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Web Operational Management Group

Minutes of the Meeting - July 24, 2013
LIB 428

Present: Aziz Aboueleinin, Graham Faulkner, Chris Gray (Chair), Steve Weber (Recorder), Charles Woods, Kathy Szigeti
Regrets: Alex McCulloch, Esther Millar, Annie Bélanger, Doug Morton, Pascal Calarco, Nancy Collins, Jane Forgay,

  1. Approval of previous Minutes (2013-04-24)

    • Approved.
  2. Business arising from previous Minutes (2013-04-24)

    • None
  3. Agenda review

    • Web Accessibility Update
    • WCMS Feature requests
  4. Web Accessibility Update (Chris Gray)

    • Status of core pages
      • Fixed multiple accessibility issues in primo search template.
        • ACTION: Chris will meet with Annie and Pascal, before swapping in the improved primo search template.
      • Many other template issues have been resolved. This will help reduce the number of A-checker errors that are false positives
      • Outstanding issues:
        • Video embeds from sources like YouTube are missing; noembed
        • ~500 pages with issues in Geospatial pages, Graham is working on these.
        • ~130 pages with issues in Persons with Disabilities pages, Steve is working on these.
    • A-checker update and reports
      • Added: http://cpgray2.lib.uwaterloo.ca/aoda/

        This page has links to AODA web reporting tools. These tools aid webpage maintainers in correcting accessibility issues.

      • Updates to reporting tools:
        • links to validate a webpage html
        • simple method to submit a support ticket
        • colored errors to show importance
        • A neat tool to see what pages link to an URL
        • automated checking
        • many more..
    • Upcoming mentoring and training
      • Core developers to help mentor sessions
      • Chris setup a meeting to workout details (July 26)
  5. WCMS Feature requests (Chris Gray)

    • WebAdvisory is looking for input:

      The WCMS team would like your input to help determine upcoming feature development priorities. Please fill out form by Friday July 26th to have your input taken into consideration for the next WCMS release (v1.8). WAC member priorities will go to the Web Steering committee for evaluation and WAC members will receive monthly updates as priorities change over time.

    • Kathy: An integrated booking or calendar module would be a nice option
    • webmaintainers email list and site:
      • https://uwaterloo.ca/web-resources/
      • https://uwaterloo.ca/web-resources/training/communications
        • The mailing list is under "Communications" in the left menu
  6. Around the table

    • Graham
      • Dspace: moving from the older Windows version to the newer version running on Linux is targeting production this fall.
      • OARR (Online Access to Research Resources) survey looks promising with 35 summations over the span of ~1day
    • Charles
      • With the Organizational changes in IST how will this change things for us.. seems we will have to wait for the water to settle
      • Updates to Voyager will start 2013-05-19 and span 3 days
  7. Next meeting

    • Date: August 14, 2013
    • Time: 1:30-3:00
    • Location: LIB 428
    • Recorder: Charles Woods
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July 24, 2013