Accessibility Minutes 2013 02 18
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Present
- Jon Gunderson (University of Illinois)
- Prasana Bale (University of Illinois) - scribe
- Nicholas Hoyt (University of Illinois)
- Ann Abbott (IBM)
- Rich Schwerdtfeger (IBM)
Minutes
Jon: New version of accessbility extension is released
Jon: This version won't have any new features but have fixed some bugs
Jon: Topic: Rule priority
Jon: having discussions with the other group about prioritizing rules and triage ruleset was not very satisfying
Jon: Right now current ruleset has types "required" and "recommended"
Jon: in addition to required, propsed rule types are "High priority required", "uncommon required" and recommended
Rich: we have to be careful to say these are more important than other
Jon: We can say all rules are equal and can always customize the rules
Nick: think people in the other call concise with triage rules
Nick: and also penn state has similar kind of rules called blockers
Nick: The idea behind Triage/blockers rules is that these are important rules and are the basic
Jon: How about Ann and Rich
Rich: uncomfortable with establishing some rules are more important than other
Ann:Rational policy tester has a concept of severity
Ann: we have high and low severities
Ann: I doubt that anybody pays much attention to these. because everything has to be fixed at IBM
Jon: terminology is most important and trying to find what to call the rules that has to attended first
Ann: we can look at manual checks as page level and element level to knock them first
Jon: Current accessibility extensions have an option of selecting page level and element level manual checks
Rich: We have to have Level A and AA
Rich: Jon, Who are the audience you are targetting?
Jon: Could be students, Universities, Contractors with university must not have an idea of accessibility. Here in the University I see the testing groups, who sends resulted analysis of webpage accessibility as is to the developer. When a website throws tons of accessibility violations, manual checks user may not know where to start and which of the violated rules are handled first.
