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Education and Outreach Working Group Meeting
February 28 and March 1, 2002
Cannes Mandelieu, France

Participation

Participation is open to members in good standing of W3C/WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), and to individuals interested in participating in and contributing to the efforts of the EOWG. Any participants not already members of the EOWG should read the EOWG Charter and the how to join page, and send the requested information to the EOWG Chair.

For the Friday March 1 session of the EOWG meeting, the focus of this meeting will be on exchanging information about promotion and implementation of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), primarily but not exclusively in European countries. On Friday we welcome people who are engaged in promoting implementation of WCAG in Europe but who are not involved in the EOWG. However, we request that they familiarize themselves with and be interested in coordinating their efforts with EOWG.

This EOWG meeting is held during the latter part of W3C's Technical Plenary Week, near Nice, in France. If you are interested in other parts of the Technical Plenary Week, which includes a day of general presentations and discussion on Wednesday, please note carefully the instructions regarding participation and registration for different parts of the week, and email the EOWG Chair with any questions.

Registration

Pre-registration is required of everyone attending the EOWG meeting on February 28 and/or March 1, 2002, and for any other portion of the Tech Plenary Week.

Agenda (Proposed)

The following is a proposed agenda, with as-yet unlinked documents for discussion and review. Comments to the EOWG mailing list welcome.

Thursday, February 28, 2002

• 8:30 Informal discussion, set-up, etc.
• 9:00 Introductions and agenda review
  • brief overview of EOWG work, June 2002 Amsterdam meeting, WAI DA work
• 9:15 EOWG Deliverables under development
  • past, current, planned priorities
• 9:30 Implementation Planning Resource Suite (comprises 10 pages in all, note links below)
  • clarity and consistency of whole package before sending for review
  • more substantial changes to note for later
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Discussion on Implementation Planning Resource Suite, continued
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Potential benefits of best practices superset
  • guests invited from other W3C groups
  • potential collaborative projects, for instance model templates
  • next steps? who wants to do what?
• 3:30 Break
• 3:45 Certification of evaluated Web sites and/or of organizations doing Web site evaluations
  • need for certification/ issues about certification
  • using a consistent & comprehensive evaluation protocol
  • joint discussion w/ QA Activity representatives about possible approaches to developing certification
• 5:30 Adjourn

Friday, March 1, 2002

• 8:30 Informal discussion, set-up, etc.
• 8:45 Roundtable on different approaches to promoting Web Accessibility in Europe
  • updates on developments in Web accessibility promotion efforts in Europe?
  • observations on effectiveness of different countries' promotion efforts over the past year?
  • new issues emerging?
• 10:30 Break
• 11:00 Update on specific issues:
  • WCAG 2.0 progress & opportunities for comment
  • Discussion of initial draft of demographics document
  • Identification of additional issues for afternoon discussion
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Brainstorming and discussion on issues related to promotion and outreach:
  • continued discusion of demographics
  • missed roundtable items
  • best practices -- afterthoughts from our joint meeting yesterday?
  • certification -- afterthoughts from our joint meeting yesterday?
  • information on how to join EOWG & info on CSUN meeting
• 3:30 Break
• 3:45 Brainstorming and discussion, etc.
  • trends in e-Europe Initiative & Action Plan & report on Madrid Conference
  • harmonization/fragmentation of guidelines
  • progress on authorized translations
  • possible trainings on evaluation, retrofitting, development
  • increasing networking around Web accessibility
• 5:00 Adjourn

Readings

Readings linked from agenda above; also here:

• Education and Outreach Working Group Home Page
• June 2002 Amsterdam meeting, brainstorming notes
• EOWG Deliverables under development
• best practices superset
• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility
• QA Activity
• Implemenation Planning Resource Suite
• Evaluating Sites for Web Accessibility
• Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
• Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
• Training Resource Suite for Web Accessibility
• Objectives for Web Accessibility Training
• Curriculum for Web Accessibility Training
• Modules for Web Accessibility Training
• Tips for Web Accessibility Training
• Setting Up Resources for Web Accessibility Training

Minutes

Minutes will be linked after the meeting.

Best practices superset:

A rudimentary initial definition is highlighting a core of best practices in design or development of Web content or Web-based applications, potentially overlapping different areas such as accessibility, device independence, internationalization, use of metadata, etc. Such a "superset" might be tied together by no more than collective demonstration in model templates, or by any one of a number of more organized strategies for linkage and co-promoting.

Last updated 1 March, 2002 by Judy Brewer, jbrewer@w3.org

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