EOWG Meetings

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Upcoming face-to-face & other meetings: EOWG F2F meetings

Work for this week

Reviews and Surveys

Up-to-date on 11 April 2024

For everyone:

• Easy Checks review
  • Skim the Requirements Analysis and read the Use Cases
  • Review the draft Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility
  • Put each new comment as a separate GitHub issue if feasible (alternatively send e-mail to wai-eo-editors@w3.org with subject starting "[Easy Checks]")
    • Note that this resource is near publishing. If you have substantial changes that you would like to see made, please add them as a feature request.
  • Add your comments to existing issues labelled "question" and to discussions.
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web review
  • Review the draft How People with Disabilities Use the Web, particularly the Stories of Web Users. Note: Ignore the side navigation; it's not set up in this draft.
  • Review the open issues that are in active discussion and contribute your thoughts
  • If you see any new issues, Put each new comment as a separate GitHub issue if feasible (alternatively send e-mail to wai-eo-editors@w3.org with subject starting "[How People Use the Web]")

For EOWG participants:

• all above
• Update your Skills and Involvement Survey
• Hoping to see you at a F2F meeting in 2024. Please fill out the F2F Survey for 2024 to help us find good times to meet up.
• Update your Meeting Availability (Dates added through the end of April 2024)

Outreach Tasks

For everyone:

• Reply in Slack, Mastodon, XTwitter, LinkedIn, etc. — Watch for questions and topics where a WAI resource can help, and share a link to the resource. And, if useful, short excerpt from the resource that addresses the question.
• Send toots, tweets, etc. — Post succinct teasers with links, e.g., like these tweets from @redcrew
• See Everyone can do now for more ideas.

For EOWG participants:

• Please add pointers to where you see EOWG resources being used and referenced. Add to How are EO resources used and 2022-2024 Mentions. (This will help to support Documenting EOWG Impact.)

Minor Changes for Review

The updates below were made under the EOWG Process for Minor Changes. If you have any concerns with or comments on these changes, please submit a GitHub issue (or e-mail wai-eo-editors@w3.org)

7 March:

• In Introduction to Web Accessibility, updated wording based on current and archived material, as described in the changelog.

Current Work

up-to-date 17 April 2024

• How People with Disabilities Use the Web - integrate videos
• Easy Checks — A First Review of Web Accessibility
• WAI Tutorials

More current and upcoming work

Upcoming Teleconferences and Meeting Availability Surveys

EOWG teleconferences are open to formal "participants" of EOWG. If you might be interested in joining EOWG, see Participating in EOWG.

Meeting times:

• EOWG meets Fridays at 8:30am ET (US and Canada Eastern Time, Friday afternoon-night in some parts of the world), for up to 2 hours
• EO Planning team meets Wednesdays at 8:30am ET for up to 2 hours
• EOWG will schedule additional meetings that work better in different time zones on request

To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.

Surveys on availability:

• Availability for EOWG Teleconferences
• Availability for possible EOWG face-to-face meetings in 2024

Upcoming Meetings

• Friday 26 April - no meeting
• Friday 3 May - tentative
• Friday 10 May - tentative

Teleconference Logistics

Zoom link and numbers: Teleconference connection info (requires W3C login permission)

IRC Information

• Channel for main EOWG: #eo
• Server: irc.w3.org
• Port: 6665

See EOWG Participation Info, IRC for info on setting up IRC, on the Zakim IRC bot, and more.

When you join the call, put in IRC: "Present+ [YourName]"

Meeting Scribes

Guidance for Scribing Minutes, aka Minute Taking Tips

The first person in the list is scheduled to scribe. If that person is not up for scribing, then the next person will scribe and the first name remains at the top for the next meeting.

• Rabab Gomaa
• Sarah Lewthwaite
• Shadi Abou-Zahra — 30 June 2023
• Kevin White — 30 June 2023, 19 May 2023, 28 Oct 2022
• Mark Palmer — 18 Nov 2022, 18 Aug 2023
• Jade Matos Carew — 22 September 2023, 2 June 2023, 6 Jan 2023
• Laura Keen — 6 October 2023, 14 Apr 2023
• Kris Anne Kinney — 1 Dec 2023, 4 Aug 2023, 24 Feb 2023
• Sharron Rush — 08 Dec 2023, 17 Nov 2023, 26 May 2023, 27 Jan 2023
• Len Beasley — 15 Dec 2023

Agenda

No meeting 26 April 2024

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We've also updated Upcoming Meetings above.

Participation Info

EOWG Participation Overview
includes info on EO mailing lists, IRC, guidance for commenting, and tips.