Notes from Friday the 13th Telecon

Friday the 13th AU Telecon Notes
Participating members:
Kitch Barnicle
Jim Allen 
Daniel Dardailler
Scott Luebking
Jon Gunderson
David Poehlman
Gregg Vanderheiden
Wendy Chisholm

Agenda
Discuss WAI process for Working Drafts (I'm learning too)
Discuss new format of UA guidelines
Goals for CSUN
Continue discussion of current guidelines

Notes
DD presentation on W3C Working Drafts and W3C Recomendations
Usually a series of working drafts published on W3C interest group pages
Usually a couple of drafts before a request to make it a recommendation

SL: what is a working group
DD: there are definitions for all positions on w3c pages
SL: how do you reach consensus
DD: loosely defined in the charter, many different models

Need 2 types of Working Draft Documents
1. One document for closed issues which are ready for recommendation
2. One document for open issues which need more discussion

Format of Guidelines
1. Three levels of importance of a guidelines item and they will be
initiall called priority 1, priority 2 and priority 3
Will continue the discussion of labels.
2. Scenarios section to discuss implications of particular guidelines
3. Test pages for authors to test the features of there browsers

Kitch Barnicle, Wendy Chisholm, Scott Luebking volunteered to start working
on the scenarios
Jim Allen and David Poehlman will start working on test pages

We will also schedule regular phone meetings in April at 2 week intervals.





Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology
Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
1207 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820

Voice: 217-244-5870
Fax: 217-333-0248
E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu
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Received on Friday, 13 March 1998 17:04:15 UTC