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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

• Open reviews:
  1. Training Resource Suite for review - complete survey by 31 August
  2. ATAG review - send comments to ATAG comment list by 2 September
  3. Developing Websites for Older People - draft mostly complete, comments welcome
  4. WAI-ARIA - any quick changes before publication of Last Call? (WAI-ARIA links below)
  5. Slide sets (slide links in agenda below)
  6. Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer - some open comments are pending, additional comments are welcome for the final draft.
  7. (more coming in September)
• EOWG questionnaires (WBS):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • WAI EOWG F2F in November 2010 in France with W3C TPAC 2010
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

• 3 September teleconference - agenda:
  1. Developing Websites for Older People (updated 3 September)
     • Discuss the headings. For people who know something about designing for older users, do the <h3>s grab them as things they know? How can we improve that?
     • Discuss any comments.
     • Plan for EOWG publication approval.
  2. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
     • Discuss the Accessibility Requirements page at all levels (overall and details)
     • Brainstorm titles for the accessibility needs and barriers page
     • Discuss any comments on accessibility needs and barriers page
     • Discuss any comments on Scenarios page
  3. Reminders of work for next week
• 10 September teleconference - preliminary agenda:
  1. Training Resource Suite review survey - discuss substantive comments if needed
  2. Developing Websites for Older People - reminder to complete survey (coming soon)
  3. Slide sets
     • CSS version (Ian P is working on adding WAI footer and platter image) - single file of WCAG 2 Benefits, slidey show of WCAG 2 Benefits
     • Business Case updated draft of slide set (updated 25 August) (currently only ppt, will do HTML after content settles)
     • Using WCAG 2 early draft of slide set (currently only ppt, will do HTML after content settles)
• 17 September teleconference - possible topics:
  1. Usability-Accessibility document (Analysis/Requirements)
  2. WAI-AGE articles
• 24 September teleconference

Potential topics for August and September:

• Developing Websites for Older People
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web (Overview)
• Usability-Accessibility document (Analysis/Requirements)
• WAI-AGE articles
• WAI-ARIA
  • WAI-ARIA Editors' Draft
  • WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide Editors' Draft
  • WAI-ARIA Primer Editors' Draft
  • WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Editors' Draft

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, and Zakim IRC "bot".

• Teleconference bridge:
  • +1.617.761.6200
  • +33.4.26.46.79.03 (new number and locale July 2010)
  • +44.203.318.0479 (new number and locale July 2010)
  • 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. Upcoming face-to-face meetings:

• EOWG: 1-2 November 2010 in Lyon, France, with the W3C TPAC2010.
  • Registration information
  • Hotel information

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribing instructions (old scribes list)

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of August 2010.

1. WAI-AGE Task Force work
   • Slides - Web Accessibility for Older Users Presentation
     Status: draft complete, ready for EOWG review. will be updated when documents completed.
     
   • BAD demo - Before and After Demonstration (BAD) [revision]
     Status: update mostly complete, a few tweaks then ready for publication as a public Draft for Review.
     
   • Developing Websites for Older People: Applying the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
     Status: draft in progress
   • How People With Disabilities Use the Web
     Status: update in progress.
   • Training Resource Suite (4 pages)
     Status: drafts nearly complete. after a thorough edit pass, ask EOWG to OK publication as a public Draft for Review.
   • Usability-Accessibility document (Analysis/Requirements)
     Status: rough draft in progress
   • Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
     Status: draft mostly complete. waiting for other document completion before finalizing.
   • See also WAI-AGE Project Deliverables plan, WAI-AGE Project, WAI-AGE Task Force
2. Presentation material and videos:
   1. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 instructions overview, ppt 800KB, HTML, video
   2. Components of Web Accessibility instructions cover page, step-by-step guide version, HTML presentation version, presentation version (.ppt @@KB)
   3. Using WCAG 2.0 - slide set version of /WAI/intro/wcag20
   4. Slidey help
   5. About WCAG 2.0 presentation material update - probably break up into smaller presentations
3. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material
   • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance (QuickTips) - make print version
     (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips)
   • Flyer front (old WAI Flyer, changelog) - make print version
   • Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
4. New doors to WAI resources, information architecture, site design & navigation
   • Annotated navigation page for WCAG 2.0 documents - draft matching nav, draft by audience
   • New IA (and maybe new "User Perspectives" nav page: option with more, option for users only )
   • Expand-collapse functionality
   • Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles
   • For all WAI resources, probably at /WAI/intro/, maybe organized by target audience
   • Site design: in-suite navigation (e.g., bcase, eval tools, new training suite, new how people use the web)
5. Update user interface for How to Meet WCAG 2.0 (Quick Reference) - consider adding basic/101 notes, option to highlight things particularly useful for older users
6. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
   • Documents from other WAI and W3C groups
7. Updating as needed:
   • WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA Overview, WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feed

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for late 2010 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

• Current EOWG Charter (extended to 9 August 2010)
• Proposed New EOWG Charter was available for review (member-only link) through 12 July 2010

EOWG Task Forces

1. Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
2. Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
3. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
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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