WAI Education & Outreach Meeting, January 8, 1999

• Attendees
• Action Item Summary
• Updates
• Review of Policy Page
• Discussion of PR Campaign
• Review Section 3 of Deliverables

Attendees

Action Item Summary from this meeting

Events calendar

• William will review the events calendar before the each meeting to report important dates to the group. Who will volunteer?. William to flag JB if updates aren't done as frequently as required.
• Judy and/or Daniel to talk with Kitch Barnicle and Jim Allen about their frequency of participation re: the Events Calendar.
• Judy and/or Daniel to find a staff CGI programmer to help design a better system for the Event's calendar.

Policy page

• All: please review and comment on the revised introductory sections for the policy page. Comments to the list.
• Chuck to ping various Canadian agencies about bad links and poor accessibility - DONE!
• Daniel to try and find more EU/French material about accessibility of IT/Web. Also from Amsterdam Treaty and HEART
• Peter to try and find more UK material about accessibility of IT/Web.
• Alan to do some detective work relating to policy in Thailand (Charles to forward the original reference - DONE!)
• Judy to follow up on some obscure information from Japan.
• Rob will discuss problems with "Thomas" with a colleague at the Library of Congress, if Judy explains the problems she encountered.
• All: please review relevant sections and provide any additional input you can to the policy sections.

Review of deliverable priorities

• Charles to try to find and deliver some narrative descriptions of guidelines he prepared while at RMIT.

1. Outreach & updates

• upcoming deadlines on events calendar or elsewhere?

2. Review & comment, policy page

• front-matter has been revised, please review

ACTION ITEM: The paragraph that introduces the section has been revised, but she would like review and comment

• format for reference links streamlined (the best example of how its intended to work is at "Australia" except for the "additional info & comments section" which is blank there)

JB: described the sections.
HB: there ought to be a section for court actions. JB: agrees.

• known information linked for Australia, Canada (broken links on CHRC site), France (no known links), Portugal, Thailand (need original URL's), United Kingdom (need legislative URL's), United States (still some legislative URL's to fill in -- "Thomas" seems to have unstable URL's)

CL: has pinged the Canadian Human Rights Commission about the broken legislative links, and has sent a strong note to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about their completely inaccessible "welcome" page.
DD: described the information he had sent to the list this morning.
Judy and Daniel had a long discussion about the US Telecommunications Access Please look for specific ties to IT.
JB: asked Peter Bosher if there are specific telecom/IT things in the DDA?
PB: much more general than that.
Action Item: Alan Cantor will do some detective work to identify the source of the Thailand article or any relevant Thai information. Charles will forward the original message to Alan. Alan will also try and find something he saw recently about Israel.
RN: a friend is the Webmaster at the Library of Congress which looks after "Thomas" and he will be happy to discus the issue with him if Judy can provide him with her comments.

• are additional & relevant original URL's available for legislation, policies, or interpretations of legislation?

CL: Peter, maybe BECTa has some written policy around their remit to ensure the National Grid for Learning be accessible
RN: has a page with list of links to some policy stuff.
• are policies under development in additional countries which can be linked from here?

JB: somebody in Norway has agreed to look at Nordic countries.
JB: what about the Amsterdam Treaty?
ACTION ITEM: DD: will look into it to see if there are IT and Web accessibility regulations. What is the jurisdiction: which agency has the responsibility to enforce?
WL: what about Japan? What is Masafume doing?
JB: ACTION ITEM: there is something, but it is obscure. She will follow up.
• can someone review legislative summaries in "HEART" report and see what additional European legislation may be relevant, and find original URL's for those?

ACTION ITEM: Daniel will do that.
• "call for review" plans, "finalization" plans

JB: would like to send out a call for additional information to the IG next week, even though that might overlap with another call for information, and a more formal call for review soon after that.
ACTION ITEM: Asks that we all look for more relevant information and provide it as soon as possible.

3. Discussion of possible public-relations campaign April-June

• which core deliverables most needed for that timeline
• which audiences most critical to reach with those resources

4. Review of Section 3 of EO Deliverables

1. Policy References High priority - In progress
2. Business Case High priority - In progress
3. Demographic Information High priority - In progress
4. Scenarios High priority - In progress
5. Related Activities Listing Regular priority - Started
6. Consultant List Regular priority - not started

• status, resources, priorities
• reformatting technical reference pieces for TR page notes

1. Narrative Descriptions of HTML4 Accessibility Improvements High priority - DONE
2. Narrative Descriptions of CSS2 Accessibility Improvements High priority - DONE

Engineering people continually ask for a more concise, useful list
CMN: wrote narrative descriptions of UA (or AU) while he was at RMIT, and if he finds it will forward it to Judy.

3. Narrative Descriptions of SMIL Accessibility Improvements High priority - Almost done...

[Discussion stopped here because of overtime on the bridge. We will continue this discussion on the list and next week's call.]