[Accessibility-testing] Tonight's call

[Jason McIntosh]

First, as Zarf said a couple of days ago, please submit to me or him an estimate of the number of hours you donated to IFTF during 2018 (if you haven’t already). This includes meeting time as well as time spent reviewing or working on projects for this team.

And now, a debrief of the December 17 meeting:

• Assuming that we get a list of testers’ emails next week, we’ll plan to commence testing on Wednesday, January 2 (two weeks from today), and keep it open through Monday, January 28.

	• I’ll set up a mailing list that testers can use to contact us with questions.

	• I will act as designated point-person for either responding to questions, or delegating their responses to others on the committee.
	
	• The mailing list will be read/write for all participants.

	• If we do get a list of addresses well before January 2, we’ll send them all a greeting, let them know the planned schedule, and ask them to stand by until then.

• We agreed that the testing materials should just be on a public website somewhere, assumedly within iftechfoundation.org’s domain. (Versus emailing all participants the website, or something.)

	• I have full access to IFTF’s general-purpose web server, so I’ll just pop it up there somewhere.

	• Deborah suggested adding a little more CSS kindness to the web pages to increase their readability for sighted testers. I plan to do this. (Really, I’ll just use a different export-stylesheet with Marked, the program I use to translate Markdown docs into HTML.)

	• I also plan to fix up the page’s titles, which are just their filenames right now, oops

	• And I gotta add a proper link to A Night Below the Opera.

• I plan to make another pass at the ANBtO survey, keeping the gameplay questions that are specific to accessibility obstacles but dropping others for the sake of brevity.

• Claire will add the requested cycle-link obstacle to Twine of Access before January 1.

> On Dec 17, 2018, at 9:37 AM, Jason McIntosh <jmac at jmac.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> It’s been quite a year for this team! Let’s have our last group call of 2018 this evening at 7 PM Eastern time on the usual Skype channel.
> 
> Things to discuss:
> 
> • Player Panel update: Chris Powers contacted me this morning to say that our project’s description was released to the field of testers today. They have the next week to sign up, and we should get a list of interested parties next week.
> 
> • The state of the test material (the instruction pages and the surveys)
> 
> • Logistics about distributing the material - when, and how
> 
> • The 11th-hour tweaks to the Twine game we discussed last time (particularly the cycle link)