Re: Wednesday Task Force Meeting

Haha :-) No problem!

On 23 Nov 2017, at 0:30, Green, James wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Looks like those of us who don’t use IRC were the ones who missed 
> that and called in today!  It was quick, I probably typed more in the 
> summary than we actually said ☺
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> From: Eric Egert <ee@w3.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 5:24 PM
> To: "Green, James" <jgreen@visa.com>
> Cc: "public-wai-eo-site@w3.org" <public-wai-eo-site@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Wednesday Task Force Meeting
>
>
> Hi James,
>
> I checked the IRC logs from last week and it said no meeting and there 
> was also nobody in IRC at the start of the meeting. I would love to 
> have joined!
>
> Thanks for the meeting summary and the proof of concept!
>
> Eric
>
> On 22 Nov 2017, at 23:16, Green, James wrote:
> Hi Team,
>
> We only had three 3 people (James, Laura, Alicia) call in for our 
> Wednesday Task Force meeting today.  We still met for about 15 minutes 
> to go over the “Proof of Concept” Role Landing Page requested by 
> Shawn last week.
>
> Meeting Summary (Laura/Alicia, please comment if needed)
>
> •         James shared the attached word document with Laura and 
> Alicia, and presented it as his concept for how we handle the 
> role-based navigation idea for the updated site.  It was a rapid 
> “sketch” activity – copy and layout are not proposed as final, 
> the concept is what he wants feedback on.
>
> •         James’ vision for this feature is to provide an 
> alternate navigation that does not lead to everything on the site, but 
> to curated resources most relevant to each role.
>
> •         He wants to help people who might be overwhelmed or 
> intimidated by the full site to feel more comfortable by having a 
> smaller, targeted space for them; to keep it short and simple to drive 
> home the point that yes, Accessibility is a big topic, but it’s not 
> that big for you, and if you start on this special page made just for 
> you, you can get up to speed fairly easily.
>
> •         After going through the resources on this curated page, 
> users should feel comfortable enough with the site and accessibility 
> that they can browse the full site comfortably.
>
> •         The plan he arranged with Shawn was to create this POC, 
> get feedback from those on the TF with interest and tweak it once or 
> redo it from scratch quickly if necessary, but to rapidly get the 
> concept nailed down and built out.  If it becomes clear that the 
> creation of these pages is not that simple and will take some time, 
> we’ll pull the Role-Nav from the site and go live without that 
> feature, adding the feature in a later release.
>
> •         Laura and Alicia liked the concept and had no comments at 
> the time.  Team, please review and be ready to discuss at our next 
> meeting on Nov. 29th.
>
> Happy Thanksgiving,
> James
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Eric Eggert
> Web Accessibility Specialist
> Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)





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Eric Eggert
Web Accessibility Specialist
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) at World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)