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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting of June 11, 2003
1:00pm, DC Conference Room

Present: Chris Gray (Recorder), Esther Millar, Bill Oldfield, Marina Wan (Facilitator), Linda Hastings, Paul St-Pierre
Absent: Charles Woods

  1. Minutes of Meeting, May 14, 2003

    Accepted with minor changes.

  2. Business Arising

    #4 A copy of the job description has been sent to the Co-op office.

    #5 Marina has passed along WebOps browser recommendation for the new staff workstation image

    #6 Marina has not yet shown the new design to Mark and Susan.

    #7 The remaining XHTML validation issues for the top Web site pages is the presence of ampersands in URLs which must be replaced with entity references.

    #9 The new version of the eReference pages is ready to go.

  3. Agenda Review

    Discussion of the content management proposal included in item #7.

    Items #4 and #5 switched in order.

  4. Web Standards

    Agreed to support XHTML 1.0 instead of HTML 4.01 as previously decided since UWInfo is going with XHTML.

    Clean up of pages for XHTML validation, doctype and character set declarations will be left for the Co-op student project.

  5. Size of Site and Clean Up

    It was agreed that the suggestions for clean up method that Charles made via email wouldn't help.

    ACTION: Esther will draft a plan for a site clean up based on previous plans.

  6. Accessibility Issues (Janet Wason guest)

    Janet explained how the Library is responding to the new Ontario government requirements. She is co-ordinating this effort for the Library. She presented sheet of progress the Library has already made and of barriers that yet remain.

    WebOps has already made efforts to make Web pages more usable for the visually impaired. Links with text "Click Here" are not useful for screen readers since "Here" needs a visual context.

    It was decided to make clicking on a menu heading in the navbar would take the user to the corresponding section of the "text only" page, since these headings are links used to activate the drop down behavior of the navbar.

    Page design needs to pay more attention to controlling tab order for people who can't use a mouse due to mobility impairment.

    Janet mentioned an excellent Web site for information about all aspects of accessible Web design.

  7. Filter for accessibility and content management

    Bill proposed that if pages were generated from a ColdFusion template (instead of being static HTML pages) pages could be produced in alternate forms, for instance, in a screen reader friendly format, without sacraficing desirable visual features of pages.

    This proposal may fit in with a proposal currently being drafted for presentation to DLCC to investigate applying content management to the entire Library Web site.

  8. Around the Table

    Linda - The TUG site menus should be redone to make them consistent with our new text-based approach. Linda will talk to Cheryl about doing this.

    Bill - The new Journal Index interface is operational. The new eReference interface has been vetted with the TUG eReference group.

    Esther - Esther has some concerns about the new design for the discipline pages. Linda will consult with Helen.

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