Hyrax Accessibility Community Sprint - Oct 28th - Nov 8th, 2024

Owned by Heather Greer Klein
Last updated: Oct 21, 2024 by Linda Sato
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Welcome

This is a two week-long community development effort focused on bringing the Hyrax platform up to WCAG 2.0 AA standard compliance. Developers and other technologists will come together virtually to work on Community code and documentation related to this critical maintenance. Technologists at all levels are welcome to participate.

To help us plan, please indicate your intention to attend by signing up in the list to the right.

We look forward to seeing you and working together to prioritize maintenance for our community-supported platforms.  

Dates and Daily Meetings

MEETING LINK: please see the slack #hyrax-wg channel topic for the link

We will meet as a full group for a daily check-in and a wrap-up on the last day.

Communication

Communication will primarily be through:

  • Samvera Slack Channel #hyrax-wg

  • Zoom (or other meeting software provided by developer's institution)

 



Signup to Participate

Add your name below if you plan to attend.  You are welcome to participate for both weeks, one week, or a few days. If you can indicate your expected availability, that will help with planning. We won’t hold you to your estimate.

  1. Rebekah Kati (UNC-Chapel Hill) facilitator (both weeks)

  2. Julie Hardesty (Indiana University)

  3. Nick Homenda (Tufts University)

  4. Christine Peterson (Amigos Library Services)

  5. Amanda Hurford (PALNI/Hyku for Consortia)

  6. Daniel Pierce (Indiana University)

  7. Linda Sato (Univ. Oregon) wk 1

Need access to the Samvera wiki?  Email heather@samvera.org