Judy: A few people have made comments about updating How People With Disabilities use the web
Shawn: Bottom of the list has a
highlight of things we have finished
... Did some work on the Eval Suite.
... Rolled out the WAI Web Site Redesign
... Did Intro and Overview Pages
... Finished Business Case
... Finished Standards Harmonization
... Finished Retrofitting
Judy: Look at 2006 Q3
... Feel free to make a comment on what we think may be
needed
... We are talking more on a planning level not really on a
detail level.
Helle: What can we expect for WCAG 2.0 Schedule?
Judy: They will process 100s of
comments that come in
... Its pretty likely that they would have to do a second last
call
... I don't expect to be another draft in two or four
weeks
... Hopefully within in a month they would know much better
Helle: What is the reaction to each of the baseline stuff?
Judy: They were waiting for a lot
of the comments to come in. In the cognitive areas, there will
be some conversations happening to get more clarity.
... Things have been very busy. They haven't had time to
completely prepare their plan on all of this.
... For the baseline, EO sent some of the strongest comments on
this. They may be able to take some parts and rework
stuff
... Shawn will be leading the taskforce on all the WCAG support
changes
... Given the stage they have gotten to. The more EO helps them
the better.
Shawn: I agree that we will be real careful to not do work that would have to be redone
Shawn, there might be a list of things that we want to publish now
William: If these are largely
internal that's fine, if we are putting out something that could
be strongly affected by 2.0, not sure if we should do
that
... Like descriptions of the documents themselves
Judy: There will be additional
phases for WCAG 2.0. For each phase, they need to documents to
explain it very well.
... This one there was so much explanatory material that it was
overwhelming for people.
... I think EO should be very involved in that
Harvey: They benefit from our ongoing observation and comments.
Jack: its a balance between being their early and late, i think the balance we have is really good. It is good for us in the long run to have them initially as clean as possible
Helle: after your explanation, id
be comfortable if we are following the WCAG development very
closely and can adjust our deliverables very closely
... We can help them more.
Shawn: Hell, Accurate summary of situation
Judy: Add a note - EO will be
coordinating closely to the task force and that could affect
our timing
... Back to 3rd Quarter Deliverables 2006
Shawn: What is the first three
documents, have three different editors. Those three things can
go on in parallel.
... The icons help us to know will this be a quick thing or a
long thing.
Jack: How much time?
Judy: Depends on the editor
Jack: Four to Five Hours A Week
Judy: Would it be easier to have an actual quantity? Lets say an estimated number of editing hours and estimated number of calls.
Harvey: I just want a tabulation.
Jack: Icons are nice to compare one thing to another
Judy: Sylvie, with the orientation on the icons, is it annoying or make sense?
Sylvie: Its more complicated. It would be easier with a number.
Shawn: Can we just accept something that works for everyone? More time we spend on this the less time we spend working on the document.
Jack: Since it doesn't work for sylvie i'd say just use the numbers
Judy: Other comments on quarter 3?
William: What does #7 mean?
Judy: in the past our documents
were much more geared to technical audience ...recently we have
done more with introduction...we still have hardly many
materials for the disability community
... Like...how to advocate
William: I'd love to move that higher in the list
Judy: Seems like most of these
groups don't feel empowered with the information they have to
advocate
... It takes some orientation to figure out where to start
Doyle: I thought that was a good summary. I thought that was very insightful. its a big issue that ought to be addressed
Judy: We probably have critical
mass with people in the group to help to be able to deliver the
materials needed
... I am constantly hearing what people want.
... We have had much better luck with task forces in the last
year and half
... Do we need to bump things further down on the list?
Helle: Would any of those be appropriate for face to face meetings later in this year?
Judy: We don't have any face to face scheduled but we need to. Brainstorming is good at face to face but the transition is different.
Helle: Sometimes when we did it face to face it didn't fit in with schedules of friday calls
Judy: We need to try to time the
face to face while something is in development.
... Other reaction on the priority of development of documents
for people with disabilities?
... One thing on the promotional campaign...of the the things
on the list ...right now in the first quarter we don't have
anything on the aging side
... We are overdue on the planning with one of our US funding
sources.
William: Are we overstating the timeline of WCAG 2.0?
Shawn: We are working closely with them.
Helle: The promotional campaign is related to some US funding?
Judy: yes
... its fairly open ended to what it would cover.
Shawn: It could be somewhat related
Judy: Around the room, does this look like the right stuff?
Doyle: Looks like the right stuff
Harvey: We are going to be busy
Jack: Probably okay
... There's more to do than we can
George: The Education & outreach stuff is wanted. The more we can get out there. If we can do it with the promotional campaign.
Judy: Shawn and I need to get together to figure it out.
Henny: Looks good ...promotional stuff around WCAG 2.0 is especially important.
Andrew: There are a lot of items
there. I'd prefer to half as many things and lets get it
done.
... if we can selecting eval tools can be aligned with the
tools database
Liam: I'd love to see education
& outreach materials bumped up
... Like #7
Sylvie: There is much to do
William: what if you put all the items with TF and box them off? Its a separate world. It deals with something that is ongoing. That would make it more inline with Andrews numbers.
Andrew: I thought that earlier.
Judy: The way the task force
operates is they are to bring it back to their parent working
group.
... Maybe boxing those would be helpful
Shawn: Its still the same people as the WG. Its taking resources from the group
Helle: If we could know in advance that we have something from a task force that would help to plan
Judy: We have communications plan
for a task forces
... We try to plan with the task forces.
Helle: What about another
editor?
... We have a new staff member?
Judy: We have Michael Cooper. He is going to be working with WCAG WG and PF WG
Liam: How many hours?
Judy: Depends on the document.
William: I can copy edit.
Judy: We have plenty of help with
the proofing
... Lets look at the fourth quarter and get ahead of ourselves
a little bit.
... We are getting some specific funding around some specific
deliverables.
... Right now it doesn't seem we have much printed
material.
William: What is reference pages and planning pages?
Judy: Justin is working on a
pretty comprehensive update of the policy page
... Can people look at 2007 Q1?
Helle: If I look at 2 quarters ahead ...couldn't we move WCAG 2.0 support materials down?
Shawn: This is to make sure that we stay in touch.
Helle: Could this be in the task force?
Shawn: All the glossary terms that we had we were waiting for feedback from other working groups.
Judy: Additional deliverables?
William: We could put the wish list on the home page to get people's feedback.
Judy: Suggestion for support materials?
Liam: I like that
Shawn: I got a lot of good feedback at UPA
Judy: With the suggestion box, we
get ideas that we can incorporate it into something that we are
working on.
... We can chat a bit offline about and see if there is a way
to do
... Who would be interested in a task force for documents for
people with disabilities
George: I am interested
Wiliam: I am interested
Liam: I am
Doyle: I'd like to participate
Henny: Possibly
Sylvie: Not sure
Judy: I realize summer is coming up
Harvey: How about we not ignore SMILE
<Helle> Helle is also interested
Harvey: I have not studied SMILE a lot but it seems to help people who are aging
Judy: *explains SMIL*
<Andrew> doc is at http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL-access/
Judy: We did an accessibility
features paper on of SMIL
... Would we want to move up the accessibility features
documents?
William: SMIL has been a rec for years?
Judy: Yes
William: How about there is always a companion document?
Judy: We have been working with WG to integrate accessibility into each specification
Andrew: Anyway that we can integrate into the specification is the best approach.
Harvey: Neither SMIL specs use the word accessibility.
<Harvey> I note the SMIL specs fail to include "accessibility"
Judy: We can review some W3C specs on whether they mention accessibility and then do more of an approach.
<shawn> http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2006/wcag2eowg_tf
<Harvey> My comment: neither old nor current spec on SMIL include the word "accessibility".
Shawn: We discussed this two
weeks ago.
... We didn't make any changes. I worked with the WCAG WG
Chairs. We added some deliverables. We would get approval from
the different WG where relevant. WCAG WG approved
yesterday
... We will keep in close contact with the WCAG WG so that we
are most efficiently timed and planned. There has been a lot of
attention paid to WCAG 2.0 over the last 2 months. There are
some issues that need to keep addressing.
... Comments on the two lists under objectives ...which are
priorities ...anything else missing from here
Andrew: Were you thinking the contributing to the editing would come later?
Shawn: It would depend on
timing
... The overview is something that can be improved. it would
help to fix some of the misconceptions.
William: The task force...we will deal with the language the clarifies?
Shawn: We work with what WCAG WG intends and communicate it.
Judy: We sent some specific comments and some major changes in it
Henny: I think the overview is an
ongoing thing.
... Its WCAG 1.o to WCAG 2.0 transition.
Judy: A while back we were looking at possibly a workshop helping policy makers transition from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
Shawn: Its just down in the list. Its in the EO list.
Andrew: Maybe we need to bring it to more of a technical level
Judy: There were people who
specifically asked how to reference our stuff when we
update
... They were asking for guidance or models
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