Personalization Accessibility Task Force (Personalization Semantics Task Force)
of the APA WG
Page Contents
Announcements
No announcements at the moment.
Personalization Overview
Personalization Overview provides an overview of the overall personalization technique in W3C.
Personalization Video
There is also a short personalization technical video available, it demonstrates a semantic overlay approach to enable user driven personalization, eg. the association of user-preferred symbols with elements having those personalization semantics.
Meetings and Communication
The Personalization Task Force conducts its work using a variety of synchronous and asynchronous tools. The communication page provides details about:
- Teleconferences of the Working Group and its task forces (also see meeting minutes);
- Face to face meetings;
- Email lists;
- IRC discussion on the #personalization IRC channel, used largely for minute-taking;
- personalization-semantics source repository;
- Wiki;
- Web-Based Surveys (WBS);
- personalization-semantics source repository issue tracker.
These tools are used by participants of the Task Force. For ways non-participants can contribute, see how to contribute to the Working Group and file comments.
Teleconferences
- WAI-Adapt: Mondays at 10:00 until 11:00 Boston time
- WAI-Adapt Plan: Tuesdays at 10:00 until 10:30 Boston time
Meeting Minutes
Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Mailing Lists
The Personalization Semantics Task Force uses the public-personalization-tf@w3.org mailing list (mailing list archives) for email discussion. Participants are automatically added to the mailing list when they become a participant of the Task Force.
Current Work
Publications
The Personalization Task Force published four documents as follow:
- Personalization Semantics Explainer (Working Draft Note) is the core introductory document that explains general use cases, vocabulary, and anticipated uses.
- Personalization Semantics Content Module (Working Draft specification) is the technical specification that provides terms authors can use to enhance web content with information about controls, symbols, and user interface elements.
- Personalization Help and Support (Working Draft) lists examples of the personalized help and support properties.
- Personalization Tools (Working Draft) lists examples of the personalized tools properties.
- Requirements for Personalization Semantics (First Public Working Draft Note) includes user stories, specific use cases, and requirements for personalization.
See also the Personalization Semantics Task Force GitHub repository.
How to Comment, Contribute, and Participate
To join the Personalization Semantics Task Force, individuals must be participants of the APA WG. Participants are expected to actively contribute to the work of the Task Force. If you are interested in participating in the Personalization Semantics Task Force, please send e-mail to: Lionel Wolberger, Sharon Snider and include a little bit about what you’re interested in and how you think that you may be able to contribute to the Task Force. Then follow the APA Working Group participation procedures to join the Working Group, and once you have joined ask Ruoxi Ran (Roy) to add you to the task force.
To contribute without joining the task force, see the APA Working Group contribute page for general instructions. To contribute to documents under development, see how to contribute to the source repository directly.
Current participants in the Personalization Semantics Task Force.
Administrative Information
The Personalization Accessibility Task Force (Personalization Semantics Task Force) is a Task Force of the Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group. It assists this Working Group to mature Personalization Semantics 1.0 and to incubate personalization as an approach to meeting accessibility user requirements across W3C.
Facilitator and Contacts
- Facilitators: Lionel Wolberger, Sharon Snider
- Staff Contact: Ruoxi Ran, Michael Cooper
Work Statement
The Personalization Accessibility Task Force Work Statement defines the initial objective, scope, approach, and participation of the Task Force.