Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
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Announcements and Meetings
- Actions for all EOWG in May:
see also: Agenda for this week's teleconference and EOWG mailing list - EOWG Tracker Summary, open actions by person
- EOWG Wiki
- EOWG questionnaires (WBS):
Teleconferences
Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:
EOWG teleconferences are open to participants of EOWG, see Participating in EOWG.
- 25 May 2012 teleconference - agenda:
- Accessibility Basics, Basics draft 2, 21 May email on Basics - discuss comments and approach for finalizing
- BAD - discuss overall approach, next steps
- (if update ready) Eval Preliminary
- EOWG's use of wiki - discuss how it's going and what we might want to do differently
- Promoting web accessibility - reminder to put in ideas — rough-draft level is good
- Reminder to update Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
- 1 June 2012 teleconference - preliminary agenda:
- Accessibility Basics - ready for approval?
- BAD - discuss overall approach, next steps
- (if update ready) Eval Preliminary for WebEd
- (if update ready) Wiki Instructions (to move to WAI-Engage)
- (if update ready) Application Notes (working title)
- Action item check
- Reminder to update Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconference
- 8 June 2012 teleconference
- 15 June 2012 teleconference
- 22 June 2012 teleconference
Previous agendas are in the meeting minutes.
For Task Force teleconferences, see the Task Force mailing lists.
Teleconference logistics
EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time via teleconference bridge. To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.
We use the Zakim Teleconference Bridge, IRC, Zakim IRC "bot", and Trackbot.
- Teleconference bridge:
- +1.617.761.6200
- Instructions for VoIP "Zakim-SIP"
- Code: 3694# (EOWG#)
- IRC:
- Channel: #eo
- Server: irc.w3.org
- Port: 6665
Face-to-Face Meetings
EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page.
Planned upcoming face-to-face meetings:
- Two days during TPAC 2012 which will be 29 October - 2 November 2012 in Lyon, France
Meeting Minutes
Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Related pages: scribing instructions
Current Work
(Updated April 2012)
- Promotions (listed in EOWG wiki)
Status: EOWG actively working on - Curriculum & Course Materials:
Status: EOWG actively working on - Policies
Relating to Web Accessibility update, Planning Updates to Policies
Status: on hold pending Director action. - Application Notes (working title)
Status: EOWG actively working on - WAI-AGE project
- How People With Disabilities Use the
Web
Status: update complete, a few edits pending, ready for EOWG review (e-mail). - Slides - Web
Accessibility for Older Users Presentation
Status: draft complete, ready for EOWG review. will be updated when documents completed. - Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your
Computer
Status: draft mostly complete. some open comments are pending, additional comments are welcome for the final draft. - Usability-Accessibility document (Analysis/Requirements)
Status: completed draft. on hold pending editor availability.
- How People With Disabilities Use the
Web
- Presentation material:
- Business Case instructions page, draft ppt
Status: completed. pending completion of slide CSS - Slides CSS version - single file of WCAG 2 Benefits, slidey show of WCAG 2 Benefits
Status: Ian working on - Benefits of WCAG 2.0 instructions overview, ppt 800KB, HTML, video
Status: pending completion of slide CSS - Components of Web Accessibility instructions cover page, step-by-step guide version, HTML presentation version, presentation version
Status: pending completion of slide CSS - Using WCAG 2 instructions page, draft ppt
Status: pending completion of slide CSS - Slidey help
- Business Case instructions page, draft ppt
- New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy
material (Analysis/Requirements for physical materials)
- WCAG 2.0
at a Glance (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick
Tips)
Status: done except need to revisit 4.1 - WAI Flyer (old WAI
Flyer, changelog)
Status: March 2012 version done, EOWG will review for next version
- WCAG 2.0
at a Glance (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick
Tips)
- Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
- Status: on hold pending editor availability
- Supporting WAI-ACT Project
- Contributing to and reviewing documents from other WAI and W3C groups
EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for the future.
Publications
- WAI Resources is an annotated list of current resources on the WAI site, many developed by EOWG.
- The Completed Deliverables section of the EOWG Deliverables Plan lists work completed by EOWG.
About EOWG
The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) develops strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need for Web accessibility and to educate the Web community regarding solutions to Web accessibility.
Chair and Contacts
- EOWG Chair and W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >
Charter
EOWG Task Forces
- [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
- [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
- [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
- [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
- [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
- [closed] Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
- [closed] WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page
Mailing Lists
- EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
- Instructions for subscribing to the EOWG mailing list
- EO-Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents
- Some of the task forces have mailing lists, which are available from the links in the "EOWG Task Forces" section above.