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Education and Outreach Working Group Meeting
3-4 (+6 +7) March 2003, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Participation

This meeting of the Education and Outreach Working Group is being hosted by W3C/MIT as part of the W3C Technical Plenary and Working Group Meeting Event on 3 -7 March, 2003. Please note that the main EOWG meeting is on the 3rd and 4th of March. EOWG participants are welcome to attend the Technical Plenary session on Wednesday 5 March. Additional sub-meetings (brief joint meetings with other working groups) will be held on 6 and 7 March.

Participation is open to participants in good standing of W3C/WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), and to individuals interested in contributing to the efforts of the EOWG. Any people who are not already participants of the EOWG should read the EOWG Charter and how to join page, and send the requested information. This EOWG meeting is held as part of the W3C Technical Plenary Meeting. 

Registration

Pre-registration is required, and is now open, for everyone attending any of the EOWG meeting sessions from 3 - 7 March, 2003.

Please note that when filling out the registration form, people who are not representatives of W3C Member organizations should fill out the Invited Expert form and check off this option on the registration form, otherwise they may be restricted as to which other W3C meetings they may observe (although some restrictions apply on some groups regardless of W3C Member organization or invited expert status).

Note the specific instructions for registering to observe other Working Groups. If you would like to participate in the Glossary discussion on Friday, note the instructions in the Friday section of the Agenda below.

Hotel

Transportation

Agenda (Preliminary -- may change depending on times available for joint sessions)

The following is a proposed agenda for discussion and review. Comments to the EOWG mailing list (w3c-wai-eo@w3.org) welcome.

Monday, 3 March 2003

• 8:30 Introductions, agenda review, logistics, etc
• 9:00 Business Case Resource Suite, page-by-page walk-through
  • overview page
  • policy requirements
  • economic considerations
  • social considerations
  • technical considerations
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 Business Case Resource Suite, continued
  • brainstorming
  • next steps
    
• 12:00 Lunch
• 1:00 Review of EOWG materials to prepare for WCAG 2.0 transition discussion
  • (in preparation for our meeting Tuesday with WCAG WG)
    
  • go through EOWG deliverables
  • come up with list of proposed transition materials
    
• 3:00 Break
• 3:15 Training
  • review of resources
  • planning for best practices training session(s)
    
• 4:15 Joint meeting with Quality Assurance Activity
  • presentation & discussion with Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
• 5:15 Agenda review for tomorrow, and meeting close

Tuesday, 4 March 2003

• 8:30 WAI Web Site Redesign, with visitors
  • brief introduction, scope
  • background information
  • presentation on HCD/UCD process & proposed approach
  • discussion of proposed approach
  • presentation and discussion of EOWG roles
• 10:15 Break
• 10:30 WAI Web Site Redesign, with visitors, continued
  • brainstorm vision, goals, objectives
  • start audience/user analysis
  • wrap up and next steps
• 12:15 Lunch
• 1:00 EOWG Materials considerations for WCAG 1.0 - WCAG 2.0 transition, continued
• list of deliverables from EOWG charter (from draft eowg charter)
• 2:00 WAI Gallery
  • review of what we have so far
  • Gallery draft
  • Gallery planning notes
  • Review coordination
    
  • more brainstorming
  • next steps
• 3:00 Break
  
• 3:15 -4:30 Joint meeting with WCAG WG: Coordinating transition of EOWG materials to WCAG 2.0 support
  • WCAG WG: supporting materials they're preparing, and materials they'd like to have
  • EOWG: existing materials that we think need to be transitioned. Various reference lists include:
  • list of deliverables from EOWG charter (from draft eowg charter)
  • EOWG planning list of deliverables (needs updating)
  • WAI Resources page (mix of other groups' documents as well)
    
  • Translation priorities list (mix of other groups' documents as well)
  • Discussion: priorities, amount of work needed, schedule
• 4:30 User materials
• 5:30 Close
  

Wednesday, 5 March 2003

• Technical Plenary Day

Thursday, 6 March 2003

• Morning: possibility of observing other W3C Working Groups only if registered as observer and receive permission from that group. Questions? ask jbrewer@3.org
• 1:00 - 2:45 Joint meeting with User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
  • Strategies for raising awareness of guidelines
  • Potential Workshops at major conferences
  • Potential on-line courses
  • Additional on-line tutorial materials
• Late afternoon: possibility of observing other W3C Working Groups, by permission only, as described in the "Morning" above.

Friday, 7 March 2003

Readings

Readings linked from agenda above; also here:

• Education and Outreach Working Group Home Page
• EOWG Deliverables under development 
• Business Case for Web Accessibility
  
• Curriculum for Web Accessibility Training
• Modules for Web Accessibility Training
• Tips for Web Accessibility Training
• Setting Up Resources for Web Accessibility Training
• [more to be added]
  

Minutes

Minutes will be linked after the meeting.

Last updated 4 March 2003 by Judy Brewer (jbrewer @w3.org) and Shawn Henry

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