Scribe: Chuck Letourneau
Posted by: Judy Brewer
RN: Rob Neff - US Mint Washington DC
WL: William Loughborough - Smith Kettlewell Institute, WA
CL: Chuck Letourneau - Starling Access Services - Ottawa Ontario
JB: Judy Brewer - W3C - Boston MA
SS: Sheela Sethuraman - CAST - Peabody MA
HBj: Helle Bjarno - Visual Impairment Information Centre & EBU - Copenhagen
Denmark
MRK: Marja-Riitta Koivunen - W3C/WAI - Boston MA
BS: Bill Shackleton - E-Ramp - Ottawa Ontario
HBing: Harvey Bingham - Lexington MA
GF: Geoff Freed - WGBH NCAM - Boston MA (9:10am)
MB: Mokrane Boussaid - European Blind Union (9:30 EDT)
JB: confirmation or changes to member information? http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/EOWG-members
Round table introductions (see attendee list above) including new members
JB: what presentations done or upcoming?
CL: GoC Parliamentarians have asked for a video tape of the Industry Canada/Assistive Devices Industry Association May 5 trade show and it will include some mention of the WAI WCAG.
WL: went to a May meeting of disability rights magazine, doing education and outreach to national media on persons with disabilities. Distributed about 20 press kits and quick tips cards. Lobbied for compliance with WCAG.
RN: Dave Poelman and he gave presentation to Government Printing Office and
have been asked to do some presentations to Federal Librarians on Web Access.
IBM Share Conference (see http://www.share.org). Worked with Federal Webmasters
org to provide information and updates and quicktips. US Mint to host a
conference in October and hopes to provide training on access. The Mint's
interactive Web site to go live soon, to allow EO and others to test it for
accessibility.
JB: asked Rob to give her his Adobe contact for AUWG discussion
HBj: a group working on recommendations for Danish ministeries and government
offices to follow to ensure accessibility. Hope for them to be on line by
end of August. Will be a shorter version of the WCAG guidelines suited to
the Danish government. Working on this for about a year and decided that
they would adopt as much as possible from the WAI work as was suitable.
JB: someone may already be working on a Danish translation of the full WCAG.
Check the EO translation page. Important to do full translation where
possible.
WB: Policy and education materials must be in Danish, but technical references
like WCAG are most often used in English by Danish people.
JB: we do have a Danish individual on the W3C staff (Henrik Frystyk Neilsen)
who might be able to check if needed.
JB: has received quite a few presentation requests for the next few months. Has done some more media clarifications.
JB: published Kitch & Jim's events page at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Events. She has edited the intro. Please
check and give her feedback or to the WAI Events List. She is asking WAI
IG now for events submissions.
RN: Is there a way to make it database driven, to make it searchable by date,
region, etc.?
JB: thinks it makes good sense. WAI has a position open for an outreach assistant
and that might be a task for this person to coordinate.
WL: we are heavy on macro outreach (i.e. major conferences) - we need more
micro outreach. Should be a note about talking to local disability groups.
JB: what about making a page off of this page for suggestions on doing outreach
to communities.
HBing: Seconds motion.
SS: agrees.
JB: this is one of the items later on the agenda about getting help.
HBj: would WAI like the information we are collecting on events in disability
in Europe? We are compiling a list. It will also be available on the Web
in a few months.
JB: published alternative browsing page at
[http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/Browsing]. It has been edited based on
comments from last EO meeting. Would like us to check the page for
accuracy.
HBing: thinks Mike Paciello should look at the page. He will ask.
HBj: one of the browsers , Sensus, is a political problem in the Danish blind
community.
JB: mentioned that she has strengthened the disclaimer section of the page.
RN: was quite impressed with the breadth of it.
JB: Peter Bosher had done a lot of work. Agree that a lot of the information
on the page could be considered politically sensitive.
JB: we have been getting a relatively small flow of small and occasionally
larger orders. Judy and the admin person review the orders and ship what
is required. Will be making some kind of order form on the site. Question:
how many have been distributed?
JB: Est 10 to 12 thousand. We are tracking who we have been giving them to
and will analyze the distribution trends. MRK: All in English?
JB: Yes… various translations are in progress.
CL: mentioned the official Canadian French translation and the reworking
by the Parisian French connection. We need bilingual presentations of Quicktips
(folded card or bookmark format)
HBj: would you like us to try a Danish translation?
JB: Wonderful!
HBj: is there a certain size or design?
JB: why don't you order some and use those as reference.
- updated intro material, clarified ordering info - http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips
JB: see recent updates from Chuck and Geoff on EOWG list. The curriculum
is at [http://www.starlingweb.com/wai/three/]. A note will be going out to
the WAI IG today/Friday for review comments. The IG is over 400 people who
will submit their comments. Any comments from the EO?
RN: in regards to the curriculum, are WAI going to do certification of
trainers?
JB: there is one university in the Boston area planning to do certification
on the Guidelines. A few organizations in different countries are looking
at it. She would like to keep this for a separate discussion because of the
breadth of the issues.
WL: thinks the curriculum should be required reading.
HB: would like to try it in a teaching situation.
RN: likes it… thinks it is a big step forward.
JB: two strategies for getting more comment: more notice for review, and
asking for commitment to review. Will send out the notice today giving 10
days for the review period.
All: There was some discussion of the mechanism of getting.
SS: will be interested in reviewing
MRK: also interested.
JB: for reference see the (mostly) updated [http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/EO-Deliverables.html]. Following is a rough summary by status, focusing mainly on "high" priority rather than "regular" or "later":
comments?
first priority is to finish, publish, promote these, agreed?
Discussion: decided to complete these before beginning serious work on further work items.
second priority, and can be done relatively quickly
are people agreed on these being our priorities for next several months?
BS: would like to see the draft Business Case.
JB: there is an outline only at this point.
WL: would like to move reorganization of WAI page to the top priority.
JB: we will add it to the next meeting agenda.
MB: where do reviews of pages go?
JB: thought it should go in tools, but happy to add it here. She will review
team to EO unless Daniel wants it back in Eval & Repair Tools
WL: Asked MB if he had any information that could be used to update the European
section of the policy page.
MB: discussed some work on standardization - a guide that will serve as a
base to an ISO process.
JB: we should also add a page on standardization then; that is a separate
issue.
ALL: Agreed to add these.
JB: Also we should add to deliverables list:
who's interested in working on what?
SS, RN, BM: would like to review the gallery sites.
BS: interested in helping with the business case.
HBing: would like to evaluate US presidential candidate websites & comment.
JB: could talk to Daniel about testing his evaluation form with this.
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