Closed Action Items
- Creating sub-groups and assigning members to them based on members' interest and expertise
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 08/31/2007
- Identify specific dates and a tentative agenda for the proposed training in D.C. in August
- person responsible: Stephanie Cupp, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 08/05/2007
- Possibility of a member of QA team joining our group
- Person responsible: Stephanie Cupp, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 07/10/2007; Ella Herz has been identified as QA manager to work with our group.
- Merge the Blackboard and WebCT Accessibility Interest Groups
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 08/15/2007
- Send an email to the blackboard list to see if anyone wants to get together on accessibility discussions at BB World 2007.
- Person responsible: Ed Garay
- Status: Completed on 06/18/2007
- Find out the status of IMS accessibility initiative
- Person responsible: Saroj Primlani
- Status: Closed on 06/25/2007; no information has been delivered.
- Identify topics to be discussed with support teams
- Person responsible: All
- Status: Completed on 06/18/2007; concerns/questions have been discussed with Jason Minkoff
- Possibility of a member of Support team joining our group
- Person responsible: Scott Whitmore
- Status: Completed on 06/18/2007; Jason Minkoff the Manager & Client Support has been identified from Support team to work with our group on support related issues.
- Send the letter (Blackboard disability access policies, resources and services) to identified top managements at Blackboard
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson, Hadi Rangin
- Completed on 06/15/2007; 14 collected letters were sent to the identified managements at Blackboard. Thank you everyone...
- Seek support from key individals at our institutions; identify people in our colleges and whom the letters should go to
- Person responsible: All
- Status: Closed on 05/21/2007; most active members have identified and/or got signatures from them for the letter to Blackboard.
- Phil will share his letter that he's written to his deputy CIO, as well as any further letters that are generated as part of that communication.
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes
- Status: Closed on 05/07/2007; since the letter would be a kind of redundant to the letter we are going to send to Blackboard top management, the group has decided not to pursue with it.
- Jon will post an announcement to the discussion list right away requesting final comments and feedback on the letter.
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 04/03/2007
- Jon will synthesize input from others and finalize the letter in two days.
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 04/09/2007
- Look into getting a member of our group into the special Feature Advisory Group
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Discussed on 04/02/2007; Terry Thompson has become part of Gradebook PDF group
- Get contacts in the QA and Technical Support groups, instead of having Robert filter issues
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Discussed on 04/02/2007; the effort to encourage support and QA team to join our group will continue.
- letter to BlackBoard from UMN CIO deputy
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes
- Status: Completed on 04/02/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (draft 4; Edit content of letter down to one page and send to the group for another review)
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 04/02/2007
- List WebCT and Blackboard Accessibility Interest Groups as regular user groups at Blackboard
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Completed on 03/12/2007
- Send a summary of MathML support in Blackboard to the list
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Contact those listed as collaborators in accessibility on BB website (WebAIM and Hellen Kellar Institute) to see what they are doing
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Coordinate with Robert dumas on teleconference and reported issues
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Incomplete 02/11/2007
- Note: All attempts to contact Robert Dumas failed; sent several e-mail messages, left several phone messages during the month of January 2007 and have never heard back from him. I even tried to contact Robert via William murray who is in charge of accessibility of Blackboard product line but still haven't heard from Robert.
- Status: Incomplete 02/11/2007
- Revise the PHP evaluation form to incorporate Phillip's comments
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/11/2007
- Ask BlackBoard Accessibility Mailing list about the MathML support
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (2nd draft); all, please send your comments to Jon
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 02/05/2007
- Update issues list
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/28/2007; please check it
- Update php to include the rating system recommended by Philip Kragnes
- Person responsible: Jon gunderson, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/28/2007
- Add percentages showing progress rates to the accessibility evaluation form
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 01/22/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (draft 1)
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes, Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 01/22/2007
- Follow up with evaluaters to verify the outstanding issues identified by evaluators
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/17/2007