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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

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Announcements and Meetings

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

EOWG teleconferences are open to participants of EOWG, see Participating in EOWG.

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.

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:

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribing instructions

Current Work

(Updated April 2012)

  1. Promotions (listed in EOWG wiki)
    Status: EOWG actively working on
  2. Curriculum & Course Materials:
    Status: EOWG actively working on
  3. Policies Relating to Web Accessibility update, Planning Updates to Policies
    Status: on hold pending Director action.
  4. Application Notes (working title)
    Status: EOWG actively working on
  5. WAI-AGE project
  6. Presentation material:
  7. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material (Analysis/Requirements for physical materials)
  8. Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
    • Status: on hold pending editor availability
  9. Supporting WAI-ACT Project
  10. Contributing to and reviewing documents from other WAI and W3C groups

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for the future.

Publications

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

Charter

EOWG Task Forces

  1. [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
  2. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
  3. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
  4. [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
  5. [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
  6. [closed] Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
  7. [closed] WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page

Mailing Lists

Membership