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[Draft] Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Charter

The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, and implementation of web accessibility; and to support the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Working Groups.

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[Draft] Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Charter

The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, and implementation of web accessibility; and to support the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Working Groups.

End date 31 May 2017
Confidentiality Proceedings are Public.
Initial Chairs Sharron Rush, Shawn Lawton Henry
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 55)
Shawn Lawton Henry (35%),
Contributors: Shadi Abou-Zahra (10%), Eric Eggert (5%), Kevin White (5%)
Usual Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: Weekly, plus longer teleconferences one to four times annually
Face-to-face meetings: Once annually or more

Scope

The scope of EOWG work includes:

  • Contributing to the understandability, approachability, and ease-of-use of other WAI Working Groups' deliverables, where possible through EOWG liaisons embedded in other groups.
  • Developing support material, in collaboration with other WAI Working Groups, to help developers, designers, authors and others understand, use, and implement WAI standards, including introductory and advanced resources.
  • Encouraging and facilitating international standards harmonization through awareness and uptake of WAI standards, Authorized Translations, and supporting resources.
  • Promoting WAI's work on mobile accessibility, HTML5 accessibility, and other emerging areas.
  • Improving findability of W3C's web accessibility resources.
  • Engaging with the broad web communities and disability communities to advance web accessibility and WAI work.
  • Identifying education and outreach needs around web accessibility, developing strategies to address those needs, and creating and ======= the Education and Outreach Working Group.

End date 31 May 2017
Confidentiality Proceedings are Public.
Initial Chairs Sharron Rush, Shawn Lawton Henry
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 55)
Shawn Lawton Henry (35%),
Contributors: Shadi Abou-Zahra (10%), Eric Eggert (5%), Kevin White (5%)
Usual Meeting Schedule Teleconferences: Weekly, plus longer teleconferences one to four times annually
Face-to-face meetings: Once annually or more

Scope

The scope of EOWG work includes:

  • Contributing to the understandability, approachability, and ease-of-use of other WAI Working Groups' deliverables, where possible through EOWG liaisons embedded in other groups.
  • Developing support material, in collaboration with other WAI Working Groups, to help developers, designers, authors and others understand, use, and implement WAI standards, including introductory and advanced resources.
  • Encouraging and facilitating international standards harmonization through awareness and uptake of WAI standards, Authorized Translations, and supporting resources.
  • Promoting WAI's work on mobile accessibility, HTML5 accessibility, and other emerging areas.
  • Improving findability of W3C's web accessibility resources.
  • Engaging with the broad web communities and disability communities to advance web accessibility and WAI work.
  • Identifying education and outreach needs around web accessibility, developing strategies to address those needs, and creating and >>>>>>> 1.41 maintaining a wide range of education and outreach resources to meet identified needs.

Primary areas of focus for this chartered period include:

  • Education and training,
  • Standards harmonization,
  • Community engagement,
  • Lowering the learning curve for getting started with accessible design, development, evaluation, and project management.

Consistent with W3C Process requirements on Task Forces, the EOWG may form task forces composed of EOWG participants or join other W3C task forces to carry out assignments when under the chartered scope of EOWG. EOWG task forces must have a work statement approved by the EOWG, announced on the EOWG mailing list, and available from the EOWG <<<<<<< charter6-2015.html home page. Task forces may hold separate teleconferences and meetings per the W3C process and with the approval of the EOWG.

Success Criteria

  • Production of documents and tools supporting EOWG's mission, defined in the Deliverables section below.

Out of Scope

EOWG does not intend to develop W3C Recommendations or new markup languages.

Deliverables

EOWG primarily develops "WAI Resources" that are stable, vetted pages on the WAI website. EOWG may publish W3C Working Group Notes during this charter period. The following table describes the planned deliverables for this charter period. Deliverables with "(WAI-DEV)" are supported by the WAI-DEV Project. Brief descriptions of the new deliverables are available on the EOWG Deliverables page.

Purpose Description Deliverables expected this charter period

Improve deliverables of WAI Working Groups

Collaborate with other WAI Working Groups to help make WAI guidelines, specifications, Notes, and other resources more ======= home page. Task forces may hold separate teleconferences and meetings per the W3C process and with the approval of the EOWG.

Success Criteria

  • Production of documents and tools supporting EOWG's mission, defined in the Deliverables section below.

Out of Scope

EOWG does not intend to develop W3C Recommendations or new markup languages.

Deliverables

EOWG primarily develops "WAI Resources" that are stable, vetted pages on the WAI website. EOWG may publish W3C Working Group Notes during this charter period. The following table describes the planned deliverables for this charter period. Deliverables with "(WAI-DEV)" are supported by the WAI-DEV Project. Brief descriptions of the new deliverables are available on the EOWG Deliverables page.

Purpose Description Deliverables expected this charter period

Improve deliverables of WAI Working Groups

Collaborate with other WAI Working Groups to help make WAI guidelines, specifications, Notes, and other resources more >>>>>>> 1.41 readable, understandable, navigable, and usable. (examples of previous reviews)

Review other Working Groups' deliverables, including:

  • WCAG 2.0 Extensions
  • ARIA 1.1 materials
  • SVG Accessibility materials

Introduce technical documents

Introductory material for WAI technical guidelines, specifications, and Notes provides high-level overviews for managers and policy makers, and introductions for those who will use the technical document. (intro examples)

Promote international adoption of W3C accessibility standards

Resources provide policy makers, organizational leaders, project managers, and others guidance on integrating WAI standards in their organization, including resources to encourage and enable international harmonization of web accessibility standards. (harmonization examples)

Improve understanding and implementing WAI standards

Material to help developers, designers, authors and others understand, use, and implement WAI standards in their web projects. (implementing examples)

Brief descriptions of the new deliverables for this charter period are available on the EOWG Deliverables page.

Support effective web accessibility evaluation

Guidance for beginners to do preliminary evaluations, support for WCAG conformance assessment, a database of evaluation tools, and other evaluation resources. (evaluation examples)

Facilitate community engagement

Engaging with broad web communities and disability communities to advance web accessibility, communicate about WAI work, and encourage participation in W3C. (engagement examples)

Milestones

The table below lists major milestones for EOWG deliverables during this charter period. More details on planned milestones are maintained in EOWG <<<<<<< charter6-2015.html Deliverables Scheduling.

Deliverable Requirements Prototype/Draft Published
Tutorials done done December 2015
WCAG QuickRef done May 2015 February 2016
Policies done June 2015 January 2016
Quick Start Guides June 2015 October 2015 March 2016
Widget Library August 2015 January 2016 October 2016
Planning and Managing Roadmap done May 2015 March 2016
Showcase Examples August 2015 March 2016 July 2016
Inclusive Design August 2015 November 2015 March 2016
How People Use the Web done done October 2016
Training Material May 2016 March 2017 May 2017

EOWG deliverables are produced on an ongoing basis throughout the life of the charter. EOWG work priorities are evaluated regularly by EOWG and WAI staff. Work priorities are periodically revised based on current education and outreach needs, and the progress of deliverables in other WAI Working Groups with which EOWG has dependencies. Therefore, topic and schedule may be changed, and some deliverables listed above may be subject to change based on changed circumstances.

Dependencies and Liaisons

Dependencies

EOWG will assist in developing strategies and materials to support promotion and implementation of the following Working Groups' deliverables. Development of some EOWG deliverables is dependent on related deliverables of these Working Groups.

  • Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) WG (formerly Protocols and Formats Working Group PFWG, APA Draft Charter)
  • ARIA Working Group (ARIA WG) (also formerly Protocols and Formats Working Group PFWG, ARIA WG Draft Charter)
  • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (ATAG WG)
  • Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT ======= Deliverables Scheduling.

    Deliverable Requirements Prototype/Draft Published
    Tutorials done done December 2015
    WCAG QuickRef done May 2015 February 2016
    Policies done June 2015 January 2016
    Quick Start Guides June 2015 October 2015 March 2016
    Widget Library August 2015 January 2016 October 2016
    Planning and Managing Roadmap done May 2015 March 2016
    Showcase Examples August 2015 March 2016 July 2016
    Inclusive Design August 2015 November 2015 March 2016
    How People Use the Web done done October 2016
    Training Material May 2016 March 2017 May 2017

    EOWG deliverables are produced on an ongoing basis throughout the life of the charter. EOWG work priorities are evaluated regularly by EOWG and WAI staff. Work priorities are periodically revised based on current education and outreach needs, and the progress of deliverables in other WAI Working Groups with which EOWG has dependencies. Therefore, topic and schedule may be changed, and some deliverables listed above may be subject to change based on changed circumstances.

Dependencies and Liaisons

Dependencies

EOWG will assist in developing strategies and materials to support promotion and implementation of the following Working Groups' deliverables. Development of some EOWG deliverables is dependent on related deliverables of these Working Groups.

  • Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) WG (formerly Protocols and Formats Working Group PFWG, APA Draft Charter)
  • ARIA Working Group (ARIA WG) (also formerly Protocols and Formats Working Group PFWG, ARIA WG Draft Charter)
  • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (ATAG WG)
  • Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT >>>>>>> 1.41 <<<<<<< charter6-2015.html WG)
  • User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
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  • User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG)
  • >>>>>>> 1.41
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)

Liaisons

WAI Interest Group (WAI IG):
EOWG assists other W3C Working Groups in identifying issues to bring into WAI IG for discussion, and in tracking and capturing issues from the WAI IG mailing list and identifying areas where awareness and/or training resources are needed.

EOWG will coordinate directly with other WAI groups. Additionally, EOWG may coordinate with other W3C Working Groups on education and outreach related to accessibility aspects of their work, such as Mobile Web Initiative Activity.

Participation

To be successful, the Education and Outreach Working Group is expected to have 10 or more active participants for its duration. Historically, EOWG has had around 15 active participants. Effective participation to Education and Outreach Working Group is expected to consume a minimum of 4 hours per week for each participant, and a minimum of 8 hours per week for editors.

In addition to the Good Standing requirements in the W3C Process, EOWG participants in Good Standing must actively participate in the development of deliverables by: commenting on open issues in the EOWG wiki, responding to e-mails sent to the EOWG mailing list, and completing EOWG questionnaires in a timely manner.

Communication

This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list w3c-wai-eo@w3.org (archive). Additionally, Task Force mailing lists are used periodically.

Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the Education and Outreach Working Group home page.

Decision Policy

As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3), this group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair puts a question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different opinions, the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and any objections, and move on.

Patent Disclosures

The Education and Outreach Working Group provides an opportunity to share perspectives on the topics addressed by the charter. This Working Group is not chartered to produce Recommendations with associated licensing obligations as described by the W3C Patent Policy. W3C reminds Working Group participants of their obligation to comply with patent disclosure obligations as set out in Section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy. While this Working Group does not produce Recommendation-track documents, when Working Group participants review Recommendation-track specifications from other Working Groups, the patent disclosure obligations do apply.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.

About this Charter

This charter for the Education and Outreach Working Group has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.

EOWG was originally chartered in March 1998, and has been rechartered four times since then. The EOWG is renewing its charter in order to continue developing education and outreach strategies and resources supporting web accessibility. The main changes since the previous charter are:

  • a shift in primary focus (from transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0, awareness of WAI-ARIA, and deliverables relating to accessibility needs due to ageing) to: education and training; standards harmonization; community engagement; and lowering the learning curve for getting started with accessible design, development, evaluation, and project management; and
  • the new deliverables in the Deliverables section.

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