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,
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Approval of previous Minutes (2013-04-24)
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Business arising from previous Minutes (2013-04-24)
Agenda review
- Web Accessibility Update
- WCMS Feature requests
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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
- Upcoming mentoring and training
- Core developers to help mentor sessions
- Chris setup a meeting to workout details (July 26)
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WCMS Feature requests (Chris Gray)
- 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
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
Next meeting
- Date: August 14, 2013
- Time: 1:30-3:00
- Location: LIB 428
- Recorder: Charles Woods
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July 24, 2013