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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• Current topics for work via email:
  • See EOWG list archives
• EOWG surveys (WBS questionnaires):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • List of all EOWG open and closed surveys

Teleconferences

Agendas and upcoming EOWG teleconferences:

• 16 January 2009 teleconference - agenda:
1. Update on Before-After Demo (BAD) work (previous BAD front page)
2. WAI-ARIA documents - These documents are in-progress drafts. The editors would like some feedback on:
   a. Is the overall progression from top to bottom logical and understandable?
   b. As you read through them, do you feel you need some background to understand it that is missing?
   1. WAI-ARIA 1.0 Editor's Draft
   2. WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide Editor's Draft
   3. WAI-ARIA Best Practices Editor's Draft
• 23 January 2009 teleconference - preliminary agenda:
1. WAI-AGE slideset review reminder (WAI-AGE)
2. Linking to WAI documents page
3. Responding to organizations with inaccessible websites (WAI-AGE), Requirements
• 30 January 2009 teleconference - preliminary agenda: [WAI-AGE deliverables]
• 6 February 2009 teleconference
• 13 February 2009 teleconference
• 20 February 2009 teleconference - preliminary agenda: [WAI-AGE deliverables]
• 27 February 2009 teleconference

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
  • +33.4.89.06.34.99
  • +44.117.370.6152
  • 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. Upcoming meeting possibilities:

• [under consideration] March 2009 in Los Angeles, CA, USA, around the CSUN conference
• [under consideration] March 2009 in Boston, MA, USA
• [was under consideration, but now looks unlikely] April 2009 in Madrid, Spain, around the WWW 2009 conference
• 2-3 or 5-6 November 2009, Santa Clara, CA, USA, at the W3C TPAC 2009

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Related pages: scribes list | scribing instructions

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below, as of January 2009.

1. New QuickTips, WAI Flyer, and other physical/hardcopy material
   • WCAG 2.0 at a Glance (QuickTips) - make print version
     • Requirements/Analysis and changelog for updated Quick Tips
   • Flyer front
     • old WAI Flyer, changelog
   • Analysis/Requirements for physical materials
2. WCAG 2.0 presentation material and videos
   1. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 - presentation material and video
      • Draft Benefits of WCAG 2.0 presentation material (.ppt, 500KB), Draft HTML version
      • E-mail introduction
   2. About WCAG 2.0 presentation material update
3. Transitioning Web Accessibility Policies from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0
4. MWBP-WCAG Overlap documents
   • Editor's Draft Relationship between MWBP & WCAG
   • Completed documents:
     • Intro doc: Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices
     • Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities
     • Requirements/Analysis for MWBP-WCAG
5. Contributing to and reviewing:
   • WAI-AGE Project materials developed with the WAI-AGE Task Force
     • WAI-AGE Project Deliverables plan
   • WAI-ARIA documents listed in the WAI-ARIA Overview (Requirements/Analysis for WAI-ARIA docs)
6. Updating as needed:
   • WCAG 2 FAQ
   • WAI-ARIA Overview, WAI-ARIA FAQ
   • WAI Highlights, RSS feed

EOWG Deliverables Plan lists planned and potential deliverables for 2009 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. [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
3. [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
4. [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
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

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

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