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Education and Outreach Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting
22-23 January 2007
Boston, MA,
USA
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Participation
Participation is open to participants of W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG). If you are not currently an EOWG participant and want to attend, contact Shawn Henry (W3C Staff contact for EOWG).
Registration
Registration is required and is now closed.
If you have any questions about registration, contact Shawn Henry (W3C Staff contact for EOWG).
Readings and Preparation
- Promotional campaign to instructors:
- Note: some changelog items not yet implemented
- Review Promo campaign requirements
- Read and prepare to discuss comments in e-mail (from Alan)
- Prepare ideas for outreach, for example, mailing lists
- Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- Review requirements for the suite
- Read and prepare comments on Transitioning Web Sites from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- Review rough concept draft of Benefits of Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- Review concept idea for Mapping WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 (Comparison previous version)
- Promoting and Advocating for Web Accessibility
- Read and prepare comments on draft requirements
- Read and prepare comments on rough draft
- Participating in WAI
- Review existing version
- Read and prepare comments on suggested edits
Agenda
Note that this agenda has changed, due to snow.
Monday, 22 January
- 8:45 - 9:00 Gathering and greeting
- 9:00 - 9:15 Review agenda, set up scribe and changelog schedule, distribute files
- 9:15 - 10:30 Promoting and Advocating for Web
Accessibility
- Discuss requirements
- Preview initial draft
- 10:30 - 10:45 Break (drinks and snacks provided)
- 10:45 - 12:15 Promoting
and Advocating for Web Accessibility
- Discuss approach
- Discuss initial draft
- 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (provided)
- 1:15 - 2:30 Promoting Web Accessibility and
Participating in WAI
- Wrap up discussions on Promoting requirements and draft
- Discuss update to Participating in WAI
- 2:30 - 2:45 Break (drinks and snacks provided)
- 2:45 - 4:20 Promotional campaign to instructors
- Go over requirements
- Discuss new comments sent via e-mail (from Alan)
- Discuss outreach lists
- 4:30 - 5:00 Transitioning
- Go over requirements and relationship with other docs in suite
- Preview material for tomorrow
- 7:00 Dinner at Helmand Restaurant, for those who registered
Tuesday, 23 January
- 8:45 - 9:00 Gathering and greeting
- 9:00 - 10:30 Transitioning
- Discuss draft "Transitioning Web Sites from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0"
- 10:30 - 10:45 Break (drinks and snacks provided)
- 10:45 - 12:15 Transitioning
- Discuss draft "Transitioning Web Sites from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0"
- [Discuss concept draft of "Benefits of Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0"]
- [Discuss concept idea of "Mapping WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints to WCAG 2.0"]
- 12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (provided)
- 1:15 - 2:30Discussion [intentionally
left open for overflow topics]
- [Web Accessibility Basic Considerations (ABCs)]
- 2:30 - 2:45 Break (drinks and snacks provided)
- 2:45 - 4:20 Discussion [intentionally left open for
overflow topics]
- [Web Accessibility Basic Considerations (ABCs)]
- 4:30 - 5:00 Wrap up discussions and plans for next steps
- 6:30 Dinner at Legal Sea Food, for those who registered
Wednesday, 24 January
- Optional small group work
- Optional joint WAI testing meeting
- 5:30 - 8:00 Reception, Stata Center, 4th floor R&D foyer area (food provided, but not full meal)
Logistics
Meals:
- A convenient place for breakfast, coffee, and tea is the Forbes Cafe on the first floor of the Stata Center. It opens at 7:30am.
- Lunch and break snacks will be provided, according to your dietary requirements in the Survey: Food and Meals for EOWG F2F Jan 2007 Boston.
- Dinner is on your own. Those who registered in the Survey: Food and Meals for EOWG F2F Jan 2007 Boston are going to dinner together. Times and places are in the agenda above.
We are meeting in the D463 Star room (gif map).
For additional location, hotel, transportation, and other logistics, see the Multi-Group Meetings Week page.