Meeting/Teleconference Details

• Review and discuss remaining accessibility/usability issues with the new interface. please see: http://cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/libraryebsco/docs/ebsco_testing_07082007.htm

Ebsco Accessibility Teleconference Minutes on 09/07/2007
By: Khalilah Gambrell

Attendees

• Khalilah Gambrell
• Rob Rolsma
• Diane Moodie
• Ken Petri
• Hadi Rangin
• Virginia Martz

Discussion

Discussed Hadi’s report (http://cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/libraryebsco/docs/ebsco_testing_07082007.htm)

Choose Database Selection Page

• Updated with Title tag
• Updated with H1 tag
• Updates will be pushed to live by the end of September at the latest
• Select All databases option will be considered an enhancement request.

Basic and Advanced Search pages

• Updated the Select Database dropdown so that Submit and Cancel buttons are always present.
• EBSCO successfully tested the sort by, language, and database selection dropdowns for keyboard and screen reader functionality

Limiters and Expanders

• Updating titles To Month and To Year – will be addressed at a later date. Please note that JAWS reads the labels correctly.

Articles Details page

• Title element missing.
• Heading 1 missing
• Need to discuss an appropriate Title and H1 tags with more users and internally
• Redundant headings – at meeting decided to not pursue request outlined in report
• More headings needed – at meeting decided to stand pat for now and the format will be reconsidered in the future

Results List page

• Redundant heading "Result list" – will work to resolve the redundancies with H1 and H3 tags
• Changing Added link to Remove will be considered a future feature enhancement

Action Items

1. Hadi to re-test the usability of the following dropdowns:
   • Language by
   • Sort by
   • Select Databases
2. Hadi will send a link to the survey tool WebToolshop
3. Ken and Khalilah will test Survey Gizmo for accessibility as it has been recommended on other listservs (http://www.surveygizmo.com/)
4. Khalilah will gather a brief explanation of how Editorial develops accessible PDFs  - possibly have someone come to the next meeting
5. Khalilah will send several results for Hadi and Ken to test for PDF Full Text accessibility

After meeting notes and questions

• Hadi, do you have a timeframe for updating the following issues (http://cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/libraryebsco/issues.php)?
• Have yet to schedule meeting as it will be based on Action items
• Will setup meetings to discuss upcoming Accessing Higher Group conference