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Issues related to W3C use of WebEx
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WebEx password #4

Open plehegar opened 7 years ago

plehegar commented 7 years ago

Our rules that the WebEx password be excluded from the meeting invitation and not posted to any archived location, including IRC channel topics or first-person IRC posts, mean people frequently struggle to remember the different passwords for different calls. People who have disabilities impacting organization and strategy experience this as an accessibility issue, not just a usability issue - though it is a widespread usability problem as well.

People who do successfully remember the password tend to add it to their calendar entry or maintain a list of WebEx information. However, this requires idiosyncratic organization and not all people use tools like this. Finding the right place to update the password when it is changed can also be a password.

To address this, it would be possible to create a resource that provides all the information needed to connect to WebEx calls including password. By allowing each call to indicate the DBWG ID of groups who are authorized to view the call information, much the way WBS works, people could be given easy access to call details, and updates automatically available there (when maintained by call hosts).

r12a commented 7 years ago

What a good idea! It would presumably also save us having to root through emails to find the webex link for a meeting too, if it isn't included in the latest agenda.

swickr commented 7 years ago

Are you asking for a resource that would somehow be updated by "the system"? W3C can certainly provide a [credential-protected] resource to all those who have W3C logins. At present this is feasible only as a manually-maintained resource. As far as we are able to determine, the toll fraud problem that leads to the posting restrictions Philippe cites are not due to any W3C participant.

r12a commented 7 years ago

@swickr who is 'you' in your question? If it's me, it was responding to plh's "provides all the information needed to connect to WebEx calls including password", and was seeing in my mind's eye a single URL that everyone would connect to that lists all meeting information relevant to that individual, perhaps a bit like the old Zakim calendar but delivering results tailored to the individual accessing the page according to which DBWG groups they belong to. I'd assume that meeting information would need to be added by staff contacts, but would be filtered automatically when someone looks at the page.