The $61,000 and 60 hours of in-kind development time have been pledged.
Thanks to: Apereo, Durham Tech, Tufts University, Oxford, Pepperdine, Longsight and I should probably thank Brock University.
Next is for members of the accessibility working group to have serious talks with accessibility reviewers.
There are still many ways to contribute: There's participating in decision making process around selecting an accessibility reviewer selection and the opportunity to fund or directly provide development time to respond to the audit results.
A big thanks to those individuals and institutions that have pledged and everyone who has participated in the process.
Summer 2015 Update 2
As of Thursday September 3, 2015 $54,500 and 60 hours of in-kind development time have been pledged!
Matt Clare (Matt.Clare@Brocku.ca) would love to hear from the people or places that can help get us to our goal!
Summer 2015 Update
We are under way and hoping to raise US$61,000.
If support in the form of financial contributions to these costs is possible, please contact Matt Clare (Matt.Clare@Brocku.ca) to let Matt know the amount and so that the Apereo Foundation can prepare an invoice and set up electronic transfers.
March 2015 Update
Progress on this project continues. The accessibility reviews of previous versions of Sakai that have been made public, notably Brock University’s and Longsight’s, have been incorporated into https://jira.sakaiproject.org. Most issues have been reviewed and some have already had work completed on them for Sakai 11, and potentially coming updates to Sakai 10.
Donations of funds to support commissioning Phase 1 and Phase 3 reviews are being sought. Resources in any form are appreciated for the fix and enhance portion of Phase 2.
The Sakai Accessibility Working Group is maintaining a list of the review status of unique pages and trying to assign a priority to unreviewed areas. Crudely, there are 341 unreviewed pages in Sakai 10. Industry scans have suggested that a worst-case budgetary figure for having each unique web pages professionally reviewed is $100/page.
Inquiries has been made with the following organizations about complitary Phase 1 partial reports and the possibility of a Phase 3 certification statements, starting with a VPAT and then a WCAG 2 Level AA certifications. Discussions are ongoing, but early positive developments include suggestions that a representative selection of Sakai’s total unique elements maybe be sufficient for certification by some groups.
- Deque Systems, Inc.- web contact
- National Foundation of the Blind - Emailed
- SSB bart Group - Emailed, phone conversation
- WebAIM - Emailed, ongoing dialogue
- jimthatcher.com - Web contact
- Paciello Group - Respectfully declined the opportunity
If you are interested in participating please contact Matt Clare through details outlined on the main page of the Accessibility Working Group.
Spring 2016 / Open Apereo Con 2016
If you are interested in reviewing the results please contact Matt Clare through details outlined on the main page of the Accessibility Working Group.
There are 452 Issues Detected with guidance on how to address them.
July 2016
453 instances have been consolidated to 140 JIRA-issues
The export from SSB Bart has been reviewed for:
- Correct component
- additional brief community summary
- additional notes
- Add {code} {code} and {noformat} as needed
Matt (and any others are welcome) to review with SSB Bart on Delivery Call, Matt’s concern is some of the ARIA/Tabpanel feedback is very vague.
SSB Bart currently asses Sakai 11 (from April 15 2016) as 75% WCAG2 A compliant and 76% WCAG2 AA compliant.
Next steps:
Matt Clare slices the Google Sheet by Sakai Project/Component and imports into JIRA based on this mapping (Screenshot of mapping) http://www.screencast.com/t/Tf2qHSY3UpH
Example of what they look imported to JIRA in a "fake" project https://jira.sakaiproject.org/projects/ACCTEST
Once import is deemed ready, will import issues per project/component to their areas of JIRA
Will create public searches to reveal rA11y Project across JIRA
Once in JIRA:
Sakai development community alerted to new rA11y related JIRAs. Focus on the quick wins.
Informing others Core team meetings: Every Tuesdays 10AM EST
Alert Sak-dev and Slack
Will host Q&As on issues (ideally common ones)
August 2016
June 2017
Presentation given at Open Apereo 2017.
Look to be on track for WCAG compliance statement and community authored VPAT with Sakai 12 relase.
Apereo 17,Update on Sakai Accessibility and WCAG 2 Status
October 2017
We have commissioned a regression test for Sakai 12 from Level Access, formerly SSB Bart. This will results in a published WCAG 2 Level AA compliance statement, published audit results, and we will create a VPAT based on these results.
Work is to begin in December of 2017 and intended to coincide with the release candidate of Sakai 12 being ready.
Thanks to everyone who have supported this initiative, in both time, direct funds, development time, QA time, and support. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, people associated with the following organizations
- Apereo
- Brock University
- Durham Tech
- Illinois State University
- Longsight
- NYU
- Pepperdine
- Tufts University
- University of Rhode Island
- University of Virginia
- and more...
August 2018
During our last Level Access review, 90% of the originally identified issues had been resolved. However, a number of newly identified issues were found which related to new features/code in Sakai 12. These new issues must be corrected before Sakai receives the above mentioned statement of compliance. Resolution of these new issues is the goal for Phase 2 of this project. Please see the recent Open Apereo 2018 presentation for more detail on the current status of a11y efforts.
New issues requiring remediation have been labled "a11y2" in the Sakai Project JIRA. See below for a detailed list of these issues and the current resolution status.