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Cognitive Accessibility Community Group

Mission

The mission of the COGA Community Group is to work with and support the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility (COGA) Task Force  to improve web accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

This group supports the COGA Task Force by supplying user needs and feedback.

Scope
The COGA Community Group’s work will include:
- Sharing challenges when using the web and other digital displays
- Suggesting user needs
- Helping with research
- Suggesting ways to improve accessibility for the community
- Reviewing COGA’s drafts
- Outreach and collecting feedback from the community
- Helping with policy and the business cases for COGA guidance
- Having open meetings to discuss these points
Open meetings may be live video conferences or in other discussion formats

Participation

You do not need to be an expert in all topics related to cognitive accessibility to join the community group. The COGA Community Group will work in smaller groups for specific subjects, giving you the opportunity to participate on the topics you choose.

The COGA Community Group will also work together on some topics, brainstorming and building a community dedicated to improved access for all.

Anyone can join this group as long as they follow the community guidelines.

However, the community group will specifically benefit from including:
- people with learning and cognitive disabilities,
people with mental health challenges,
- caregivers, therapists and people who work with people with learning, cognitive challenges and in mental health,
- researchers,
developers, quality assurance professionals, and user interface experts,
industry, looking to share and support ideas, and
policy makers.

Additional details of participation
- Joining the COGA Community Group does not involve joining the COGA Task Force.
- If you would prefer to join this group anonymously, please send an email to ran@w3.org.
- The community group will not publish specifications, but may make suggestions to the COGA taskforce.
- For more information about community groups, please visit Community and Business Groups Frequently Asked Questions.
- Short link to this document: bit.ly/coga-community

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Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, March 7th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

The next meeting will be Thursday, March 7th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed. 

As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe for meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Shruti] Reviewing draft disabling patterns (e.g. social media app notifications and likes that cause mental health impacts) with goal of passing it along to COGA Task Force
    2. [Lea] Regarding Content Usable, are there any best practices for influencing adoption of it on newer dev teams looking to improve accessibility on mobile apps? 
  3. If Time
    1. [Kiki/General Team] Reviewing dark pattern doc
    2. [Anja] The complexity of language in design guidelines: some words feel overused, some words could maybe be replaced by clearer words. 

Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, February 1st, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

The next meeting will be Thursday, January 4th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed. 

As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe for meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Kiki] Review any AIs from last month’s discussion on Finish testing guide and reading tools.
    2. [Lea]  regarding Content Usable, are there any best practices for influencing adoption of it on newer dev teams looking to improve accessibility on mobile apps?
    3. [Anja] Research how do you test a layout to see if it is simple? There is view hierarchy that AI can now build into that, so is it now testable.
  3. If Time
    1. [Anja] the complexity of language in design guidelines: some words feel overused, some words could maybe be replaced by clearer words. 

Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, January 4th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

The next meeting will be Thursday, January 4th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed. 

As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe for meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Simo] reviewing a Finnish testing guide for coga (I am soooo excited about this one! Thank you Simo!!)
    2. [Anja] Reviewing current readability tooling and seeing if COGA has it included. If it is not included, is there research that supports these approaches that we could pass along to the Task force?
  3. If Time
    1. [Lea]  regarding Content Usable, are there any best practices for influencing adoption of it on newer dev teams looking to improve accessibility on mobile apps?
    2. [Anja] Research how do you test a layout to see if it is simple? There is view hierarchy that AI can now build into that, so is it now testable.

Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, December 7th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

The next meeting will be Thursday, December 7th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed. 

As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe for meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Kiki] any live feedback we want to leave on rain’s doc?
    2. [Anja] email finished and ready to be pass along to TaskForce?
    3. [Kiki] any topics we want to discuss for next meeting?

Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, November 2nd, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

Meeting times are:

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe for meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Rain] Update on Content Usable document + upcoming research (A/B testing)
    2. [Everyone] finish Fears affect on cognition document & Transcription document? (if so, I will pass it along to COGA task force)
    3. [Anja] email finished and ready to be pass along to TaskForce?

Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, August 3rd, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

Meeting times are:

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe in July 6th meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Jamie] update on meeting platform
    2. [Simo] Update on Fears affect on cognition document
    3. [Lea] Community outreach update
    4. [Kiki] Chance to bring up any topics or issues we want to bring to the task force
  3. Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, July 6th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

Meeting times are:

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe in July 6th meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Simo] Update on Fears affect on cognition document
    2. [Lea] Community outreach update
  3. Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

The next meeting will be Thursday, June 1st at 15:00 UTC.

Meeting times are:

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe in May 4th meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Kiki]  Reminder to send out feedback form
    2. [Simo] Fears affect on cognition
    3. [Lea] Community outreach update
  3. Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

The next meeting will be Thursday, May 4th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe in May 4th meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Simo] Fears affect on cognition
    2. [Lea] Community outreach update
    3. [Kiki] Any feedback on using the form?
      1. Positive feedback
        1. Overall good survey
        2. Reddit Award
      2. A change that occurred is to remove the upload option because it was requiring people to have a google account and log in. There is now a question prompting people to send the media to cogacommunity@googlegroups.com
        1. We do not want to require you to sign in to fill out this form, which is required if we give the option to upload a file in this form. If you would like to send a screenshot, video, or audio please send it to cogacommunity@googlegroups.com
    4. [Kiki] WCAG three is looking for people to give cognitive and learning disability input. Gauging to see if any individual(s) in the community group want to join a subgroup.
      1.  2-4 hours a week for a couple of months
  3. Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q

Meeting reminder: Cognitive Accessibility Community Group, April 6th, 2023 at 15:00 UTC

The next meeting will be Thursday, April 6th at 15:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times

  • PST: 7:00 AM
  • CST: 9:00 AM
  • EST: 10:00 AM
  • United Kingdom: 3:00PM
  • Berlin: 4:00 PM
  • Israel: 5:00 PM
  • India: 7:30 PM

If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.

Also time zones can change with daylight savings, so if the time is incorrect, please let Adi, Kiki or Jamie and we will update it!

Meeting join information: w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga-cg (opens in a new tab)

Check the meeting time in your timezone: worldtimeserver.com/convert_time_in_UTC.aspx 

Meeting Agenda

  1. Welcome (Meeting notes) (5 minutes)
    1. Identify scribe in March 2nd meetings notes
  2. Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
    1. [Jamie] Consensus voting
    2. [Kiki] Can we share the examples to the TF that we have in the Google Drive
      • The task force is updating the document and would like to understand if they are covering issues that affect us and our community. As we have not collected information more broadly with the Google form, I wanted to see if we are okay with sending examples we have collected together over the last year.
    3. [Kiki] Moved questions to google form. Approval from group?
    4. [Everyone] Broadening the community group
  3. Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)

This will also be shared on the slack channel. Direct link to join the slack channel: https://join.slack.com/t/w3ccogacommunitygroup/shared_invite/zt-1j4mjcois-buF7SqC9JwkUixWYffHC4Q