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1. Education & Outreach (EOWG)

Education and Outreach Working Group Face-to-Face Meeting
1-2 November 2010, Lyon, France

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, EOWG Chair.

Registration

Registration is required. Under question 5 "Monday, 1 November All Group Meetings Attendance" and 6 "Tuesday, 2 November All Group Meetings Attendance", select the option button for "Attending as a participant in this group" in the column after "Education and Outreach".

If you have any questions about registration, contact Shawn Henry, EOWG Chair.

Readings and Preparation

We will work on the following projects during the face-to-face meeting. [ready] indicates the document is ready for review, that it will not change much before the meeting.

1. WCAG Quick Reference/Checklist
   • [ready] Analysis for [WCAG 2 Quick Reference|Checklist]
   • [ready] Current How to Meet WCAG 2.0 user interface
2. WAI website redesign
   • [ready] Previous WAI Site Analysis documentation
   • [ready] WAI Website Information Architecture Notes
   • [ready] Design of W3C website
3. Training and presentation material - brainstorm enhancements, then prioritize ideas
   • [ready] WAI Resources on Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training and all the documents linked from that page
   • Slide sets/mini-tutorials/how-to guides/step-by-step guides:
     1. [ready] Components of Web Accessibility (status: content done)
     2. [ready] Business Case slides (status: draft for review)
     3. [ready] Benefits of WCAG 2.0 (status: content done)
     4. [ready] Using WCAG 2 slides (status: draft for review)
     5. [ready] Web Accessibility for Older Users slides (status: draft for review)
     6. ? How People with Disabilities Use the Web
     7. ? Importance of Standards Harmonization
     8. ? Encouraging ATAG implementation
     9. ? How to respond to organizations with inaccessible Web sites
     10. ? Promoting Web accessibility in your organization or community
     11. ? Quick checks for web accessibility
     12. ? Using BAD in presentations
   • Slides 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

Material from Meeting:

• IA Update Notes
• Analysis Summary with update notes
• Tasks with update notes
• W3C site design sketch 1 (Liam's)

Agenda

Note: See the Readings and Preparation section above for planned topics.

Note: The agenda schedule will change based on participant availability and time needed for each topic. It will be updated throughout the meetings.

Monday 1 November 2009

 8:00 Registration

 8:45 -  9:00 Introductions, logistics

 9:00 - 10:30 WAI website redesign - discuss potential changes to:

• vision
• user groups and personas
• user analysis key implications
• tasks

10:30 - 10:55 Refreshment break

10:55 - 12:00 WAI website redesign - card sorting for information architecture

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch

 1:15 - 1:45 WAI website redesign - briefly revisit:

• vision
• user groups and personas
• user analysis key implications
• tasks

ad-hoc: Guidance to developers combining accessibility, internationalization, mobile, and other - brainstorming with Internationalization Working Group

 1:45 - 2:45 WCAG Quick Reference/Checklist:

• Review current How to Meet WCAG 2.0 user interface
• Discuss Analysis for [WCAG 2 Quick Reference|Checklist]

 2:45 - 3:15 Refreshment break

 3:15 - 4:45 WCAG Quick Reference/Checklist:

• Discuss Analysis for [WCAG 2 Quick Reference|Checklist]
• Prioritize features and functionality
• Sketch ideas

 4:45 - 5:00 Review today and plan for tomorrow

Note: The times above extended quite a bit. The group decided to go until nearly 7:00 pm. It was a productive day.

Tuesday 2 November 2009

 8:30 -  8:55 Greetings and setup

 9:00 - 11:00 WAI website information architecture - refine short-term revision

11:00 - 11:30 Refreshment break

11:30 - 12:45 WCAG Quick Reference/Checklist - continue from yesterday

12:45 - 1:45 Lunch

 1:45 - 3:15 Training and presentation material

• review WAI Resources on Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training
• brainstorm enhancements
• prioritize ideas

 3:15 - 3:45 Refreshment break

 3:45 - 4:45 Slide sets/mini-tutorials/how-to guides/step-by-step guides:

• Discuss Business Case slides
• Discuss Using WCAG 2 slides
• Discuss Web Accessibility for Older Users slides
• Prioritize:
  1. How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  2. Importance of Standards Harmonization
  3. Encouraging ATAG implementation
  4. How to respond to organizations with inaccessible Web sites
  5. Promoting Web accessibility in your organization or community
  6. Quick checks for web accessibility
  7. Using BAD in presentations
  8. others ?
• Slides 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

 4:45 - 5:00 Follow up plans (meet Friday?)

Logistics

For meeting location, hotel, transportation, and other logistics, see main World Wide Web Consortium TPAC 2010: W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week page.

On Site

Room: to be announced

IRC

Channel: #eo
Server: irc.w3.org
Port: 6665

Teleconference logistics

To find times in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.

Zakim 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#)

Document Information

Last updated: $Date: 2010/11/02 09:35:16 $ by $Author: shawn $

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