[Accessibility-testing] June 18 meeting summary (and homework assignments)

[Jason McIntosh]

Present: Austin, Deborah, Jmac, Zack, Zarf. (Furkle unable to attend but reported to me in writing prior to meeting.)

• Zarf has a “mostly-complete draft" of Inform’s "Cloak of Access” test game, per his email to the list on June 17. You can find it at https://eblong.com/zarf/tmp/accessib/ . 

I would like everyone on this list (and especially the accessibility experts!) to give this game a whirl and respond with comment. How well does it present a thorough obstacle course of parser-IF-relevant accessibility challenges? Please post your thoughts to this list! (Or to Zarf directly, if that seems more appropriate.)

• Furkle’s work continues on the Twine CoA test game.

• I added the test-platform textfile to the team Dropbox.

	• We agreed to remove the (rather nonsensical!) Windows and Linux Safari entries, and add entries for MSIE instead.

	• We also agreed that, when the time comes to adapt this list into a survey for testers to fill out, we should provide an “Other” option. We don’t want to refuse a tester’s work just because they are most comfortable in Opera, for example. (And: we might be surprised to learn how many Opera users there are, e.g.)

• We agreed that the “accessibility conditions” list (the subject of my own June 18 email to the mailing list) can be short, and cover the 80-perecent-ish of most-common situations (e.g. using a screen reader, or playing with no sound). On the survey we’ll create for testers, we will include a free-text area as well.

This obviously needs a lot more development, which I’d like to accomplish as a team, so I’ll follow up on that mail from yesterday with some more comments and questions for y’all.

• Next meeting time is set for 6 PM Eastern on Monday, July 2.