Sorry for the change in location -- we had too many people for the previous room we met in. For this month at least, we are in the Gallery, 100 Hatcher, on the north side of the building. We have the room booked from 1-2:30.
We will be having a discussion about incorporating captioning into your web production process. Several web folk have generously agreed to share how they caption their videos. Captioning will undoubtably be part of the new ADA requirements, due sometime in 2012, so this is a great way to get up to speed.
Hope to see you there!
Scott Williams
Posted by swims on 28 Jan.
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Starting January 4, 2011, we will be moving down the hall on the 8th floor of the Hatcher Library to 818. Thank you Suzanne for securing this new location!
To get to 818, as you exit the south building elevator on the 8th floor, turn left to go through the double glass doors. Turn left and go all the way to the end of the hall to the last door on the left. This is the administrative suite. The conference room is the first room on the right (there are 2 doors to the room and the 2nd one is usually the one that's open.
Posted by swims on 3 Jan.
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The June WAWG Meeting will be held on June 1 from 1:00pm to 2:00 pm in room 806 S Hatcher. UM Web Accessibility Coordinator Scott Williams will give us a demonstration of the NVDA screen reader. More information at http://www.nvda-project.org/
Patty Bradley
Posted by pattyb on 26 May.
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A PDF version of the slides from Scott’s presentation on captioning with YouTube videos has been uploaded to our CTools site under Resources -> video captioning / transcripts -> Captioning YouTube Video by Scott Williams (PDF). Very good information – thank you Scott!
There will be no May WAWG meeting because of Enriching Scholarship. There are two accessibility-related workshops being offered this year that you might wish to sign up for:
Web Accessibility Jam (https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=4001)
Patty Bradley, Scott Williams, Patricia Anderson, Suzanne Chapman
Is your unit's website accessible to people with disabilities? Does it meet web accessibility standards? If you don't know, attend this panel discussion to learn quick and easy ways to evaluate your website for accessibility, meet the UM Web Accessibility Coordinator and learn about important web accessibility resources. Panel participants are Patricia Anderson, Patty Bradley, Suzanne Chapman, and Scott Williams. Participants are invited to submit your site ahead of time to es10-waj@umich.edu.
Creating Accessible Word and PDF Documents (https://www-a1.lsa.umich.edu/es_conf/app/DisplaySession.asp?sessionid=4004)
Scott Williams
There are three good reasons for making your Word and PDF documents accessible: it's the right thing to do, it's the law, and federal agencies and research sponsors are now rejecting documents that are not Section 508-compliant. PDF accessibility is a straightforward process if addressed at the authoring stage.This workshop explains what the Section 508 requirements are, how to create a structured MS Word document that can be used to create an accessible PDF, and what Microsoft Word add-ins are necessary. An accessibility checklist and links to online resources will be provided.
Patty
Posted by pattyb on 6 Apr.
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The April WAWG meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 6th from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in room 806 S Hatcher. UM Web Accessibility Coordinator Scott Williams will give us a demonstration of captioning YouTube videos.
Patty Bradley
Posted by pattyb on 2 Apr.
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The March WAWG meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 2nd from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in room 806 S Hatcher.
Mike Elledge, Assistant Director of the MSU Usability & Accessibility Center will present "WCAG 2.0, Part II." A video of part I of his talk (August 4th) is still available on the WAWG CTools site.
Please have your WCAG questions ready.
-Patty
Posted by pattyb on 19 Jan.
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The February WAWG meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 2nd from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in room 806 S Hatcher.
Instead of a speaker, we will have a group discussion. The following issues have been suggested. We'll see how many we get to, and how many evolve into future meeting topics:
-share what email lists and tools we use to stay up to date on accessibility
-use of color in accessibility
-problems with Google's accessibility
-invisible disabilities and their needs in web accessibility
Patty Bradley
Posted by pattyb on 5 Jan.
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The Web Accessibility Working Group will meet next on Monday, February 1, 2010. Details to follow.
Posted by pattyb on 30 Nov.
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The October WAWG meeting will be held on Tuesday, November 3rd from 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. in room 806 S Hatcher.
Gonzalo Silverio, Lead Graphical User Interface Programmer with the Digital Media Commons will present on ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
Posted by pattyb on 26 Oct.
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The October WAWG meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 6th from 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. in room 806 S Hatcher. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
Our guest speaker will be Nick Wilcox, Assistive Technology Trainer at the Ann Arbor District Library. Nick is a user of adaptive technology, and will share with us the typical things that make it difficult for him to browse the web. He will also share the techniques and strategies he uses in finding information and navigating the web.
This special meeting time is to accommodate Nick. In November we will be back to our regular time of 1:00-2:30.
However, we will meet in room 806 S. Hatcher from now on due to recurring scheduling problems in 100 N Hatcher. Enter the building via the south side and take the elevator up to the 8th floor. Go through the double glass doors and it's straight ahead.
-Patty
Posted by pattyb on 18 Sep.
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