Accessibility Lessons Learned in the Kuali Rice Project

AccessibleWeb@U
February 23, 2012 Meeting Notes

• Meetings will continue to be on the fourth Thursday of each month
• Is meeting on the same day as the Web Council a problem?
• Since most of the meetings are during lunch hour, continuing to meet on the same day is not a big burden for people on campus
• Having both meetings on the same day is helpful to people coming from off-campus (from Tacoma or Bothell)
• Guest Speaker: Candace Soderston, a User Experience Architect for the Kuali Rice Project
• The Kuali Rice wiki is at https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULRICE/Home
• “The Kuali Rice effort will provide an enterprise class middleware suite of integrated products that will allow both Kuali and non-Kuali applications to be built in an agile fashion, such that developers will be able to react to end-user business requirements in an efficient and productive manner, so that they can produce high quality business applications.”
• Information on the Kuali Rice approach to accessibility, maintained by Candace, is located at https://wiki.kuali.org/display/KULRICE/Rice+Accessibility
• Candace’s Powerpoint slide deck is at http://uw.edu/accessibility/accessibleweb/minutes/Accessibility_lessons_Kuali.pdf
• The slides are very clear and detailed – take a look!
• Many thanks to Candace for her presentation.
• Next Meeting: Thursday, March 22 in Allen Auditorium (as usual)
• Dan Comden, Access Technology Consultant of the Access Technology Center will talk on “Assistive Technologies in Use at the UW”

Remember you can always send your questions about accessible design to the AccessibleWeb@U email list (accessibleweb@uw.edu).
Minutes from meetings are also posted on our blog at http://accesswebu.blogspot.com/. An more comprehensive archive of past minutes (going back to 2003) is located at http://uw.edu/accessibility/accessibleweb/minutes/