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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):
  • EOWG Review: WCAG-MWBP Overlap Working Draft June 2008
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • EOWG F2F Meeting October 2008
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

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.

• 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

EOWG teleconferences upcoming:

• No teleconference 4 July 2008
• 11 July 2008 teleconference - agenda
1. Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by People Using Mobile Devices - e-mail linking to updated versions
2. WCAG 2.0 Documents for Developers image
• 18 July 2008 teleconference - possible topics: EOWG Deliverables Plan with WAI-AGE material
• Tentative: 25 July 2008 teleconference - possible topic: WAI-AGE Literature Review
• 01 August 2008 teleconference
• 08 August 2008 teleconference
• 15 August 2008 teleconference
• 22 August 2008 teleconference
• 29 August 2008 teleconference

For Task Force teleconferences, see the Task Force mailing list.

Face-to-Face Meetings

EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page. Upcoming meetings:

• Tentative: 2 days during the week of 20-25 October 2008, at the Technical Plenary Week and AC meeting, in Cannes Mandelieu, France

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribes list | minuting instructions

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of May 2008. Work in Task Forces is indicated in brackets.

1. WAI Flyer and other physical/hardcopy material
   • [Draft] Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
   • old WAI Flyer, changelog
2. Benefits of WCAG 2.0
   • Requirements and changelog for Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 Resource Suite
   • Draft Benefits of WCAG 2.0 presentation material (.ppt)
   • E-mail introduction
3. MWBP-WCAG Overlap documents
   • Requirements/Analysis for MWBP-WCAG lists the 3 documents at the top
   • Stage: first drafts published, continuing to refine
4. WAI-AGE Project [WAI-AGE Task Force]
   • Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review
5. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
   • WCAG 2.0 material, such as WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information
6. Updating as needed:
   • Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA Overview, WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feeds

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned deliverables for the second half of 2008 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. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
3. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
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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