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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group Meeting
1st and 2nd July 2003 Venice, ITALY

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Meeting hosted by International Webmasters Association / HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG).

Participation

Participation is open to members in good standing of W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG), and to individuals interested in participating in and contributing to the efforts of the WCAG WG. Any participants not already members of the WCAG WG should read the WCAG WG Charter and the how to join page, and send the requested information to the WCAG WG Chair and staff contact.

The focus of this meeting is to advance the WCAG 2.0 documents. We welcome people who are engaged in developing Web content but who are not involved in the WCAG WG. However, we request that they familiarize themselves with and be interested in coordinating their efforts with WCAG WG.

Registration

Pre-registration is required of everyone attending the WCAG WG meeting on 1st and 2nd July 2003. Registration ends 24 June 2003.

Agenda

A continental breakfast will  be provided directly in the hotel breakfast room or in the hotel garden from 8:00-9:00 each morning.

Tuesday, 1st July 2003

• 9:00 - 9:30 Introductions, Agenda setting
• 9:30 - 10:45 Plenary discussion. Possible topics:
  • WCAG 2.0 Conformance
  • Process comments from latest public Working Draft
  • WCAG 2.0 messaging
  • Migration from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
  • Testing for conformance to WCAG 2.0
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:30 continue plenary discussion
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 - 3:00 Break into groups of 3-4 people. Discuss these questions in your group and appoint one person who will summarize the discussion and report to the rest of the group at the end of the day. You don't have to answer all of the questions, these are suggestions to get you started. Your group may also wish to discuss questions about WCAG 2.0 that are not on this list. The goal of this exercise is harvest ideas about WCAG 1.0 adoption and usage and how that will influence WCAG 2.0 adoption and usage. Discussion questions:
  • How is WCAG 1.0 currently used in your organization or your country?
  • How do you think people in your organization or country would like to see WCAG 2.0 conformance structured?
  • How do you think 2.0 will be used?
  • What are the primary issues you face with WCAG1.0?
  • What have you heard about 2.0 (are people talking about it already)?
  • Are you familiar with ATAG?
  • What authoring, evaluation, and repair tools are you most familiar with?
  • How do you or your organization currently test for Web accessibility?
• 3:00 - 3:15 Break
• 3:15 - 5:30 Plenary discussion
  • reports from small groups
  • agenda setting for Wednesday

Wednesday, 2nd July 2003

• 9:00 - 10:45 Plenary discussion
  • continue with reports and discussion from small groups
  • agenda setting
• 10:45 - 11:00 Break
• 11:00 - 12:30 break into groups of 3-4 people Possible topics and work items:
  • Continue discussion of questions from yesterday
  • Techniques (semantic web, html, css, client-side scripting, svg, etc)
  • Draft proposals to address open issues
  • WCAG 2.0 messaging
  • Migration from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
  • Testing for conformance to WCAG 2.0
  • WCAG 2.0 implementation testing framework
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 - 2:45 continue small group discussion
• 2:45 - 3:00 Break
• 3:00 - 4:30 Plenary discussion - reports and summaries from small groups
• 4:30 - 5:30 Planning and next steps

Required reading

• Current list of techniques
• WCAG 2.0 latest draft
• Cross group glossary
• WCAG 2.0 Requirements Document

Logistics

All meetings are in Venice-Lido island at the "La Meridiana" Hotel.

Hotels

"La Meridiana" Hotel, where the conference is hosted, will honor the discounted conference rate until June 10th, 2003, provided there are rooms available. When making reservations refer to W3C  WCAG F2F, organized by IWA/HWG. The hotel advises Wheelchair users and people with mobility impairments to request a room on the first floor. Contact Wendy Chisholm if you have any questions.

"La Meridiana" Hotel *** (meeting location)

Via Lepanto, 45
30126 Lido di Venezia (VE)
+39-041-5260343 (V)
+39-041-6250 (Fax)
E-Mail: info@lameridiana.com
Web site: http://www.hotelmeridiana.com 
Rooms: Euro 50,00 discounted conference rate, single occupancy or Euro 75,00  for double occupancy.

Additional hotels are available in the Venice-Lido area but without the special meeting discount.

Transportation

From Marco Polo Airport take the free shuttle to the boat pier. The shuttle should be available from outside the airport doors. From the boat pier you have two options:

1. The Alilaguna Boat to Lido (about 50 minutes and 10 Euro). More information about Alilaguna. You can buy your ticket at the Alilaguna ticket booth in the Arrivals area of the airport.
2. A water taxi directly to the hotel (about 30 minutes and 70 Euro). More information about the Vaporetto.

More information about the Marco Polo Airport.

From Treviso Airoport take the Bus to Venice Pz.le Roma and take the boat line 51 from Pz.le Roma to Lido (about 30 min).
When you arrive to Venice-Lido, you will reach the "La Meridiana" Hotel by taxi in 3-5 minutes.

More information about how to reach the hotel are available in the hotel web site.

Minutes

• Notes from Face to Face: Things being looked for in 2.0
• Draft Notes on Web Accessibility from Prospective of Various Countries
• 1 July IRC log
• 2 July IRC log

$Date: 2003/11/03 20:14:13 $ Wendy Chisholm, Roberto Scano

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