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EOWG Meetings
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Upcoming face-to-face & other meetings: EOWG F2F meetings
Contents
Work for this week
We usually update Work for this Week at least weekly. Please check back frequently. :)
Reviews and Surveys
Updated 20 September 2023
For everyone:
- Support the EOWG charter before the upcoming vote — Write a couple sentences in support of EOWG work and re-chartering (or ask someone in your organization to), particularly if you're a W3C Member. See support examples. Please put them in the W3C Accessibility Education and Outreach wiki page for now.
(If you're not an EOWG participant, instead of editing wiki page, please send your input to the publicly-archived list wai-eo-editors@w3.org ) - How People with Disabilities Use the Web in-progress draft — we are making minor updates to synch with new videos, and will ask for reviews of specific pages. For now,
please:- Skim through all pages to get an idea of the content and organization
- Review the Diverse Abilities and Barriers pages and the Tools and Techniques pages
- Submit any comments as a GitHub issue or e-mail wai-eo-editors@w3.org
- Share thoughts on W3C Accessibility (WAI) strategic planning — For now, please put comments in EOWG comments on WAI strategic planning
- Background: W3C Accessibility 2023 Context
- W3C Accessibility Mission, Vision, Objectives - in-progress draft - Any big things missing from the High-Level Objectives?
- Exploring priorities for 2024 - Any input on Discussion Topics in GitHub
For EOWG participants:
- Complete Charter approval survey by Tuesday 26 September
- all above :-)
- Update your Meeting Availability
Outreach Tasks
For everyone:
- Reply in Slack, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. — Watch for questions and topics where a WAI resource can help, and share a link to the resource. And, if useful, short excerpt from the resource that addresses the question.
- Send Tweets, etc. — Post succinct teasers with links, e.g., like these tweets from @redcrew
- See Everyone can do now for more ideas.
For EOWG participants:
- Please add pointers to where you see EOWG resources being used and referenced. Add to How are EO resources used and 2023-2022 Mentions. (This will help to support Documenting EOWG Impact.)
Minor Changes for Review
The updates below were made under the EOWG Process for Minor Changes. If you have any concerns with or comments on these changes, please submit a GitHub issue (or e-mail wai-eo-editors@w3.org)
9 August 2023:
- Easy Checks — under "Learn more about multimedia alternatives", replaced links with more recent resource: Making Audio and Video Media Accessible (diff)
5 July 2023:
- Policies — added Page contents, re-designed to removed boxes around each listing:
- Proposed update: Policy page with Page Contents
- Current design: Policy page without Page Contents
Current Work link
EOWG Google Docs folder
Upcoming Teleconferences and Meeting Availability Surveys
EOWG teleconferences are open to formal "participants" of EOWG. If you might be interested in joining EOWG, see Participating in EOWG.
Meeting times:
- EOWG meets Fridays at 8:30am ET (US and Canada Eastern Time, Friday afternoon-night in some parts of the world), for up to 2 hours
- EO Planning team meets Wednesdays at 8:30am ET for up to 2 hours
- EOWG will schedule additional meetings that work better in different time zones on request
To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.
Surveys on availability:
Teleconference Logistics
Zoom link and numbers, ical Calendar meeting: Teleconference connection info (requires W3C login permission)
IRC Information
- Channel for main EOWG: #eo
- Server: irc.w3.org
- Port: 6665
See EOWG Participation Info, IRC for info on setting up IRC, on the Zakim IRC bot, and more.
When you join the call, put in IRC: "Present+ [YourName]"
Meeting Scribes
Guidance for Scribing Minutes, aka Minute Taking Tips
The first person in the list is scheduled to scribe. If that person is not up for scribing, then the next person will scribe and the first name remains at the top for the next meeting.
- Laura Keen — 14 Apr 2023
- Rabab Gomaa
- Sarah Lewthwaite
- Michele Williams — 9 June 2023, 10 Mar 2023
- Shadi Abou-Zahra — 30 June 2023
- Kevin White — 30 June 2023, 19 May 2023, 28 Oct 2022
- Sharron Rush — 26 May 2023, 27 Jan 2023
- Kris Anne Kinney — 4 Aug 2023, 24 Feb 2023
- Mark Palmer — 18 Nov 2022, 18 Aug 2023
- Jade Matos Carew — 22 September 2023, 2 June 2023, 6 Jan 2023
On break:
- Vicki Menezes Miller — 11 Nov 2022
Agenda
September 29, 2023
(Meeting agendas are posted on the Wednesday before the Friday meeting)
Note we changed Zoom several weeks ago. The correct one starts with https:// w3c.zoom.us ; the old one has "mit" in it. The correct Zoom is linked from Teleconference Logistics above. (If you find the old Zoom link somewhere, please let us know and we'll update it.)
Participation Info
EOWG Participation Overview
includes info on EO mailing lists, IRC, guidance for commenting, and tips.
