WebCT Accessibility Interest Group

Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) and Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES)

University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

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Date: 2006-11-20

Time: 1:30 PM CST

Agenda

Two more modules have been analyzed for accessibility namely Announcement and Syllabus by Jon and Don Amos.

the following modules are still need to be analyzed for accessibility:

1. Assignments
2. Class List
3. Learning Objectives
4. Mail
5. Media Library
6. Grade Book

Agenda:
1. organizational stuff
2. Update on applying accessibility feedback on demo server (Robert)
3. Analyzing remaining modules
4. Feedback on improving the accessibility evaluation questionaire

Teleconference info:
Date: Monday November 20 2006
time: 1:30 PM CST
Phone: 217 265-8030

Minutes

WebCT Accessibility Discussion Meeting Minutes 11-20-06

Participants:

* Hadi Rangin
* Jon Gunderson
* Philip Kragne
* Robert Dumas
* Lisa Fiedor
* David Schwarte
* Konstantinos Yfantis

Regrets:

* Kimerly J Wilcox
* Saroj Primlani
* Don Amos

* Continue meetings on Mondays, trying for every 1st and 3rd weeks of the month

* Exception in January due to holidays

* Test server will be updated shortly

* Still awaiting approval for onsite visit from Hadi for accessibility presentation to Developers and Architects

* Need to setup an agenda to discuss QA testing methods with QA in attendance

* Have completed 6 evaluations with 6 remaining.
The final 6 modules have been assigned as follows:

1. Assignments – Hadi and Kostas
2. Class List – Jon
3. Goals – Lisa
4. Mail – Hadi and Kostas
5. Media Library – David
6. Grade Book – Phil

Evaluations should be complete by December 18th meeting

* Discussed issue using Firefox where some links cannot be triggered using JAWs unless invisible cursor is used. Need to determine if it is a WebCT issue
or JAWs issue.

* Possibly develop a rating system for use in the evaluation forms to better define extent of problem.

* Need to develop a way to report progress within the group.

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