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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• Current topics for work via email:
  • See EOWG list archives
• EOWG surveys (WBS questionnaires):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

• 13 November 2009 teleconference - preliminary agenda
  1. [Draft] Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization
  2. Draft case studies:
     • Legal & General Group (to be updated)
     • Target (to be updated)
     • Sydney Olympics (to be updated)
  3. Review face-to-face meeting discussions and proposed edits (draft minutes: 2 Nov, 3 Nov)
  4. Involving Users (Analysis doc)
     • New page (to be updated)
     • Revised evaluation page (to be updated)
• 20 November 2009 tentative
• 27 November 2009 tentative
• 4 December 2009 teleconference
• 11 December 2009 teleconference
• 18 December 2009 teleconference
• No teleconference 25 December 2009
• No teleconference 1 January 2009
• 8 January 2009 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, and Zakim IRC "bot".

• Teleconference bridge:
  • +1.617.761.6200
  • +33.4.89.06.34.99
  • +44.117.370.6152
  • 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. Upcoming face-to-face meetings:

• 2-3 November 2009, Santa Clara, CA, USA, at the W3C TPAC 2009

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribing instructions (old scribes list)

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of July 2009.

1. WAI-AGE Task Force work
   • Slides - WAI-AGE slides [Draft]
     (Requirements for the WAI-AGE Slide Set)
   • Responding doc - How to Report Inaccessible Websites [Draft]
     (Requirements for Responding to Organizations with Inaccessible Websites)
   • BAD demo - Before and After Demonstration (BAD) [revision]
     (Requirements for the Before and After Demonstrations revision)
   • Involving users - Involving Users in Web Development and Evaluation [revision]
     (Requirements for Involving Users in Web Development and Evaluation)
   • How People With Disabilities Use the Web (pending edits from previous discussions, updates on coverage of people with cognitive disabilities, additions for WCAG 2.0 and to cover ageing more thoroughly)
     (Changelog for How People With Disabilities Use the Web)
   • See also WAI-AGE Project Deliverables plan, WAI-AGE Project, WAI-AGE Task Force
2. Accessibility page and blurbs for beta.w3.org - draft page , analysis(requirements)
3. Business Case
   • update to more thoroughly include mobile issues.
   • add an appendix listing case studies, statistics, and other supporting material - draft appendix page
4. Presentation material and videos
   1. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 instructions overview, ppt 800KB, HTML, video
   2. Components of Web Accessibility instructions cover page, step-by-step guide version, HTML presentation version, presentation version (.ppt @@KB)
   3. Using WCAG 2.0 - slide set version of /WAI/intro/wcag20
   4. Slidey help
   5. About WCAG 2.0 presentation material update - probably break up into smaller presentations
5. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material
   • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance (QuickTips) - make print version
     (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips)
   • Flyer front (old WAI Flyer, changelog) - make print version
   • Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
6. New "front door" to WAI resources
   • Annotated navigation page for WCAG 2.0 documents - draft matching nav, draft by audience
   • For all WAI resources, probably at /WAI/intro/, maybe organized by target audience
7. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
   • Documents from other WAI and W3C Groups
8. [potential new work:
   • WAI-ARIA comments pages
   • Submitting sites that meet WCAG 2.0
   • EARL Guide]
9. Updating as needed:
   • WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA Overview, WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feed

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for late 2009 and beyond.

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. Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
2. Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
3. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
5. [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
6. [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
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 the EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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