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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• Current topics for work via email:
  • See EOWG list archives
• EOWG surveys (WBS questionnaires):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • [Face-to-Face Meeting] Registration for the W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, All Groups Meeting and Technical Plenary 20-24 October 2008 (meeting information e-mail)
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

• 12 September 2008 teleconference
• 19 September 2008 teleconference
• Tentative: 26 September 2008 teleconference
• 3 October 2008 teleconference
• 10 October 2008 teleconference
• 17 October 2008 teleconference
• 23-24 October 2008 face-to face meeting, information below
• Tentative: 31 October teleconference

Previous agendas are in the meeting minutes.

For Task Force teleconferences, see the Task Force mailing lists.

Teleconference logistics

EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time via teleconference bridge. To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.

We use the Zakim Teleconference Bridge, IRC, and Zakim IRC "bot".

• Teleconference bridge:
  • +1.617.761.6200
  • +33.4.89.06.34.99
  • +44.117.370.6152
  • Code: 3694# (EOWG#)
• IRC:
  • Channel: #eo
  • Server: irc.w3.org
  • Port: 6665

Face-to-Face Meetings

EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page. Upcoming meetings:

• 23-24 October 2008 in Mandelieu, France, at the W3C Technical Plenary Week and AC meeting
• Tentative: April 2009 in Madrid, Spain, around the WWW 2009 conference

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribes list | minuting instructions

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of July 2008. Work in Task Forces is indicated in brackets.

1. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material
   • [DRAFT] Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips
     • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance
   • [Draft] Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
     • old WAI Flyer, changelog
2. Transitioning to WCAG 2.0
   Requirements and changelog for Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 Resource Suite
   1. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 - presentation material and video
      • Benefits of WCAG 2.0 presentation material (.ppt, 500KB), HTML version
      • E-mail introduction
   2. WCAG 2.0 Documents - presentation material and video
      • [Draft] WCAG 2.0 Documents image
      • Planned material such as Navigating WCAG 2.0 Documents
   3. How to Transition Your Web Site from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
   4. Transitioning Web Accessibility Policies from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
3. MWBP-WCAG Overlap documents
   • Requirements/Analysis for MWBP-WCAG lists the 3 documents at the top
4. WAI-AGE Project [WAI-AGE Task Force]
   • Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review
   • WAI-AGE Project Deliverables plan
5. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
   • WCAG 2.0 material, such as WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information
6. Updating as needed:
   • Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA Overview, WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feeds

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned deliverables for the second half of 2008 and beyond.

Publications

• WAI Resources is an annotated list of current resources on the WAI site, many developed by EOWG.
• The Completed Deliverables section of the EOWG Deliverables Plan lists work completed by EOWG.

About EOWG

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) develops strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need for Web accessibility and to educate the Web community regarding solutions to Web accessibility.

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Chair and W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter

EOWG Task Forces

1. Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
2. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
3. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
5. [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
6. [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
7. [closed] WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page

Mailing Lists

• EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
• Instructions for subscribing to the EOWG mailing list
• EO-Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents
• Some of the task forces have mailing lists, which are available from the links in the "EOWG Task Forces" section above.

Membership

• How to join the EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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