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Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Deliverables

Introduction

This page lists planned deliverables of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG). Please note:

• This planning schedule is updated as of March 2005.
• Many documents listed here are drafts, and should not be referenced in other documents.
• Completed EOWG deliverables as well as other WAI deliverables are available on the WAI Resources page.
• An overall list of deliverables for this group is available in the EOWG Charter.
• EOWG maintains a list of priorities for translation of WAI documents.
• EOWG should update this planning list at least once per quarter, and plan tentative deliverables work four quarters ahead.

2005 Second Quarter Planned Deliverables

The phone icon () below indicates the approximate number of EOWG teleconferences in which the item would be addressed.

1. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential for Web Accessibility [complete edits, copyedit]
   • [changelog - standards]
2. How People with Disabilities Use the Web [complete edits, copyedit]
   • changelog: people with disabilities
3. Introduction and Overview pages [update]
   • Introduction to Web Accessibility (requirements and changelog for intro)
   • Essential Components of Web Accessibility (requirements and changelog for components)
4. WAI Web site redesign [revise prototype, test, implement]
   • work statement: WAI Site Redesign Task Force
   • planning page for redesign
5. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization [complete edits, copyedit]
   • pages: Overview, Social Factors, Technical Factors, Economic Factors, Legal and Policy Factors
   • changelog: business case
   • background: [old version of auxiliary benefits] [slightly edited old version of auxiliary benefits]
6. WAI Beginners Lexicon [coordinate with WAI groups and W3C glossary, complete development, review and revise, copyedit]
   • pages: Requirements for Small Subset WAI Glossary
   • background: old draft of WAI Glossary, draft of a W3C Glossary, priorities for translating WAI documents
7. Evaluation Resource Suite [complete existing edit requests, update, copyedit]
   • Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools - complete edits, review, copyedit
   • Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility - strip edit anchors
   • Review Teams for Accessible Web Sites - review edits
   • Evaluation Template - make template downloadable
   • Evaluation Tools - coordinate with ERT WG as needed
   • potential additional pages, such as Usability Testing [draft]
8. Why text-only is not a good solution for accessibility [brainstorm, prioritize; possibly develop, review and revise, copyedit]
9. Promotional campaigns [brainstorm, develop, review and revise, implement]
10. Online slide sets on WAI topics [brainstorm, prioritize; possibly develop, review and revise, copyedit]
    • components of Web accessibility
    • standards harmonization
    • how to promote Web accessibility in your organization or community
    • how to respond to organizations with inaccessible Web sites
    • developing a business case for web accessibility for your organization
11. Printed materials:
    • basic WAI Flyer, changelog [update, develop ordering page, print]
    • components of Web accessibility [develop, review and revise, print]
    • others? [brainstorm, prioritize]
12. Education/outreach materials for people with disabilities [brainstorm, prioritize]
13. Selecting Accessibility Consultants (working title only) [prioritize; possibly develop, review and revise, copyedit]
14. Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [review minor updates]
15. Retrofitting Web Sites for Accessibility [review and revise, copyedit]
    • Before/After Web Site Retrofitting Demo [brainstorm, develop, review and revise]
16. Training resources framework [brainstorm, prioritize]
    • Strategies/requirements document for goals & objectives & approaches
    • "Danger review" on existing Training Resource Suite
    • Plan for future work

2005 Third Quarter Planned Deliverables

1. WCAG 2.0 Transition Materials:
   • Online slide set on how to transition from wcag 1.0 and other guidelines onto wcag 2.0 [brainstorm, prioritize, develop]
   • Quick Tips for Making Accessible Web Sites [revise based on WCAG 2.0, coordinate with WCAG WG]
     • draft from Harvey
   • Implementation Planning Suite [brainstorm transition page for WCAG 1.0 to 2.0, coordinate with WCAG WG]
   • Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 [brainstorm, start development]
     • background: Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, changelog: wcag 1.0 curric
     • include publishing of downloadable and/or streaming excerpts from Web Sites That Work video
     • background: Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, changelog: wcag 1.0 curric
   • Evaluation Resource Suite [revise based on WCAG 2.0 and availability of EARL Wrapper]
   • Training Resource Suite [revise and update based on WCAG 2.0]
     • changelog: training suite
   • Reference pages, resource pages, and planning pages [comprehensive review and update to align with WCAG 2.0]
2. Reference pages and planning pages [quarterly review and update]

2005 Fourth Quarter Planned Deliverables

1. WCAG 2.0 Transition Materials [review and revise, copyedit]
   • [items listed above]
2. Business Case for Authoring Tool Accessibility [complete edits, copyedit]
   • changelog: atag business case, existing edit requests, update
3. General Links on Web Accessibility [brainstorm approach and parameters, update]
4. Promotional campaigns, additional [develop, review and revise, implement]
5. Static Gallery of Mini-Web Sites, with Templates and Tutorials [brainstorm, develop, review and revise, copyedit]
   • original concept of live gallery -- background: live gallery planning, live gallery framework
   • templates background: templates brainstorm, more templates brainstorm, example of modular templates (css boxes)
   • tutorials background: wishlist of tutorials
6. WAI General FAQ [brainstorm, develop, review and revise, copyedit]
7. Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization [brainstorm adding additional myths page(s)]
8. Alternative Web Browsing [revise, update, integrate into evaluation resource suite]
9. Accreditation, certification approaches [gather info on existing approaches, review previous discussions, review current needs
   • background: question log from Cannes
10. Reference pages and planning pages [quarterly review and update]

2006 Planned Deliverables

1. Online slide sets on WAI topics [brainstorm, develop, review and revise, copyedit]
   • [?] how to retrofit Web sites for accessibility
   • [?] how to evaluate and monitor Web sites for accessibility
2. Accessibility Features of W3C Technologies [update as non-technical messaging]
   • Accessibility features of SMIL [revise existing resources, expand]
   • Accessibility features of SVG [revise existing resources, expand]
   • ccessibility features of CSS [update as non-technical messaging]
   • Accessibility features of SMIL [update as non-technical messaging]
   • Accessibility features of MathML [update as non-technical messaging]
3. Calendar of Conferences [brainstorm approach, consider more emphasis on promotion opportunities for EOWG]
4. Revisit some of our outdated list of planned EOWG deliverables and update strategies
5. How People with Disabilities Use the Web [brainstorm new section or page, review]
   • add links to assistive technologies and adaptive computing resources for people with disabilities
6. Reference pages and planning pages [quarterly review and update]

"Update quarterly or as needed" items

Items in this section should be reviewed and updated quarterly or when new information is available.

• Planning pages:
  • EOWG Deliverables list
• Reference pages and resource pages:
  • WAI Resources
  • Translating WAI Documents
  • Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
  • Overview of Web Accessibility Initiative [changelog for online overview]

Wishlist

1. Web accessibility for kids?

Completed Deliverables

Deliverables that EOWG has completed in the past (most are current, but some require ongoing maintenance, some need significant updating, and a few have been superseded):

1. Accessibility Features of W3C Technologies
   • Accessibility Features of CSS (superseded by WCAG techniques document, but could be updated as non-technical messaging)
   • Accessibility Features of SMIL (superseded by a WCAG techniques document? update as non-technical messaging?)
   • HTML 4.0 Accessibility Improvements (superseded by a WCAG techniques document)
   • Alternative Web Browsing (needs updating)
2. Best Practices Training Exchange Workshops
   • July 18 2003, Palo Alto: Web Accessibility Training and Exchange, and July 17 2003, Palo Alto: Web Accessibility Training
   • September 2003, Dublin: Web Accessibility Evaluation Exchange
   • February 2004, Madrid, Spain: Best Practices Training Exchange Workshop
   • July 2004, Paris, France: Best Practices Training Exchange Workshop
3. Curriculum for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (needs minor corrections, and eventual updating to WCAG 2.0)
4. Frequently Asked Questions
   • Fact Sheet for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
   • Fact Sheet for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
   • Fact Sheet for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
5. Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible (WAI resource page)
6. Overview of Web Accessibility Initiative (needs quarterly updating)
7. Reference Links
   • Conference Calendar (currently outdated, and name should be changed)
   • Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility
   • Policies Relating to Web Accessibility (needs quarterly and as-needed updating)
   • References on Web Accessibility (currently outdated, and name is incorrect)
   • WAI Resources (annotated reference links)
8. Resource Suites
   • Evaluating Web Sites For Accessibility (WAI Resource Suite, including the following sub-pages)
     1. Review Teams for Evaluating Web Site Accessibility
     2. Template for Evaluating Web Site Accessibility
   • Implementation Planning Resource Suite (WAI Resource Suite, including the following sub-pages) [implementation changelog]
     1. Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
     2. Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
   • Planning a Web Accessibility Training (WAI Resource Suite)
9. Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites (will need updating for WCAG 2.0 release)
10. Translating WAI Documents (needs updating)
11. WAI Flyer (needs updating, needing ordering form)
12. WAI Web site redesign -- UCD Analysis Phase -- prototypes 2004/09/ and /ut2/
13. Introduction and Overview pages
    • Introduction to Web Accessibility (requirements and changelog for intro)
    • Interdependent Components of Web Accessibility (requirements and changelog for components)
    • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview (changelog for guidelines overviews)
    • Navigating WCAG 1.0 Guidelines and Techniques Documents (changelog for guidelines overviews)
    • User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview (changelog for guidelines overviews)
    • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview (changelog for guidelines overviews)
    • Overview of the Web Accessbility Initiative (WAI) Slides (old draft of requirements and changelog)
    • Introduction to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working Draft Documents
14. Web Sites That Work

Document Information

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