Meeting/Teleconference Details

1. Tools to identify accessibility problems
   • Firefox Accessibility Extenssion
   • Functional Accessibility Evaluator
2. Accessibility report on CARLI voyager Catalog
3. CARLI Catalog Mockup

Participants

• Paige Weston
• Jon Gorman
• Hadi Rangin

Next meeting

• 02/07/2007 2:00 PM, DRES 119

We discussed various accessibility problems and limitation of changes that can be done to the program.

We lookd also into Firefox Accessibility Extenssion (http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu) and Functional Accessibility Evaluator (http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu) and how they can be used to identify potential accessibility problems.

Some of the Discussed and illustrated accessibility problems are:

• lack of form control
• Lack of headings for navigation bars
• lack of headings for major sections of a page
• Title element and H1 relationship
• problem with multi-tabs pages
• Problem with Image map
• Problem with use of inline formatting markups; high contrast; page reflow
• Problem with default language settings for each page and the content if needed

Pages whose title can be changed:

• [Title_Bar]
• Builder=UIUC's Library Catalog Advanced Search Page
• Change_PIN=WebVoyage Change PIN
• CourseResListLoc=Course Reserve List Location
• Course=UIUC's Library Catalog Course Reserves Search Page
• Simple=UIUC's Library Catalog Quick Search Page
• Database=UIUC's Library Catalog Database Selection Page
• Default=UIUC's Library Catalog
• Heading=UIUC's Library Catalog Headings Search
• Headings=UIUC's Library Catalog Headings Results
• History=UIUC's Library Catalog Edit Search & Search History
• Holds_Recals=Holds / Recalls
• Keyword=Keyword Search
• Limits=UIUC's Library Catalog Search Limits
• Mail=UIUC's Library Catalog E-Mail Records
• MyOPAC=UIUC's Library Catalog MySearch Preferences
• Patron_Info=Library Catalog MyAccount Page
• Patron_Logon=UIUC's Library Catalog Patron Logon
• Purchase_Request=
• Record_View_5=WebVoyage Record View 5
• Record_View_1=UIUC's Library Catalog Full Record View
• Record_View_2=UIUC's Library Catalog Brief Record View
• Record_View_3=UIUC's Library Catalog "More Like This" View
• Record_View_4=UIUC's Library Catalog MARC Record View
• References=UIUC's Library Catalog Heading References
• Request_Form=Library Catalog Request Form
• SavedSearches=UIUC's Library Catalog MySearches Page
• Titles=UIUC's Library Catalog Titles List
• AddBibForm=Add Bibliographic Record
• ModHoldingsForm=Modify Holdings Record
• UB_Requests=UIUC's Library Catalog Request Form
• Bookbag=View My Bookbag

Looked into the mockup created by Jon gorman which is a great start
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/systems/jtgorman/CleanWebVoyage/quicksearch_2.html

Desired changes will be applied to the development version of CARLI application at: http://develop.carli.illinois.edu/i-share_dev/

Action items

• Accessibility report on Advance Search and Course reserves tabs (Hadi)
• No immediate solution for the relevancy problem; potential solution: calculate the number of starts/relevancy icons and display them as number (Jon Gorman)
• Set alt='' for disabled imaged (Paige)
• Looking into high contrast view problem (Jon Gorman)
• Problem with tab navigation; fixed real-time; "Search tabs" (H2), Tab element (H3); redesigning tabs as list is not in our control
• Looking into adding a heading for the buttom navigation bar (Jon Gorman)
• Considering to replace the image map navigation bar with a mor universal solution (Jon Gorman)
• Implement redundant links for image map is possible if we stick with image map (Jon Gorman)
• Considering to improve the use of style sheet as much as in our control (Paige)
• Default language can not be set in the HTML tag but it seems that it works in the BODY tag (Paige)
• No control over the default language setting for content (result page); this issue with be discussed wit with the CARLI programming staff (Paige)
• Timeout counter is an INPUT element and has no label
• Limited control over the title element; default title can be changed; some pages in the search