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EOWG Current Projects
From Education & Outreach
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Current Work
some updates 26 July 2022, though not all yet
New resources:
- Curricula — Curricula published on WAI website (includes foundation, developer, and designer modules), Overall Requirements Analysis, Requirements Analysis for supporting material, Open issues on curricula
Status: Active. Current work focus: Content Author Modules - Video-Based Resources — Requirements Analysis, People Use Web Videos Project Plan
Status: Active. Current work focus: Videos for How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Lists for finding accessibility support:
- Evaluation Tools List (UI and code revision) — Evaluation Tool List Redesign Requirements Analysis
Status: Active. Current work focus: Refining prototype of Evaluation Tools List- Companion doc update Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Status: Starting requirements analysis
- Companion doc update Selecting Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools
- List of Courses (new) — Course List Requirements Analysis
Status: Active. Current work focus: refining prototype List of Accessibility Courses and submission form - Authoring Tools List (new) — Authoring Tools List Draft, Requirements Analysis: Authoring Tools List, Authoring Tools List Open Issues
Status: Active. - Policies (Policies open issues, Policy Workflow)
Status: Active.
Updates:
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web update — 2020 Update Project Page
Status: Active. Current work focus: User Stories - Make Presentations and Meetings Accessible update and expand to better cover remote sessions
Status: Active. Current work focus: Addressing issues for current version; Considering scope and requirements analysis for potential revision - Easy Checks — A First Review of Web Accessibility
Status: Getting started. Current work focus: Requirements analysis, scoping - WCAG-EM Report Tool add WCAG 2.2
Status: Waiting for WCAG 2.2 to stablize
Redesigns:
- WCAG supporting documents redesign
Status: Active. Hope to publish in early August 2022
Others:
- ARRM Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM) — ARRM Project page, ARRM draft pages
Status: Moving slowly - Next deliverable is Mapping matrix page
Upcoming Work and Pending Work
- WAI Tutorials — address open issues, update for 2.1 (and soon 2.2), consider new content (done: integrate in WAI website)
- BAD — update (Judy was leading)
- Tips for Getting Started Designing for Web Accessibility, Designing for Web Accessibility, Writing for Web Accessibility — update with WCAG 2.1 and 2.2
- How to Meet WCAG (Quick Reference) — short-term: make fixes in GitHub, longer-term: redesign
- Outreach
Status: Some promotion campaigns active, including Promoting WAI Translations - Authoring Tools
- Authoring tools briefs Requirements Analysis - develop industry-specific support information ("explainers")
Status: Not started in EOWG. - Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility - update
Status: Not started in EOWG.
- Authoring tools briefs Requirements Analysis - develop industry-specific support information ("explainers")
- Evaluation support
- Evaluation Report Template - synch with WCAG-EM Report Tool
- Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility – update (or retire)
- Evaluation Approaches for Specific Contexts – retire (or update)
- Accessible Online Learning additions to EOWG Resources — potential new portal page & content
- COGA 'users stories' and 'personas' - integrate in supplemental guidance &/or Stories of Web Users &/or elsewhere?
Completed 2020 Charter Work
Status: incomplete list
Work completed under 2020 Charter:
- Tools and Lists:
- WCAG-EM Report Tool - updated user interface (UI) and re-coding
- ATAG Report Tool - new
- Education resources:
- Curricula on Web Accessibility - new (content author modules in progress)
- Evaluating Web Accessibility - 5 new videos
- Making Audio and Video Media Accessible - substantive update
- New user interfaces:
- Supplemental Guidance to WCAG 2 - new user interface (UI)
- WCAG 2 Test Rules (aka, ACT Rules) - new user interface (UI)
- ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG) - new user interface (UI)
- Contributed to resources:
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Completed Deliverables
To Do: convert info below to wiki markup
EOWG deliverables announcements since 2005 are listed in the News Archive or the older Highlights Archive and include:
- @@ To Do: add new info since May 2020
- [**Evaluating Web Accessibility Overview Videos**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/) ([May 2020 videos announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2020AprJun/0003.html))
- [**Curricula on Web Accessibility**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/curricula/) ([December 2019 Curricula announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2019OctDec/0003.html))
- [**Making Audio and Video Media Accessible**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/) ([September 2019 Media resource announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2019JulSep/0006.html))
- [**Accessibility Principles**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-principles/) update May 2019
- Input into [**All WAI Translations**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/translations/) and [Translating WAI Resources](https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/translating/) ([March 2019 translations announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2019JanMar/0006.html), [July 2019 translations announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2019JulSep/0002.html))
- [**Developing an Accessibility Statement**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/planning/statements/) ([November 2018 Statement announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-wai-announce/2018OctDec/0002.html))
- EOWG Resources updated with WAI site redesign ([May 2018 update announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2018AprJun/0069.html))
- **[How to Meet WCAG 2.0: Customizable Quick Reference](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/)** redesign ([March 2016 QuickRef announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JanMar/0173.html), [Nov 2015 QuickRef announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2015OctDec/0017.html))
- [**Easy Checks** - A First Review of Web Accessibility](/test-evaluate/preliminary/) update ([Dec 2016 Easy Checks updated announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016OctDec/0165.html))
- Web Accessibility [**Perspectives - videos**](/perspective-videos/): Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone ([Sept 2016 Perspectives updated announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016JulSep/0274.html), [May 2016 Perspectives announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016AprJun/0237.html))
- Web Accessibility [**Tutorials**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/): Guidance on how to create websites that meet WCAG ([April 2017 Tutorials updated announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2017AprJun/0051.html), [March 2015 Tutorials announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2015JanMar/0188.html))
- [**Tips for Getting Started**](/tips/) with Web Accessibility ([Oct 2015 Tips announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2015OctDec/0000.html))
- Web Accessibility [**Laws and Policies**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/Policy/) ([June 2017 Policy announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2017AprJun/0195.html))
- [**Planning and Managing**](/planning-and-managing/) Web Accessibility update ([Dec 2016 Planning announcement on 3 updates](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2016OctDec/0164.html))
- **[How People with Disabilities Use the Web](/people-use-web/)** updated in May 2017
- WCAG-EM **[Report Tool](http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/)**: Web Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator ([March 2015 Report announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2015JanMar/0189.html))
- Web Accessibility **[Evaluation Tools](http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/) [database](http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/)** ([Dec 2014 Tools announcement](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2014OctDec/0221.html))
Other lists:
- [**EOWG Deliverables**](https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EOWG_Deliverables) describes the types of deliverables EOWG produces, and lists deliverables that were in the 2015 Charter.
- EOWG Work under 2017-2020 Charter includes completed work list
- EOWG Work under 2015-2017 Charter, 2017table
- Previous EOWG deliverables are listed in the [Completed Deliverables section](/WAI/EO/EO-Deliverables.html#done) of the old EOWG Deliverables Plan.
Misc Notes
Ideas on future work:
- (Ideas included in the 2017 Charter are above)
- (Previous ideas at [https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EO_2017_Chartering#Possible_work_in_scope: 2017 charter possible work in scope)
- Sent to WAI Coordination Call:
- Proactive on [accessibility aspects of] emerging issues, such as Vibration API, Push/Notifications APIs, Gamepad API, graphics accessibility
- Internationalizing the accessibility work at W3C (beyond translations), including increased attention on the "crossover" issue of sign language users, since that community includes many who see their issue as one of language rather than disability
- Standardization of gestures across OS on touchscreen devices (POS, EFTPOS, kiosks etc)
