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WAI Interest Group Meeting
Saturday 20 March 2004, 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 from 3:00pm to 6:30pm on the Saturday immediately following the "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference (otherwise known as "CSUN 2004").

Please note that there is also a meeting of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) on Saturday 20 March 2004 and Sunday 21 March 2004 for which 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 2004 conference.

Registration

Pre-registration by Friday 19 March 2004 is required for everyone attending the WAI IG meeting.

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 20, 2002

• 3:00 WAI Interest Group meeting opens; brief introductions; agenda review
• 3:30 Brief update on WAI status and plans for the future
• WAI Activity Renewals (W3C Process, Charters, PP Transition, 
• Guidelines Quality & Progress
• Standards Harmonization (W3C, National Standards Organizations, WSIS) 
• Transparency of WAI Resources (WAI Site, WCAG Redesign)
• Next Generation (RDIG, thinking about WAI 3.0 versions?)
• Conference presences (Best practices trainings; dueling evaluation tools???, other thoughts for CSUN next year?)
• Questions?
  
• 3:45 Brief Working Group reports, questions, 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
• 4:30 Break
• 4:45 General discussion: 
• progress and remaining issues on WCAG 2.0
• considerations for future transition to WCAG 2.0
• issues with standards harmonization
• 6:30 Adjourn
  

Readings

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

Minutes

• Will be linked after the meeting
  

Last updated 15 March 2004 by Judy Brewer <jbrewer @w3.org>

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