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Best Practices Training Exchange on Web Accessibility
Thursday, 17 July 2003, Palo Alto, California, USA
This Best Practices Training Exchange is an opportunity to demonstration
and exchange training approaches and techniques among experienced trainers on
different aspects of Web accessibility.
Participation in the Best Practices Training Exchange on 17 July is open
to participants in good
standing of W3C/WAI's Education and
Outreach Working Group (EOWG) and to people involved in providing
training on Web accessibility, including those who are helping build or train
review teams for evaluating accessibility of Web sites.
The Best Practices Training Exchange is part of a three-day series of Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) meetings being hosted by Hewlett-Packard (HP) with additional support
from Wells Fargo on the 16th-18th of
July 2003. It also includes an Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) meeting on
16 July, and a Web Accessibility
Training and Exchange on Friday 18 July, for which information on
participation and pre-registration is available separately.
Registration
Application
and pre-registration is required by 9 July 2003 for people participating
in any part of the Best Practices Training Exchange. (Please note that there
was a brief problem with the application/registration form on 24-25 June;
should be fixed now; if any additional problems please email
jbrewer@w3.org)
The following is a proposed agenda for discussion and review. Comments to
the EOWG mailing list (w3c-wai-eo@w3.org) welcome.
A revised, detailed agenda is available
online.
Thursday 17 July 2003
- 8:30 Introductions, overview of the best practices training
exchange format, logistics, etc
- 9:00 Awareness Training
- several demonstrations of training for general awareness of the
need for Web accessibility
- discussion of approaches
- 10:30 Break
- 10:45 Training on Evaluation of the Accessibility of Web Sites
- several demonstrations of general training for evaluating
accessibility of Web sites
- discussion of approaches
- 12:00 Lunch
- 1:00 Training for specific audiences: businesses, education,
government, other
- several demonstrations of training
- discussion of approaches
- 3:00 Break
- 3:15 Training on Miscellaneous Topics Related to Web Accessibility
- several demonstrations of training on accessible design; web
accessibility policy & requirements; selecting and using
authoring tools, etc...
- discussion
- 4:45 Agenda and logistics review for tomorrow
- 5:00 Meeting close
Preliminary list of readings. Please revisit this page for updated
information.
Hotel
Creekside Inn
[El Camino near Page Mill Road]
3400 El Camino Real
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Reservation: 800 492-7335
Tel: 650-493-2411
Fax: 650-493-6787
Discount room rate of $135 is available under "W3C-HP".
Driving
directions (text)
Directions (map)
Transportation
About Palo Alto:
http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/about.html
From San Jose Airport via Highway 101 to the meeting site:
- Follow the signs to highway 101 north. In Palo Alto ( approximately 15
miles ) take the Oregon Expressway/Embarcadero exit, then choose the
Oregon Expressway exit.
- Follow Oregon Expressway about 2 miles to El Camino Real (the first
stop light after the underpass). At this intersection Oregon Expressway
changes its name to Page Mill Road.
- Continue on Page Mill Road for about 1 more mile. You will pass the
Hewlett-Packard corporate buildings on the corner of Hanover Street, on
your left.
- At Peter Coutts Road, turn left. You may park anywhere; the Lobby and
Visitor parking are the third driveway on the left.
B. From San Francisco Airport via Highway 101 to the meeting site:
- Follow the signs to highway 101 south. In Palo Alto ( approximately 30
miles ) take the Oregon Expressway/Embarcadero exit, then choose the
Oregon Expressway exit two more times.
- Follow the directions in item A, 2 through 4, above.
C. From San Francisco Airport via Highway 280 to the meeting site:
- Follow the signs for highway 380 ( #380 originates at the airport; you
can only go west from there).
- At the intersection of highways 380 and 280(approximately 2 miles),
choose 280 south.
- In Palo Alto(approximately 30 miles)choose the Page Mill Road exit;
turn left (east) at the end of the exit ramp.
- Continue on Page Mill Road about 2 miles, crossing Foothill
Expressway.
- At Peter Coutts Road (second stoplight after Foothill Expressway), turn
right. You may park anywhere; the Lobby and Visitor parking are the third
driveway on the left.
Venue
Palo Alto, Ca
HP Corporate
Bldg. 15
3215 Porter Drive
M.I.T. conference room
Minutes are available online
Last updated $Date: 2003/07/31 21:55:50 $ by Shawn Henry (shawn
@w3.org)
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