CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Start the recording. Good morning, everybody. I'm Christopher Soran, the Application Support Manager here at the State Board. I appreciate you coming to our monthly Accessibility and ctcLink Open Forum. Welcome to June 2024 edition. We'll get a few updates today. for you to chime in, and ask questions along the way as we're working through. So we're going to talk a little bit about HCX, the make a payment page and some updates around the enter and report time pages. SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE] CHRISTOPHER SORAN: So, yeah. SPEAKER: Chris, can I take a break just a minute and say, welcome back to Monica? [INAUDIBLE] CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yes, welcome back to Monica. SPEAKER: From her maternity leave. She's back with us again, so that's wonderful. We can't hear anything. Monica. And she's in her new office, because people that might not know, the agency moved to a different building. So she's in a new office space. SPEAKER: Can you hear me now? SPEAKER: Yes, awesome. SPEAKER: OK, sorry about that. Thank you for the welcome back. This is my first open forum in several months, so happy to be here. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, right. Well, we got a cool update for a High Point Campus experience. So the Perkins School for the Blind finished their review and audit of the HCX system. Last month I had posted about the-- they reviewed version 21.1.3. And there was one item that they supported with exceptions. And now for version 21.1.4, there are-- everything passes. So everything is WCAG 2 AA fully compliant in version 21.1.4. So I know they're also working on version 24.2. So we're going to be kicking off our HCX install project here at the end of June, alongside with the campus solutions update. So we'll be getting either 21.1.4 or 24.2, which include all the updates installed. We'll see where high point is on their releases. And so I'm very excited to get that. No exceptions, get it all into production, and that'll be coming in November. So these implementation projects are months long projects that are a lot of work from a lot of teams to make it happen, but we're getting rolling soon. So you can check out the new VPAT. I posted it up there. That'll be the version we're going to, so that was a great update. SPEAKER: That's a really exciting update, Chris. That's awesome. And it's great to see a vendor like High Point hiring experienced external testers to collaborate with them. And thanks for sharing your timeline on getting those updates pushed out in the fall. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, I'm especially excited to get that one in considering how upset a client can be. All right, yeah. So on the make a payment page, so when you're in campus solutions and your student, and you're going to pay for your classes, you may pay for them in a variety of ways. You may go through Nelnet, it may be through your financial aid. But if you're going to make in a credit card payment, and you're just going to pay online for your tuition, when you go to submit-- I'm going to go ahead and pull up this enhancement request. So the student financial self service make a payment page, is what we call a classic page. So there are different kinds of pages in PeopleSoft. There's classic, classic plus and fluid pages. And this one's a classic page. And it's more older style. So one of the problems with it is that, so it violates WCAG 21 success criterion, 1.4.10 for reflow. So if you were to pull this up on your phone, you'd have the side to side scroll bars. It doesn't reformat to fit your screen size. And so that is definitely a problem. You can still interact and work with it, but that's not compliant. And so we need to make sure that that page renders well on mobile and is a fluid version, so it can scale to any size, whether it be in the small form factor, like medium form factor, like your tablet or on the desktop, it should work equally the same [INAUDIBLE]. So I submitted an enhancement request, brought it through the governance process and got it all approved. So this is a project that's in our queue, and we'll be working on transitioning this page into a fluid version. Now, since it does tie in with Cybersource, our payment vendor and credit card payments, there'll be a lot of work we need to do to make sure everything's still working well and integrated. And so this is in our queue, to be worked on, but wanted to update everybody. It's been [INAUDIBLE] group and-- SPEAKER: Hey, I have a question, Chris. The text that we're looking at on the screen, that explains or summarizes the enhancement request or the screenshot, can folks find that somewhere? I want to include that in a update with Cato. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, the all enhancement requests are on the ctcLink Reference Center. SPEAKER: OK, great. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: And this is an enhancement request to 253. SPEAKER: 253, OK. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, and I. can share it as well, so you have the file. Yeah, it should be uplinked on the reference center. So yeah, we want to make sure it works. And if it's a re-font, text resize criterion. SPEAKER: I'm going to go find that right now, 253. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, so any, any changes we make to delivered code like this, we can make sure it's approved by the system and everybody is OK with it. Obviously this is a easy-- it's an accessibility violation kind of thing. But in general, anytime those big changes come through, there's a whole governance process around it, to make sure everybody in the system wants to change. Whatever the change may be. So this was a quick, yeah, get it done. Check out the working group, so they were good with it. All right, so moving on for-- so the enter time or report time pages, we got a couple updates on those. So if you're on the report time page and you're using NVDA as your screen reader, after you use a previous button, the focus goes to the calendar button. And the date in the edit box doesn't get read out. So if there's a date selected, it's not telling you that it's. June 4th, 2014 or whatever you're picking. So obviously you need to know what date is in that box. So it doesn't happen with JAWS. For some reason, it seems to be working fine with JAWS. But Oracle gave us a provisional fix for it, and we tested it and it works. So NVDA does read that out correctly. The focus isn't going the wrong place. And that fix will be included in human capital management image 49. And we're going to be starting that project at the end of June as well, and deploying that one in November. A similar time frame around the campus solutions update. And also, on the time page, so the focus goes to the banner region after you are interacting with the calendar widget. So if you're hitting like previous or next and you're trying to move months, the focus should stay in the calendar widget, it shouldn't kick you out. So that's obviously not where focus should go. So Oracle provided us a provisional fix and that worked. So the focus isn't kicking you out anymore. You're staying within the calendar widget, so you can go month to month, previous, next, that sort of stuff. And so that fix will also be coming in. HCM 49. SPEAKER: [INAUDIBLE] CHRISTOPHER SORAN: So I'm glad their fixes worked, and we'll be getting that implemented. And just like with all of our updates, we'll provide an accessibility overview document outlining all the changes that are coming in with that update, that are accessibility focused. So this will be included. [INTERPOSING VOICES] SPEAKER: That's great. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, and then the financial aid, PeopleSoft Release Patchset or PRP, so we deployed the 1.3 and 2.1 through 2.6, on January 6th. So there were a couple of accessibility fixes that came in that. And the overview document is posted up on the State Board website, as well as there's a link here in the slide to that image overview document. And then we're also coming-- shortly, in a couple of weeks, we'll be deploying the financial aid, PRP 2.7, but that's a much smaller one. And there weren't any accessibility fixes in that one. Just bug fixes for financial aid. So this is the big FAFSA simplification changes, and all of that messy rollout from the Department of Ed that trickled down to the [INAUDIBLE] lives in financial aid offices, very difficult. But we got that deployed, and yeah. So people to check that out, if you haven't already. And that's kind of all the updates for June. So feel free to submit ideas for future forum meetings on online submission form or email me. As always, check out our accessibility web page, where we have all these image overview documents, as well as the updated VPAT. For example, like I talked about the HCX 21.1.4 VPAT, that's there as well for you to check out. And we'll see you again next month, July 9th, same time, same place. SPEAKER: I found the enhancement request, Chris on the reference center. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: So-- SPEAKER: It opens that tracking Excel spreadsheet. That's what you're referring to, right? [INTERPOSING VOICES] CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Just that Excel spreadsheet may just be the statuses of all of them. SPEAKER: Yeah, or just summary of the description. Anyway, I just want to be able to include that and some-- CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Yeah, I'll send you the document, yeah. Yeah, all that wording and phrasing, like yeah, work with Justin [INAUDIBLE] to put that together, the enhance request. SPEAKER: OK, thank you. Do you folks have any questions about all these great updates? [INTERPOSING VOICES] SPEAKER: It's nice to come back from leave, and have a slew of positive updates to receive. That's exciting. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: Things have been coming along. SPEAKER: Yeah. CHRISTOPHER SORAN: All right, well, I hope everybody has a great day then, and see y'all later. SPEAKER: The other month, yeah. SPEAKER: Thank you. Bye. SPEAKER: Bye.