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For meetings prior to 2025, see the Meeting Archive

14 Jan 2025

Agenda

  • Current state of resource projects
    • Navigating the WAI Website
    • Teaching Accessibility to Young Coders
    • Accessible Procurement
  • Open discussions, ideas for 2025

Meeting notes

  • Attendees
    • Brian Elton, Kris Anne Kinney, Anya Sims, Sarah Lewthwaite, Judith Hellerstein, Sharron Rush, John Kirkwood, Chris O'Brien, Sylvie Duchateau, Laurie Reynolds
  • Intros
  • Resource updates
    • Navigating the WAI Website
      • Not much in terms of updates aside from what Kris Anne has been thinking about on how to put this resource together
      • Want to make sure it's not just a list of links, that there is more functionality to help find resources
      • There are people that have volunteered to help, but they have not met yet
      • Could use the ARRM work to help guide some
      • Anya is willing to help lead as it aligns with the work she is doing
        • wants to look at the information architecture aspect of it (Kris Anne noted that we can't change the IA or the WAI website itself)
        • would like to look at AI as a possibility
      • Sarah because of the AI possibilities, we need to consider meta data, etc.
      • Laurie noted that we had left off in 2024 talking about a community survey and whether we are going to proceed with that
        • Kris Anne suggested that the intent of the survey may change, away from whether people have issues navigating WAI but perhaps more directed at how to make it easier to navigate
    • Accessibility for Young Coders
      • Brian has to continue work on this ahead of CSUN
      • If you would like access to the Google Doc, feel free to request it (link coming)
      • Google Doc access is commenter only right now, to avoid people writing over each other. Make comments and Brian will make changes.
      • Anya asked if a story that kids could relate to would be helpful for them to connect to this. Something that starts as non-technical but becomes technical over time. Suggestion to create a story but be sensitive about the topic so it's not triggering for children.
      • Brian said we are making no assumptions about the tech knowledge of a student. we are teaching at a non-technical level so storytelling will be important. Instructional design information is going to take time to gather, especially at a young age.
    • Accessible Procurement
      • Chris - procurement is very important and there are a lot of great resource already. In my experience, they aren't always making their way to the people that need them. I talked to people outside this group, including Mike Gifford who is also doing great work in this space already.
      • We may do a gap analysis to see what resources are missing, possibly a survey to see what people need and find out if they even know that resources are out there. (KAK including a note that I forgot to mention Linked In groups to help us target the audience we need)
      • This resource will be about helping procurement/contracts create contracts to procure accessible resources or obtain services from a 3rd party company that are accessible. Could be IT or other, all depends on the scope of the organization.
      • Reminder that Jade and Sharron would like to help with this resource.
    • Wrap=Up - we may set up shared spaces to work on all of these resources asynchronously. Using Google Docs is a start, but as they take shape, we may need other spaces. We may even set up separate meetings to talk about specific resources with the people interested in helping.
      • Reminder that meetings are alternating day and evening. Every two weeks on Tuesday 9am ET or Wednesday 7pm ET. .ics files for the entire series can be downloaded from the CG Calendar - at the bottom of each Tuesday series and Wednesday series there is a link to download the whole series and import it into your calendar.
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