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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

• Actions for all EOWG in February:
  see also: Agenda for this week's teleconference and EOWG mailing list
  1. Website Accessibility Evaluation Methodology for WCAG 2.0 title and acronym brainstorming - add your ideas to the wiki
  2. (optional) Review WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide - Last Call Working Draft (Call for Review e-mail) - 17 Feb deadline
• EOWG Tracker Summary, open actions by person
• EOWG Wiki
• EOWG questionnaires (WBS):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • Availability for EOWG face-to-face meetings in 2012
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

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.

• 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:

• Tentative - 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 January 2012)

1. Promotions
   • Promoting Contact Orgs Inaccessible Sites - December 2011
   • Promoting BAD - January 2012
   • Promoting Make Presentations Accessible - February 2012
   • Promoting Business Case
   • Promoting Components & ATAG
2. How to Make Presentations Accessible to All, analysis, draft revision
3. 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.
4. Policies Relating to Web Accessibility update, Planning Updates to Policies
   Status: on hold pending director action.
5. 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
6. 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: pending director action
7. Contributing to and reviewing documents from WAI and W3C groups, including from Eval TF

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 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

• 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.

Membership

• How to join EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

Document Information

Status: Updated $Date: 2012/02/10 13:24:28 $