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.
Continue: COGA TF is working on what constitutes clear and understandable content. Please help us come up with both good and bad examples from your own experiences of sites and interfaces.
Asynchronous community group participation and how to make it easier for anyone to be involved.
March 3:
Community group organization
Leadership
Group scope and work statement (Rain will have a draft based on Feb 3 notes before this meeting)
[Adi and Szu] form to report patterns and issues to help identify community feedback for Content Usable
[Adi, Lee, Szu] Report on live transcription as a cognitive support in synchronous meetings
[Kiki, Rashmi] Outreach and education
Round table topics (see Dec. 2 for previously recommended topics)
The COGA TF is starting to plan timeline and draft priorities for the next version of Content Usable. Create a plan to review and provide formal feedback from the community group
The COGA TF is working on what constitutes clear and understandable content. Please help us come up with both good and bad examples from your own experiences of sites and interfaces
(Adi, Lee, Szu) Project update: Report on how live transcriptions in synchronous meetings benefit participants with cognitive differences and disabilities
(Lisa, Rain) Project proposal: creation of small videos of panel discussions on each objective
Round table topics (this list represents the order, but we will only do topics when the proposing individual is present and ready, so can go to the next item if needed):
Santina: stigma, and how to overcome it
Rashmi: font accessibility
Noreen: share on her academic work
Santina: “cog fog” as a very present reality in our COVID-world and how it impacts usability
(Adi, Lee, Szu) Project update: Report on how live transcriptions in synchronous meetings benefit participants with cognitive differences and disabilities
Round table from the community members: background, challenges, examples on failure and success experiences
⚠️ Important: Double check your time against 13:00 UTC this month! We may have gotten the timezone conversions wrong in our list because EMEA changed its clocks a week ahead of other places.
A big thank you to Hiral for creating a poll to help us identify the best option for our APAC friendly meetings. This post is an update on what our meeting schedule will be moving forward.
How our meeting schedule will work:
We will meet every two weeks
AMER and EMEA friendly time, 9:00 am Eastern Time: 1st Thursday of each month — next meeting date: Thursday November 4 at 9:00 AM Eastern Time
APAC friendly time, 9:00 pm Eastern Time: 3rd Wednesday of each month (this is Tuesday in AMER time) — next meeting date: Tuesday November 16 at 9:00 PM Eastern Time
While we are not meeting again until November, the W3C’s annual conference, TPAC, is happening now. Find out more and join the public conversations here:https://www.w3.org/2021/10/TPAC/Overview.html
Our meeting link cannot be posted publicly, so you will be able find it in two places:
On the Google Calendar event invite that will be sent to public-coga-community@w3.org
On our next meetings, I will teach the group how to use IRC so that we can use this to record notes for our meetings and make them publicly available
Responding to other group requests:
Some team members have asked if we can open up a Slack channel, as well. We can do this, but we need to set that up. Is there a volunteer who would be willing to set this up for us?
We will continue using Zoom for our primary meetings so that we can remain within the W3C infrastructure.
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