Web Council Meetings

Meeting date

Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 9 a.m.

Zoom recording

Agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we wrap up winter quarter.

UMAC KPI Dashboard: Tiffany Sevareid, Teri Shelton, and Rakshanda Bhure from UMAC will take us on a tour and project retrospective of the UMAC KPI Dashboard. The presentation will highlight the phases of development so far, challenges encountered along the way, and potential future enhancements. They will close with a deep dive into the code for selected features. For those who prefer not to attend the deep dive portion, there will be a clear transition point with an opportunity to ask questions.

Meeting date

Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025 at 9 a.m.

Zoom recording

Agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we brave the icy chill of winter quarter.

Brand portal tour: Alyssa Campbell, senior brand manager in UMAC, will give us a tour of the brand portal and Fill-in-the-Blank toolkit.

Accessibility short: Terrill Thompson of UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will provide an Accessibility Short, with an update on the rollouts of DubBot (our new enterprise web accessibility checker) and Deque University (a library of online asynchronous training courses on digital accessibility). 

Meeting date

Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Meeting recording

Agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we continue our journey through the autumn quarter.

Boundless Refresh: Lauren V. Caple, associate director of web development in UMAC, shares a project retrospective on refreshing and updating the Boundless storytelling website.

Security Short: Josslyn Lewellen, security system administrator in UWIT, will share a presentation on password security.

Meeting date

Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Meeting recording

Agenda

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we continue our journey through the autumn quarter.

Cyber Hygiene and Ransomware Resilience: Information Security Analyst Melissa Albin (Office of Information Security) will discuss protecting login credentials, recognizing and reporting phishing, spear phishing, and scams, securing devices and connections, managing passwords, tips for travel and working from home, permissions for collaborative tools, and backing up data & devices and disposing of them securely.

Accessibility Short: Terrill Thompson from Accessibility Technology Services will give a quick tour of Deque University and announce upcoming trainings.

Meeting date: Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Shelby Schumacher, UX specialist for the UMAC web strategy team, will present a Thom Thorpe-inspired roundup of news and notes as we begin the academic year.
• Accessibility updates: Terrill Thompson of UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will provide an update on the UW’s preparation to bring all websites into compliance with ADA rules by April 2026. Specific topics to be covered will include: What we’ve learned from a comprehensive inventory of the UW web estate (how many websites do we have anyway?); current efforts underway to prioritize our websites; and the availability of new tools, resources, and services, including DubBot (for automated accessibility checking), the UW Web Checklist (for manual checking), Deque University (for training on web accessibility), and a Student Web Accessibility Team (SWAT) that’s being trained in ATS to help with website accessibility efforts.

Meeting date: Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Meeting recording

• Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will offer a roundup of news and notes as we gear up for the start of the academic year.
• Back-to-School Communications: We will get an overview of messaging, events and social media plans from Courtney Coster, director of brand marketing strategy, and Jacob Kelly, assistant director of social media strategy.
• Security Short: Peter Giles and Mike Lane from the Office of Information Security will do a short demonstration of Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), a free and open source web app security scanner.

Meeting date: Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Meeting recording (UW NetID required)

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will gives us the latest news and notes as we get ready to celebrate graduation.

Empowering Small Groups to Create Impactful Websites: Join us for a ‘train the trainer’ talk where we’ll explore a streamlined process for working with small groups with minimal communications experience to create impactful websites. Dive into the essentials of a solid website plan, from setting audience goals and structuring information architecture to creating realistic timelines. Equip yourself with the expertise to foster best practices on even the smallest websites, ensuring every group’s message is heard loud and clear. Veronica Brace, a web designer with DEOHS, will walk us through the process she created and has refined while building 16 websites in 5 years. After the presentation the resources and templates we use will be available for your team.

Meeting date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will gives us the latest news and notes as we approach the end of the academic year.

Accessibility (ADA update): On April 24, the U.S. Department of Justice published their much-anticipated new rule for digital accessibility under ADA TItle II.  The effective date is June 24, 2024, and at that point, the UW will have two years (deadline: June 24, 2026) to bring its websites and mobile applications into compliance. What exactly are the requirements, and what do we need to do in order to meet them? Terrill Thompson from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services will share what we know so far, and will lead a discussion of the implications. Also, Terrill will share details about Global Accessibility Awareness Day activities (May 16), and Jeane Marty and Shelby Schumacher will provide an update on work they’ve been doing to create a new web checklist.

Meeting date: Thursday, April 4, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we embark on spring quarter.

See Yourself at APL: Maria Card from APL, Jill Becker from Pyramid Communications, and Thom Thorpe from UMAC will present a project retrospective for APL’s new “See Yourself at APL” website ( https://seeyourselfapl.uw.edu/ ). Learn about how the project came about and the work that went into it. A short demo will follow.

Security Short: We’ll have another Web Security Shorts: News Bytes episode, with tales of tax scams, software supply chain attacks, and vulnerable plugins.

Meeting date: Thursday, March 4, 2024 at 9 a.m.

Word on the Street: Thom Thorpe, director of web strategy in UMAC, will give us the latest news and notes as we wrap up winter quarter.

ConveyUX Recap: Web Strategy’s UX Specialist Shelby Schumacher will go over the highlights of last week’s 2024 ConveyUX Conference in Seattle. The conference covered a variety of topics, including discussions around user experience implementation and processes, artificial intelligence, accessibility and leadership in the UX space.

ARIA Authoring Practices and the ARIA-AT project: At this month’s accessibility short, Hadi Rangin and Jeane Marty will provide a quick overview of the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) and highlight the W3C ARIA-AT project which now displays results within some of the APG example pages.