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Announcements and Meetings
- Next meeting: Wednesday 14 January, 2009
- Latest publications:
- Latest drafts:
- Latest minutes: Wednesday 17 December, 2008
Meeting Minutes
Minutes from previous meetings are available. (See the description on scribing ERT WG teleconferences for scribing directions)
Teleconference Meetings
ERT WG meets by teleconference meetings most Wednesdays at 13:30 to 14:30 UTC. The number of the teleconference bridge Zakim is +1.617.761.6200 and the passcode is 3794. Below is the corresponding meeting time for different time zones, please consult the World Clock Meeting Planner to find out the precise date for your own time zone:
- 05:30 to 06:30 North American Pacific Time (PT)
- 08:30 to 09:30 North American Eastern Time (ET)
- 14:30 to 15:30 Central European Time (CET)
- 00:30 to 01:30 (Thursday) Australian Eastern Time
Face to Face Meetings
ERT WG meets several times per year. The following face-to-face meetings are being planned:
- upcoming: none currently planned.
- previous:
- 6-7 November, 2008 in Sankt Augustin, Germany
- 22 - 23 February, 2007 in Gijon, Spain
- 27 - 28 February, 2006 in Cannes, France (in conjunction with the W3C Technical Plenary 2005)
- 17 - 18 October 2005, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- 3 - 4 March 2005, Boston, MA, USA (in conjunction with the W3C Technical Plenary 2005)
IRC Chat
We use IRC to accompany and support meetings where possible. Some of us are on IRC fairly frequently outside meeting times too. Stop by for a chat at:
- IRC server: irc.w3.org
- Port: 6665
- Channel: #er
For help with IRC or to find a client, refer to the IRC Help Archive.
Current Work
ERT WG is currently focusing on the following deliverables:
- Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 Schema
- Latest Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Schema/
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Schema/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10/issues
- Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 Guide
- Latest Working Draft: coming soon!
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Guide/
- Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 Requirements
- Latest Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/EARL10-Requirements/
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/EARL10-Requirements/
- HTTP Vocabulary in RDF
- Latest Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/HTTP-in-RDF/
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/HTTP-in-RDF/
- Issues List http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/HTTP/issues
- Representing Content in RDF
- Latest Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF/
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Content-in-RDF/
- Pointer Methods in RDF
- Latest Working Draft: coming soon!
- Latest Editors' Draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/Pointers-in-RDF/
- WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Development Task Force (TSD TF)
- Work Statement: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2006/tests/tests-tf
- Home Page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/2006/tests/
Publications
- A list of publication on EARL is available;
- List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools (jointy with EOWG);
- Test Samples Repository (jointly with WCAG WG);
- (obsolete) Accessibility and Evaluation and Repair Techniques (AERT)
About ERT WG
The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) develops techniques to evaluate and repair Web content for accessibility. Currently, the primary focus of our work is to develop the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) for documenting evaluation and repair information.
Chair and Contacts
- Shadi Abou-Zahra (Chair and Team Contact) <shadi@w3.org>
Charter
Mailing Lists
- Mailing list archives of the current mailing list
- Mailing list archives of the previous mailing list (outdated)