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EOWG

1 Jul 2005

Agenda

See also: IRC log

Attendees

Present
Bingham, Doyle_Saylor, Loughborough, Helle_Bjarno, Justin, Shawn, Shadi, Andrew, Judy, Barry, Alan, Wayne, Tanguy, sylvie
Regrets
Sailesh, Liam, Chuck, Pasquale, Henk, Ron, Roberto
Chair
Judy
Scribe
Alan, Justin

Contents


 

 

<shawn> zakim this will be eowg

<Harvey> Good Day

<Andrew> me is away for a few minutes

<shawn> scribenick: achuter

<shawn> scribe: Alan

Outreach Updates

SH: Bert Bos has volunteered to work on CSS for site redesign.

HB: Usability Accessibility workshop in Boston area

Organized by Bentley College. AARP American Association of Retired Persons, sponsor

Before/After Site Redesign: revised requirements and task force statement

JB: No draft ready to review yet.
... Were a few change requests.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/retrofit/requ-basite.html

WL: Would make it more inclusive, include other people than designers.
... Show that audience is not just technical people.

HB: Include users with disabilities

SH: Can have primary and secondary audience (said JB) but mustn't make it exclusive

JB: Could be a reference for a user with disability (?)

SAZ: Have decided to use a subset of checkpoints, to reduce effort.
... Audience would be advocacy people, more than designers.

JB: Think that there are still web designers who think accessible design is boring; want to reach them.

SAZ: So examples will be beginner-level technically; not example of best practices.

WD: Need to include advocates and stakeholders in list. Where designers, evaluators, should add caveat little experience required.

WL: Include regulators.

JT: Example for converts and material for those who are still seeking.

BM: Also can be an educational resource.

SAZ: Have primary and secondary audience.
... We want to include a realtime input system like a poll, so people can see the accessible and the non-A versions change.

[JB updates the audience section online]

JB: There should be simple things like alt text.

AA: Many people don't know about forms and tables.

SAZ: Shouldn't address web designers too much, as there will only be one site; can't do everything.

WD: Web designers that need to see pages that work in A and non-A modes.
... That they can look good both ways.

JB: Move on to "Approach" section.
... Move on to "Scope".
... What to call it: bad/good or before/after.

HB: "Improving bad sites"

AA: Like JB's idea of "Web accessibility makeover"

SD, Jargon.Difficult to translate

AC: Difficult to translate

SH: Somethign other than before and after.

JB: "Transforming your site for accessibility"

<judy> [transforming your site for accessibility]?

<barry> I have to leave now - apologies...

<judy> thx for coming

WL: Metadocument for both (transforming, ?) Not a how-to document.

SAZ: Demonstrating.
... Link the bad page to the evaluation report and then to the good page.
... Link to individual barriers.
... Thinking of making it look like a normal page, but using the text to describe the accessibility barriers.

WD: How invalid will the code be?

SAZ: Depends what we want to show. Like how it can display wrongly in different browsers.
... Have discussed when to use HTML and when XHTML.

WD: Do the bad one in XHTML too. Doesn't force you to be accessible.

JB: Some people might reject example if they can't upgrade to XHTML.

SAZ: Better to keep to currently used technologies rather than the most advanced.

[Before / After Taskforce Work statement]

<Justin> scribenick: Justin

<scribe> scribe: Justin

DS: The name is getting in the way of what the group is trying to accomplish.

SLH: We can replace in the statement the acronym with "the task force."

JB: the participation section - is a lil tricky because the members don't have to be members of EO
... They have to Join EO according to the patent policy process

<judy> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/charter4

AA: someone would have to put in 10 hrs?

JB: They could join the group and not be in good standing and join the TF

<judy> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/charter4#scope

JB: TF participants must be participants of EO
... 6 hrs too much?
... 2 months

AA: We need ppl that are good in web development

HB: We don't expect anyone individual to work with all those skills

JB: Just dropped back the hours.
... Approval?

WD: Would you want some of my style sheets running them against your pages?

SAZ: Sounds good

JB: I'll make some tweaks and then we can consider it approved.

Face to Face Planning

JB: What about OZEWai co-location

dec 5-6, dec 12-13

SLH: Most likely dec 12-13
... ozewai is 7,8,9...there would be a weekend break.

JB: Would be able to get about 12 of our participants in good standing there.

HB: What about a teleconf running concurrently for those that can't be there in person?

JB: I think that's a good idea

AA: Plan out the agenda really well so that the topics that are desirable can be at good times.

HBJ: Works for me

DS: I'd take advantage of the phone call conf. in.

WD: Looks good....wouldn't be able to do both that and tech plenary

<judy> ROTFL...

JB: This maybe the last time the W3C does a tech plenary does something of this form.
... at tech plenary we have always gotten a lot done.

SLH: does one take away from the other?

JB: Maybe we need another WBS form to be more specific.
... We had been looking at a location in Germany for a BPE...Helle has offered copenhagen where Helle would host.

Web Site Redesign

SLH: We are resolving a lot of the open issues. Launch is coming soon.

Justin: Cheers

SLH: What do people see? Any issues?

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ut3/

HB: the bridge image, bridge to what?

SLH: that is an open issue....we were going to put in the css...might roll out with it as is...is that ok?

AA: We will get criticized for not following our own guidelines.

SLH: It is an open issue

WL: Linking the points in the What WAI does box?

SLH: We decided against that to encourage people to use the Nav.

JB: probably an after release issue
... shawn has been doing a lot of work on this release.

<judy> ...and so has justin

JB: Anybody see anything alarming?

New WAI Log

SLH: What do people think?

AA: I like the tighter circle but i can settle with this one.

JB: Shows WAI moving forward.

SLH: Different people have seen different things.

Web Site Redesign

WL: Where is participating?

SLH: It is under about WAI

JB: Get it moved up?

SLH: It is a before rollout plan.

ill clean up the minutes this week....alan took it last week

<judy> thanks

Summary of Action Items

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