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WAI-AGE Project (IST 035015)

Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation (WAI-AGE)
European Commission Project, 6th Framework, IST 035015

Announcements

• Next Task Force meeting(s)
  • All meetings at 15:30 to 17:00 CET
    • 28 January 2009
    • 11 February 2009
    • 25 February 2009
  • Latest Minutes - TF notes 14 January 2009 (Previous Minutes)
• Comments invited: Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review, First Public Working Draft released 14 May 2008, see WAI-AGE Call for Review and Participation, comments requested by 4 June 2008
• Invitation to participate: WAI-AGE Task Force formed - let us know if you are interested!
• WAI-AGE publication: Towards Bridging the Accessibility Needs of People with Disabilities and the Ageing Community, ACM Paper presented at the W4A 2008 Conference

Current Work

Currently WAI-AGE staff are working on a Literature Review and Analysis of Comparative Needs regarding the needs of people who have Web accessibility needs related to ageing:

• Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review, latest Working Draft
• Requirements for WAI-AGE Literature Review document
• Draft WAI Guidelines and Older Web Users: Findings

Overview of the education and outreach deliverables currently being revised and developed:

• WAI-AGE Project Deliverables
  • Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization (requirements)
  • Involving Users in Web Development and Evaluation (requirements)
  • WAI-AGE Slide Set (requirements)
  • Before and After Demonstrations (requirements)

Task force

A Task Force has been established under the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG).

Meetings

• The WAI-AGE Task Force meets every second week via teleconference and IRC. Please refer to the WAI-AGE Teleconferences page for more information.
• Let us know if you are interested in participating regularly in the WAI-AGE Task Force or if you would just like to subscribe to the mailing list. Contact Andrew Arch with questions.

Publications

Some of the following resources are developed through the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG).

Documents

• Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review, W3C Working Draft 14 May 2008
  • Requirements for WAI-AGE Literature Review document
• Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization (Draft revisions)
• Slide Set introducing WAI-AGE (Draft)

Presentations

• Conference presentations:
  • W3C Hungary Office - Web Accessibility Day (November 2008)
  • Senioren im Web: Barrierefreiheit für ältere Menschen [German] (September 2008)
  • ADDW Conference, York (September 2008)
  • HCI and the Older Population (Liverpool 2008)
  • ICCHP Conference (July 2008)
  • Web Cognition Conference, Granada (April 2008)
  • Keynote at W4A, Beijing (April 2008)
  • CSUN Presentation (March 2008)
  • AAATE (October 2007)

Papers

• How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population (Word, 286kb),
  Proceedings of Accessible Design in a Digital World Conference, York UK, September 2008
• Towards Bridging the Accessibility Needs of People with Disabilities and the Ageing Community,
  ACM Paper presented at the W4A 2008 Conference
• How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population (Word, 108kb),
  Proceedings of Cognition and the Web conference, Granada, April 2008

About WAI-AGE

WAI-AGE is a European Commission IST Specific Support Action with the goal of increasing accessibility of the Web for the elderly as well as for people with disabilities in European Union Member States.

The project was planned during 2005 and 2006 and officially started in April 2007. W3C/ERCIM is the primary partner. The project runs for 36 months and has 5 main objectives for increasing the accessibility of the Web for those with accessibility needs related to ageing within European Union Member States:

• to inform the development of extensions on WAI guidelines and supplemental educational materials which can better promote and meet the needs of people who have accessibility needs related to ageing, with particular relevance to the needs of the elderly in Europe;
• to better inform the ongoing work of W3C/WAI with regard to the needs of the elderly, and to create an ongoing dialog between ageing communities and disability communities, and other stakeholder groups on the needs of people who have accessibility needs related to ageing;
• to provide educational resources focused towards industry implementors, including developers of mainstream technologies, assistive technologies, and Web designers and developers, through reviewing and revising existing WAI educational resources, and developing new educational resources which support the promotion and implementation of Web accessibility solutions for people with accessibility needs due to ageing;
• to provide educational resources focused towards organizations representing and serving ageing communities, and towards individuals with accessibility needs related to ageing, through reviewing and revising existing WAI educational resources and to develop new educational resources which support promotion and implementation of Web accessibility solutions for people with accessibility needs due to ageing;
• to promote increased harmonisation of Web accessibility standards so as to further build a unified market for technology developers and expedite the production of Web accessibility solutions, through promoting ongoing dialog between organisations representing the needs of the ageing community, and educating standards organisations and policy makers on commonalities between the needs of people with disabilities and people with accessibility needs due to ageing.

WAI-AGE Staff

• Judy Brewer (jbrewer@w3.org) WAI-AGE Project Coordinator
• Shadi Abou-Zahra (shadi@w3.org) WAI-AGE Web Accessibility Specialist for Europe
• Andrew Arch (andrew@w3.org) WAI-AGE Web Accessibility and Ageing Specialist
• Marie-Claire Forgue: W3C Communications Team
• Web Accessibility and Ageing Consultant (part time, to be announced)

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