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EOWG Minutes 16 May 2003 Meeting

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Agenda

agenda in e-mail list archives: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/2003AprJun/0063.html

Attendees

• AG: Alistair Garrison
• AA: Andrew Arch, minutes
• BM: Blossom Michaeloff
• CC: Charmane Corcoran
• CL: Chuck Letourneau
• HB: Harvey Bingham
• HS: Henk Snetselaar
• JB: Judy Brewer, chair
• NL: Natasha Lipkina

Regrets

• Doyle Saylor
• Libby Cohen
• Shawn Henry

Outreach Updates

1. Chuck Letourneau honoured in Canada with Community IT Hero Award (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-eo/2003AprJun/0072.html).
2. Andrew posted to EOWG list regarding several accessibility presentations made recently.
3. Judy will be attending WWW2003 and presenting to the W3C Advisory Committee, the main conference, and the developers day track on accessibility and device independence.
4. Blossom advised that Wells Fargo had received an NFB 'non-visual accessibility web application certification'

Business Case - Legal and Policy

Updated draft is available - http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/pol.html
Changelog is updated - http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/changelog, (see 2 May and 15 May sections)

Judy spoke to the changes. Charmane sent attempt to shorten the sentences - Judy adopted and adapted

JB - think everything now incorporated.

JB - walked the meeting through the document

• policies applying - shortened and made concise
• organisations
  • Education - add educational publishers
• related resources -
  • looks good now
  • Blossom's comments re 'suite' - discussion about rephrasing (see changelog)

Business Case - Technical Factors

March 24 draft is available - http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/tech.html
Changelog is updated - http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/bcase/changelog

Andrew and Alistair described the changes made after the F2F

• Discussion on presentation style and content
• suggestions
  • Change bullets from checkpoints to very generalised text - use the bit after the checkpoint text, the rationale
  • Geberalise more - have detail elsewhere (at end?)
  • Maybe add Auxiliary Benefits to 'related resources'
• meeting invited to take a section and express it shorter and more clearly
  • JB & CC & HS to attempt this and post to the list for discussion and refinement

Business Case - Suite Issues

• CC - bottom navigation needs to be consistent
• JB - related resources OR bottom navigation OR both
• JB - should there be punctuation at the end of list items?

July Meeting in California

• JB - some discusion with two groups trying to partner with:
  • ITTATC may send a couple of folk
  • Alliance for Technology Access (have > 100 affiliates) interested in starting training at a local level in US
• JB - was planning a survey of EO members with dates. Dates currently looking fairly stable. Trying to do it at one location - HP can probably provide this.
• 16-18 July at HP in Palo Alto is recommended
• NL - HP can recommend hotels in the area
• JB - what is capacity of HP rooms?
• NL - 16/17/18 July - Auditorium - capacity of 100; Plus smaller room (35 capacity) for 16 July
• JB - would WF be able to host a hand on day in a computer lab on 18 July?
• BM - will check with Doyle - might be possible
• NL - HP needs confirmation very soon as lots of demand for Auditorium

Next Meeting

Friday 30 May 2003