Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)
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Announcements and Meetings
Announcements
- Current topics for work via email:
- WAI-ARIA
documents:
- WAI-ARIA Primer, revised Editor's Draft especially "Reasons for Adopting WAI-ARIA" section
- High-level suggestions to improve the understandablilty of the WAI-ARIA Best Practices
- Overall how do the different documents fit together? Is that clear in each document?
- General suggestion to improve the approachability and understandablilty of the documents.
- WAI-ARIA
documents:
- EOWG survey forms (WBS questionnaires) - lists open and closed Calls for Review, and results
Teleconferences
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.
- Teleconference bridge :
- +1.617.761.6200
- +33.4.89.06.34.99
- +44.117.370.6152
- Code: 3694# (EOWG#)
- IRC:
- Channel: #eo
- Server: irc.w3.org
- Port: 6665
EOWG teleconferences upcoming:
- 18 April 2008 teleconference - agenda:
- Accessibility-Mobile Overlap documents - discuss overall organization
- WAI-AGE Literature Review
- Draft of literature review (sent in e-mail)
- Any high-level questions or comments about approach or organization?
- Is the structure clear? Does it suit the content?
- Discussion of findings:
- Guidelines
- Training
- Specific disabilities
- Design aspects
- Involving the elderly
- Guidelines
- Background
- Analysis/requirements for literature review
- Draft WAI-AGE Task Force Statement (note that edits are pending)
- WAI-AGE presentation from CSUN 2008 (still to updated with EO feedback)
- Analysis/requirements for literature review
- Draft of literature review (sent in e-mail)
- Upcoming virtual meeting, face-to-face, and questionnaires
- 25 April 2008 teleconference - possible topics:
- Upcoming announcements
- WAI outreach material, especially printed
- EOWG Charter
- 2 May 2008 teleconference - possible topics: WAI-AGE Literature Review (if open issues), EOWG Deliverables Plan, including WAI-AGE documents
- 9 May 2008 teleconference - possible topics: WAI-AGE materials
- 16 May 2008 teleconference - possible topics: WAI-AGE materials
- 23 May 2008 teleconference
- 30 May 2008 teleconference
For Task Force teleconferences, see the Task Force mailing list.
Face-to-Face Meetings
EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page. Upcoming meetings:
- Tentative: 2 days during the week of 20-25 October 2008, at the Technical Plenary Week and AC meeting, in Cannes Mandelieu, France
Meeting Minutes
Minutes from previous meetings are available.
Related pages: scribes list | minuting instructions
Current Work
EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of March 2008. Work in Task Forces is indicated in brackets.
- WCAG "Mapping" - Comparison of WCAG 1.0
checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 [EOW2]
- Requirements and changelog for Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 Resource Suite
- Stage: ready to be published
- MWBP-WCAG Overlap documents
- Requirements/Analysis for MWBP-WCAG lists the 3 documents at the top
- Stage: first drafts published, continueing to refine
- WAI-AGE project work
- Contributing to and reviewing:
- WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
- WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts
- Updating as needed:
EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned deliverables for 2008 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 Task Forces
- [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
- [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
- [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
- [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
- [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexcon/Glossary Requirements
- [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.