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Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
February 25 - 26, 2002
Cannes Mandelieu, France

Participation

Participation is open to members in good standing of W3C/WAI's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG); to individuals interested in participating in and contributing to the efforts of the AUWG; and to members of the IMS Accessibility Working Group (AWG) meeting jointly with AUWG. Any participants not already members of the AUWG should read the AUWG Charter and the how to join page, and send the requested information to the AUWG Chair.

This meeting will be a joint meeting of the AUWG and the IMS accessibility group.

This AUWG meeting is held during the earlier part of W3C's Technical Plenary Week, near Nice, in France. If you are interested in other parts of the Technical Plenary Week, which includes a day of general presentations and discussion on Wednesday, please note carefully the instructions regarding participation and registration for different parts of the week, and email the AUWG Chair with any questions.

Registration

Pre-registration is required of everyone attending the AUWG meeting on February 25-26, 2002, and for any other portion of the Tech Plenary Week.

Agenda (Proposed)

The following is a proposed agenda, with as-yet unlinked documents for discussion and review. Comments to the AUWG mailing list welcome.

Monday, February 25, 2002

• 8:30 Informal discussion, set-up, etc. (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 9:00 Introductions and agenda review (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 9:15 Orientation to AUWG for IMS participants, and vice-versa (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 9:30 Presentations of authoring tool best practices, by IMS & AUWG members (Joint AUWG/IMS)
  • focusing on techniques for supporting accessible authoring practices in learning management systems and other instructional tools (Joint AUWG/IMS)
    • BlackBoard, WebCT, E-College, IBM Web Conferences
• 10:00 Walk through ATAG checkpoints (Joint AUWG/IMS)
  • brainstorm/determine appropriate ATAG techniques for e-learning tools
• 10:45 Break
• 11:00 Continue walk through of ATAG checkpoints (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 User Access Preferences -- supporting the creation of tranformable content (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 2:30 Working on ATAG Techniques (AUWG only), IMS business (IMS only)
• 3:30 Break
• 3:45 Continue working on ATAG Techniques (AUWG only), IMS business (IMS only)
• 5:30 Adjourn

Tuesday, February 26, 2002

• 8:30 Informal discussion, set-up, etc. (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 9:00 Continue working on ATAG Evaluation Techniques (AUWG only), IMS business (IMS only)
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Continue working on ATAG Evaluation Techniques (AUWG only), IMS business (IMS only)
• 11:45 Discuss potential updating of AU portions of AERT document (AUWG only), IMS business (IMS only)
• 12:30 Lunch
• 1:30 Coordination between AUWG and IMS Accessibility Group (Joint AUWG/IMS)
• 3:00 Break
• 3:15 Discussion about how EOWG can better promote ATAG-conformance of authoring tools (Joint AUWG/IMS)
  • particularly courseware tools
  • update on "equivalent facilitation" potential
  • promote more developer awareness of ATAG and authoring tool user awareness
• 5:30 Adjourn

Readings

• ATAG Deliverables
  • ATAG 1.0 and ATAG "Wombat"
  • Techniques for ATAG 1.0 Working Group Draft (also see alternate view of techniques)
• Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility Draft by EOWG.
• IMS Guidelines for Developing Accessible Learning Applications (Version 0.6 White Paper)

Minutes

Minutes will be linked after the meeting.

Last updated 22 February, 2002 by Jan Richards jan.richards@utoronto.ca

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