Meeting/Teleconference Details

• Finalize the paper for AHG 2007
• Update on accessibility features in the upcoming release

Next Meeting

• No teleconference has been scheduled; new teleconference will be scheduled as needed.

Participants

• Ron Burns, Ebsco
• Khalilah Gambrell, Ebsco
• Ken Pitri, OSU
• Hadi Rangin, UIUC

Discussion

Final draft of the AHG paper

Discussed potential changes,/feedback on the paper that willbe presented at a panel discussion at the Accessing Higher Ground 2007.
Ken Volunteered to apply the final changes.
Hadi will re-submit the final draft to Howard Kramer at AHG 2007.

Final draft on the paper: Collaboration as an Effective Way to Achieve Accessibility: A Consortium’s Work with the EBSCO Library Research Database (Adobe Reader required)

Moderation and script for panel discussion

Hadi suggested to send info regarding the moderation and script for the panel discussion. He volunteered to be the moderator. Here's his suggestion:

Introduction

• 2 min. moderator. Welcome and highlight the idea of collaboration
• 1 min. All. Introduce yourself and describe your job duties/responsibilities

Involvement in the Ebsco accessibility collaboration

• 2 min. All. Explain how you got involve in this collaboration group

How we worked together

• 3 min. All. Explain how we communicated and worked toward identifying the accessibility issues and finding potential universal solution

Benefits of this collaboration

• 2 min. All. Mutual benefit? how all parties have been benefiting from this collaboration
• Christie can explain her experience working with the new interface

Conclusion

• 1 min. All. Is collaboration the right approach to promote for accessibility?

Questions & answers

• Remaining time (approx. 5 min). Questions/answers

Note that we will be 5 people at the panel-- Ron, Khalilah, Jon, Christie, and Hadi