Blackboard Accessibility Interest Group

Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Teleconference/Meeting Information

Due to the merger of WebCT and Blackboard, we will be using the Blackboard page as the main communication board for our collaboration. If you cannot find a piece of information, look through the WebCT pages as well in your search. If you still cannot find it, contact Hadi at hadi@uiuc.edu.

Next teleconference/meeting info

Agenda

  1. Update on sub-groups activities
    Report by each sup-group leader/co-leader
  2. Update on accessibility related activities at Blackboard by Stephanie Cupp
  3. BB-Design activity: tentative dates for NG beta program
  4. BB-Doc activity: Accessibility course completed; next project: tutorial on using assistive technology with BB; Accessibility help information
  5. BBWorld 2008 conference: meeting, active member recruitment, accessibility awareness with auxiliary BB vendors, user groups
  6. Use of TC Conferencing Tool for future teleconferences

Online: http://www.conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc7ec266025ab

How to join using TC Conferencing Tool

TC Conference requires a plug-in, so please work on the set up prior to the meeting time. The meeting can be accessed at the URL above.
If you are using the TC Conferencing tool for the first time, make sure that you instal the necessary plug-in and then click on the link "Click here to enter the room". You will be asked to enter your name, but no password is required.

You can test your Microphone/Speaker and Internet connection with Microphone/Speaker Test utility.
It is safe to run this utility.

Open Action Items

To view the completed/closed action items, go to Closed Action Items page.

Collecting and producing educational documentations that can help technical support team to understand better how assistive technology hardware and software work and how people with disabilities access the Web
Person responsible: Documentation sub-group
Status: In progress
Collecting and producing documentations that can help users with disability to ease and maximize their experience with BB products
Person responsible: Documentation sub-group
Status: In progress
Collecting and producing brief inline instructions for various modules explaining the basic functions of the modules and elated tasks
Person responsible: Documentation sub-group
Status: In progress
Send Hadi and the list any helpful documents related to accessibility and accessibility support for BB products.
Person responsible: All
Status: In Progress

Upcoming Teleconferences

Teleconference on 2008-07-07 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030
Teleconference on 2008-08-04 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030
Teleconference on 2008-09-08 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030
Teleconference on 2008-10-06 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030
Teleconference on 2008-11-03 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030
Teleconference on 2008-12-01 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Group/Location: General/217 265-8030

Previous Teleconferences

Teleconference on 2008-06-24 at 3:00 pm EDT, 2:00 pm CDT, 1:00 pm MDT, 12:00 pm PDT
Teleconference on 2008-06-03 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-05-29 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-05-23 at 10:00 AM EDT; 9:00 AM CDT; 8:00 AM MDT; 7:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-05-22 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-05-08 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-05-05 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-04-16 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-04-10 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-04-07 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2008-03-25 at 11:00 AM EST; 10:00 AM CST; 9:00 AM MST; 8:00 AM PST
Teleconference on 2008-03-03 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2008-02-19 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2008-02-04 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2008-02-01 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 PM PDT (Duration: 2 hours)
Teleconference on 2008-01-30 at 3:00 PM EST; 2:00 PM CST; 1:00 PM MST; 12:00 PM PST
Teleconference on 2008-01-23 at 2:00 PM EST; 1:00 PM CST; 12:00 PM MST; 11:00 AM PST
Teleconference on 2008-01-07 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2007-12-19 at 3:00 PM EST; 2:00 PM CST; 1:00 PM MST; 12:00 PM PST
Teleconference on 2007-12-03 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST  
Teleconference on 2007-11-28 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2007-11-28 at 2:00 PM EST; 1:00 PM CST; 12:00 PM MST; 11:00 AM PST
Teleconference on 2007-11-12 at 2:30 PM EST; 1:30 PM CST; 12:30 PM MST; 11:30 AM PST
Teleconference on 2007-11-01 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-10-11 at 2:00 PM EDT; 1:00 PM CDT; 12:00 PM MDT; 11:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-10-11 at 11:00 AM EDT; 10:00 AM CDT; 9:00 AM MDT; 8:00 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-10-03 at 3:30 PM CDT; 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-10-01 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-09-05 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-08-20 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-06-18 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM EDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-06-04 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 MDT; 11:30 PM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-05-21 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-05-07 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT  
Teleconference on 2007-04-16 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT  
Teleconference on 2007-04-02 at 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
Teleconference on 2007-03-05 at 1:30 PM CST
Teleconference on 2007-02-19 at 1:30 PM CST
Teleconference on 2007-02-05 at 1:30 PM CST
Teleconference on 2007-01-22 at 1:30 PM CST
Teleconference on 2007-01-08 at 1:30 PM CST
Teleconference on 2006-08-15 at 1:30 PM CDT
Teleconference on 2006-08-01 at 1:30 PM CDT
Teleconference on 2006-06-13 at 1:30 PM

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