Minutes of Silver Task Force meeting of 23 January 2018

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                     Silver Task Force Teleconference

23 Jan 2018

Attendees

    Present
           Jan, jaeunjemmaku, Jennison, Kelsey, Charles, Eleanor,
           DavidMcNabb, jeanne, Shari

    Regrets

    Chair
           SV_MEETING_CHAIR

    Scribe
           jeanne

Contents

      * [2]Topics
          1. [3]Researcher update
          2. [4]Update and results from Eleanor Liacono research
          3. [5]Other research
          4. [6]San Diego face-to-face meeting invitation responses
          5. [7]San Diego face-to-face meeting problem statements
      * [8]Summary of Action Items
      * [9]Summary of Resolutions
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Researcher update

Update and results from Eleanor Liacono research

    Eleanor: My students formed interdisciplinary teams to work on
    a problem on the intersection of society and technology. This
    was an interactive qualifying products, they started in
    September to finish in December.
    ... you will see this in the report I sent you in the
    Reflections
    ... they have to write a 100 page report on the problem
    ... they set up the survey and then interviews
    ... I'll go through the main questions from the survey and the
    interviews
    ... They sent out surveys. 39 usable surveys were returned
    ... one question was about familiarity with accessibility
    guidelines were they could pick multiple guidelines. Majority
    were none, then ADA, then WCAG (5). No one had heard of 508.
    ... the question list of disabilities of what they knew someone
    personally. 22 knew someone with depression or other mental
    health issue, then learning disability, then blind, then
    hearing. [Scribe couldn't keep up with the numbers]
    ... Those results make sense based on working in a college
    population
    ... participants expose to web accessibility: 22 said moderate
    amount, 2 said none, 2 said a great deal.
    ... participants discussion in their courses. 15 said No, 19
    said yes, ?? said don't know
    ... there is a mix of graduates and undergraduates, so there
    was some comparison of the groups.
    ... the gender distribution was 26 males and 11 females
    ... majors were computers science (15), ?? Others (6)
    ... where did people learn about web accessibility? 42 had not
    discussed in class. So most had learned about it through
    project work.
    ... coverage of web accessibility but they didn't feel
    confident that they had the knowledge they needed to do it.
    ... when asked about people they know that need web
    accessibility, many said parents or grandparents. One said that
    they needed an international website that had to apply
    accessibility in a different language.
    ... if they knew someone with a disability, they were more
    likely to know more about accessibility
    ... if your boss didn't know about web accessibility, how would
    you react, and what would you do? They would try to educate the
    boss, and if not, they would try to keep accessibility in mind.
    ... some gave examples of how they could include web
    accessibiltiy
    ... some suggested that 1-2 of the 14 sessions be devoted to
    web accessbility
    ... a caveat about the grad vs. undergrad, there is a class the
    graduates attend on UX. Also grads tend to be more
    international.
    ... it would be interesting to see from their perspective, what
    they are coming with and what they need to learn about web
    accessibility.

    Shawn: 22 said they had a moderate exposure to web
    accessibility, but it seems like a bigger gap between who knew
    about accessibility guidelines

    Eleanor: I think they have learned more about techniques than
    the guiding principles

    Charles: If 27 had no experience with laws or guidelines, they
    know the generalities but not the specifics.

    Eleanor: Having the knowledge about it, doesn't say how to
    include it in specific work

    Kelsey: How did you get started on this accessibility force?
    What was the driving force?

    Eleanor: A friend of mine teaches at Harvard, and I was doing
    guest lectures. They were always saying that accessibility is
    difficult, it was too hard to do. I became interested in how
    education would change perceptions. So this survey that an way
    to look at the first step of determining where they are.

    Kelsey: And did the students interview students?

    Eleanor: Yes they did. We are in the process of transcribing
    the meetings. It took longer to get the interview numbers they
    wanted. It was important learning. If we were going to do it
    again, it would go faster.

    Jennison: Were they incentivized?

    Eleanor: Yes, people that completed the interview got an Amazon
    gift card for $5.

    Charles: Could we get the link to the report?

    Eleanor: The student report was 97 pages long and is published
    at WPI. I sent it to Jemma

    Jennison: I encourage you to put this work in the public
    domain\

    Jemma: I would like to see the data in detail
    ... there is an education and outreach group in W3C and they
    may be interested
    ... I would like permission to share the report

    Jennison: There is a group, Teach Access, that works on
    curricula on accessibility.

    Eleanor: I have no problem with sharing the report, but I am
    not ready to have it be shared publicly.
    ... it is a great example of the work that WPI students do.
    ... This is a natural fit with WPI and how technology can
    impact society in a positive way. I would be interested in
    other work that we could partner with you.

    Jeanne: I hope we can share it privately so we can see the
    data, but we will not share it publicly until it is ready and
    we have permission.

    Eleanor: This is a good collaboration

    Kelsey??: I think it important to educate people early on
    accessibility

Other research

    <Kelsey_> (yes that was me)

    Shawn: Dave Sloan sent a detailed email with info on research
    ... Mike Crabb sent 9 papers that students worked on, each took
    a Silver research question. 50 students worked on this. The 9
    papers he sent were the top grades of the class.

    <Kelsey_> Could someone send a link to the folder?

    Charles: Last week I took an action to look for someone to take
    over the conformance survey task.
    ... Kelsey volunteered to so the Conformance Survey to complete
    it.

    Jemma: The email from David also says he would be happy to work
    with Kelsey to finish the survey.

    Jeanne: Jeanne and Kelsey will talk this week and pull all the
    info together so Kelsey can finish the survey.

    Shari: I have reached out to Klaus and Michael Heron, but
    haven't heard back.
    ... I started the work on the data analysis for Pete McNally. I
    will have a draft for Friday.

    <Kelsey_> Jeanne, thank you for sharing the folder. Could
    someone grant me the access to view it? I have access to Design
    Sprint docs but this this folder.

    <Kelsey_> *not this folder

    <jemma> rrsagengt, make minutes

San Diego face-to-face meeting invitation responses

    Jennison: I would like to get an update.

    Shawn: I have not been able to get an update from emails since
    vacation. Currently we have 15 confirmed responses.
    ... we have invited a few people with UX experience, but we
    have not had responses

    Jennison: I have an alternative who works on accessibility team
    for Royal National Bank of Canada and has a masters in UX.

    Shawn: We have two people in wave one who has been invited.
    Whitney was invited in December but hasn't responded.

    Kelsey: I would be interested in joining.

    Shawn: We need to get more invites out. I have a number of
    invites to send out. It won't happen today, but I will have
    time tomorrow morning to get them out.

    <shari> +shari

    Jennison: While we are aiming for 30, 20 may be more
    manageable, if they are diverse.

San Diego face-to-face meeting problem statements

    <Jan> Hey Guys - I have to jump on another call - thanks for
    all of the great work!!

    Charles: I made some updates. I also wrote all three sections
    for maintenance. In the Usability problem statement, I noted
    where there was convergence from the problem.
    ... Please read the Maintenance problem issues before Friday

    Topics: Regrets

    Jennison: Regrets for Friday. I am traveling.

Summary of Action Items

Summary of Resolutions

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