Forum .LRN Q&A: .LRN meeting summary 23-jan-2007

Avni, Carl, Don, Emmanuelle, Mark, Olga, Rocael, Victor

ZEN Project:

0. Mark, Alejandro and Avni will be added to the honchos list for Zen project.

1. accessibility and color contrast

- Reports on accessibility and color contrast have been done. The very few issues will be fixed.
- A report on color contrast for HC is needed (UNED). -Sent to honchos-

2. layout manager

- this release will use the existing layout picker without JS
- order of importance of the portlets, horizontal (left to right) vs vertical (by columns): probably not for this release

3. Questions

- About contrast:
The normal theme has to pass the contrast tests level 2 and the HC one level 3.
The required contrast ratios are (WCAG 2.0 draft):

Level 1: (No level 1 success criteria for this guideline.)
Level 2: at least 5:1
Level 3: at least 10:1

- Forms:
Must be tableless.
A div-based one is acs-templating/resources/forms/accesible-forms.adp. It needs a CSS.
The table-based one is acs-templating/resources/forms/standard.adp (the default), and its CSS acs-templating/www/resources/forms.css.

4. next steps

- packages HTML clean-up:
Set a list of packages, ordered by priority, in wiki (Emma, UNED) then co-ordinate who does which package.
Cleaned calendar (Dave): will be merged after testing on staging server
Guidelines for HTML clean-up: Olga presentation in Boston may be a start point for the guidlines (https://openacs.org/storage/file?file%5fid=497026)

- Accessibility tests:
Mark's templates will be tested as he creates them
Will be run for each package after clean-up
Test server to open up to accessibility testing servers (Emma)

- Portal integration (Don): by the end of this weekend

- 2.3 release schedule: early march!