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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• Current topics for work via email:
  • WAI-AGE Literature Review
• EOWG surveys (WBS questionnaires):
  • EOWG Review: WAI-AGE Literature Review as a First Public Working Draft
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • EOWG F2F Meeting October 2008
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

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:

• 2 May 2008 teleconference - possible topics:
  • WAI-AGE Literature Review (if open issues)
  • WCAG 2.0 implementation info
  • WAI outreach material, especially prined - analysis/requirements
  • EOWG Deliverables Plan, including WAI-AGE documents
  • Mobile-Accessibility documents - approve Working Draft publication
• 9 May 2008 teleconference - possible topics: approve Mobile-Accessibility Working Draft publication, EOWG Charter, 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.

1. 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
2. MWBP-WCAG Overlap documents
   • Requirements/Analysis for MWBP-WCAG lists the 3 documents at the top
   • Stage: first drafts published, continueing to refine
3. WAI-AGE project work
4. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
   • WCAG 2.0 Working Drafts
5. Updating as needed:
   • Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, WAI-ARIA Overview
   • WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feeds

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 Charter

EOWG Task Forces

1. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
2. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
3. [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
4. [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
5. [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexcon/Glossary Requirements
6. [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

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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