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.
The next meeting will be Thursday, December 1st at 14:00 UTC. Meeting in Local Times (if you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Adi, Kik or Jamie know)
PST: 6:00 AM
CST: 8:00 AM
EST: 9:00 AM
United Kingdom: 2:00PM
Berlin: 3:00 PM
Israel: 4:00 PM
India: 6:30 PM
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!
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)
