AUWG Meeting (January 14, 2002)

LN: Liddy Nevile
JT: Jutta Treviranus
JR: Jan Richards
CMN: Charles McCathieNevile
CV: Carlos A Velasco

Meeting in France

JT: Given low participation and conflict with IMS. Should we cancel it?

CMN: Does not mind either way.

CV: Not sure if he can make it.

CMN: Georgio was planning on attending.

JT: ACTION: Will discuss with Daniel D. and Georgio before cancelling. Will get back to the group.

Meeting in Hawaii? (WWW?)

LN: Morning - Tools, Afternoon - Meta data, tool makers could present what they are doing, meet with the public. It would not be a working group meeting.

JT: Who is going? CMN, Judy, PJ, LN, not Carlos, not Heather

LN: Final agenda has not been set - but it will be public so it should be interesting to them.

JT: What could the AUWG role?

LN: Panel session with speakers representing tool developers. Start off with where the rules come from and what does it mean to get it right.

JT: Members should send other ideas for the session to the list.

LN: Dublin core accessibility group has just started and will meet in Hawaii

LN: ACTION ITEM: Will cross post dublin core notices to AU group.

Next Face to Face

JT: Where should the next meeting be? WebCT has offered to host in Vancouver. CSUN is another possibility (other WAI groups meeting for 2 days after).

CMN: CSUN is not the best place for AU.

JR: What about organizing another meeting in Hawaii?

JT: That's in May. Blackboard may be able to host in Washington DC.

LD and CMN will be in Boston in mid-April. CMN won't be at CSUN.

CV: Can't make that, can make Boston but agrees it's not a good venue.

JT: We will be trying to organize with the EO group to push the ATAG documents. F8:30am, W4pm. Neither time is good for Australia.

Conversion tool categorization for techniques

JT: Lots of proposals.

JR: Tried to make categories more explicit. Introduced "direct" and "indirect".

CMN: Wants to seperate document editors from direct code editors

CV: Agrees with CMN but would keep markup in a separate category from scripting, etc..

JR: Describes new approach. Will send proposal to the list.

CMN: Points out that structured/unstructured division is not real

CMN: We have a whole lot of techniques that are mainly WCAG checkpoints. We need to flesh those out and then look at helpful splits.

JT: Would we try classifying some now.

CMN: Let's do it on the list.

JT: we need to be careful on the mailing list about overwhelming with huge messages.

JR: This may be well suited to F2F meetings.

CMN: Agreed.

JT: JR will be the acting staff contact for 3 months.

JT: Next meeting in 2 weeks.

BYE