IBHE Web Accessibility Collaboration Group: Teleconference Details

Teleconference details

Web Accessibility Conference at UIC (10 minutes)
- Update from Kevin Price
IBHE Web Accessibility Reporting (5 minutes)
- Questions about new reporting requirements
- Training opportunities
Web Best Practices Update (5 minutes)
- Updated best practices web site
- New DHTML web accessibility evaluation features of FAE
Adobe PDF Accessibility CommonLook Program (5 minutes)
- Feedback from users
- Any one interested in participation
Other Issues (5 minutes)

KP: We used the feedback from last year to improve the conference this year
KP: 19 April 2010 8:45am-4:45pm
KP: Three tracks: Web Accessibility, Learning Technology Accessibility and implementation
KP: Shawn Henry is keynote speaker
KP: Mike Scott and Nathan Zak from MSF&W
KP: Terry Thompson from DOIT
KP: NFB will be sending someone to discuss IITAA
KP: There will be lunch
KP: There will be exhibitors
KP: The $40 preregistration and $50 late registration
KP: Dell is sponsoring us
KP: Apple will be making a presentation
KP: Full agenda will be coming shortly
KP: I am looking for a panel to talk about the successes and barriers to implementation of IITAA
MT: will there be any specific programs or support for people of color
KP: We will providing captions
SS: Do you have a website?
KP: We do not have a registration page right now
KP: We do have a website
http://uicweb.net/dae2010
CD: Is there a session on BrowseAloud?
KP: Not a specific session, we will be talking about Adobe PDF accessibility
CB: The multi-lingual could be addressed
NZ: We will be demonstrating BrowseAloud

JG: Any questions
KP: I liked them
NOTE: Most people already done with reports
JG: Richard and Muzo any feedback
RT: No feedback yet
JG: Will the reports be public?
RT: I will need to check with the person putting the report together
MT: We will talk to the person to put the 2009 reports on the web pages
KW: I am not sure the 2009 reports include web accessibility
MT: We have just the tables about the types of disabilities and under representative numbers
MT: You should be able to see the numbers
KT: We are looking for the reports on web accessibility?
MT: I am not sure the last year for web accessibility was made public
ACTION: MT will report back next month on reports
RT: I am not sure where they are
JN: I will check on the posting of the web accessibility reports
JG: I think we can get a sub committee to summarize the results and make recommendations

NZ: There are 3 months left on the program
NZ: CommonLook is a little more user friendly than Acrobat, it is not a magic
KW: I want to thank MSF&W for making it available, but I am not sure my university will buy it
JG: Is there anyway we can continue this program?
RT: Is this something you can rent or license?
NZ: This is the cheapest license
KW: I would encourage people to look at the there PDF websites
Can non-profit groups be part of the license
NZ: I could check into it

CD: We have a license has softchalk and so does UIC
KP: Softchalk we are interested
CD: Collaboration group?
HR: If you are interested in leading the group, I can help
JG: I would be interested
HR: It is a good project, but we need a leader to coordinate
MT: I had a question about FAE?
MT: I believe the application for published pages, can you test on a desktop application
MT: I use FF extension, can we run from the desktop
JG: What authoring tools do use
MT: I use .NET application
HR: You can use the FF extension to send a simple page to FAE