Member Events

Face-to-face Meetings -- WAI Groups

Dates:  Saturday - Sunday 20-21 March 1999 Following CSUN'99
Location:  Airport Marriott, Los Angeles, California, USA

• Participants: please register before 12 March 1999
• Venue and Accommodation: travel  information
• Agenda (and later, minutes also)
• Preparation Documents, Drafts, History; Position Papers

Contacts:

Participants

This meetingn is for participants of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group (IG), Education & Outreach Working Group (EO), and Protocols & Formats Working Group (PF) who have pre-registered for the meeting. Please note that the afternoon session of the PF Working Group is only open to W3C Member organizations and invited experts.

Participants must also have prepared for the meeting by reading background materials and taking part in the discussion on the group e-mail lists as specified below. If you have questions about participation please contact the W3C contacts (listed above).

Registration for the meeting will be available until 12 March 1999.

Venue

These WAI meetings will be held immediately following the CSUN "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" Conference in Los Angeles, California, USA, which offers a broad range of sessions on issues related to Web accessibility.

The WAI meetings will be held in one of the two hotels hosting the CSUN event:

Airport Marriott Hotel

5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles
California 90045
USA
Phone : +1 310 641 5700
TTY: +1 800 228 7014
Fax: +1 310 337 5358

Room Block

Rooms at the Airport Marriott are blocked for the WAI meetings on Saturday, March 20 and Sunday, March 21, at the rate of $95 per night, at the Airport Marriott. Please ask for the room block under the designation "W3C/WAI." If Reservations cannot locate the room block under "W3C/WAI" please ask for the block under "World Wide Web," or notify Susan Hardy at <susan@w3.org> and cc Judy Brewer at <jbrewer@w3.org>.

Travel note:

Nearest airport is Los Angeles International Airport (five minute taxi ride).

Agenda

• Saturday afternoon: WAI Interest Group; WAI Education & Outreach Working Group.
• Sunday all day: Protocols and Formats Review Working Group.

Saturday 20 March 1999

Interest Group, Education and Outreach Group

13:30 - 14:00 Refreshments & introductions

14:00 - 16:00 WAI Interest Group meeting

• Updates on all WAI Working Groups
  • Protocols & Formats Working Group
  • Page Author Guidelines Working Group
  • User Agent Guidelines Working Group
  • Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group
  • Evaluation & Repair Working & Interest Group
  • Education & Outreach Working Group
• Focus discussion on Tools development
  • Demonstration of ERWG tools
  • Info on other tools-related projects?
  • Prioritizing needs for tools

16:00 - 16:15

16:15 - 18:15 WAI Education & Outreach Working Group

• Updates on EO deliverables status
• Planning additional implementation/promotion of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

19:00 Dinner:

Dinner to be arranged at a local restaurant (self-paid).

Sunday 21March 1999

WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG), tentative agenda:

PARTICIPATION NOTE: Please note that while the PFWG is generally open only to W3C Member organizations and invited technical experts, the morning and lunch parts of the session will be opened to interested individuals who read background materials to be posted on this page and who have the permission of either Co-Chair -- Al Gilman <asgilman@access.digex.net> or Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>.

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 XML & XHTML Modularization; Ruby/Grid layout [Open session with permission of the Chair]

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 Xlink/Xptr; SVG logic vs layout [Open session with permission of the Chair]

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 DOM2 events; XSL transformation ; Web Characterization [Closed session]

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:00 Review of PF liaison & coordination with other W3C Working Groups, and organization of PFWG work.

Preparation (additional detail to be added)

• List of WAI IG update off IG Home page
• List of WAI EO Deliverables off EO Home page
• Current PF Agenda off Member privatePF Home page 
• For morning PF session: W3C Technical Reports public page with pointers to XML Schema/XHTML/SVG/DOM/etc documents.

Last updated:  March 11, 1999