For those of you that missed it, here's a quick summary of the changes to the guidelines suggested from yesterday's meeting (let me know if I forgot something):

• Make a short "checklist" format version (probably with links to more details).
• Include information (or a link to information) about how to try out accessibility software. This is being followed up on with the appropriate lab people.
• Apparently there's a room in the computer lab on the 3rd floor of Maggini with computers set up with different browser versions, available for use in testing web-sites.
• There was a question about the acronym tag. Here's an example: <acronym title="Non-Credit Programs and Services">NCP&S</acronym>.
(NCP&S)
• Related to the 1.1.1.7 (/outside/), we should include suggestions on exactly how designers can include credits.
• I need to add "ECMAScript" to the list of example scripting languages.
• Several suggestions on PDFs. Link to more material on how to make good ones? Hyperlinks, bookmarks. Drop the "primarily designed for print" from the explanation. Maybe some information on how to properly create in-PDF navigation... (also one of the explanations belongs in the next item)

• There were some questions about when the browser versioning would get updated (to drop the 4.x stuff), when the adobe acrobat versioning would get updated and when the bandwidth-based file-size recommendations would get updated. In all three cases the basic answer is the same: when the percentage of users using these older technologies drops down to an insignificantly small portion of our user population. The details of each are different, however. With browser versioning we have very detailed information about how many hits with each browser version we get (it's logged), so there's no guesswork. Adobe Acrobat versioning involves more guesswork and/or use of "industry-wide" stats, since fetching a PDF logs information on the web client, not the Acrobat Reader.

  For bandwidth, it'll probably be quite a while: large portions of Sonoma County (most of "West County", for instance) have a maximum available bandwidth of 26.6Kbps (unless they pay substantial costs; monthly fees plus 1-8 cents per minute; adds up to a few hundred a month for ISDN). Even for users lucky enough to be a bit closer than that, about 44Kbps is the maximum available unless you live within about 5 miles of 101. Sonoma County has a report on these issues at http://www.sonoma-county.org/edb/pdf/2001-02%20Connectivity%20Report.pdf

• 1.2.1.17-1.2.1.19 (page 16) need to be consolidated.
• There needs to be some information somewhere on what the process for getting a (departmental) web page up is. This probably needs to involve a multi-path approach, depending on the expertise and resources of the department. (CATE, hiring a consultant, getting somebody to do it for you for free, doing it yourself)
• Somebody suggested that there be a "So, you want to have a website..." PDA.
Posted by at April 16, 2003 10:32 AM