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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force: EOW2 Work Statement, EOW2 mailing list
• User Materials Task Force: UMTF Work Statement, UMTF mailing list
• EOWG survey forms (WBS questionnaires) - lists open and closed Calls for Review, and results

Teleconferences

EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time via teleconference bridge: +1.617.761.6200, 3694#. To find what time this is in your region, you can check the world clock meeting planner.

EOWG Teleconferences upcoming:

• No teleconference 6 April 2007 (due to holiday)
• Friday 13 April 2007 teleconference
• Friday 20 April 2007 teleconference
• Friday 27 April 2007 teleconference, tentative
• Friday 4 May 2007 teleconference
• Friday 11 May 2007 teleconference, tentative
• Friday 18 May 2007 teleconference
• Friday 25 May 2007 teleconference, tentative

Related pages: scribes list | minuting instructions

For Task Force teleconferences, see the mailing lists linked above under Announcements.

Face-to-Face Meetings

EOWG also meets face-to-face. Previous meetings are listed on the WAI Events page. Upcoming EOWG face-to-face meetings will be listed here.

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Current Work

EOWG is currently working on the deliverables listed below. Work in Task Forces is indicated in brackets. "Stage" and "status" are as of 16 February 2007.

1. Before/After Demo (BAD)
   • Requirements for Before/After Site
   • stage: complete drafts available, in development
   • status: BAD Task Force complete, editor actively working on
2. Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 Resource Suite [EOW2]
   • stage: requirements/analysis complete, doc in development
   • status: EOW2 Task Force actively working on
3. Benefits of WCAG 2.0 [EOW2]
   • stage: requirements/analysis complete, doc in development
   • status: EOW2 Task Force actively working on
4. "WCAG 2.0 Basic" [EOW2]
   • stage: under discussion
   • status: EOW2 Task Force actively working on
5. Comparison of WCAG 1.0 checkpoints to WCAG 2.0 "Mapping" [EOW2]
   • stage: version complete, requirements/analysis in development for re-write
   • status: on EOW2 Task Force priority list, pending editor availability
6. Promoting Web Accessibility [UMTF]
   • stage: requirements/analysis in development
   • status: UMTF actively working on
7. How People With Disabilities Use the Web
   • Changelog for How People With Disabilities Use the Web
   • stage: mature draft, a few pending edits
   • status: on hold pending editor availability
8. WAI Flyer
   • stage: update started
   • status: on hold pending editor availability
9. Participating in WAI [UMTF]
   • stage: version complete, update needed
   • status: on hold pending Chair availability
10. Components of Web Accessibility: A Brief Tutorial
    • stage: requirements written, complete draft available
    • status: on hold pending graphics work and interaction design
11. Promotional Campaign: Integrating Web Accessibility in Courses
    • stage: draft complete, development in progress
    • status: on hold pending editor availability
12. About Baselines [EOW2]
    • stage: version complete, requirements/analysis started for re-write
    • status: on hold pending baseline concept work in WCAG WG
13. WAI Web site redesign
    • stage: phase 1 rolled out, some cleanup left
    • status: phase 1 clean up on-going, phase 2 on hold pending staff availability
14. Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents
    • stage: version complete, editing as needed
    • status: done, until other high priority edits identified

Additional EOWG deliverables are listed at:

• EOWG Deliverables - List of planned deliverables for 2006 and beyond
• Completed EOWG Deliverables section lists completed deliverables

Publications

• WAI Resources is an annotated list of current resources on the WAI site, many developed by EOWG.
• The Completed Deliverables section of the EOWG Deliverables lists work completed by EOWG.

About EOWG

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) develops strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need for Web accessibility and to educate the Web community regarding solutions to Web accessibility.

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Chair: Judy Brewer < jbrewer @ w3.org >
• EOWG W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter

EOWG Task Forces

1. User Materials Task Force Work Statement
2. WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
3. Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
4. (drafted) Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
5. Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexcon/Glossary Requirements
6. WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page

Mailing Lists

• EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
• Instructions for subscribing to the EOWG mailing list
• EO Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents

Membership

• How to join the EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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