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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

• Open reviews:
  (in addition to items listed in the Agendas below)
  1. Slide sets:
     • Business Case slides
     • Using WCAG 2 slides
     • Slides CSS version (Ian P is working on adding WAI footer and platter image) - single file of WCAG 2 Benefits, slidey show of WCAG 2 Benefits
  2. Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer - some open comments are pending, additional comments are welcome for the final draft.
  3. Web Accessibility and Usability Working Together (draft without notes marked, draft with notes marked, Analysis doc) was open for EOWG review and survey. We are making more edits in 2011; you can send additional comments to the wai-eo-editors list.
• EOWG questionnaires (WBS):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • Registration for face-to-face 23-24 May, London (F2F meeting page)
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

Previous agendas are in the meeting minutes.

For Task Force teleconferences, see the Task Force mailing lists.

Teleconference logistics

EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time via teleconference bridge. To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.

We use the Zakim Teleconference Bridge, IRC, and Zakim IRC "bot".

• Teleconference bridge:
  • +1.617.761.6200
  • +33.4.26.46.79.03 (limited lines, please use +1 number or VoIP if you can)
  • +44.203.318.0479 (limited lines, please use +1 number or VoIP if you can)
  • Instructions for VoIP "Zakim-SIP"
  • Code: 3694# (EOWG#)
• IRC:
  • Channel: #eo
  • Server: irc.w3.org
  • Port: 6665

Face-to-Face Meetings

EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page.

Confirmed upcoming face-to-face meetings:

• 23-24 May 2011 in London, England (location and agenda to be announced in March)
• At TPAC 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, USA (2 days between 31 October to 4 November 2011 to be decided later)

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribing instructions

Current Work for 2011 2^nd Quarter

(Updated March 2011)

1. WAI-AGE project
   • Slides - Web Accessibility for Older Users Presentation
     Status: draft complete, ready for EOWG review. will be updated when documents completed.
     
   • BAD demo - Before and After Demonstration (BAD) [revision]
     Status: update mostly complete, a few tweaks needed then ready for publication as a public Draft for Review.
     
   • How People With Disabilities Use the Web
     Status: update mostly complete, ready for EOWG review (e-mail).
   • Training Resource Suite (4 pages)
     Status: draft complete, to be published as public Draft for Review after the in-page navigation is worked out.
   • Usability-Accessibility document (Analysis/Requirements)
     Status: completed draft, editing in-progress
   • Better Web Browsing: Tips for Customizing Your Computer
     Status: draft mostly complete. some open comments are pending, additional comments are welcome for the final draft.
2. Update Policies Relating to Web Accessibility
3. Presentation material and videos:
   1. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 instructions overview, ppt 800KB, HTML, video
   2. Components of Web Accessibility instructions cover page, step-by-step guide version, HTML presentation version, presentation version (.ppt @@KB)
   3. Business Case instructions page, draft ppt
   4. Using WCAG 2 instructions page, draft ppt
   5. Slides CSS version - single file of WCAG 2 Benefits, slidey show of WCAG 2 Benefits
   6. Slidey help
4. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material
   • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance - finalize print version
     (Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips)
   • Flyer front (old WAI Flyer, changelog) - make print version
   • Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
5. New doors to WAI resources, information architecture, site design & navigation
   • outreach opportunity through http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AA-Conformance and related popular pages
   • Which WCAG 2.0 docs are for You?
   • Papers, Posts, Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles
   • Web Accessibility FAQ
   • For all WAI resources, probably at /WAI/intro/, maybe organized by target audience
   • Longer term: redesign to fit with new W3C site design
6. Update user interface for How to Meet WCAG 2.0 (Quick Reference)
7. Promoting ATAG 2.0
8. Contributing to and reviewing documents from WAI and W3C groups
9. Updating as needed:
   • WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feed

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for 2011 and beyond.

Publications

• WAI Resources is an annotated list of current resources on the WAI site, many developed by EOWG.
• The Completed Deliverables section of the EOWG Deliverables Plan lists work completed by EOWG.

About EOWG

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) develops strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need for Web accessibility and to educate the Web community regarding solutions to Web accessibility.

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Chair and W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter

EOWG Task Forces

1. Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
2. Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
3. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
5. [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
6. [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
7. [closed] WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page

Mailing Lists

• EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
• Instructions for subscribing to the EOWG mailing list
• EO-Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents
• Some of the task forces have mailing lists, which are available from the links in the "EOWG Task Forces" section above.

Membership

• How to join the EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

Document Information

Status: Updated $Date: 2011/04/15 16:04:06 $