Closed Action Items
- Seek support from key individuals at our institutions; identify people in our colleges and whom the letters should go to
- Person responsible: All
- Status: Closed on 05/21/2007; most active members have identified and/or got signatures from them for the letter to Blackboard.
- Phil will share his letter that he's written to his deputy CIO, as well as any further letters that are generated as part of that communication.
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes
- Status: Closed on 05/07/2007; since the letter would be a kind of redundant to the letter we are going to send to Blackboard top management, the group has decided not to pursue with it.
- Jon will post an announcement to the discussion list right away requesting final comments and feedback on the letter.
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 04/03/2007
- Jon will synthesize input from others and finalize the letter in two days.
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 04/09/2007
- Look into getting a member of our group into the special Feature Advisory Group
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Discussed on 04/02/2007; Terry Thompson has become part of Gradebook PDF group
- Get contacts in the QA and Technical Support groups, instead of having Robert filter issues
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Discussed on 04/02/2007; the effort to encourage support and QA team to join our group will continue.
- letter to BlackBoard from UMN CIO deputy
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes
- Status: Completed on 04/02/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (draft 4; Edit content of letter down to one page and send to the group for another review)
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 04/02/2007
- List WebCT and Blackboard Accessibility Interest Groups as regular user groups at Blackboard
- Person responsible: Robert Dumas
- Status: Completed on 03/12/2007
- Send a summary of MathML support in Blackboard to the list
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Contact those listed as collaborators in accessibility on BB website (WebAIM and Hellen Kellar Institute) to see what they are doing
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Coordinate with Robert dumas on teleconference and reported issues
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Incomplete 02/11/2007
- Note: All attempts to contact Robert Dumas failed; sent several e-mail messages, left several phone messages during the month of January 2007 and have never heard back from him. I even tried to contact Robert via William murray who is in charge of accessibility of Blackboard product line but still haven't heard from Robert.
- Status: Incomplete 02/11/2007
- Revise the PHP evaluation form to incorporate Phillip's comments
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/11/2007
- Ask BlackBoard Accessibility Mailing list about the MathML support
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 02/19/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (2nd draft); all, please send your comments to Jon
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 02/05/2007
- Update issues list
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/28/2007; please check it
- Update php to include the rating system recommended by Philip Kragnes
- Person responsible: Jon gunderson, Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/28/2007
- Add percentages showing progress rates to the accessibility evaluation form
- Person responsible: Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 01/22/2007
- Revising the letter to WebCT regarding Formalization of WebCT Disability Access Interest Group with Blackboard (draft 1)
- Person responsible: Philip Kragnes, Jon Gunderson
- Status: Completed on 01/22/2007
- Follow up with evaluaters to verify the outstanding issues identified by evaluators
- Person responsible: Hadi Rangin
- Status: Completed on 01/17/2007