Tag: 2014

• Welcome and Introductions
• “WCAG 2.0 and Universal Design,” James Jackson, UARC
• “This Is What Professors Look Like When Discussing Accessibility,” Stephen Thomas, Zoology Natural Science
• “What to Show Your Faculty and Staff (Low, Low Hanging Fruit),” Todd Ring, IT Services
• Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities (RCPD) Demo, Mike Hudson and Al Puzzuoli, RCPD
• “An Accessibility Evaluator’s Toolbox,” Graham Pierce, UARC
• “Institutional Updates – Web Accessibility Working Group Roadmap and Inter-Institution Collaboration,” Jiatyan Chen, IT Services

• Discuss the December Forum on accessibility

• The August Forum debrief
• The ARIA/HTML5 class: Let’s hear from other who took the class
• MSU’s Accessibility Policy updates: Thoughts, plans, comments?
• Next forum: The topic is Accessibility/Usability

Summer Forum on CSS, SASS, LES, and Design

• Welcome and Introduction
• “CSS Resources: Preprocessors, Postprocessors and CSS3,” Stephanie Nagy, Geography
• “Tools for Front-End Site Setup and Debugging, ” Jamie Rytlewski, TechSmith
• “New CSS features and Overview of CSS frameworks,” Pat Bills, MSU Zoology, and Todd Ring, IT Services
• “Sharing is Caring,” Trevor Barnes, Communications and Brand Strategy
• Networking and Further Discussions at Pizza House

• WebDev CAFE Workshop: “Developing with the MSU RWD Prototype,” Janis Gervais, Communications and Brand Strategy

• Discuss the upcoming Summer forum
• Discus MSU Web Standards and templates

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• Demo of JAWS Screen Reading Software, Ranti Junus, MSU Libraries
• HighEdWeb Michigan Conference discussion
• WebDev CAFE website discussion

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Spring Forum on MSU’s New Universal Branding Elements

• Welcome, Burt Bargerstock, University Outreach and Engagement
• “University Branding Elements,” Michael VanPutten, Communications and Brand Strategy
• “MSU Universal Search,” Jeff Daniels and Debbie Malcangi, IT Services
• “Examples of Implementation: A Peer Review Session,” Michael Ezzo, IT Services; Ryan Ward, College of Natural Science; and James White, International Studies and Programs
• “Resources for Collaborating on Campus,” Pat Bills, Department of Zoology

• Discussion on MSU web templates and Gitlab discussion
• Discussion of the WebDev CAFE

• Revisit the community template idea
• Update from Mike VanPutten, Communications and Brand Strategy
• Begin to identify affinity groups to work on templates
• Determine the structure of the Spring Forum and who may be presenting
• Further discussion of the date/time and location of the forum
• Discussion of James White’s recent post to the email list

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