Thread Subject: Re: Beyond the Calendar

From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Date: Wed, Oct 11 2006 8:25 AM

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I agree

Lets stop calling it the WIKI and provide links to each subcommittee WIKI
page from the Main Website page - and call them simply "XXXXXX
Subcommittee Workpages" People who know WIKI will recognize them as such.
Those who don't will just see kind of plain looking web pages of
information.




Gregg

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Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
Director - Trace R & D Center
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Andi Snow-Weaver
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 6:55 AM
> To: TEITAC Communications Task Force
> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] Beyond the Calendar
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> With regard to the wiki, maybe we should stop calling it that
> if it scares people. It's just a website that everyone can
> look at and those who "choose" to can edit it. I don't
> believe everyone has to learn to edit it.
> You just need a few techies on each subcommittee to do the
> editing. The convenors might not know how to do it but there
> are probably techies on the subcommittees that do. I bet the
> only subcommitte that might be short of techies is the one on
> Subpart A.
>
> With regard to the listserv, the minimum thing that everyone
> has to do is simply e-mail. They can choose to archive all of
> the e-mail themselves in a way that is comfortable to them or
> they can access the archive site to see them all. I did
> notice one problem when I looked at the archives earlier this
> week: it looked like the first message on a topic was listed twice.
> That will be an efficiency problem for screen reader users
> and those with mobility issues and may confuse anyone with a
> cognitive problem. It would be good if that could be fixed.
>
> Jessica, what do you think is the issue with the listservs?
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> Andi
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> [teitac-tools] Beyond
> the Calendar
> 10/11/2006 03:43
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> Please respond to
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> TEITAC
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> Communications
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> We (the Access Board staff) had a meeting about this
> yesterday afternoon.
>
> Conference calls will probably be too unruly to be
> interactive without queue management. Gregg is looking into
> using the W3C Zakim software for that. Jared is also working
> developing queuing software.
>
> Fed RCC can be used to make teleconferences accessible
> between 8am and 5pm EST.
>
> There are free teleconferencing services available. If
> anyone feels they cannot participate because of the cost of
> making a non toll-free call, David Capozzi is willing to have
> the Board reimburse them for their expenses.
>
> Jessica, I think I have hit all your points below. The one
> exception is getting committee members comfortable with using
> the listserv and Wiki. Does anyone have ideas about
> addressing this need?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Jessica M. Brodey
> Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 11:43 PM
> To: 'TEITAC Communications Task Force'
> Subject: Re: [teitac-tools] Calendar
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> I agree . . . most of the groups have already begun to
> schedule meetings and many of the conveners do not understand
> either how to use/access the listserve, or the wiki.
>
> If we want to use other tools for the conference calls, we
> need to be moving quickly. It also sounds as if the access
> board stated that there were no funds available to pay for
> accessibility for the subcommittees, but that somehow we have
> to ensure the accessibility of all subcommittee meetings.
> That is potentially a great concern if there is a significant
> cost involved in making the calls accessible.
>
> Jessica
> (See attached file: winmail.dat)
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