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WAI Interest Group Meeting
Saturday March 19, 2005, Los Angeles, California, USA

Participation

Participation is open to participants in the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) WAI Interest Group (WAI IG), and those interested in learning more about WAI.

This WAI IG meeting will be held from 2:30 to 6:00 pm on the Saturday immediately following the "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference (otherwise known as "CSUN 2005").

Please note that there is also a meeting of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) on Sunday March 20 and Monday March 21, 2005, for which separate pre-registration is required.

If you have not previously attended WAI events, we recommend that you explore the WAI Web site and/or attend any of the several WAI sessions during the CSUN 2005 conference.

Registration

To pre-register, please send email by 18 March to: <wai@w3.org> with subject line: "Registration for WAI IG meeting" and with your name and your organization's name.

Location

Atlanta-Boston Room
L.A. Airport Marriott
5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045, USA

Hotels

L.A. Airport Marriott
5855 West Century Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90045, USA
Phone : +1 310 641 5700
TTY: +1 800 228 7014
Fax: +1 310 337 5358

and

Hilton Los Angeles Airport
5711 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
310/410-4000 (V)
310/440-6136(TTY)
310/410-6250 (Fax)
800/HILTONS (V)

Additional hotels are available in the Los Angeles airport area.

Transportation

• Nearest airport is Los Angeles International Airport (five minute taxi ride).

Agenda

Saturday, March 19, 2005

• 2:30 WAI Interest Group meeting opens; brief introductions; agenda review
• 2:45 Brief update on WAI Activities
  • Renewed WAI Activities
  • Emerging issues
  • What to expect with WAI site redesign
• 3:00 Brief Working Group reports, questions, discussion
  • Protocols and Formats Working Group
  • Web Content Acessibility Guidelines Working Group
  • Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
  • User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
  • Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group
  • Education and Outreach Working Group
  • Research and Development Interest Group
• 4:00 Break
• 4:30 General discussion, may include...
  • Standards harmonization
  • Transitioning to WCAG 2.0
  • XAG and Roadmap issues
  • Evaluation & Testing issues
  • Messaging themes for coming year
  • Other...
• 6:00 Adjourn

Readings

• Linked above; more may be added before the meeting so please check back here.

Minutes

• Will be linked after the meeting.

Last updated 10 March 2005 by Judy Brewer <jbrewer AT w3.org>

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