The next WAWG meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 13 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM in 100 North Hatcher. This is one week later than usual due to Enriching Scholarship. Two agenda items:
1) Update from our meeting with the Vice President for Communication's Web Access Committee meeting.
2) Round Table Discussion. Please come prepared to talk about the following:
-How does your department define accessible?
-Does your department attempt to comply with a particular standard, priority level, etc.?
-What specific tools do you use to measure success?
-What is your favorite tool?
-One tip you could offer...
Feel free to join us if you don't have answers to these questions and just want to hear what others have to say.
-Patty
Posted by pattyb on 28 Apr.
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We need to reschedule our May meeting to the 2nd Tuesday (5/13) because the first Tuesday falls during Enriching Scholarship.
Posted by pattyb on 4 Apr.
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The April WAWG meeting will be on Tuesday, April 1st in 100 North Hatcher from 1:00-2:30. Agenda:
-Discuss the upcoming meeting with the Provost's committee looking into Web Accessibility issues and how we can best communicate the scope of the campus-wide problem to them.
-Work to build a table of contents for the accessibility site we'd want to see, using our Wiki.
-Anything else members would like to discuss.
Posted by pattyb on 25 Mar.
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March meeting will be Thursday March 6th from 1:00-2:30 PM in 2610 Crossroads, the School of Public Health. This is the very first room we met in. SPH is at 109 Observatory Street. Go into the main entrance, and go up the stairs to your right. The "video conferencing room" is at the top of the stairs. There will be a sign up.
Registration is not required, but appreciated at
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webaccess/home
Agenda for March 6th meeting:
-Two people voted for "Aggregating and evaluating resources"
-Two people voted for "Provost's Committee on web accessibility"
-Hopefully we can also talk about subcommittees
Future meetings will continue to be held once a month (1st Tuesday at 1:00 PM, except for March)
Posted by suzchap on 20 Feb.
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Our first Brown Bag Session will be held February 5th from 1:00-2:30 PM in 100 North Hatcher.
You can register at our SiteMaker site,
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webaccess/home
The first session is intended for our group and other interested participants - e.g., UM web folks who are already concerned about web accessibility. Topics (whatever we can get through in the time allotted) are as follows:
-Top 10 best practices
-Top 10 worst offenses
-Overview and comparison of the various standards
-The art of interpreting accessibility checker reports (this could allow us a chance to critique each other's sites)
-Automating the process of changing from table-based to CSS-based layouts
-Tools and strategies
-CTools/SiteMaker
At the Feb 5th meeting we will also identify working groups, sub groups, central funding or volunteer funding and share tools.
Posted by suzchap on 4 Feb.
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The location for the Jan 15th meeting has been changed:
Hatcher Graduate Library
Hatcher North, 1st floor, room 100
(If you enter the library from the Diag. entrance, it will be the only
room on the left side of the entrance hall)
Library location map
Posted by suzchap on 13 Jan.
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All interested parties should feel free to attend our UM Web Accessibility Working Group brainstorming meeting to plan an upcoming brownbag series. The meeting will be held on Jan. 15th from 1:00-2:30 PM.
You are free to drop in, and can also register on the SiteMaker site: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/webaccess/home
The meeting location is 1655 Crossroads at the School of Public Health. The SPH is at the corner of Observatory and Washington Heights. Room 1655 is in the same building as our last two meetings. Come in the main entrance, veer right, and head back towards the Crossroads Cafe. It is labeled "Auditorium 4" and it is just before the glass display case on the right.
Contact Patty Bradley (pattyb@umich.edu) for more information.
Posted by hampelm on 10 Jan.
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Welcome to the Web Accessibility Working Group blog.
We are a group that has grown out of the www-sig group to discuss issues relating to web accessibility. We are currently planning a number of meetings and events for 2008, so please check back soon.
We welcome any UM students, staff, or faculty that is interested in learning more about accessibility. If you would like to join the group, anyone may do so via the UMOD webaccess group.
Posted by suzchap on 29 Nov.
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