Web Council Meetings

Meeting date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 9 a.m.

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Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will gives us the latest news and notes as we approach the end of the academic year.

Accessibility: On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice published their much-anticipated new rule for digital accessibility under ADA TItle II.  The effective date is June 24, 2024, and at that point, the UW will have two years (deadline: June 24, 2026) to bring its websites and mobile applications into compliance. What exactly are the requirements, and what do we need to do in order to meet them? Terrill Thompson from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will share what we know so far, and will lead a discussion of the implications. Also, Terrill will share details about Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities (May 16), and Jeane Marty and Shelby Schumacher will provide an update on work they’ve been doing to create a new web checklist.

Meeting date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 9 a.m.

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Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we embark on spring quarter.

See Yourself at APL: Maria Card from APL, Jill Becker from Pyramid Communications, and Thom Thorpe from UMAC will present a project retrospective for APL’s new “See Yourself at APL” website ( https://seeyourselfapl.uw.edu/ ). Learn about how the project came about and the work that went into it. A short demo will follow.

Security Short: We’ll have another Web Security Shorts: News Bytes episode, with tales of tax scams, software supply chain attacks, and vulnerable plugins.

Meeting date: Thursday, March 4, 2024 at 9 a.m.

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Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we wrap up winter quarter.

ConveyUX Recap: Web Strategy’s UX Specialist Shelby Schumacher will go over the highlights of last week’s 2024 ConveyUX Conference in Seattle. The conference covered a variety of topics, including discussions around user experience implementation and processes, artificial intelligence, accessibility and leadership in the UX space.

ARIA Authoring Practices and the ARIA-AT project: At this month’s accessibility short, Hadi Rangin and Jeane Marty will provide a quick overview of the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) and highlight the W3C ARIA-AT project which now displays results within some of the APG example pages.

Meeting date: Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 at 9 a.m.

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• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us news and notes as we head into the second half of winter quarter.
• Content design is an important practice that can have a big impact on user experience, especially on websites. It can help you and your team answer questions like: What is the content hierarchy?  What messaging comes first?  Where should this piece of content fit in the big picture?  How can we better our UI to reflect that change?
  • IHME colleagues Dana Myers, Jackie DiLorenzo and Rebecca Surill will cover key ingredients to consider for your content design practice such as:
    • Structuring content feedback loops
    • Developing a content strategy
    • Content style guides
• More than cookies! Aimee Kelly from the Office of Information Security will give us an overview of the services and resources provided by the UW’s Privacy Office.

Meeting date: Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 at 9 a.m.

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• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the download of news and notes as we embark on the new year.
• Checklist for secure Web development: In this security short we’ll walk through a few best practices for securely coding and developing a Web application or site. Jeane Marty from the Office of Information Security will share some of her personal favorites in the form of a checklist.
• Legislative messaging: Joe Dacca, director of state relations, will give us a brief overview of strategic considerations for the upcoming legislative session.
• Accessibility short: Terrill Thompson from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will share tips on making your work more accessible.

The meeting scheduled for Dec. 7, 2023 has been canceled. Our next meeting will be on Jan. 4, 2024. More details on the January meeting will be posted soon.

Meeting date: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around the UW web as we enter the second half of fall quarter.

Options for hosting your website at the UW: Thom Thorpe – you may remember him from such presentations as “Word on the Street” – will give us an overview of many of the ways in which a unit can host a website here at the UW.

Major WordPress theme updates: Lauren Caple, associate director of web development in UMAC, will give us an update on upcoming upgrades to our WordPress theme.

Security Short: Jeane Marty, software engineer in the Office of Information Security, will wrap up the “Securing your GitHub code repository” series by focusing on tools like code scanning and secret scanning, as well as various remaining security features. If you’d like to catch up on previous topics in this series, see the Part 1 and Part 2 slides.

Meeting date: Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 at 9 a.m.

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes from around the UW web as we enter the Big Dark.
• Cyber Security Month: Melissa Albin, information security analyst in the Office of Information Security, will give us info on how we can engage and learn more.
• Accessibility Short: Terrill Thompson from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will debut a recurring short series dedicated to accessibility.

Meeting date: Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023 at 9 a.m.

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we gear up for the start of the academic year.
• Back-to-School Communications: We will get an overview of messaging, events and social media plans from Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy, and Jacob Kelly, assistant director of social media strategy.
• Security Short: Fake login pages that steal credentials are a used in many phishing attacks. Habit and human nature conspire against us carefully checking the location bar every time we’re presented with a login page, but what if there were other cues to help us distinguish real login pages from fake ones? Peter Giles from the Office of the CISO will give a preview of a browser extension he’s working on that could help.

Meeting date: Thursday, June 1, 2023, 9 a.m.

Meeting recording

Word on the Street: UMAC’s very own Thom Thorpe will give us the latest from around the UW Web as we close out the academic year.

PHP upgrade: UWIT’s Huy Nguyen will brief us on an upcoming PHP upgrade.

ConveyUX: Recently, Web Strategy’s Shelby Schumacher was able to attend the ConveyUX conference and is here to share her experience and some of the ways you can drive user-focused change and garner support.

The ABCs of password creation: Jeane Marty from the Office of the CISO will give us a short primer on generating secure passwords and passphrases.