[samigo-team] Samigo and Accessibility

[Keli Sato Amann]

Hi
I went to the Accessibility meeting today to talk about Samigo. I said that we could use some help doing QA on the accessibility issues they had entered and asked if this was the first accessibility review of Samigo. 

As to the first question, Brian Richwine said he entered most of them and that he's already doing QA on the bugs he filed. He wrote patches for some of them, but has found he doesn't know enough about Samigo so it meeting with Lynn and a local developer at Indiana tomorrow to discuss.

Of all the issues he filed, SAM-1295 is the most crucial. Basically it means that users with a screenreader and using only keyboard to navigate might select the wrong answer and not be aware of it, simply by navigating.

Regarding the second question, yes, this is probably the first accessibility review Samigo has had, in part because it's the first year Indiana (where Brian works) is using Samigo. 

Since our UX and development team could benefit from learning more about accessibility and Brian could benefit from knowing more about Samigo, I am wondering if it would be worthwhile to have a meeting where both sides could talk a little about their realm of expertise. I am sure that if we knew more about accessibility issues when designing and building Samigo, it would save us in the end.

If people like that idea, I'm going to try to find a time next week that works for Brian, Mary, Lynn, and some Stanford folks, but will put that time and call in info on this list if others can make it and are interested.

Best
Keli Amann
User Experience Specialist
Academic Computing Services, Stanford University