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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

• Actions for all EOWG (updated Wednesday 22 May):
  
  1. Prepare for 24 May teleconference, per agenda below.
  2. Application Notes/Tutorials - Think about the big-picture approach: Is this the right format? Presentation? Level of coverage? etc. (We'll discuss this at 31 May teleconference. Feel free to add comments to the Tutorials wiki page.)
  3. Easy Design & Development Analysis (like Easy Checks for Developers) - add your thoughts on this potential new deliverable to the Easy DD wiki page
  4. Update your Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  5. Action items - update the status of yours
• EOWG Tracker Summary, open actions by person
• EOWG Wiki
• EOWG questionnaires (WBS):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences

Teleconferences

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, Zakim IRC "bot", and Trackbot.

• Teleconference bridge:
  • +1.617.761.6200
  • Instructions for VoIP "Zakim-SIP"
  • 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.

Planned upcoming face-to-face meetings:

• 2 days during TPAC 2013, 11-15 November in Shenzhen, China

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribing instructions

Current and Upcoming Work

(Updated May 2013)

Active Projects:

1. Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility (wiki for Easy Checks)
2. Application Notes (working title) (developing under WAI-ACT Project)
3. Addressing WCAG Techniques issues
   
4. Promotions listed in EOWG wiki
5. Education and training big picture
6. Engaging folks in WAI work

Contributing to:

• Clarifying WCAG Techniques issues
• Mobile Accessibility page
• Participating in WAI update
• RD Symposia Design - specs, draft, wiki for RD Symposia design
• Accessibility intro pages
• Evaluation overview page edit
• Accessibility Responsibility Breakdown in WAI-Engage wiki
• WAI-ACT Project deliverables
• Work of WAI and W3C groups, such as WCAG-EM

Pending:

1. Policies Relating to Web Accessibility update, Planning Updates to Policies
   Status: on hold pending Director action.
2. Using BAD (Before-After Demo) for Training
   Status: on hold pending WG availability.
3. Start with Accessibility
   Status: on hold pending coordination with Shadi & WAI-ACT project.
4. Web Accessibility and Older People - consider revising to clarify age-related disabilities directly addressed by 'accessibility' (other issues, such as inexperience & old technology, in broader consideration)
   Status: will consider in 2013 Q3
5. WAI-AGE project:
   • How People With Disabilities Use the Web
     Status: draft complete, a few edits pending, ready for EOWG review (e-mail).
   • Slides - Web Accessibility for Older Users Presentation
     Status: draft complete. will be updated when documents completed.
   • Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
     Status: draft mostly complete. some open comments are pending, additional comments are welcome for the final draft.
6. Presentation material:
   • Slides CSS version - single file of WCAG 2 Benefits, slidey show of WCAG 2 Benefits
     Status: Ian & Shawn working on
   • Business Case instructions page, draft ppt
     Status: completed. pending completion of slide CSS
   • Benefits of WCAG 2.0 instructions overview, ppt 800KB, HTML, video
     Status: pending completion of slide CSS
   • Components of Web Accessibility instructions cover page, step-by-step guide version, HTML presentation version, presentation version
     Status: pending completion of slide CSS
   • Using WCAG 2 instructions page, draft ppt
     Status: pending completion of slide CSS
   • Slidey help
7. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material (Analysis/Requirements for physical materials)
   • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips)
     Status: done except need to revisit 4.1
   • WAI Flyer (old WAI Flyer, changelog)
     Status: March 2012 version done, EOWG will review for next version

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for the future.

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

Document Information

Status: Updated $Date: 2013-05-22 23:20:21 $