KYVL ADA Workgroup
Meeting Minutes
Absent: Carla
Cantagallo, Kerri Clark, Linnie Lee, Lesley Wolfgang-
Jackson
1. Tim Chase & Tricia Davis are the newest members
of the KYVL-ADA workgroup. Tim Chase
is the new Senior Reference Librarian at KYVL.
Tricia Davis is the Grants and Projects Director at the Center for
Deafness at EKU. Bobbie Beth Scoggins
is no longer a member of the ADA workgroup.
2. The group looked at the KYVL mock-up pages. These pages are comprised of content that
has been copied from the current KYVL pages and placed into an accessible
format. Feature of these pages include
access keys, alternative style sheets, keyboard friendly menus. The focus is on the separation of style
& content and meeting the requirements of section 508.
3. The group discussed usability testing for the
pages. We need to identify groups of
people who require the use of assistive technologies to test the pages for
navigability.
4. Enid questioned whether or not several of the
groups on the list compiled at the meeting would be appropriate for testing, namely
KLA, KSLA, and KSM. Jenny Tyree also
suggested that we not contact Dr. John Musick because he would likely refer us
back to Jenny. The workgroup agreed not
to make these contacts.
Agencies,
organizations, groups to contact:
OVR
Dept
for the Blind
KDLA
KCTCS
Disability Coordinators
Institutional
and Library Disability Coordinators
KAMD
& KADC
School
for the Blind
Other
contacts: teachers, listserv [KYVL,
Tech Resource Teachers, etc]
As
we contact individuals, we will provide the questionnaire and ask that each
person contacted select 10 individuals to be part of the focus group.
5. The “test” will be distributed to disability
coordinators on campuses and to individuals at various agencies and
organizations. The exercises and
instructions will be distributed as a Word document so the contact can
distribute it to the focus groups as an attachment or in paper form.
6. The group discussed possible questions for the
usability test and generated the following list of questions:
a. Please mark the category of your disability. Mark all that apply.
Motor
Visual
Learning
Hearing
Combination
Other
b. What accessibility equipment and software do you
use regularly? If you know the version,
please write it in.
c. Today, what accessibility equipment and software
are you using? If you know the version,
please write it in.
d. Where do you normally access the Web?
e. Today, where are you accessing the Web?
f. How would you rate your skill level as a Web user?
Low 1 2 3 4 5 6
High
g. Activity
(Note:
Before answering each question, you must return to the main KYVL page.)
i. Find the accessibility link. How did you find it?
___
Shift tab
___
Alt + 0
___
Tabbed down
___
Zoomed in
___
Scrolled down
___ I couldn’t find it
ii. If you do not use a screen reader but are using a
graphical browser, find the ADA styles link.
If you would like or need to change the appearance of the page, change
the style.
iii. Go to the Kentucky Stats page and go to the Human
Rights section under the People category.
What years of the annual report Crime in Kentucky are available for
viewing?
iv. Find the link to K-12 schools. Select Middle Schools. What languages can you use to search EBSCO?
v. Find the About KYVL link and go to the How To Reach
Us page. Who is the Executive Secretary
of KYVL?
7. Bugs & changes: The following changes need to
be made to the pages:
a. At the bottom of the main KYVL page, the tab keys
passes through a ‘hidden’ row of links between the two rows of links currently
present. That hidden row needs to be
displayed on the page.
b. The link on the How to Reach Us page needs to
changed from SHTML to HTM.
c. Remove the links to KVU & KVHS from the bottom
of the style sheets so testers will not get mistakenly redirected to the actual
pages.
d. Point the test version of access key 1 to the
mock-up page, not the live KYVL page.
e. On the accessibility page, under alt styles, the
ADA styles link is broken. HTML needs
to be changed to HTM.
f. Need to add access key #8.
g. Tim Chase will run a link checker & for all 404
pages and put a statement on each page that it is not part of the usability
test.
8. Next meeting:
Conference call in 2 weeks. Meet
at the end of April on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.