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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Current Work and recent Publications are listed lower on this page.

Announcements and Meetings for EOWG Participants

• EOWG Wiki
  • Work for this week
  • Agenda for next teleconference
• EOWG surveys/questionnaires ("WBS"):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • (Work for this week has the link to the weekly survey)
  • Other Open questionnaires for EOWG
  • (templates: weekly, new approval, approval of changes)

Teleconferences

EOWG teleconferences are open to participants of EOWG; Participating in EOWG has information about joining EOWG.

• Upcoming agendas in the wiki. (past agendas linked in the Meeting pages below)
• Teleconference logistics inclues WebEx and IRC connections
• EOWG Participation Info wiki page has additional information on teleconferences, IRC, and more.

Face-to-Face Meetings

• Upcoming face-to-face meetings are linked from the EOWG F2F wiki page

Meeting Minutes with Agendas

• Agendas, summaries, and links to minutes: EOWG Meetings 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
• Links to minutes from 2001-2013: EOWG Minutes Archive

Current and Upcoming Work

• EOWG Current Projects lists current and upcoming work

EOWG primarily works through GitHub and weekly surveys (W3C "WBS"), in addition to teleconferences. We use a wiki for some things like developing requirements and organizing project documentation. (We don't use e-mail much.)

Publications

EOWG deliverables announcements since 2005 are listed in the Highlights Archive and include:

• How to Meet WCAG 2.0: Customizeable Quick Reference redesign (March 2016 QuickRef announcement, Nov 2015 QuickRef announcement)
• Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility update (Dec 2016 Easy Checks updated announcement)
• Web Accessibility Perspectives - videos: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone (Sept 2016 Perspectives updated announcement, May 2016 Perspectives announcement)
• Web Accessibility Tutorials: Guidance on how to create websites that meet WCAG (April 2017 Tutorials updated announcement, March 2015 Tutorials announcement)
• Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility (Oct 2015 Tips announcement)
• Web Accessibility Laws and Policies (June 2017 Policy announcement)
• Planning and Managing Web Accessibility update (Dec 2016 Planning announcement on 3 updates)
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web updated in May 2017
• WCAG-EM Report Tool: Web Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator (March 2015 Report announcement)
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools database (Dec 2014 Tools announcement)

Additional infomation on deliverables:

• EOWG Deliverables describes the types of deliverables EOWG produces, and lists deliverables in the 2015 Charter.
• Previous EOWG deliverables are listed in the Completed Deliverables section of the old EOWG Deliverables Plan.

About EOWG

The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, and implementation of web accessibility; and to support the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Working Groups. EOWG is chartered to work collaboratively with other WAI Working Groups to support public awareness, understanding, and successful implementation of WAI guidelines, specifications, Notes, and other resources.

Work of the EOWG is in accordance with the W3C Process. EOWG work is funded in part by the WAI-Core 2015 Project, WCAG TA Project, and WAI Sponsors.

Communication

EOWG primarily conducts work through:

• Weekly surveys on active topics (all EOWG surveys)
• Github (for example, tutorials, quickref, tips)
• Teleconference discussions (2017 Minutes)

(EOWG does not use e-mail or W3C Tracker much.)

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Co-Chairs: Sharron Rush, Brent Bakken
• W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter 2015

EOWG Task Forces

1. WAI Site (Redesign) Task Force - WSTF main page (wiki)
2. [inactive] 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] Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement
8. [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.

Participation

• How to join EOWG
• EOWG participants

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