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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Face-to-face Meeting
19-22 October 2004 Hosted by AOL in Dublin, Ireland

This page: Registration | Agenda | Required Reading | Logistics

Participation

Participation is open to participants in good standing of W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG). If you are not currently a participant in good standing, but wish to attend please contact Gregg Vanderheiden (Chair) and Wendy Chisholm (Team contact).

The focus of this meeting is to advance the WCAG 2.0 documents. The meeting is scheduled for four days: two days for techniques task force discussion of the technology-specific documents and two days to discuss general WCAG 2.0 issues.

Registration

Registration is required and is open until 12 October 2004. The registration system is password protected. If you have not previously requested a login, please follow these instructions and contact Wendy Chishom with any questions.

Step 1: Request login information

Step 2: Fill out the registration form

After you have your login information, fill out the registration form.

Agenda

All times are in Irish Summer Time (UTC + 1 hour). Remote participants can find the time offset for your city.

Timing for each day:

(Optional) Friday, 15 October 2004 - Morning session with Device Independence Working Group

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Tuesday, 19 October 2004 - Techniques Task Force issues

8:30 - 9:00: Introductions / Agenda setting
9:00 - 10:00: Baseline
10:00 - 10:30: RDF and Server-Side Techniques review

10:30 - 10:45: Break

10:45 - 11:00: RDF and Server-Side Techniques review
11:00 - 11:15: Presentation from host
11:15 - 12:30: Breakout work session: Structure / Design, Baseline, non-existent Techniques docs

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:00: CSS techniques review
14:00 - 14:30: General Techniques review
14:30 - 15:30: General Techniques work session

15:30 - 15:45: Break

15:45 - 17:00: Testing / QA

Wednesday, 20 October 2004 - Techniques Task Force issues

8:30 - 9:00: HTML techniques review
9:00 - 9:30: Script techniques review
9:30 - 10:30: Breakout work session: HTML Techniques, CSS Techniques, Script techniques, General techniques, Mapping techniques to Success Criteria

10:30 - 10:45: Break

10:45 - 12:00: Work session continues
12:00 - 12:30: Overview of work session and assign action items

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 14:30: Required vs. Optional Techniques
14:30 - 15:45: Checklists

15:45 - 16:00: Break

16:00 - 17:00: Planning and milestone setting for Candidate Recommendation in March

Thursday, 21 October 2004 - WCAG 2.0 issues

8:30 - 9:00: Introductions / Agenda setting
9:00 - 10:30: Homeless issues - issues that are not in categories that have already been assigned.

10:30 - 10:45: Break

10:45 - 12:30: issues (continued)

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 15:30: Baseline technologies and 4.2

15:30 - 15:45: Break

15:45 - 17:00: Authored/delivered units - and - scoping (horizontal/vertical, internal/external)

Friday, 22 October 2004 - WCAG 2.0 issues

8:30 - 10:30: Public comments and issues from JIS, City University and RNID

10:30 - 10:45: Break

10:45 - 12:00: Guidelines 1.1 and 1.2
12:00 - 12:30: How it fits together - and WAI site navigation

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch

13:30 - 15:45: Checklists, Test Suites, Techniques and how to handle advisory

15:45 - 16:00: Break

16:30 - 17:00: Planning and milestone setting for Nov 3 public draft and Candidate Recommendation in March

Required reading

Logistics

Meeting room

Meetings will be held at:

Herbert Park Hotel
Ballsbridge
Dublin 4
Ireland

Accomodations

A block of hotel rooms at the Herbert Park will be available until 30 September (160 Euros a night). When making reservations refer to "@@" meeting at the hotel. Online reserverations for the Herbert Park.

Less expensive options:

Transportation from Dublin Airport to the Herbert Park Hotel

Information about Dublin


$Date: 2004/10/22 09:57:56 $ Wendy Chisholm