Teleconference Information
Date: 2005-05-25
Time: 1:00 PM
Agenda
Date: Wednesday May 25 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 CST (Chicago Local Time) Phone: 217 265-6999 Suggested topics: 1. Update on Freedom Scientific answer regarding tabbing issue 2. Update on Philip's and Robert's findings regarding language change problem. 3. Report about the test server and accounts for interested parties. 4. Update on Robert's effort for incorporating extended time feature in students' profiles. 5. Report about online documentation of the WebCT version running on demo server; specifically information about extended time testing. 6. Report about the meeting with the instructor of Spanish course at UIUC. 7. Discuss reported problem by Melanie about Jaws behavior in WebCT CE environment. 8. WebCT conference in San Francisco from July 18th through 22nd. Thanks, Hadi
Minutes
Present Kim Wilcox Philip Kragnes Robert Dumas Jeff Hiles Jon Gunderson Hadi Bargi Rangin Regrets David Schwarte Melanie Thornton 1. JAWS tabbing issue RD: We have contacted JAWS and provided them with a test server for tersting. HR: Have they started testing? RD: Test server was setup last week, I don't know who at FS is working problem 2. Philip's and Robert's findings regarding language change problem. PK: I could not find much information RD: I couldn't find much either PK: We want to stay with standards RD: I fowarded this to the developers, there are change requests in for the language change markup 3. Test server HR: Test accounts are available RD: CE 6 and version 4 use the same code base RD: Please put issues in the discussion board HR: Sometime we create sample code, but webct is too complicated 4. Extended Time RD: This is a high priority, there have been several other request for this feature, it will be 2 releases away 5. Testing on-line documentation HR: WIll there be documentation on accessibility and accessibility techniques RD: There are few sections on building accessible coureses, it is at a top level so it will be highly visible. RD: It does mention the problem of timed tests RD: I would love to have people in this group contribute to this documentation, especially how to explain to people on the accessibility RD: I would forward to technical communication groups HR: I will look into the documentation PK: I can do some after July 1st HR: I will do my best, to add to on-line accessibility RD: This is not a development issue, so it is easir to get implemented 6. Spanish course at UIUC JG: Update on spanish course K: What about the audio file JG: We added a link to play the audio file in an external audio player HR: Students without disabilities were also asking for a way for the external player JG: This is something to add to the best practices document RD: We could add it as a tip when people are working with multimedia RD: I tried to take the exam with JAWS and it was nearly impossible. RD: There are two frames and when you save the quiz the cursor goes to the next frames and are stuckk there RD: It puts you in "no mans" land, I wrote this up and contacted the project manager for CE RD: I made it clear that this needs to be solved and I am putting in a change request RD: This may take a little work to find out how to make it work with the screen reader PK: Something like "Turn off" progress frame in WebCT RD: It has been a part of the design for a while. I am not sure why it is done that way. HR: Can something be done with the status line K: Sometime people move to the next question before they answer the current quesiton. It is a way to show sighted students once they what they have not done RD: Maybe something that linearizes well, like a list of questions not done at the bottom of the page K: CE 3? RD: I went back and the framing issue was still there. There were links in that version that would allow you to go to the question.. RD: We need to set these up as headers HR: The questions are header level 2 which is very nice HR: DO you work with QUestion Mark? RD: Yes HR: We wante an icon to indicate whether a question has been ansered or not. RD: That was my first proposal, to add some type of indication near the test for the questions RD: This is a fundamental part of what students are doing with WebCT, and so this page should be a stellar player in accessibility 7. Discuss WebCT test server? K: How much has been done looking at the accessibility? HR: I was trying to work with WebCT, but the system is very frustrating. Many crashes. HR: Just trying to download spanish class took all afternoon, since the file dialog manager was so hard to understandf HR: Sometime I need to deal with 14 frames, it is not a pleasant experience RD: I throw a fit here about the frames, most are hidden, and there are applets RD: They are looking at ways to fix this problem, and I have some people in my group prototyping a frameless version PK: I think the interface that is somewhere inbetween a html page and a software application PK: We have been looking at WebCT as a series of components and make a list of these things RD: We also need to prioritize these problems HR: We have a white paper and we could you use PK: When I look at the white paper, I don't know what component is this an issue in webCT K: Our users are using verison 3, any change more that a year or so out our users would kill us. K: Is there a list of fixes in version 3 RD: I could did up the documentation on changes between vista 2 and 3, and the customer requests for accessibility enhancements and whether they were implemented or not 8. WebCT conference K: I don't know if anyone from here is coming, I am not going HR: I would like to get together with developers RD: Developers don't go to the conference, but I will make sure that Chloe and I meet with you. Chloe is someone who 9. Problems with the demo server HR: I see most of the same problems in the whitepaper, and a few more RD: Laughs HR: I tried to develop an assignment, I put the JAWS cursor in the field and then it put the information in the score edit box. I thought it was me, but I tried several times, I am not sure what is going. K: Where you ion the build tab? HR: Yes I think so. 10. Providing feedback to WebCT K: Is there a list of features RD: I have added every feature to webCT demo server, we could go through them RD: What are the most commonly used tools? K: Assessments and components 11. Next meeting and group tasks a. June 6th at 1:00 CST b. Working group members are asked to prioritize modules related to importance to accessibility and identfoy modules that they would like to assess for accessibility c. When reviewing a module note not only accessibility problems, but also features that help improve accessibility that could be used in other parts of the application and features or proceedures that could be added to the documentation Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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