Face-to-face Meetings of W3C WAI/IPO Working and Interest Groups

Friday/Saturday 24/25 July 1998
RNIB, PeterBorough, UK

Participants: please register by Friday, June 26, 1998
Venue and Accomodations: Hotel info, etc.
Agenda (and minutes)
Preparation: Goals, Drafts, history

Daniel Dardailler, WAI Project Manager(danield@w3.org)

Judy Brewer, WAI/IPO Director (jbrewer@w3.org)

Participants

Attendance for all but the PF WG meeting is open to those interested in the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and who have pre-registered for the meeting. Participants must be familiar with the WAI and have prepared for the meeting by reading background materials listed below, as this is a series of working meetings to make progress on WAI activities. If you have questions about participation please contact Judy Brewer at jbrewer@w3.org or Daniel Dardailler at danield@w3.org.

Registrations closed Friday, June 26, 1998, 17:00 US EDT
Questions to Judy Brewer at <jbrewer@w3.org>

Venue

The event is hosted by RNIB (Royal National Institute for the Blind), in Peterborough, UK. It is follows the Sight Village '98 event in Birmingham, UK, on July 21-23.

RNIB Home page
Sight Village '98 Home page
Peterborough yahoo links.
Directions to Peterborough from various airports.

Hotel information.

Agenda

Friday, July 24, 1998

9:00 - 12:00 Judy Brewer, W3C/WAI/IPO Director and

Daniel Dardailler, W3C/WAI Project Manager
Round-table presentation of WAI working group updates,
followed by WAI Interest Group discussion.

PF (Protocols & Formats) by Al Gilman
GL (Markup Guidelines) by Chuck Letourneau
UA (User Agent Guidelines) by Kitch Barnicle
AU (Authoring Tools Guidelines) by Daniel Dardailler
ER (Evaluation&Repair Tools) Len Kasday
EO (Education&Outreach) Judy Brewer

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Education and Outreach Working Group -- Judy Brewer
15:00 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 17:30 Evaluation and Repair Interest Group -- Len Kasday

concurrently with
Protocols and Formats Working Group -- Al Gilman
*please note the PF WG is Member & invited expert only;
requires PF Chair permission to attend.

Saturday, July 25, 1998
9:00 - 12:00 Page Author Guidelines Working Group

Chuck Letourneau, Co-Chair
Wendy Chisholm, Editor

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 16:00 User Agent Guidelines Working Group -- Kitch Barnicle
16:00 - 16:30 Break
16:30 - 17:30 WAI Interest Group -- Judy Brewer

Wrap-up and next steps

Preparation: Drafts for Review

Each group will prepare a detailed agenda of what they want to achieve at these meetings, so please check their home page for details, and please check back to this meeting page as additional information is added.

Judy Brewer, Daniel Dardailler

June 30, 1998