EOWG F2F May 2017
Logistics
- Dates: 19-20 May - 8:00am to 4:00pm
- Breakfast and lunch provided
- Morning and afternoon snacks provided
- There will be vegetarian, vegan💚, and gluten free options in a buffet style service
- Location: Knowbility Office, Austin, TX
- Room: Suite 307
- Host: Knowbility
Participation: We welcome visitors to this EOWG face-to-face! If you would be interested in participating in the meeting and you are not a current EOWG participant, please e-mail EOWG Co-Chairs Sharron and Brent, and Shawn.
User Feedback Sessions (aka informal usability testing)
Locations:
- Wednesday: instructor room - end of hall
- Thursday: instructor room - end of hall
Things to check on:
- Policies page
- Encourage "think aloud" as they play around with it, and take notes.
- Links in other languages — Ask user to go to a page with links in other languages, such as @@, and see if they comment about the language being included in the link. If not, ask them about it. (options: no language, language at beginning of link as it is, language at the end of the link)
- [@@ any specific issues that we want to get feedback on?]
- Overall — ask user:
- Show me which pages you use on the WAI website...
- Show and tell me about some things you like...
- Show and tell me about some things you do not like...
- What else would you like to be provided on the WAI website?
- Redesign
Materials
Please read through these ahead of time:
Proposed Agenda Topics
[@@ add time for processing input from user feedback sessions]
Friday 19 May (Day 1)
Agenda
- 8:30 - 9:00 - Breakfast & Welcome to Website Redesign Working Day
- 9:00 - 10:45 - Homepage Brainstorming (for Alicia to work into design)
- 10:45 - 11:00 - BREAK
- 11:00 - 11:30 - Review user feedback research in WAI Site from AccessU
- 11:30 - 12:30 - Continue Homepage Brainstorming
- 12:30 - 1:30 - LUNCH
- 1:30 - 2:00 - Discussion about the menu/megamenu structure
- 2:00 - 3:00 - Agree on Top Level Nav (TLN) Item Names
- 3:00 - 3:15 - BREAK
- 3:15 - 4:30 - EOWG Processes and Work discussion
- 4:30 - 5:30 - Review Website Homepage Mockup with Alicia
Saturday 20 May (Day 2)
Agenda
- 8:30 - 9:00 - Breakfast & Welcome
- 9:00 - 9:45 - Revisit Resource Development Life Cycle
- 9:45 - 10:30 - New Quick Tips Proposal (Robert/Brent)
- 10:30 - 10:45 - BREAK
- 10:45 - 12:30 - Web Accessibility Laws and Policies
- Review user feedback from AccessU research
- Discuss GitHub issues - current and future iterations
- 12:30 - 1:30 - LUNCH
- 1:30 - 3:00 - New Resources
- A few questions for broadening the set of "Tips for Getting Started":
- Preview: ARIA Developer Introduction (NB: Also a starter suite, to be developed into "Developers' Intro" format)
- Accessible Media Tutorial update
- 3:00 - 3:45 - Discussion of Howard's NSF Grant for curriculum resources that would be most effective for our audience (faculty, etc.)
Participant Availability
Will attend
Both Fri & Sat:
- Brent Bakken
- Eric Eggert
- Howard Kramer
- Mary Jo Mueller
- Shawn (leaving Sat afternoon)
- Robert Jolly (will miss ~12:30pm to 3:30pm Friday)
- Sharron Rush
Only Fri 19 May:
- Denis Boudreau
- James Green
- Charlotte Wise
- Caleb Watson
- Alicia Frausto
Only Sat 20 May:
- [name]
Can attend by phone only
(Please indicate times you can and cannot participate by phone, in case we can adjust the agenda accordingly.)
- Judy Brewer (afternoon of day 2)
Will not be able to attend
- Andrew Arch
- Sylvie Duchateau
- Shadi Abou-Zahra
- Adina Halter (90% sure - may change)
- Laura Keen
- Kris Anne Kinney
- Kevin Rydberg
- Norah Sinclair