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.
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
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these
conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.
Reminder: To double check your Google Calendar invite and time for COGA meetings.
We are in the season of daylight saving time for different time zones, and all COGA meeting are in UST. This means if your timezone recently changed times, the various COGA meetings might be an hour earlier/later for you
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on January 8th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you. Here is a UTC to timezone converter if needed.
Reminder: To double check your Google Calendar invite and time for COGA meetings.
We are in the season of daylight saving time for different time zones, and all COGA meeting are in UST. This means if your timezone recently changed times, the various COGA meetings might be an hour earlier/later for you
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on December 4th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Reminder: To double check your Google Calendar invite and time for COGA meetings.
We are in the season of daylight saving time for different time zones, and all COGA meeting are in UST. This means if your timezone recently changed times, the various COGA meetings might be an hour earlier/later for you
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on October 2nd, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on October 2nd, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
Any topic from visual presentation or AI that is worth pulling together an opinion paper on (e.g. find any relevant research and write down personal considerations from our group?)
Open floor
Async Reminders and channels:
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use one of these calendar holds
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on September 4th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
[Group Discussion] visual presentation for cognitive access (e.g. Font styles, contrast, backgrounds, distractions, use of images/icons, intensity of data in a sentence, sentence complexity, paragraph structure)
[Group ask] Anyone like to bring up topics (like the AI topic today)? No need to prep materials but you can. The goal is to bring more topics that people either have knowledge on (we all want to learn!) or generally topics we want to discuss.
Async Reminders and channels:
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use one of these calendar holds
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on August 6th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
[Continued Group Discussion] AI tools (suggestions, opinions, etc.)
What are you currently using, if anything?
Tips on using the tools?
Good and the bad of utilizing AI?
[Group ask] Anyone like to bring up topics (like the AI topic today)? No need to prep materials but you can. The goal is to bring more topics that people either have knowledge on (we all want to learn!) or generally topics we want to discuss.
Async Reminders and channels:
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use one of these calendar holds
Here is the meeting in local times for the meeting on June 15th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
[Group Discussion] AI tools (suggestions, opinions, etc.)
What are you currently using, if anything?
Tips on using the tools?
Good and the bad of utilizing AI?
[Group ask] Anyone like to bring up topics (like the AI topic today)? No need to prep materials but you can. The goal is to bring more topics that people either have knowledge on (we all want to learn!) or generally topics we want to discuss.
Async Reminders and channels:
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use one of these calendar holds
There is the meeting in local times for the meeting on June 5th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
[Kiki] Meeting changes
Split meeting approach for more inclusive timezone attendance
New meeting reminder
Moving from slack to discord
[Kiki] walk through deleting only calendar invites from Kiki
[Kiki] Answer COGA Task force questions
Async Reminders and channels: As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), we will provide a meeting link hold which will also be added to this reminder starting next month. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. The zoom link is in the calendar invite.
