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WAI Interest Group Meeting
Saturday March 19, 2005, Los Angeles, California, USA
LAX Marriott: Atlanta-Boston Room

Location

Atlanta-Boston Room
L.A. Airport Marriott
5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045, USA

Agenda

Saturday, March 19, 2005

• 2:30 WAI Interest Group meeting opens; brief introductions; agenda review
• 2:45 Brief update on WAI Activities
  • Renewed WAI Activities
    • Renewed WAI Activities
    • Two WAI Activities
    • Nine WGs, IGs, CG
    • IPP re-sign-ups
    • AC Approvals
    • Calls for participation
  • Current & emerging issues
    • Inventory of remaining gaps & planned solutions in accessibility support in W3C specifications
    • Extent of accessibility support in non-W3C technologies, and coordination with
    • Increased browser & media player accessibility
    • Continued issues with interoperability with assistive technologies
    • Continued pressures on fragmentation of WCAG
    • Continued pressures & opportunities around standards coordination
    • Much more interaction with other standards activities
    • Continued need for increased awareness
    • Continued push for more precise testing criteria & evaluation methodologies
    • Continually increasing activity on accessibility in Europe
    • Coordination with those activities
    • What kind transition support will WAI provide for WCAG 1.0 - 2.0
    • When will WCAG 2.0 be available
    • Should there be a certification scheme for WCAG conformance
    • Is there a way to make SDOC's stronger
  • What to expect with WAI site redesign
  • Much easier to access existing content on WAI site
  • New introductory and explanatory content
  • A more modern-looking, well-designed, interesting site that models good and accessible design
  • 3:00 Brief Working Group reports, questions, discussion
    • Protocols and Formats Working Group
    • Web Content Acessibility Guidelines Working Group
    • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
    • User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
    • Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group
    • Education and Outreach Working Group
    • Research and Development Interest Group
  • 4:00 Break
  • 4:30 General discussion (the following list is suggestions only):
    1. Observation/discussion about trends in Web accessibility, including implementation of ATAG & UAAG?
       
    2. Questions/discussion about WAI activities?
    3. Updates/questions on accessibility support in W3C specifications?
    4. Updates/comments on coordination with accessibility of non-W3C technologies?
    5. Status/needs aroundinteroperability with assistive technologies?
    6. Status/issues around fragmentation, harmonization, standards coordination?
    7. Concerns/needs around testing approaches and resources for WCAG, UAAG, ATAG?
       
    8. Pros/cons of certification approaches, and/or process standards?
    9. Ideas/approaches around strengthening declaration of conformity?
       
    10. Concerns/needs around transition support for updating to WCAG 2.0?
    11. Priority messaging themes for coming year?
  • 6:00 Adjourn

  EOWG Update

  • Web site redesign
  • user-centered design process
  • re-organizing access to content
  • building introductory materials
  • recently tested prototype designs
  • Business Case
  • PWD
  • Standards
  • Evaluation
  • Introductory materials
  • Lexicon
  • Upcoming:
  • transition materials
  • training
  • evaluation

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