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DRAFT Requirements/Analysis and changelog for "WAI-AGE slide set"

• Draft: "Web accessibility for older users" presentation
• Final: "Web accessibility for older users" presentation

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Purpose, Goals, Objectives

Rationale:

WAI-AGE staff can only do a limited number of in-person presentations, but cannot directly reach everyone who is interested in Web accessibility and ageing. An online presentation, with presenter notes and explanations, would enable us to reach far more people with information about our findings from the literature review, the resources available through the project, and strategies for promoting Web accessibility in the ageing community.

Objective:

Develop an online set of slides and presentation notes, also to be potentially used as self-study notes, briefly explaining the project but mainly incorporating the findings of the literature review and introducing the resources available through the project.

Note that the slide set will need updating as additional deliverables are completed.
After initial publication, maintain thorough changelog (e.g., <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/changelogs/cl-components#changes>) and notify translators when updated.

Audience

Primary audience:

• People wanting to present on the topic of Web accessibility and ageing, including:
  • older peoples' organizations and broader ageing community
  • accessibility and older peoples' advocates
  • accessibility trainers
• Users and other people interested in learning about the topic

Secondary audience:

• People wanting an overview of the topic
• Bloggers
• Reporters

Approach

• File Format: Provide in 2 formats (as per the WCAG 2.0 Presentation):
1. A presentation format. Prefer to use Open Office ODP since it's open source; however, since Power Point doesn't open ODP, will need to provide PPT. Ensure that all of the PPT works well in Open Office.
2. HTML, with CSS embedded. Provide only as a simple single file, not try to incorporate it into Slidy or other HTML presentation format.

Initial ideas for consideration (September 2008)

• changes in demographics
  • EU and country specific
• age-related impairments
  • vision, hearing, mobility, cognition
• study findings
  • ...
• analysis findings
  • value of WCAG 2.0
• resources
  • ... reference, resources, etc ...
• invitation to participate

References

Draft slide set; Slides Instructions page

WAI-AGE task force and EOWG Discussions:

• WAI-AGE TF 9 Sept 2009
• EOWG 31 July 2009
• EOWG 12 June 2009
• WAI-AGE TF 3 June 2009
• WAI-AGE TF 8 April 2009
• EOWG 20 February 2009
• EOWG 30 January 2009
• WAI-AGE TF 28 January 2009
• WAI-AGE TF 14 January 2009
• WAI-AGE TF 12 November 2008
• EOWG F2F meeting 24 October 2008
  • discussed the requirements document and considered the ADDW slides as a basis for the initial slide set

Related documents:

• Other WAI-AGE presentations:
  • ADDW - September 2008
  • ICCHP - July 2008
  • W4A - April 2008
  • CSUN - March 2008

Changelog

2010-09-22 version

• Updated Creative Commons licence on Instructions page and Slides
• Updated links to completed deliverables
• updated UK older people online stats

2009-12-11 version

• amended Copyright to Creative commons on Instructions page and Slides

2009-10-28 version

• Wordsmithing on many slides and especially speakers notes
• Code cleanup
• Appendix cleanup (for consistent presention with UN & Eu demographic slides)
• NB PPT version update is awaiting final HTML version

2009-09-24 version

• Additional heading slides added
• Additional slide explanation added after discussion with Shadi
• NB PPT version update is awaiting final HTML version

2009-09-04 version

• Considered suggestions from EO, including breaking up with heading slides
• Additional wordsmithing improvements after discussion with Shadi

2009-07-27 version

• Split 'implications' slide into two separate slides:
  • Older users online (with bullet about employment)
  • Implications
• Added speakers notes to Harmonization slide
• Additional small wordsmithing improvements
• Created draft introduction page - http://www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/ageing/Overview.php
• Created Power Point version of slides - http://www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/ageing/aging.ppt

2009-07-16 version

• Increased graph size and simplified; added background colour wash to demographic tables; highlighted 65+ data; etc (as per EOWG 12 June actions #1 - #8, #10)
• Text spacing adjusted (as per EOWG 12 June action #9)
• Added more referrals to Lit Review and other references (as per EOWG 12 June actions #11 & #12)
• Added online data by age to "Implications" slide notes for speakers (as per EOWG 12 June action #15)
• Updated "Implications" slide to address 'why the web is particularly useful for older users' (as per EOWG 12 June actions #13 & #14)
• Changed title of "Additional observations" to "Observations from the literature - continued" (as per EOWG 12 June action #16)
• Removed sub-bullets from "WAI guidelines" slide (as per EOWG 12 June action #17)

2009-06-09 version

• combined the EU data and graph - added an instruction to presenters to add a graph for their own country to show is a local issue too if appropriate
• rearranged impairment slides from (2 x statistics + 2 x impacts slides) to (individual impairment impact + prevalence slides)
• added a graph to the UN data slide
• split the W3C/WAI slide into two slides
• tided up the implications slides and the educational resources slides

2009-06-03 version

• updated UN forecast slide with 2008 figures and more comprehensive data

2009-06-01 version

• Comprehensive wordsmithing following feedback from Shawn and Shadi
• Added a W3C/WAI slide
• Rearranged the order of some slides
• Several open issues flagged for discussion

2009-04-29 version

• Added an introduction to WAI Guidelines slide ahead of discussing WCAG/ATAG/UAAG

2009-04-27 version

• Split impairment prevalence and impact slides into two (to match proposed PPT)
• Tidied up presenters notes
• Finalised the following slides
  • Educational resources - industry
  • Educational resources - users
  • Standards harmonization

2009-04-07 version

• Removed ARIA mention from Browser and Authoring slides (too much of a side issue)
• Added two slides after "Ongoing work for the project"
  • Educational resources - industry
  • Educational resources - users
• Marked "WAI documents" slide for probable deletion
• Flagged possible new slide about "Standards Harmonization"

2009-04-02 version

Overall - additional wordsmithing. More particularly:

• Slide "Importance of WCAG 2.0" - generalized the discussion
• Slide "Browser and application usability" - split into two slides about Browsing and Authoring respectively
• Slide "Other Observations from Literature" - added bullet about the lack of consideration of assistive technology
• Slide "Ongoing work for the project" - rephrased
• Slide "WAI working groups" - removed as covered more generally in "Become involved" slide
• Slide "Research needed" - changed title to "research opportunities"; added assistive technology; moved slide ahead of "participate"

2009-03-26 version

• added 50+ statistics to the EU demographic forecasts slide
• added an impairment slide describing the impact of age-related impairments
• added a slide to discuss the importance of WCAG advisory techniques
• added a slide to discuss the important of the browser and online applications

2009-02-19 version

• Suggestions from 30 Jan EO meeting incorporated as appropriate
• Demographic time-frame recast to 2030 or there about's
• Individual country demographic slides moved to an Appendix to be drawn on as appropriate for any specific presentation
• Demographics and impairments slides reordered to improve flow
• Additional findings slide included to bring in other WAI guidelines

2009-01-29 version

• Suggestions from 28 Jan TF meeting incorporated as appropriate
  (with exception of reconsidering the demographic time-frame)

2009-01-19 version

• Suggestions from 14 Jan TF meeting and email feedback adopted as appropriate.

2009-01-08 version

• Suggestions from EO f2f incorporated.
• Simple graphs incorporated for demographic changes.

2008-11-24 version

To do for basic slide set (as per EO f2f) - in progress:

• title ideas - web accessibility for older users
• remove W3C branding so they can be reused by others
• add attribution notes to the slides as per WCAG2 slide set
• add text about reuse e.g. <http://www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/WCAG20_about/#permission>
• add speakers notes to the slides as per WCAG2 slide set
• speaker notes on demographics - provide hints where to possibly look for local demographic stats
• ensure and statistical sources are attributed
• consider adding country specific stats links in speakers notes where we have them
• Demographics - graphs are good, but need to be simple (graph ideas)
• ensure main points of any graphs/tables is described well in speaker notes
• EU countries (and others) are changing age of retirement - could give examples from different countries - either in slides or the notes
• Look at examples of ways to put speakers notes and image/layout descriptions, e.g. <http://www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/WCAG20_benefits/WCAG20_benefits.html>
• Many specific suggestions for adapting the ADDW slides

Content last updated: $Date: 2010/09/22 14:15:13 $
Editor: Andrew Arch. Developed with participants of the WAI-AGE task force and participants of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) .

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).