Teleconference Details

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
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Next Meeting

• Date: Monday August 04, 2008
• Time: 2:30 PM EDT; 1:30 PM CDT; 12:30 PM MDT; 11:30 AM PDT
• Phone: 217 265-8030

Attendees

1. Stephanie Cupp, Blackboard
2. Hadi Rangin, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
3. Allen Maynard, Hadley School for the Blind
4. Terry Thompson, University of Washington
5. Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
6. Kevin Price, University of Illinois at Chicago
7. Kathy Fernandes, California State University Chico
8. Mark Burris, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
9. Tom Jewett, California State University
10. Don Amos, Pellissippi State Technical Community College
11. C Todd, Meredith College
12. Will Murray, Blackboard
13. John Louviere, Utah State University

Discussion

Sub-group activity update

1. Design subgroup update
   • Meeting consistently on Thursday
   • Reviewing widgets from NG
   • Looking for more folks to get more diversity in collaboration
   • Stephanie feels like the group is really making great progress and feels like the group is teach Bb a lot of great stuff
   • Feels like they are really getting into usability depths – finding multiple ways to make items accessible
   • Long term goal of the group is to keep the awareness of Accessibility in other products
2. Documentation subgroup update
   • Accomplished – Marketing course they worked on at BbWorld
   • Looking into doing quick start tutorial, wondering where it should go on Behind the Blackboard
3. QA subgroup update
   • No plan because Bb was still working on training, etc for their new accessibility testing tool
   • Bb is training, creating test cases, figuring out what areas the tool is best applied to
4. Testing subgroup update
   • No activity
   • Needs direction before he can get moving

General Question: Where is gradebook accessibility addressed? - Design group

Accessibility solution of Vista 4 by John Louviere

John Louviere : Sample Accessible Course in BB Vista can be found at::

• http://bb.usu.edu
• User: boo
• password: booradley
• Course Title: AA Degree - Concentration in Blindness - Beginning Braille in the Classroom
• Using learning modules, he’s been able to set the focus to make the course navigable. No mail or chat solution thus far
• Stripping the content. Exanple in the Table of Contents frame you have the list of links. Using Javascript, he’s grabbing what is in that frame and repopulating those links in the content frame/web page
• User can tab through the page also uses breadcrumbs

BbWorld

• Blackboard “Partners” is the term for third party companies who work with Bb
• Melissa Anderson is presenting on 5PM Wednesday about Accessibility
• Stephanie is sending out the meeting information to the listserv
• Once the official meeting list goes out, the Interest Group (Mark) will setup an interest group meeting to follow one of the official sessions

Accessibility of accessibility related information

General request: Put Accessibility information in a place where it can be more easily found, in HTML on the site, not just in Behind the Blackboard. This should include contact information and resources for assistive technology

Andy Jacobson, the head of Communication Department will join us at our next general Blackboard Accessibility Teleconference in August to discuss the details on accessibility related documentation projects.