2018-09-12 - Meeting Notes

Date

12 Sep 2018

Attendees

Deborah Hamrick, Stephanie Espiand (guest speaker/Folio UI), Khalilah Gambrell, egerman, Robert DeLuca DeLuca, Melissa Wallace, Kathy Zadrozny, and Julian Ladisch

Goals

Topics: The first half of the meeting Stephanie Espiand, stephanie@samhaeng.com, talked about her updated Accessibility Guidelines document. The second half of the meeting Khalilah Gambrell discussed the results of the FOLIO testing performed by the Accessibility and Usability Lab (AUL) at CU Boulder.

Discussion items

Time

Item

Who

Notes

30 mins

A11y Checklist for PO's and their designers and developers

Stephanie

Espiand

Accessibility Guidelines Document Highlights

Stephanie’s document can be found at https://ux.folio.org/docs/guidelines/accessibility
There are three main chapters: UX, Visual Design, Front-End
Our SIG would like to see links to documentation on how to use screen readers.
- Beth German provided links to articles in WebAIM Stephanie can use:
  - https://webaim.org/articles/screenreader_testing/
  - https://webaim.org/articles/nvda/
  - https://webaim.org/articles/jaws/
  - https://webaim.org/articles/voiceover/
  - It is important all Product Owners know about the Accessibility Guidelines so they will share with the appropriate designers, developers, etc.
  - Stephanie was asked to make the guidelines available from https://dev.folio.org
    - Kathy suggested reaching out to Zack Burke (zburke@cornell.edu) in order to accomplish this.
    - Stephanie was asked to add a section on focus in the Front-End chapter.
      - Robert wrote an A11y article on focus management Stephanie may want to reference:

https://github.com/folio-org/stripes-components/blob/master/docs/patterns/AccessibleRouting.md#accessible-focus-management

30 mins

A11y test results from CU Boulder A11y and Usability Lab

Khalilah

Gambress

Accessibility Testing Highlights

Link to Khalilah’s slide deck on the results of FOLIO Testing at CU Boulder:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uqjOKqiFuYixVeebdaMml8AWnhVWjVEl0NiaHYiKA7k/edit#slide=id.g4103e197bb_0_0

Testing was done against demo.folio.org because it had the largest inventory available

SIG will prioritize the issues discovered
Some issues have already been addressed in later versions of FOLIO
Examples of issues still to be addressed include:
- Focus is lost when going from an item in the 3^rd column of the screen to the full page detail
- Search hint needs to be moved from the middle of the page (slide 5)
- Testers had trouble with the horizontal slide associated with the middle pane (do we need this much information?)

Link to the actual results report (also within Khalilah’s slide deck):

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BmQxMpmPDMDn_vpQdrElnNQIuktFWCygIF6SNrhm7UY/edit

Action items

- Deborah will ask the AUL to reserve another week for a second round of testing in the November time frame.
- Khalilah will share the test results report on the dev slack channel.
- Beth will share checklists of common user tasks in ILS for future FOLIO testing