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WAI Interest Group Meeting
March 23, 2002, 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 is held on the Saturday immediately following the "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference (otherwise known as "CSUN 2002").

Please note that there is also a meeting of the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group later on Saturday March 23 and on Sunday March 24, also a meeting of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) on Saturday March 23 and Sunday March 24; also a hands-on workshop on evaluating and repairing Web sites on Wednesday March 20, by Wendy Chisholm of W3C/WAI.

If you have not previously attended WAI events, we recommend that you explore the WAI Web site and/or attend Wendy's session first.

Registration

Pre-registration is required for everyone attending the WAI IG meeting (and the WCAG WG and EOWG meetings as well).

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)

Rooms may be available at the CSUN discounted rate of $127, through March 4, but availability is not guaranteed.

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 23, 2002

• 1:30 Registration begins for WAI Interest Group meeting
• 2:00 WAI Interest Group meeting opens; brief introductions; agenda review
• 2:15 Brief update on WAI status and plans for the future
• 2:30 Working Group reports/discussion/involvement opportunities
  • 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
• 3:30 General discussion: trends and priorities
• 4:00 Adjourn; refreshments; and begin registration for EOWG meeting (which starts at 4:30).

Readings

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

Minutes

• Minutes will be linked after the meeting.

Last updated 25 February, 2002 by Judy Brewer, jbrewer@w3.org

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