Group worked on various edits to the document, in order to bring it closer to being published. Lots of discussions on how to address people as opposed to web users, content developers and mobile web. Live modifications ensue. There is a general consensus to keep this document as short as possible to give a low-level overview and point to other existing documents if readers want to know more.
Discussions on how to best collaborate on various documents in editing phase: using the wiki directly, make use of the wiki's discusion tab or not, going through emails, etc. General consensus is agreed that people should use whatever they feel works best for them and editors will make everything happen in the wiki. No specific action items related to this point.
The Current and upcoming work list is pretty full, we need to finalize some of the work in there. There are discussions on which documents need to be prioritized — Accessiblity basics being one of them, but also documents related to the WAI-AGE project and the presentation material. Shawn and Ian will meet over the course of the next two weeks to work on the CSS aspect of the presentation material.
Jennifer is willing to keep helping with the WAI-Engage promoting web accessibility, but she needs help from other EOWG members to do this. There are discussions about coming up with promotion content that Jennifer could put together if other group members can at least send her bullet points for ideas that they may have.
<shawn> revisions(action items): http://www.w3.org/2012/05/25-eo-minutes#ActionSummary
<shawn> clean version: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Basics
<shawn> Basics with Notes: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Basics_with_Notes
we have a new version of the basics with notes now - and a clean version separated
hbj: is the second part supposed to be taken out?
Shawn: no they're separate versions
... primarily target are developers on the field as opposed to designers, business directors ,etc.
... no change on 1st section (web for all people)
<shawn> Sylvie's comment: What "bothers" me is that "users, or people" are adressed on several places in the document and not at the same place.
<shawn> you have a section "the Web is for all people". Then further in the document, you have an h3 section "people". So when I just read this heading that belongs to "components" I assume I will read additional information about people using the web, but if I understand the paragraph correctly, it talks about people involved in web site development. In order to make this section clearer, I suggest that
<shawn> the heading "people" be more precise, such as for example "people involved in Web development or Web accessibility".
<shawn> At last, in the section "business case", you find other information about users: the mobile users, and older users. Should they be mentionned in the section "the Web is for all people"?
andrew: concerned with the wording that is different from place to place in the document
shadi: related to the approach about people, i'm not sure if this breaking out which can be perceived as different groups, people may not see older people as part of the targeted groups
shawn: edit to be done - integrate older users more consistently
shadi: large overlapping part with older people and people with disabilities
hbj : agrees with sylvie - should do as she suggests
shawn: need to clarify better with a proper use of headings
hbj: better distinction between users and developers
<AndrewA> maybe: web developers and content authors ...
<AndrewA> maybe: web developers and content contributors ...
shawn: 2 points - 1) clarify the
people vs developer aspect and 2) issue with older users
... other part of sylvie's point: mobile users being at the
bottom of the document
... sylvie you ok with those changes?
sylvie: i understand why you let
mobile users and older people at the bottom but for me they
belong to the example of web use
... maybe make a note in paragraph pointing to the other groups
coming later in the document?
shawn: we have in the web for all
people section we have an example of older users - we have
several elements in the document talking about these groups -
maybe lacking whole picture
... we have a pointer to the mobile and older user sections do
we need to make the pointers more clear?
sylvie: the structure of the headings should better reflect the variety of users
shawn: we have this one paragraph where we mention the social aspects - maybe we need to put that at the end of the business case section with a better heading
shadi: i think with this document
we might not convince the reader but rather drawing them to
other documents that could do this more efficiently? maybe just
mention briefly about the whole thing in this document and draw
them to the business case instead
... other developers could be convinced by totally different
arguments
shawn: the next question is do we
want to call out mobile users?
... are you suggesting we delete the mobile users section?
shadi: not sure, maybe keep for
now but we need to think about this in more depth
... example - if you're interested to go deeper on the subject,
refer to blah blah blah
... i'm just wondering if mobile belongs there or if we should
just focus on ppl with disabilities at this level
jenn: maybe we need a better understanding of the broader picture - it feels like people who would come to this page would be jumping on different documents
hbj: instead of having mobile as part of business case maybe we need a part more advanced where we talk about this
<shawn> DB: agree need to have mobile here...
<shawn> ... agree it should be part of broader picture. don't need to go into details.
shadi: not suggesting we drop mobile, just thinking we might focus on ppl with disabilities and mention all other areas where it's relevant as a side note - it's not adding much to the document, just wondering where it belongs in the docuent
shawn: right now we point to these sections at the bottom - we could just delete and put links at the top in the 'what is web accessibility' section
thank you Andrew :)
shawn: i think the wording is good we just need to find where to best put it
shadi: i'm happy for it to be taken for editor consideration
<hbj> yes
shawn: suggest we don't take it in the first version but get the point across later so we can better integrate in an upcoming version
<AndrewA> yes
yes
shawn: look at approach overall, not insist on mobile, mention mobile helped push the applications further
<shawn> ACTION: Shawn look at approach overall -- e.g., not begging about overlap with mobile, but look what's cool! (and, btw, accessibility invented most of these mobile interactions!) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2012/06/01-eo-minutes.html#action01]
<trackbot> Created ACTION-165 - Look at approach overall -- e.g., not begging about overlap with mobile, but look what's cool! (and, btw, accessibility invented most of these mobile interactions!) [on Shawn Henry - due 2012-06-08].
<shadi> [accessibility is new edge, accessibility is high-tech, accessibility is cool]
<shadi> [accessibility invented hands-free computing, not mobile]
shawn: mobile and older users -
we could leave it where it is, move it somewhere else or delete
altogether
... and just have links at the top
sylvie: not sure we have to delete it - mobile use becomes very important, strong argument for accessibility, maybe change the heading title and not stress the term users but mobile use instead
<shadi> [mobile access]
shadi: support keeping it and change to another tone, don't' want to drop it
shawn: changed in notes
version
... understand how ppl use the web section
... last week we talked about adding examples of barriers ppl
might encounter
hbj: was wondering whether the
last section could be taken out and replaced with the section
highlighted in yellow instead
... difficult for me to see they'Re talking about two different
things
... feels like we're repeating ourselves
shawn: one talks about barriers, the other talks about tools
hbj: really have to be alert to see it talks about navigating the web in different ways, easy to miss that point
shawn: maybe take out individual
needs and preferences?
... other thoughts?
... next paragraph, are examples useful, are we comfortable
with them, are they the best examples to pull out?
denis: i think these are good enough for me
shawn: maybe add something about hearing and not blind
hbj: how much do we want this
part of the document to tell ppl about how people use the web?
there's this other document that does this
... not simply focus on visual so much and broaden the
scope
shawn: do add more in here or point to other document that goes into more details
<Zakim> shadi, you wanted to hijack the discussion :)
<AndrewA> denis: if we keep 3 examples, and add in older people up here, (and maybe mobile) then we are focusing on range of beneficiaries in one place
<shawn> ... keep it as simple as possible... point to other docs...
<AndrewA> ... need to keep it focussed. Lead them to other docs that expand the topic
shadi: i like the idea of
focusing on examples that are relevant to the focus we'Re
willing to give on the users
... find the right balance between wanting to be brief and
exhaustive enough - we could take just one example that
cumulates different situations
<shawn> example for mobile users up in "Understand how people use the Web" section: http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Basics_25May
shadi: try to link to other
existing documents as much as possible instead of reinventing
the content in this one - makes it simpler
... sidetracking discussion - what do people think of diversity
in web tools instead of diversity in web use? is this an
improvement?
<shadi> [Diversity in Web Browsing]
<shadi> [Diversity in Web Tools]
<LiamM> Diversity In Web Browsing
Diversity in web browsing +1
<shadi> [Diversity in Web Software]
<shadi> [Diversity in Web Access]
<LiamM> [Diversity in How We Browse] vs [Diversity in Who is Browsing]
<shadi> [Web Tools and Techniques]
<shadi> [Web Browsing and Techniques]
<shadi> [Web Browsing Techniques]
<LiamM> [How We Browse Now]
jenn: it would be great if we could come up with a different words so both pages don't begin with diversity - differentiating the two would be useful from a screen reader user's perspective
<LiamM> [Who Is Browsing Now]
<shawn> [Web Browsing Technqiues & Tools]
shawn: is this useful to have this discussion now or do we come back to it later?
we should at least take jenn's comment in consideration
<AndrewA> denis: need clear distinction between different pages
shawn: we've had these discussion
often so it's pretty clear we need to find another way to
present this
... next question - accessibility requirements
reminder of history - we want to encourage people to go to the requirements page
shawn: suzette proposed bringing
a few sentences from there to here - readers can judge for
themselves whether they might find it easier to read.
... how do we encourage people to go there and read instead of
reinventing the content in this page?
<AndrewA> denis: keep focus on leading people to other pages that we've already crafted (rather than repeating them here)
<AndrewA> ... thought we might be rewriting material here, but think it is better to link to already prepared material
shawn: components of web accessibility - before we had wcag as a separate section, now it's under web content - thoughts?
liam" i like it here under dec contents
<hbj> +1
+1
<IanPouncey> +1
<AndrewA> +1 to liking WCAG under web content
shawn: next new stuff under tools
will take action item to review the highlighted sentence in tools
shawn: other points not covered yet?
shawn: feel free to send comments
whatever way that works best for you: wiki, discussion tab,
email, etc. Feel free to do them in whatever way is more
convenient
... comment should start with curly bracket and @@ sign
wiki cheat sheet - extract EO stuff from what we have right now and use that for way-engage
<shawn> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/#deliv
i will tackle preliminary evaluation
shawn: some of these documents
need to be finished by end of july - a lot of them are very
close to being finished
... preliminary evaluation will need a lot of back and forth -
not expecting to have it completed by end of july - great if we
can
<Zakim> shawn, you wanted to ask Ian a question
shawn and ian to meet and work on presentation material
<AndrewA> using BAD demo - http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Before-After_Demo_%28BAD%29
<Zakim> shawn, you wanted to say mtgs in July
shawn: jenn: getting just bullet notes for promotion ideas would also be great
<AndrewA> http://www.w3.org/community/wai-engage/wiki/Promoting_web_accessibility
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