Meeting Minutes 08/08/2003

Housekeeping

1. Joyce join the group meeting. She will work for the research project in Fall. She will have table at Stephanie's office

Web accessibility tranformation rules:

1. Xiaoming has compiled a list of pseudocode on how to transform the HTML componenet to enhance the web accessibilty
2. He proposed a site wise soluation, however, probobly we still go for the ad hoc page wise solution.
3. The rules can not be used as the panacea. We need to consider the usability issue as well.

Web complexty and Web accessibility

1. Al divided the page html components into complex and simple
2. He found that count of complex compents have correlaiton to the WAB socre.
3. Will do more on the percentage.

Longitudinal study of web accessibility

1. Stephanie got about 12 websites
2. Due to the technical difficulties the WAYBACK machine is facing, some of the checking results are on error pages. They hope it can be solved soon.
3. It seems all the websties, the WAB score goes up.
4. Need to find government websites.