Meeting Agendas
2021
Launch | Kickoff | First Meeting | September 2, 2021
- Welcome & Meeting Logistics (Suzanne)
- Accommodations / IRC / Zoom / Meeting Notes
- Introduce ASL interpreters
- Code of Conduct
- Member Introductions (Maud)
- Walk Through of Wiki Main Page
- Can everyone access and edit this page? (Suzanne)
- Public
- Open Source
- Join the group and sign W3C's contributor's agreement to access and edit the Wiki
- Content of the page (Maud)
- Discussion
- UNICEF
- Feedback on Wiki Main Page.
- Can everyone access and edit this page? (Suzanne)
- Round Table and Goals for Group (Suzanne)
- W3C and User Needs
- Each participant is asked...
- What three topics would you like to prioritize for discussion? (e.g. online education, health care, gaming/virtual reality, user experience testing, artificial intelligence (AI))
- Is there a specific user need you would prioritize?
- Discuss Monthly Demos & First Demo on September 16th (Maud)
- Opportunities for members of this group to share their work / products with the group
- 10-30 minute presentation, followed by discussion
- Opportunities for members of this group to share their work / products with the group
Meeting Two | September 16, 2021 | Discuss Working Methodology for Group | Discuss Definition of Disability for Group
- Welcome / New Member Introductions (Suzanne)
- How to collect and find important research (Maud)
- Stay with open source
- Subscription-based (issues with sharing - would we have permission to describe and share)
- Reasonable accommodations
- Other outputs for our work (Suzanne)
- Look at list we have now
- See if group has additional outputs
- Working definition of disability / accessibility (Maud)
- Slides from Maud's Eurochild Presentation
- Models and Types of disability
- Costs: Mental / Cognitive
- Comparison between countries
- Specific Learning Challenges
- Delays in diagnosis
- Gender-based differences
- Slides from Maud's Eurochild Presentation
- Document Format (Suzanne)
- Walk Through of User Needs Template
- Draft of Children's Accessibility User Needs (Currently just working on the template/format for the user needs)
- Discussion and feedback on User Needs Template.
- Everyone is invite to edit, once you have officially joined the group and signed W3C's contributors agreement.
- Walk Through of Meta Data Page
- Metadata about (Categories for) Children’s Accessibility User Needs (with examples or use cases where needed for clarification)
- Discussion and feedback on Meta Data Page.
- Everyone is invite to edit, once you have officially joined the group and signed W3C's contributors agreement.
- Walk Through of User Needs Template
Meeting Three | September 30, 2021 | Learning Words As You Go | Global Children's Accessibility Considerations Toward a Definition
- Welcome (Suzanne)
- New Members?
- Logistics
- Trying IRC for notes.
- If interested, the channel is #accessibility4children
- More info on IRC: https://www.w3.org/Project/IRC/
- ASL Recording Policy
- Requesting Accommodations
- Trying IRC for notes.
- Interactive Orthography Presentation by David Boulton (10-15 Minutes) (David)
- Description of Presentation: Reading related difficulties (English) are a major cause of acquired learning disabilities. For most who struggle with it, the central challenge of learning to read English (and other deep orthographies) is the artificially confusing relationships between letters and sounds. Our prevailing models of reading instruction have been warped around the assumption that the orthography is static, that the words used to learn to read with are two dimensional inert visual objects. Though readers must be able to read static text (paper or screen), there is no reason (other than centuries of inertia) why we should continue to use static text as the media of learning to read. In this presentation I will demonstrate "interactive orthography" - a new medium for learning to read that makes possible an internet wide leap in online learning support.
- Q&A / Discussion (As long as is needed)
- Opportunities Part I (Suzanne)
- TPAC https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2021/SessionIdeas
- What is TPAC and FAQs https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2021/FAQ#What_is_TPAC.3F
- Deadline: Oct 8
- Session Length: 1 hour
- When is it? October 18-22
- Homepage: https://www.w3.org/2021/10/TPAC/
- What are other groups presenting? Proposed sessions: https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2021/SessionIdeas#Proposed_sessions
- Silver Friday Meeting (to be discussed next meeting)
- TPAC https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2021/SessionIdeas
- Continue Discussion of Working Definition of Disability / Accessibility (Maud) (As long as needed, can continue next meeting as well)
- Slides from Maud's Eurochild Presentation with Discussion Slide-by-Slide
- Comparison between countries
- Specific Learning Challenges
- Gender-based differences
- This is for our group's own use for now
- We may wish to use different language, etc, for different audiences / cultures later in this effort
- Slides from Maud's Eurochild Presentation with Discussion Slide-by-Slide
Meeting Four | October 14, 2021
- Writing User Needs
- Work together to write / polish some user needs
- As we work together on this, also refine/adjust the templates
- Should we share the templates at a Silver Friday meeting for feedback?
- TPAC Prep
- User needs from above
- Edits to the presentation slides
- If time, continue slides and discussion on concepts and scope related to our work
- children vs adults needs
- CORE: children online- research and evidence
- discussion
Meeting Five | October 28, 2021
- Welcome/Intro New Members
- If present:
- Danielle (since we only heard from Danielle briefly)
- Emeline
- Shawn
- Caidin
- Muhammad
- If present:
- Melissa's Presentation, "Bilingual Resources for Literacy Development"
- Discussion
- TPAC Summary
- Quick update for the group
- Next agenda will include discussing follow-up
Meeting Six | November 11, 2021
- Complete Maud's slides and discussion on concepts and scope related to our work (25 minutes)
- children vs adults needs
- CORE: children online- research and evidence
- Discussion
- User Needs and Formatting/Phrasing for this work (25 minutes)
- How this work can fit into WCAG 3.0 work
- How can ideas be written and positioned as user needs for best integration with other W3C efforts
- Set goal for when to share the templates/examples:
- at a Silver Friday (WCAG 3.0) meeting for feedback
- with COGA Taskforce
- with EPUB / AudioBooks
- More TPAC Follow-up (5 minutes)
Meeting Seven | December 9, 2021
- User Need Categories as Functional Needs We will attempt to frame the categories of children's accessibility user needs as functional needs.
- UNICEF AI update
- Decide when to request to be on the agenda for the Silver Friday Meeting (which is a group working on WCAG 3.0)
- Dec 23 - informal working meeting
- Jan 6 - our next meeting
- Jan 13 - Maud and Suzanne meet
- Jan 14 - Perhaps we can be on the Silver Friday Meeting Agenda?
- Are there enough people who can attend to make progress on December 23, 2021?
- Invitation to sponsor or provide accommodations
- Sponsor funding for "Voices of Children" (legal, logistics advice)
Meeting Eight | December 23, 2021
In consideration of vacation time for the holidays, this will be an informal meeting for collaborative writing.
2022
Meeting Nine: January 6, 2022
- Presentation: Captioning and Comprehensibility with Maria Wünsche (15-20 minutes)
- How often do children who are D/deaf and hard of hearing in Germany use subtitles on TV and why?
- Which subtitle features have an impact on comprehension and acceptance of subtitled television (in German) and what does that mean for subtitlers?
Meeting Ten: January 20, 2022
- Thank you so much Deaf Services of Palo Alto for Sponsoring the Meeting Accommodations today.
- The Community Groups is seeking additional sponsors.
- Discussion: Feedback from Silver Group
- Discussion: Chatbots and AI
- Continue work on Functional Needs: User Need Categories as Functional Needs
- Decide as a group how to frame supporting documentation
Meeting 11: February 3, 2022
- Accommodations
- Use of Hand-Raising Feature in Zoom as a way to improve meeting accommodations
- Thank you: Re: Meeting Accommodations today.
- The Community Groups is seeking additional sponsors.
- Let us know anything we can do to improve.
- Feedback from meeting with Functional Needs Subgroup
- These (Children's High Level User Needs) should be called High Level User Needs.
- Follow-up Meetings - Who wants to attend?
- A11y 4 Children / Functional Needs to continue conversation and learn more about Matrix
- Protocols / A11y 4 Children
- Protocols / UDL / A11y 4 Children
- Deeper Dive into how to Explain Why Children's Needs Require Specific Consideration
Meeting 12: February 17, 2022
- Accommodations (Maud)
- Use of Hand-Raising Feature in Zoom as a way to improve meeting accommodations
- Thank you: Re: Meeting Accommodations today.
- The Community Groups is seeking additional sponsors.
- Link with other standards: Intro on new Standard for an Age-Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children (Maud)
- Update on status of meetings with other W3C groups and Protocols (Suzanne)
- Invited Protocols subgroup chair to present
- Reaching out to get on agenda of Functional Needs Group a second time
- Intersectionality Meeting (Include Danielle)
- WCAG 3 timelime Current Charter Proposal (Suzanne)
- Next 2-3 years - how A11y for Children should fit into the format
- Following 2 years - detailed guidance
- Prepare for Prioritization Vote (Suzanne)
- Conversations with practitioners focusing on whether students will be prepared to use any proposed solutions
- Writing high level user needs Children's High Level User Needs
- At the Functional Needs meeting, one suggestion was to write a document similar to COGA's document.
- Documenting/spreading the word about research gaps (and prototype gaps)
- Document policy gaps
- Seek funding sources and explore funding options (National Science Foundation example)
- Conduct advocacy / awareness (for example, use of AT during assessment)
- Writing advocacy letters or feedback to other standards such as IEEE Standard for an Age Appropriate Digital Services Framework Based on the 5Rights Principles for Children
- FAQs Why Children's Needs Require Specific Consideration
- Other?
Meeting 13: March 3, 2022
- Update on collaboration with other groups (ST)
- We have invited the chair of the WCAG 3 Protocols Subgroup to present at an Accessibility for Children Meeting, and expect to hear back when he is back in the office (will follow up)
- Some Accessibility for Children Community Group Members will attend the Functional Needs subgroup meeting on March 29th (additional members welcome 9-10 AM EST)
- Discuss providing feedback on the Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements (MS)
- Continue collaborative work on Children's High Level User Needs and discuss whether to re-frame these as Children's Accessibility Rights (ST)
- Continue discussion of balance between agency and guidance Children's High Level User Needs or Children's Accessibility Rights
- Outreach Approaches (MS)
- This group's social media
- Survey on Priorities for the Group for the next 6 months (ST)
Meeting 14: March 17, 2022
- Discuss Survey Results about Group Priorities
- Discuss pronunciation in screen readers and how to ensure issues unique to children and education are considered for WCAG 3.0
- Education
- Crisis
- Entertainment / Inclusion
- Continue Discussion of Group's Presence on Social Media: Set up our LinkedIn account together (5 minutes time-boxed)
Meeting 15: March 31, 2022
- Update on March 29th Functional Needs Subgroup Meeting [5 mins]
- Discuss whether there are Functional Needs that are unique to children and not currently represented in the W3C's list of Functional Needs [15 mins]
- Work together on FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Why Children's Needs Require Specific Consideration [30 mins]
- There are times when children need to use IT independently
- Use Case: for missing children in Ukraine
- 116 111 free and confidential service for children and young people, via phone, chat and other means.
- Use Case: Children with parents with mental illnesses
- Use Case: Child with disability helps their family since they know a language their family does not
- Use Case: for missing children in Ukraine
- There are times when children need to use IT independently
- Look once more at results of Prioritization Survey [5 mins]
- Responses that came in after the meeting
- Written Comments
Working Rhythm [5 mins]
- Social Media Work: Confirm Handle "a11y4kids"
- Offline Focus for Next 2 Weeks:
- FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) Why Children's Needs Require Specific Consideration
- Main Functional / User Needs, and Outcomes (A11y 4 Children Temporary Branch)
Meeting 16: April 14, 2022
- Pronunciation [10 mins]
- Look at Chart of Pronunciation Contexts based on March 17th Discussion
- Discuss providing feedback for WCAG 3 pronunciation in screen readers
- Discuss working with Pronunciation Taskforce
- Update on first meeting (April 13) with Pronunciation Taskforce:
- Minutes of the Meeting
- Main doc to comment on
- Github in which to post our comments (we should post one use case at a time)
- Nice to have this done well in advance of TPAC 2022: Hybrid Meeting | 12-16 September 2022
- Discussion: Future of AI | Why AI? (As proposed at Jan 20th meeting, we wish to build a set of examples and focus efforts on somewhat more advanced AI)
- Conversational AI (Chatbots) Check W3C page for reference: Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements
- Blog post on AI
- Toolkit for children by WEF
- Discuss Progress on Offline Work:
Working Rhythm
- Social Media Work: Survey those who assist students other than the primary teacher in front of the classroom (such as Teacher Assistants)
- Offline Focus for Next 2 Weeks:
Meeting 17: April 28, 2022
- As a group, compose one Github issue to help ensure future technologies will be able support the TTS pronunciation customization that children need:
- Main doc to comment on
- Github in which to post our comments (we should post one use case at a time)
- Discuss reaching out to ePub group for additional input on any Github issues we contribute
- For reference: Chart of Pronunciation Contexts based on March 17th Discussion
- Discuss our social media presence and the first survey that we might conduct of those who assist children with assistive technology
- Twitter Account
- Should a semi-final draft of the White Paper be one of the first posts? Why Children's Needs Require Specific Consideration
Meeting 18: May 12, 2022
- Pronunciation
- Look at draft for Github issue on need for "child" voices: https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/issues/110
- Look at document for specifying "friendly" voices
- Context Map
- Aspects of speech such as prosody, affect and tone-of-voice
- Hierarchy of control (users settings, test settings, author override, child override)
- Discuss offline progress on and work together on: Main Functional / User Needs, and Outcomes (A11y 4 Children Temporary Branch)
- Social media post on GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day) for children?
- May 19th 2022
- Conversational AI (Chatbots) Check W3C page for reference: Natural Language Interface Accessibility User Requirements
- Blog post on AI
- Interesting Research on AI and Social Skills
Meeting 19: May 26, 2022
- Pronunciation
- Look at draft for Github issue on need for "friendly" voices
- Any other priorities?
- White Paper (Why Children's A11y)
- TPAC
- TPAC 2022 | Hybrid Meeting | 12-16 September 2022
- White Paper
- Current Progress
- Other?
- AT Surveys
- Maud will give a summary of International AT survey - check report launch May 16: Global report on assistive tech
- The Accessibility for Children Community Group's may send a survey out to find out best practices and to identify the skills children need for efficient assistive tech use. It will question the learning needs of children and what knowledge and skills are required for them to actually use assistive technology.
- Note that the safety toolkit has been released: 5 Rights Toolkit
- Ideas for how to work well with UDL (Universal Design for Learning)?
Meeting 20: June 9, 2022
Focus: Safety, Privacy, Security
- Guest speaker: Gabriela Rapp
- 20 minutes presentation
- Q&A
- She will present findings from her work:
- discussion and trainings with over 40.000 with 2 cohorts from 2007-2010 (20.000 children) and 2016-2020 (20.000 children).
- set up a risk-based holistic Cybersecurity Strategy for the country of Luxembourg from 2001 until 2010. From 2016 onwards a lot of young **research on sexual violence, violence, addiction, mental health (online) - also including solutions (2019 findings and book Please Do Something)
- goals: "growing up HEALTHY and SMART in today’s world" (online and offline)
- Note that the safety toolkit has been released: 5 Rights Toolkit
- Maud may provide some commentary on the Toolkit.
- Review proposed social media posts:
- LinkedIn: At our last meeting on May 26th, we contributed to the Pronunciation Taskforce work of W3C by providing a new GitHub issue on Social and Emotional Characteristics of Text-to-Speech (for children) (https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/issues/114) & our chair Maud gave a presentation summarizing the World Health Organization's Global REport on Assistive Tech (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049451).
- Twitter: Last meeting, we added a new GitHub issue on the work of the W3C #Pronunciation Task Force on Social and Emotional Aspects of Text-to-Speech (https://github.com/w3c/pronunciation/issues/114) & Maud gave a presentation summarizing the WHO's Global REport on Assistive Tech (https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240049451). #a11y
Meeting 21: June 23, 2022
- White Paper Schedule and Outline
- Saving time for translations? (may not be needed for TPAC)
- Translation for Children (should have eventually regardless)
- Tools and research on
- Invite external speakers (2 proposals):
- Legally Attentive Data Scientists
- PhD students between law and tech, can present various subject as consent, privacy-preserving, neuromarketing, and mental integrity...
- Mediaverse project Co-creation,property rights, accessibility
- Legally Attentive Data Scientists
Meeting 22: July 7, 2022
- Look at proposed White Paper intro, which is based on our discussion at the May 26, 2022 meeting.
- Follow-up: case studies (topics), statistics/ link high -level user needs.
- Work with UDL (possible topics for white paper)
- Continue work on the White Paper draft together.
Meeting 23: July 21, 2022
- New member introductions (Alena Fraser and Bob Dolan, if present)
- Continue work on the White Paper draft together.
- Volunteers to work on specific use cases?
- to be added: some links to Danielle's materials
- TPAC (12-16 September): breakout sessions confirmed (more info will be sent end of August)
- Discussion of the work of the Personalization Taskforce
- Janina Sajka's suggestions: two key documents to pay attention to are the Explainer and the Content Module
- Summary of Explainer
- Janina Sajka's suggestions: two key documents to pay attention to are the Explainer and the Content Module
- Intro to WCAG 3 Use Cases
- Other Members we should invite?
- Any members want to present on their work or give an update?
Meeting 24: August 4, 2022
- White Paper Status and Next Steps.
- Seeking statistics related to Accessibility and Children
- Lack of accessibility even in the studies Accessibility Considerations in the National Children's Study
- Format not final, current focus is the content
- Define primary audience(s)
- FAQ Document (1 Page)
- Define primary audience(s)
- Three terms (based on discussion at Silver Meeting Friday July 29, 2022)
- Accessibility for Children with Disabilties
- UX for Children in General (out of scope for AGWG/WCAG)
- Intersectionality of the above
- Survey on FAQ document
- Next meeting, we will vote on finalization of the FAQ and a question will be added to the survey for this as well
- Format is trying to be final by this meeting, with content edits complete by next meeting
- Break out groups to write Use Cases (used in white paper and/or used as github suggestions for W3C Use Cases document)
- Ask group to think about TPAC
Meeting 25: August 18, 2022
- Look at final edits to FAQ Document (1 Page) & conduct a meeting vote as well
- TPAC breakout session proposal
- Our session has been proposed and is the 7th proposal here: https://www.w3.org/wiki/TPAC/2022/SessionIdeas
- Since it is open to the public, anyone can attend and TPAC registration is not necessary
- Wednesday, September 14, 2022 1:30 pm PT; 4:30 pm ET; etc
Meeting 26: September 1, 2022
- FAQ with edits
- Do you know of any research related to how close children sit to devices of which sizes? (for WCAG 2.2 understanding document on Flash/Flicker)
- Research gap?*
- Children more often change their devices - may keep same distance
- Some parents purchase iPad minis for better handling
- Is there a large amount of re-use of donated older devices around the globe? 72 dpi?
- Work on White Paper
- Intended uses for White Paper (that we can keep in mind as we write)
- Finalize White Paper Outline in Advance of TPAC?
- Organization-of-Society/Environment/Adults' Attitudes toward AT (assistive technologies) and impact on children.
- Language in our documents
Meeting 27: September 15, 2022
- TPAC Summary / Update
- Diagnosis of Disabilities and Differences in Video Games and other Technology Worlds
- Begin choosing (or finalizing) User Needs (Functional Needs will be next meeting) from our copy of user needs/functional needs document (anyone with the link can comment, email the chairs if you don't have edit access) to bring forward to the main WCAG 3 AGWG document
Meeting 28: September 29, 2022
- User Needs / Functional Needs
- Begin choosing (or finalizing) Functional Needs from our copy of user needs/functional needs document (anyone with the link can comment, email the chairs if you don't have edit access) to bring forward to the main WCAG 3 AGWG document
- Look at User Needs from last meeting and wordsmith
- Quick note: We will discuss logo and images A11y4Kids for social networks in December; Proposals welcome!
Meeting 30: October 13, 2022
- Review of User Story (Persona)
- Considerations: diagnosis can take time, functional needs might be better; children would likely mention an adult or two when talking, so this can be an opportunity to help reduce the potential bias mentioned in github that dyslexia is a children's issue. Questions with children are slightly different: the child does not only have a problem with assessing safety, but they also might not yet completely comprehend the concept.
- Work together to provide actionable edits including our group's feedback as well as other feedback from github, where we agree.
- "We are updating our resource "How People with Disabilities Use the Web". It includes user stories, such as this in-progress draft of a child with ADHD"
- "We are also developing videos to go along with the user stories. Here is the in-progress draft script for the video for "Preety""
- "Here is a GitHub issue that we're thinking the Accessibility for Children CG might want to comment on"
- Statistics mentioned in our white paper |document in progress| to highlight the need for child representation in online accessibility
- “At the global level, it has been estimated that already one child in three is an internet use, and that one in three internet users is a child under 18 years of age”. Unicef
- "More than one in eight children are considered neurodiverse, according to a recent report by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2021; Brown, 2021; Krzeminska, 2019 )." kids included report
- “2 in 5 children use the internet for information seeking at least once a week (such as learning something new, looking for news, health information, etc.);” “Data from the US (Rideout & Robb, 2019) equally show that around 3 in 10 tweens and nearly 6 in 10 teens use digital media daily for homework” “almost half of tweens and teens use some form of digital gaming daily” Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries
- Maud will Present Slides: Breaking Ground on Children's Rights Input and Feedback: Focus on 5 Rights Foundation
- Overview of what it is (foundation and network)
- Does anyone have contacts / experience with this group
- Protection from the negative, but also looking to ensure the positive
- Age Appropriate Design Code - UK and CA law based on an adaptation of this
Meeting 30: October 27, 2022
- User Story Videos - thanks!
- Discussion of Types of feedback from the Group: Individual Comments from Members, Consensus, Informal Notes/Edits, Reference-Based
- Finalize first installment of Functional Needs / User Needs Feedback
- Are we ready to send this?
- Does anyone need more time to add comments?
- White Paper Status and Next Steps.
- Should we ask to contribute materials for a "Younger Users" resource similar to: Older Users Section from Education and Outreach Web Accessibility Initiative
- Can materials from White Paper, FAQ or Wiki be designed for this
- Can any of these materials also be framed as a how-to achieve "non-discrimination" for children with disabilities as resource for those working to meet the Convention on the Rights of the Child (came before CRPD) and the CRPD
- Breaking Ground on Children's Rights Input and Feedback: Focus on Overview of Approach
- One-pager with focus on Children's Rights?
- Can we get our work reviewed by these organizations?
- Are there events we can attend online?
- Discuss how to reach out, hoping for similar output/input methods like we have been doing with W3C standards work
- Can / should we work as a catalyst inviting organizations large and small to comment on W3C public drafts?
- directly?
- through social media?
Meeting 31: November 10, 2022
- Announcements
- November 24th meeting will be cancelled for US Thanksgiving Holiday.
- [section of the Wiki has a new page for ongoing review of living documents]
- EU Glossary of human-centric artificial intelligence: refers to accessibility guidelines and Universal Design principles: good example / best practice for communication with other organizations
- Request: Start thinking about items to add to 2023 Prioritization Survey
- Emerging Tech
- AI
- XR
- Emerging Tech
- Check in on White Paper: With Kris Anne's help, we are asking to contribute materials for a "Younger Users" or "Child Users" resource similar to: Older Users Section from Education and Outreach Web Accessibility Initiative
- Should we transform the White Paper into this publication?
- Part II: Discussion of the work of the Personalization (WAI-Adapt) Taskforce as suggested by Janina Sajka (feedback can be collected here)
- We looked at the explainer a while back. Now let's take a quick look at a WAI-Adapt demo:
- Look at specific WAI-Adapt Attributes and Values and discuss how they relate to children. Items we will discuss include:
- The "action" attribute (currently would be marked-up as "data-action") and its list of possible tokens
- Are there additional tokens (to represent common button functions) needed especially for educational materials or for games?
- The "destination" attribute (currently would be marked-up as "data-destination") and its list of possible tokens
- Are there additional tokens (to represent common link targets) needed especially for educational materials or for games?
- The "purpose" attribute (currently would be marked-up as "data-purpose") and its list of possible tokens
- Are there additional tokens (to represent common text fields) needed especially for educational materials or for games?
- There is already an "answer" token and this particular attribute can accept multiple tokens. Should there be tokens to represent the type of input: for example, text versus numbers versus symbols, so that a field with data-purpose="answer number" could be for an answer, which is a number? Should there be tokens for whether this is the full answer versus part of the answer?
No Meeting: November 24, 2022
This meeting will not be held since this is the US Thanksgiving Holiday.
Meeting 32: December 8, 2022
- Update on WAI-ADAPT [adapt-]
- Part III: Discussion of the work of the Personalization Taskforce as suggested by Janina Sajka (feedback can be collected here)
- Look at specific WAI-Adapt Attributes and Values and discuss how they relate to children. Items we will discuss include:
- "ADAPT-simplification"
- Three tokens and attribute takes just one (link to current tokens)
- The "distraction" attribute (likely to be marked-up as "ADAPT-distraction") and the "sensory" token
- Do we agree that children require greater specificity for this attribute? What breakdown is needed?
- Are other tokens (link to current tokens) needed?
- "symbol" (moving forward first)
- Begin collecting items for 2023 Prioritization Survey
- Update on plans for White Paper to a resource similar to: Older Users Section from Education and Outreach Web Accessibility Initiative
- Should we meet on Dec 22nd? Who can attend?
No Meeting 33: December 22, 2022
2023
Meeting 34: January 5, 2023
- Update on plans for White Paper to a resource similar to: Older Users Section from Education and Outreach Web Accessibility Initiative
- Draft document on Younger Users check additional resources and topics
- The WCAG 3 effort has created very lightly drafted "sub-guidelines" to WCAG 2 success criteria in preparation for migration to WCAG 3 architecture. Suzanne asked about writing children's "sub-guidelines" in one of the Silver Friday meeting and was invited to write these up. The minutes reflect some of the discussion around this.
- Children's WCAG 2 "sub-guidelines"? For example a "sub-guideline" to "SC 1.1.1 Non-text Content" could have the title, "Non-Text Content Designed to be a break from Text" and could have techniques similar to those currently only mentioned for CAPTCHA.
- Collecting item for 2023 Prioritization Survey
Meeting 35: January 19, 2023
- Bob Dolan will introduce an Ontology funded through NSF (30 minutes)
- Consider which to advocate for with the WAI-ADAPT taskforce.
- Collect feedback here: Link to where we are collecting feedback on WAI-ADAPT
- Make plan to organize and present feedback
- ATIA is coming up (1 minute)
- Future of Interface Workshop is coming up (1 minute)
- Links to Social Media Posts (1 minute)
Meeting 36: February 2, 2023
- Next Steps on Children's Needs for WAI-ADAPT
- Work together on additions to WAI-ADAPT's Explainer
- Suzanne will create a template prior to the meeting so we have a structure to fill in
- AAATE 2023 with a Special Thematic Session on “Digital Inclusion and Competence Development” (for learners).
Meeting 37: February 16, 2023
- Updates from members?
- Reminder: All Participants should Review The W3C Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (1 minute)
- Focus of the meeting: Continue discussion of WAI-Adapt, Bob's Ontology, and Related Concepts while writing Use Cases for WAI-ADAPT.
- The Use Cases have 2 purposes:
- WAI-ADAPT may use them in their Explainer Document, and we are formatting them to be easily used for this purpose
- This is a way we can present Use Cases to WAI-ADAPT for their consideration while they write/refine the WAI-ADAPT specification
- The Use Cases have 2 purposes:
Meeting 38: March 2, 2023
- Updates from members?
- Virtual Reality User Study with Children and Seniors in a VR Experience | Equal Entry
- Intergenerational testing, collaborative moments but also different learning curves
- Need for onboarding processes (learning to use controllers).
- Mozilla festival Workshop
- Disability Inclusive AI & Policy: From AI Bias to Implications in Education, Children & Disability Rights
- Wednesday March 22nd 8.45 9.45 (US) 13:45 14:45 (EU)
- Virtual Reality User Study with Children and Seniors in a VR Experience | Equal Entry
- Continue work on WAI-ADAPT Use Cases (See above)
- Take at look back at our prioritization survey
- Finalize list of items to prioritize in our 2023 survey
- 2023 Prioritization Survey (15 minutes)
Meeting 39: March 16, 2023
- Updates from members?
- Possibility to react tot the CENCENELEC (Standardization body) on Age appropriate digital services framework until April 4 2023
- Development process of WHO Guidelines on the Provision of Assistive Technology.
- What is needed? As well as reviewing the scientific literature, we are seeking your expert advice and knowledge about assistive technology guidelines. These might be within reports, policy documents and/or scientific publications.
- Are there key guidelines that are used by your organisation and/ or in your country for specific assistive products/ assistive technology? Do different personnel use specific guidelines about AT? Are these guidelines published, available on a website, or able to be shared?
- Please send any documents, links or descriptions to:international@arata.org.au
- AGWG Possible Direction: Conformance varies by product type or sector
- Send Use Cases for WAI-ADAPT and other feedback to Adapt Taskforce?
- Finalize list of items to prioritize in our 2023 survey
- Last Year's Survey: our prioritization survey
- 2023 Prioritization Survey (15 minutes)
Meeting 40: March 30, 2023
- Updates from members?
- Review the CENCENELEC response prepared by chairs on Age appropriate digital services framework (deadline April 4 2023)
- Encouraging new/more diverse membership?
- Other ways to participate if people can't attend the meeting?
- The Prioritization Survey is ready for Members to Answer!
- It will remain open through our next meeting (April 13)
- It will close the day before the following meeting (Closes April 26; Meeting is April 27)
- Send Use Cases for WAI-ADAPT and other feedback to Adapt Taskforce?
Meeting 41: April 13, 2023
- Updates from members?
- TPAC 2023 Hybrid Event Sevilla: discuss participation / presentation and group meeting planning answer before May 8.
- Update on feedback submitted to Accessibility CEN CENELEC
- Reminder to answer The Prioritization Survey
- Questions on any survey items?
Meeting 42: April 27, 2023
- Review Results of the Prioritization Survey
- Highest scoring items are:
- 8.67 Establish “Ethics of Interface,” encouraging designers to see healthiness of participation in human learning as the top priority https://forhumanity.center/ (offers free classes) “Future of Interface” initiative
- 7.67 Design for a prototype system that would give learners both a mechanism and reinforcement for flagging unmet learning/information needs
- 3-way tie at 7.33
- White paper focusing on the necessity for addressing unmet learning/information needs for the cost-optimal evolution of online resources User Participation is essential (see also: Miraculous Intersections & 3 laws of Feedback)
- Create a mechanism for looping organizations like Save the Children (or alliances of such organizations) into W3C document review
- Host a Workshop designed to establish an “Ethics of Interface” in which the healthiness of participation and human learning is the priority
- 2-way tie at 7.0
- WCAG 2.x gap analysis ( as a list of missing sub-success criteria) to inform WCAG 3 and/or be a temporary stand alone note until WCAG 3 addresses more of children’s needs
- Create a survey similar to WebAIM’s Screen Reader Survey, but focused on children’s use of AT. (or otherwise collaborate toward this end if we find a group to collaborate with)
- Discuss next steps and approaches!
- Highest scoring items are:
- WAI-ADAPT updates
- Finalize WAI-ADAPT Use Cases
- Collect group's feedback on whether to explore the topic of assistive robotics?
- (Publications by Vicky Charisi)
- New resource: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-International-Handbook-of-Childrens-Rights-and-Disability/Beckett-Callus/p/book/9780367521530 the table of content proposes interesting subjects we could discuss with the group ie: The Rights of the Child When Symbolic Language is Out of Reach, Do All Children Have the Right to Express Views? Listening to ‘differently-voiced’ communicators,...
- Invitation to add a third co-chair.
- This may fall under "Sensitive Topics" as defined in the W3C Code of Conduct
- The Internet Watch Foundation on Children with SEND (UK document) related to child abuse contains a guide for parents/carers and teachers, resources and examples of conversations to help children. Our group could just be informed this material exists and is available open source.
Meeting 43: May 11, 2023
- Review Results of the Prioritization Survey
- Survey closes May 24th
- Vision Australia AT Survey
- Initial Discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
Meeting 44: May 25, 2023
- Review Results of the Prioritization Survey
- Survey will close one day before this meeting
- Summary of results
- WAI-ADAPT: joined discussion on next steps A11y4childrenfeedback
- Coga making content usable collaborate on next update? and other Issue papers.
- Vision Australia AT Survey
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- EU project goal developing inclusive education (assistive tech and accessibility) for kindergarten (preschool) years.
Meeting 45: June 8, 2023
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- Coga making content usable collaboration on the next update.
- Quick reminder next priorities (for our information)
- WCAG 2.x gap analysis ( as a list of missing sub-success criteria) to inform WCAG 3 and/or be a temporary stand-alone note until WCAG 3 addresses more of children’s needs
- Continue to evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children within W3C
- Host a Workshop designed to establish an “Ethics of Interface” in which the healthiness of participation and human learning is the priority
- Evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children among accessibility specialists in general
- Write a stand-alone guide to making content/products accessible for children with disabilities, similar to COGA's document
- Design for a prototype system that would give learners both a mechanism and reinforcement for flagging unmet learning/information needs
- Present at Conferences
Meeting 46: June 22, 2023
- Group will work together to explore writing a WAI-ADAPT use case (or use cases) *specific* to the current working draft, which has the potential to bring AAC imagery to the Web.
- set up next meeting with WAI Adapt team
- Building the Business Case for Accessibility (Workshop)
- Report on Artificial Intelligence and the of Teaching and Learning Complete report
- addresses many concepts we often rely on in accessibility like variable learners, strength based learning
- multiple references to students with disabilities, and multilingual learners
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- Coga making content usable collaboration on the next update.
Meeting 47: July 6, 2023
- Follow-up WAI-ADAPT use case (or use cases) *specific* to the current working draft, which has the potential to bring AAC imagery to the Web and next meeting.
- TPAC:
- Outreach page: check updates, recent research, suggestions for the following page:
- Similar section to older users for children/ youth.
- Discuss Writing a Page for Education and Outreach for younger users, similar to this page about older users. (Would be nice to have a rough draft by TPAC Sept 11-15.)
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- Get the Group stated looking at Coga making content usable collaboration on the next update.
Meeting 48: July 20, 2023
- Follow-up WAI-ADAPT use case (or use cases) *specific* to the current working draft, which has the potential to bring AAC imagery to the Web and next meeting. Feedback from WAI adapt working Group?
- TPAC: work on a draft project description to communicate (W3C, Education Outreach and funding foundations)
- Outreach page: check updates, recent research, suggestions for the following page:
- Similar section to older users for children/ youth.
- Get the Group stated looking at Coga making content usable collaboration on the next update.
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
Meeting 49: August 3, 2023
- Write up feedback on COGA making content usable collaboration on the next update.
- TPAC:
- check /schedule for relevant sessions
- work on a draft project description to communicate (W3C, Education Outreach and funding foundations)
- outreach page: check updates, recent research, suggestions (ie.: include latest work on ehtics)
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- Follow-up WAI-ADAPT use case (or use cases)
Meeting 50: August 17, 2023
- Welcoming new Chair
- New timings for regular meetings
- Wai Adapt Case Studies AAC
Meeting 51: August 31, 2023
- Continue discussion of Ethics of Interface Strategy
- mapping learning needs and skills
- inclusive participation and healthy agency model +background research
- draft project description to communicate (W3C, Education Outreach outreach page and funding foundations)
- Educational ethics : International network Contacts Sheron Fraser-Burgess, MSc, MA, Ph.D.
- food for thought : learning stewards video on redefining education
- Excerpts that focus on the most relevant highlights:
- The ethics threshold
- Future collaboration and the "explosion" of interest in "Educational Ethics"
- Some principles :
- how well we learn more important than what we learn/ teach , connection vs content,…
- healthy agency and participation
- Timings for next meetings: what timing is confirmed?
- Check WAI Adapt use case on education and plan meeting WaiAdapt use cases
- Wiki page on Young users (Education and Outreach Working Group) children and webaccessibility requirement analysis
- check for an editor from our Community Group.
- Sharing TPAC Template in case we need it
Meeting 52: September 14, 2023
- WCAG 2 Gap Analysis
- Check WAI Adapt use case on education and plan meeting WaiAdapt use cases
Meeting 53: September 28, 2023
- CEN-CENELEC IEEE ‘Age appropriate digital services framework' our community group contributed to, is published.
- W3C Annual event -TPAC: updates
- Priority topic education as new laws are passed to make edtech accessible law
Meeting 54: October 12, 2023
- W3C Annual event -TPAC: updates
- Education check interesting links sent by Allison on:
- Maryland Bill
- NCEO Accommodations Toolkit: accommodation toolkit
- CCSSO Accessibility Manual(edtech for accessibility) Counicil of chief state school officers how to select and evaluate use of accessibility support for instruction and assessment of all students
- Discuss output for our group on education:
- Type: checklist, quizz, presentation, trends, resources?
- To send with New Year's wishes?
Meeting 55: October 26, 2023
- Presentation Framework Ethics of Interface
- Education outcomes (ie.:2 pager + visual)
- Check competence assessments grid for our group (in order to chose best alignment with projects)
Meeting 56: November 9, 2023
- Education outcomes (ie.:2 pager + visual)
- Legislative changes
- Good practices in accessibility for education
- Gaps in accessibility for education
- Trend-setting and new research
=== Meeting 57: November 23, 2023 === No Meeting (Thanksgiving)
Meeting 58: December 7, 2023
- Education outcomes
- Legislative changes
- Good practices in accessibility for education
- Gaps in accessibility for education
- Trend-setting and new research
Meeting 59: December 21, 2023
- Season's Greetings including accessibility informative document+ new logo
If time permits:
- New Kahoot tools Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- New Unicef report on digital inclusion and accessibility of grils with disabilities
- Check skills assessment grid
2024
Meeting 60: January 4th, 2024
No meeting
Meeting 61: January 18th, 2024
- Priorities for the New Year
- Cognitive vulnerabilities (other suggestions are welcome)
- Kids accross the spectrums: growing up Autistic in the Digital age Resource to analyze and compare with other resources, practices, experiences.
- New Kahoot tools Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- New Unicef report on digital inclusion and accessibility of grils with disabilities
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 62: February 1st, 2024
- Work on priority topics (to be selected by members)
- Prioritisation survey
- EDucation and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 63: February 15th, 2024
- Propose some / myths and facts on accessibility for children (each member can bring one)
- Chairs propose disclaimer when external content is reviewed or presented:
- Readings and resources shared in the W3C Accessibility for Children Community Group are meant to compare and broaden our perspectives on several topics.
- The information about providers and services contained on our wiki page does not constitute endorsement or recommendation by the the W3C Accessibility for Children Community Group.
- During meetings, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.
- this disclaimer will help us ensuring we do not endorse all contents reviewed in the group. We try as much as possible to provide contents which are aligned with current societal needs for children with disabilities/ specific needs.
- Recurrent topics to select
- EDucation and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 64: February 29th, 2024
- Propose some / myths and facts on accessibility for children (each member can bring one)
- Recurrent topics to select
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 65: March 14th, 2024
- Continue work on / myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Recurrent topics to select
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
- Short suggestions to check
Meeting 66: March 28th, 2024
- Continue work on myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Recurrent topics to select
- FB for W3C initiative:impact of Machine Learning on the web: transparency, autonomy, security, privacy, ...
- Presenting the Rhonda Weiss Center for Accessible IDEA Data
- Assists US States in data demands and provides technical support for dynamic, accessible data formats.
- For children 0 to 21 years.
- Video of their story, initiatives by Fred Edora and his colleagues, their missions, work also mentioning newly developed Adapt tool
- Event on Age Assurance Standards session on children with disabilities
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 67: April 11th, 2024
- Continue work on myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Recurrent topics to select
- FB for W3C initiative:impact of Machine Learning on the web: Draft comment for our group to review
- Event on Age Assurance Standards session on children with disabilities free registration presentation of outcomes of our group
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 68: April 25th, 2024
- Recurrent topics to select
- FB for W3C initiative:impact of Machine Learning on the web: Draft comment for our group to review
- myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 69: May 9th, 2024
- FB for W3C initiative:impact of Machine Learning on the web: Draft comment for our group to review
- myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 70: May 23th, 2024
- Demo Rhonda Weiss Center on Accessible Data Analysis and Publishing Tool
- News: WCAG 3 Ready for review
Meeting 71: June 6th, 2024
- Presentation: What AT Specialists need to know about accessibility
Meeting 72: June 20th, 2024
- Impact of Machine Learning on the web submit as github issue: Draft comment for our group to review
- Presentation: What AT Specialists need to know about accessibility by Jane and Shira submitted at ATIA 2025
- Be my eyes guide on inclusive language guide on inclusive language:
they suggest changes like this one: "Outdated: “Assistive Technology”, “Adaptive Technology” - these terms place emphasis on need and difference. Modern: “Access technology”- this term places emphasis on accessibility and socially-constructed barriers instead of neediness." Check what could be added for children?
- To discuss WCAG 3 Ready for review (keep in mind that this is not the final version)
- The Future of Child Development in the AI Era
- Report to review and for information some topics related to our core subjects (not addressed in detail): Assistive AI for children with disabilities, attention and executive functioning, considerations to ensure effective AI integration in education
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Positive Effects of Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring Among Students with Disabilities
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 73: July 4th, 2024
NO MEETING
Meeting 74: July 18th, 2024
MEETING CANCELLED
Meeting 75: August 1st, 2024
- Event:
- To review:
- WCAG 3 Ready for feedback child-specific outcomes and what is missing
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
Overview new publications / tools:
- Be my eyes guide on inclusive language guide on inclusive language:
- suggested changes in the publication:
"Outdated: “Assistive Technology”, “Adaptive Technology” - these terms place emphasis on need and difference. Modern: “Access technology”- this term places emphasis on accessibility and socially-constructed barriers instead of neediness." Check what could be added for children?
- The Future of Child Development in the AI Era
- Report to check. Some topics related to our core subjects (not addressed in detail): Assistive AI for children with disabilities, attention and executive functioning, considerations to ensure effective AI integration in education
- Positive Effects of Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring Among Students with Disabilities
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Child functioning module (based on the biopsychosocial model of disability)
- developed by UNICEF and the Washington Group
- Teacher Version of the Child Functioning Module (CFM-TV)
- can be used in:
- National Education Management Information Systems
- School-based surveys (with teachers as primary respondents)
- Note that the questionnaire is very generic and meant to be used in low resources environments. Our group could check which questions could be relevant for the online environement specifically.
- Module on inclusive education (questionnaire)
- Set of questions to understand the environmental factors affecting school participation (include type of support and AT)
- Questions are applicable to all children, regardless of their disability status.
- Purpose: help national decision-makers understand the educational experience of all children.
Meeting 76: August 15th, 2024
NO MEETING
Meeting 77: August 29th, 2024
- Communication: W3C community-wide survey.
- We want to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand our community’s vision of how we fulfill our mission for the world-wide web.
- This survey is being run through Typeform, an online survey platform that supports all major operating systems, is accessible, and has been tested to confirm compatibility with assistive technologies.
- This survey is open to W3C Members and people who participate in W3C group activities, and anyone involved in the Web. It is anonymous and takes 6 minutes or more to complete.
- We prepared a survey that has 4 additional questions that are specific to W3C Members. So two versions of the survey are being circulated, one for members and one for non-members.
- Please help us disseminate the links of the survey for the rest of the community with your group(s), team(s), your networks, your friends that are interested in the impact of web standards on humanity.
- The survey closes on Friday 13 September 2024. We look forward to hearing from you.
- English Members: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/uaESY6Q8
- English External: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/TeoUTslq
- French Members: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/U1C58KLO
- French External: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/Tyj602HT
- Japanese Members: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/dniLBGUQ
- Japanese External: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/zGk33stT
- Chinese Members: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/Mu6ARgiJ
- Chinese External: https://gzobeteisdd.typeform.com/to/S0KxM3CK
- To review:
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Create resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility
Overview new publications / tools:
- Prioritizing Students with Disabilities in AI Policy
- "This policy paper is designed to inform and guide policymakers at all levels, from local school boards to national education departments, who are responsible for shaping education policy in the age of AI. Recognizing the transformative potential of AI in education, particularly for students with disabilities, this paper aims to equip policymakers with the knowledge and insights necessary to leverage AI technologies effectively and equitably."
- The Future of Child Development in the AI Era
- Report to check. Some topics related to our core subjects (not addressed in detail): Assistive AI for children with disabilities, attention and executive functioning, considerations to ensure effective AI integration in education
- Positive Effects of Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring Among Students with Disabilities
- Resource on AI literacy for diverse learners inclusing UDL
- Child functioning module (based on the biopsychosocial model of disability)
- developed by UNICEF and the Washington Group
- Teacher Version of the Child Functioning Module (CFM-TV)
- can be used in:
- National Education Management Information Systems
- School-based surveys (with teachers as primary respondents)
- Note that the questionnaire is very generic and meant to be used in low resources environments. Our group could check which questions could be relevant for the online environement specifically.
- Module on inclusive education (questionnaire)
- Set of questions to understand the environmental factors affecting school participation (include type of support and AT)
- Questions are applicable to all children, regardless of their disability status.
- Purpose: help national decision-makers understand the educational experience of all children.
Meeting 78: September 12th, 2024
- check Prioritization list if new topics needed?
- Prioritisation survey 2024
- WCAG 2.x gap analysis ( as a list of missing sub-success criteria) to inform WCAG 3 and/or be a temporary stand-alone note until WCAG 3 addresses more of children’s needs
- Continue to evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children within W3C
- Evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children among accessibility specialists in general
- Write a stand-alone guide to making content/products accessible for children with disabilities, similar to COGA's document
- Design for a prototype system that would give learners both a mechanism and reinforcement for flagging unmet learning/information needs
- Present at Conferences
- Cast Universal Design for Learning Guidelines update 2024 (check changes)
- to discuss
- Resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility.
- Purpose of this document: collect and structure relevant information on accessibility for Children.
- continue the review of publications Artificial Intelligence
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Topics to consider during meetings:
- WCAG3 second review
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 79: September 26th, 2024
- check Prioritization list if new topics needed?
- Prioritisation survey 2024
- Continue document with mission of our group
- Resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility.
- Purpose of this document: collect and structure relevant information on accessibility for Children.
- continue the review of publications Artificial Intelligence
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Topics to consider during meetings:
- WCAG3 second review and check Main Functional User Needs, and Outcomes to see if something is missing.
(A11y 4 Children Temporary Branch)
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 80: October 10th, 2024
- Presentation on the aspects of UDL certifications (what it is, why to implement, benefits, examples,…) presentation by Jack Springle Curriculum Associates -duration: 20 minutes followed by discussion.
- Finalize document with mission of our group
- Resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility.
- Purpose of this document: collect and structure relevant information on accessibility for Children.
- continue the review of publications Artificial Intelligence
- Resources from the Glasgow Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium to share
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Topics to consider during meetings:
- WCAG3 second review and check Main Functional User Needs, and Outcomes to see if something is missing.(A11y 4 Children Temporary Branch)
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 81: October 24th, 2024
NO MEETING
Meeting 82: November 7th, 2024
- Brainstorming question: what chidren's Apps and tools do you use / recommend for focus/ attention? (what you expect from sucn an app -accessibility discussion.
- New co-chair for our Community Group and frequency of the meetings (monthly? 2025)
- Resource folder with useful evidence -based research from our group and external but relevant to children with specific needs and accessibility.
- Purpose of this document: collect and structure relevant information on accessibility for Children.
- continue the review of publications Artificial Intelligence
- Resources from the Glasgow Lovelace-Hodgkin Symposium to share reference book
- Myths and facts on accessibility for children
- Topics to consider during meetings:
- WCAG3 second review and check Main Functional User Needs, and Outcomes to see if something is missing.(A11y 4 Children Temporary Branch)
- Age assurance: presentation key topics (what is relevant to our group)
- Education and Outreach: accessibility requirements analysis content
- Cognitive vulnerabilities, intersectionalities (girls)
- Kahoot Resource on Neurodiversity sparks Kahoot inclusive learning design
- Review Resources US Department of Education
- Myths and facts surrounding Assistive technology
- National Educational Technology Plan
- Check skills assessment grid
Meeting 83: November 21st, 2024
Meeting 84: December 5th, 2024
Meeting 85: December 19th, 2024
NO MEETING
2025
Meeting 86: January 2nd, 2025
NO MEETING
Strategy and priorities
- Our Strategy (when anlayzing topics)
With our W3C Group on accessibility for children we follow 3 steps which can be used in every topic we cover (education, entertainment…) In accessibility standards (WCAG), we provide specific use cases or examples for children. In guidelines and frameworks for children in the online world (including AI systems), we give advice on how to implement accessibility. We raise awareness on what is still missing and scalable.
- Reminder next priorities (for our information)
- Prioritisation survey 2024
- WCAG 2.x gap analysis ( as a list of missing sub-success criteria) to inform WCAG 3 and/or be a temporary stand-alone note until WCAG 3 addresses more of children’s needs
- Continue to evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children within W3C
- Evangelize the need for special consideration for Accessibility for Children among accessibility specialists in general
- Write a stand-alone guide to making content/products accessible for children with disabilities, similar to COGA's document
- Design for a prototype system that would give learners both a mechanism and reinforcement for flagging unmet learning/information needs
- Present at Conferences