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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group Meeting
20 and 21 March 2004 Los Angeles, CA USA

This page: Registration | Agenda | Required Reading | Logistics

Participation

Participation is open to participants in good standing of W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG), and to individuals interested in participating in and contributing to the efforts of the WCAG WG.

The focus of this meeting is to advance the WCAG 2.0 documents. We welcome people who are engaged in developing Web content but who are not involved in the WCAG WG. However, we request that they familiarize themselves with and be interested in coordinating their efforts with WCAG WG.

Registration

Pre-registration is required of everyone attending the WCAG WG meeting on 20 and 21 March 2004. We are using a new registration system and it requires a login.

Step 1: Request login information

• If you work for a W3C Member organization, fill out and submit the Member Access Request Form.
• If you do not work for a W3C Member organization, fill out and submit the Public Access Request Form.

Step 2: Fill out the registration form

After you have your login information, fill out the registration form.

If you have any questions, please email Wendy Chisholm.

Agenda

Saturday, 20 March 2004

• 12:30 - 1:00 Lunch will be provided - Introductions, settle down with food
• 1:00 - 1:45 Plan and timeline
  • What is realistic?
  • What do we need to do to meet milestones and deadlines?
  • What is missing?
  • Discuss priorities, critical path
• 1:45 - 2:15 Initial Conformance discussion
  • Review previous proposals - pros, cons, and issues with each
  • Review existing issues
  • Review goals for conformance
• 2:15 - 3:00 WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 transition
  • Review proposed support materials
    • Mapping between WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints and WCAG 2.0 Guidelines
    • FAQ
    • WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 transition "guidelines" (along the lines of HTML Compatibility Guidelines in XHTML 1.0)
    • "Diffs documents" that compare WCAG 2.0 to other sets of guidelines and policies
  • What's missing?
  • What needs to be provided?
  • What do we want to discuss with WAI IG?
• 3:00 - 3:15 Break, move to IG meeting
• 3:15 - 6:00 Discuss WCAG 2.0 with the WAI IG
  • Expected differences and simalarities between WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0
  • Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
    • Overview of expected support materials
    • Gather questions for FAQ
    • Summary of earlier discussion

Sunday, 21 March 2004

• 9:00 - 10:45 Conformance
  • Scoping
  • Normativeness of checklists
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:00 Continue discussion of Conformance
• 12:00 - 12:30
  • JIS Guidelines and relation to WCAG 2.0
  • Is 3.1 international or English specific?
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 - 2:30 Review Requirements documents
  • Identify and assign action items
  • Requirements for WCAG 2.0
  • Requirements for WCAG 2.0 Checklists and Techniques
• 2:30 - 3:00 Report on Ian's comments
• 3:00 - 3:15 Break
• 3:15 - 4:30 End to end process for one guideline or success criteria
  • What are all of the pieces that are required?
  • techniques, checklist, examples, test methods, other?
• 4:30-5:30 Revisit plan and timeline

Required reading

• WCAG 2.0 latest draft
• Techniques for WCAG 2.0
• Requirements for WCAG 2.0

Logistics

Hotel, and Transportation details

All meetings are in the Los Angeles Airport Marriott. Room details to be provided.

Hotels

These meetings are held after the CSUN conference. The hotels will honor the discounted conference rate until 28 February, 2004, provided there are rooms available within the CSUN room block. When making reservations refer to California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities.

Hilton Los Angeles Airport

5711 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-410-4000 (V)
310-440-6136 (TTY)
310-410-6250 (Fax)
800-HILTONS (V)
800-368-1133 (TTY)
Rooms: $133 discounted conference rate, single or double occupancy. Limited government rates, please call the hotel.

Los Angeles Airport Marriott

5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-641-5700 (V)
310-337-5358 (Fax)
800-228-9290 (V)
800-228-7014 (TTY)
Rooms: $130 discounted conference rates, single or double occupancy. Limited government rates, please call the hotel.

Additional hotels are available in the Los Angeles airport area.

Transportation

There is a free shuttle bus service between LAX airline terminals and the hotels.

$Date: 2004/03/11 23:55:29 $ Wendy Chisholm

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