[WG: Accessibility] FW: Sakai 2.7 Accessibility Review Concerns

[Richwine, Brian L]

Hello Gonzalo,

The accessibility WG is working on the Sakai 2.7 Accessibility Review, and Mike Elledge suggested I contact you to see if you knew which tools were new or have undergone significant changes for the 2.7 release.

Sincerely,
  Brian Richwine



-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S Elledge [mailto:elledge at msu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:24 PM
To: Richwine, Brian L
Subject: Re: [WG: Accessibility] Sakai 2.7 Accessibility Review Concerns

Hi Brian--

I think taking a "triage" approach makes the most sense. That's how 
we've approached it in the past, i.e., reviewing only new tools or tools 
with substantive changes.

You may want to send a note to Gonzalo Silverio--in the past he would 
let us know where the major changes had taken place. He may still keep 
track of those things...

Mike

Richwine, Brian L wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> In preparation of writing Alan Berg (Sakai's Interim QA Director) 
> about performing the Sakai 2.7 Accessibility Review, I discovered that 
> we are quite late in starting the review. I am not sure if the release 
> timeline found in the release practice guidelines [1] is being 
> followed, but according to it, accessibility testing should have begun 
> at 24 weeks prior to the release. Yesterday I saw message on the Sakai 
> Announcements list that published the Draft 2.7.0 Release Schedule [2] 
> and gives a release date of 22 April 2010 for Sakai 2.7. April 22nd is 
> only 13 weeks from now.
>
> A past critique of the Accessibility Reviews has been that they come 
> too late in the release process and only the easiest of accessibility 
> issues found could hope to be fixed before the release. Since the 
> Accessibility Reviews focused on tools worthy of release 
> consideration, the tools' designs are already very established and 
> accessibility issues cemented into those designs were unlikely to be 
> addressed. If the Sakai 2.7 Accessibility Review is indeed quite late, 
> does the group think the review as we have in the past would still be 
> of value and worth doing given our finite resources and a strong 
> desire to participate in the early design of Sakai 3?
>
> I think the review would have value in checking any new tools, and in 
> looking for new issues or improvements in the tools that have changed 
> significantly. This would help us update the Sakai Current 
> Accessibility page, the accessibility help page, and update/add Jira 
> tickets.
>
> Footnotes:
>
> [1] 
> http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/REL/Release+Practice+Guidelines#ReleasePracticeGuidelines-ReleaseTimeline
>
> [2] 
> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/announcements/2010-January/000187.html
>
> -Brian
>
> Brian Richwine**
>
> Adaptive Technology Support Specialist**
>
> Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers**
>
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>
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>
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