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Education and Outreach Working Group Meeting
March 23 and 24, 2002, Los Angeles, California, USA

Participation

Participation is open to members of W3C/WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) and to individuals interested in participating in and contributing to the efforts of the EOWG. Any participants not already members of the EOWG should read the EOWG Charter and the how to join page, and send the requested information to the EOWG Chair.

This EOWG meeting is held on the Saturday and Sunday immediately following the "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference (otherwise known as "CSUN 2002"). Please note that there is also a meeting of the WAI Interest Group earlier on Saturday March 23 in the afternoon, and a meeting of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) on Saturday March 23 and Sunday March 24; also a hands-on workshop on evaluating and repairing Web sites on Wednesday March 20, by Wendy Chisholm of W3C/WAI. If you have not previously attended WAI events, we recommend that you attend Wendy's session and/or the WAI Interest Group meeting first.

Registration

Pre-registration is required for everyone attending the EOWG meeting (also the WAI Interest Group meeting and the WCAG WG meeting).

Location

Atlanta-Boston Room
L.A. Airport Marriott
5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045, USA

Hotels

L.A. Airport Marriott
5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045, USA
Phone : +1 310 641 5700
TTY: +1 800 228 7014
Fax: +1 310 337 5358

and

Hilton Los Angeles Airport
5711 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
310/410-4000 (V)
310/440-6136(TTY)
310/410-6250 (Fax)
800/HILTONS (V)

Rooms may be available at the CSUN discounted rate of $127, through March 4, but availability not guaranteed.

Additional hotels are available in the Los Angeles airport area.

Transportation

• Nearest airport is Los Angeles International Airport (five minute taxi ride).

Agenda

Saturday, March 23, 2002

[immediately follows the WAI Interest Group meeting, which is from 2:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturday, March 23]

• 4:30pm EOWG meeting opens;
  • agenda review
  • brief re-introductions
  • reminder to check updated active participants list
• 4:40pm Review of EOWG deliverables currently available for public comment
  • explanation of the comment process
  • comments?
• 5:00pm Review of remaining 1Q EOWG work and planned 2Q priorities
  • recently reviewed priorities at Cannes meeting and March 15 meeting
  • do changes reflect our recent discussions?
  • comments on planned priorities, resources missing? (see embedded qu's in priority list)
  • templates & tutorials: better define what EOWG should do, & how to do it, and what kind of resources might be available for this? call for templates? can we tie together templates & tutorials? (also discuss w/ WCAG WG in a.m.)
  • what kinds of resources would make our work more approachable for the disability community? parallel version of How PWD Use Web? Intro to Web Accessibility for those promoting Web accessibility....basics of accessibility suite, or promoting Web accessibility suite?
• 5:30pm Pre-discussion of joint agenda items for tomorrow morning's meeting with WCAG WG
• 6:00pm close

Sunday March 24, 2002

• 9:00 Continental Breakfast
• 9:30 Joint meeting with WCAG WG
  • Frequently Asked Questions development
    1. what content is needed (sample questions compiled by GO, DW, CMN)
    2. what's the best process for developing it
    3. where/how to maintain it
    4. how should groups coordinate
  • Topics for design tutorials & or templates
    1. review mini-tutorials wishlist and templates discussion from Cannes & March 15, check out css boxes
    2. good idea? you already planning it?
    3. can these be linked?
    4. how could WAI develop these?
  • Coordination between EOWG and WCAG WG
    • EOWG review requirements document & WCAG 2.0 in development?
    • WCAG WG review more of EOWG deliverables in development, e.g. implementation planning suite, etc.
    • Accessibility Features of XYZ... series, maintain still?
    • Other coordination issues?
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Continued Joint meeting with WCAG WG, FAQ discussion
  • more in-depth discussion of potential FAQ content as time allows
• 12:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 (Solo EOWG meeting resumes) How People with Disabilities Use the Web
  • revisiting changelog
  • review comments & discuss revisions
• 3:00 Break
• 3:30 Business Case for Web accessibility
  • getting back to the resource suite after splitting out the Implementation Plan
  • revisiting changelog
• 5:30 Adjourn

Readings

Most readings are linked within the agenda above. Additional readings with which participants should be familiar:

• EOWG Charter
• WCAG Home Page
• WCAG Charter

Minutes

• Minutes will be linked after the meeting.

Last updated 23 March, 2002 by jbrewer@w3.org

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