AccessibleWeb@U Meeting
May 26, 2010
- What should be on the http://uw.edu/accessibility/ site?
- First we took a tour through the current site
- Need to update W3C and 508 information
- Some controversy whether the DIS guidelines
apply to us
- Accessibility policies at other higher education
needs review and update. List currently on site is a
bit old
- Web Accessibility page defines what accessible
Web design is about.
- Procurement information is a bit out-of-date.
Purchasing has not taken much interest.
- IT Tools and Resources page is fairly up-to-date
(Terry has been working on it).
- We have an ARIA page but it is
out-of-date
- Link to other disability resources on
campus
- Frequently asked questions, mostly about how
someone gets accessibility support
- Getting Help - repeats much of what is in the
FAQ page
- Discussion
- Need to review the Procurement information
because of the new eProcurement system, which does
offer energy efficient hardware, but not
accessibility
- Be nice to have AccessibleWeb@U more visible
- UW Inclusion Network email list was just
created. Might want to connect/include them
- Who is the audience for this site?
- People who do not understand
accessibility
- Technical people who want to know more about
it
- People who are sent here because they want
to buy accessible stuff
- Intent was to be the go-to resource for
information, particularly technology
- A resource that could be useful as a
place to send people
- More people are building sites with
WordPress, Plone, or Drupal
- Standard designs are being created that
can be shared access the systems
- Many people simply put content into an
existing environment
- There are still many people at college and
school level hand managing their Web sites
- Pharmacy still does not have a Web
person
- The new model of centrally administered
CMS with distributed people providing and
maintaining content is only just
arriving.
- We should visit the major ones at least
every couple of years
- Drupal
- Plone
- SharePoint
- WordPress
- Need to connect with people who are making
decisions on how to set up CMSs and blog sites
- Want to have ideas on which templates,
widgets are more accessible
- Would break into two groups - people
setting up CMSs and blogs and people
managing content in CMSs and blogs
- Could we connect better with other people
working on accessibility at the UW
- Get feedback from UW Inclusion Network
people
- Groups are meeting regularly, meeting on
Thursdays at 7pm seem to be the most active,
but has a big social aspect
- Planning is underway for an
accessibility camp, but when is not
clear
- Should uw.edu/accessibility be a portal for
accessibility for the entire campus?
- Different groups addressing
accessibility all have their own Web sites,
each from their own perspective
- What could this site be in the way of a
general accessibility portal for all of the
UW?
- Could we be one of the first sites into the
new Plone site? We should talk to Gina.
- Topic for discussion: Accessibility issues of
information architecture of page templates
(including their site level navigation), the content
placed within the template, and the relationship
between the two
- Short term project: Can we fit the YUI keyboard
navigable menu into the Marketing page
template.