Mental Health Subgroup

Sub Group of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force on Mental Health

Scope

The Mental Health Subgroup is working on a research module on Web accessibility to effectively address accessibility needs for those with behavioral and mental health disorders. This may result in new user stories, user needs, patterns and other guidance in Making content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

This work was requested after the overlap between cognitive abilities and mental health became clear.

Definition: Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities. (from American Psychiatric Association https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/what-is-mental-illness)

Conference Call Information

After the main Coga call every third week - see [Subgroups] for the schedule

https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga

To Do's

the main actions are on our [action page]

Reformat paper to research module template (pending/slow burn)

Old list

All: Review articles, and put them in the form.
- Please take an article from [Mental Health Research Tracking] by putting your name next to an interesting article.
- Please add your review at [Form for adding new reserch]
Justine: Contact Michael Cooper to initiate conversation about mental health from a functional needs perspective.

Slow burns

All: Add sensitivities/considerations for supporting the needs of individuals with mental health conditions as they work with the subgroup.

Links are at [our actions links https://docs.google.com/document/d/15HtPkkYx1CIl6bAwP2nsSZKhqTVbqcuMDRz5RmtmvXg/edit#heading=h.3l4zkpmgsaqb]]

Chairs: Process for supporting anonymous participation in W3C contexts?

Scribe List

Links

current links are at our [actions page ]

older links

[Form for adding new reserch]
[Mental Health Research Tracking] Sign up to review a document here!!!
[Sensitivities for this work]
[Analysis page]