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Research and Development Interest Group (RDIG)

Announcements and Meetings

Events

Events are 90 minute teleconferences to explore a specific research topic in depth. Topics will be nominated and selected by the RDIG participants in good standing. If you intend to participate in an event, registration will be required and details will be available one month in advance of the event.

Previous events

• Teleconference on Making Visualizations of Complex Information Accessible for People with Disabilities
  • Agenda, slides, and summaries
• Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities
  • Agenda
  • Proceedings

Potential upcoming events

• Accessibility of immersive virtual environments
• Research relating to cognitive disabilities and accessibility
• Research relating to ageing and accessibility

Current Work

Planning meetings are held as needed by the participants in good standing to plan future events.

• Telecon details: +1 617.761.6200 Conference Code: 7344 ("RDIG")
  • Please read "User Instructions for the W3C Zakim Teleconference Bridge"
• Upcoming meetings:
  • Next Planning teleconference to be announced.
• We use IRC during meetings:
  • channel: #rdig server: irc.w3.org port: 6665
  • More info about irc is available from IRC help.
• Minutes from previous meetings.

To discover when this meeting takes place in your local time zone use the Time Zone Converter.

Planning Resources

• Planning meeting template - to help organize information for an event.
• Topic-specific event template - basically an "agenda" for an event.
• Topic-specific proceedings template - a means to gather information after an event.

Publications

Proceedings of the Teleconference on Making Collaboration Technologies Accessible for Persons with Disabilities

About RDIG

The goal of the RDIG is to facilitate discussion and discovery of the accessibility aspects of research and development of future Web technologies.

Chair and Contacts

• RDIG Chair: vacant
• RDIG Team contact: interim contact Judy Brewer

Charter

• RDIG Charter

Mailing List

• Mailing list public-wai-rd@w3.org, archives

Participation

• Participation in the RDIG

Document Information

Editor: Markku Hakkinen, Judy Brewer

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