Sakai UX and A11y groups collaboration

[Shawn Foster]

Hi, Sakai UX group and Sakai Accessibility group!

Chris Knapp and I have been discussing how our two groups can collaborate on our current initiatives: the Sakai Accessibility Strategy and the new Sakai UI redesign.

We started brainstorming some of the ways that our two groups can work on these projects together:

- The SWITCH initiative: building an inventory of components being used across Sakai and doing some A-B testing of components to determine which are most accessible
- Cleaning up the page structure to be more accessible and adding Landmarks to make navigating more intuitive for screen reader users
- Reintroducing an accessibility help topic keyboard command (ALT+0) that can be accessed from anywhere within Sakai and provide instructions for navigating the interface
- Establishing consistent use of components, access keys, etc. throughout Sakai as the new design is built

The A11Y group has put materials about the current accessibility VPAT plan in a Google folder (including a recent session recording, transcript, and related materials), which you can check out:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16iat_-V8GylOTkP55UQF0y-z9u6QcYIw

We would like to discuss these ideas with you at our future Sakai UX group meeting on October 20th, so we hope you can join us then at 11am EDT in BigBlueButton room 3.

Thanks,
-Shawn and Chris

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Shawn Foster
eLearning Technology and Application Development
Western Technology Services
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
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Chris Knapp
Accessiversity CEO and Managing Member, Knapp Strategic Projects & Consulting LLC
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[Chris Knapp]

Great, thank you Shawn...

Just one point of clarification--when accessing the Google Drive, you will want to go to the "Meetings" folder and the "September 17, 2001" folder to locate the referenced materials about the draft Sakai 22 VPAT plan/accessibility strategy.

Looking forward to the discussion with the UX Team during your regularly scheduled meeting n October 20.

Thanks,

Chris

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[Shawn Foster]

Just a reminder that our meeting at 11am ET today (in a few minutes) will discuss how our two groups can collaborate.

Hope you can join us then in BigBlueButton Room 3.

See you soon,
-Shawn

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From: Shawn Foster <shawn....@uwo.ca>
Sent: October 1, 2021 10:13 AM
To: saka...@apereo.org
Cc: Chris Knapp
Subject: Re: Sakai UX and A11y groups collaboration

Hi, again.

Chris wanted to add:

Just one point of clarification--when accessing the Google Drive, you will want to go to the "Meetings" folder and the "September 17, 2001" folder to locate the referenced materials about the draft Sakai 22 VPAT plan/accessibility strategy.

Thanks,
-Shawn and Chris

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Shawn Foster
eLearning Technology and Application Development
Western Technology Services
Western University
London, Ontario, Canada
shawn....@uwo.ca

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Subject: [Sakai-UX] Sakai UX and A11y groups collaboration