Getting Started
WAI Groups
Education & Outreach
(EOWG)
DeliverablesAnnouncements and Meetings
- WAI Web Accessibility Best Practices Evaluation Training was held July 2004 in Paris, France, and materials are being posted online
- WAI Web Accessibility Best Practices Exchange Training was held February 2004 in Madrid, Spain, and materials are being posted online
- WAI Site Task Force of EOWG launched a WAI Web Site Redesign Project
- WAI announcements are available at http://www.w3.org/WAI/#News
Past announcements are listed in WAI Meetings History and Press and Document Releases on the WAI Events page.
Upcoming Meetings
EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays via teleconference bridge: +1.617.761.6200, 3694#. Friday teleconferences are from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time. To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock meeting planner, and as Daylight Saving Time changeovers occur at different times in different countries, please check times each week.
EOWG meets face-to-face several times per year.
Upcoming meetings:
- Friday 3 September 2004 teleconference
- Friday 10 September 2004 teleconference
- Friday 17 September 2004 teleconference
- Friday 24 September 2004 teleconference (tentative)
- Friday 1 October 2004 teleconfernce (tentative)
Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Current Work
EOWG is focusing on the following deliverables the fourth quarter of 2004:
- Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization (case changelog)
- Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility (stds harmonization changelog)
- How People With Disabilities Use the Web, Working Draft (how people use web changelog)
- WAI Web site redesign, through the WAI Site Task Force of EOWG (WSTF)
- Overview pages for WAI site
- Best Practices Exchanges
EOWG Deliverables lists additional EOWG work planned for 2004 and the beginning of 2005.
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 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.
Charter
- Previous EOWG Charter is currently in effect
- New EOWG Charter in review is available
Contacts
- EOWG Chair: Judy Brewer < jbrewer @ w3.org >
- EOWG Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >
Mailing Lists
- EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
- EO Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents