Re: W3C Accessibility for Children Community Group

Hello everyone,

Thanks for bringing this up --- I'm interested in meeting on this topic.

I think biweekly meetings would be best, I'm in the Washington DC area / on
EST.

I lead the development of bilingual storybook apps
<http://vl2storybookapps.com> designed for Deaf/visual learners, and am
very interested in emerging technologies and designing for children.
Games, AR, XR, etc etc.

Best, Melissa

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:14 PM Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org> wrote:

> Hey! Suzanne and All,
>
> It is great to see your message about accessibility needs for children.
>
> Particularly over the past year, with students needing to rely on online
> learning for so much of their education, the digital disability divide for
> children has become a more pressing aspect of equitable access to education
> -- and we need to understand this area better.
>
> Also with regard to the interest in games that you mentioned Suzanne, my
> impression is also that gamification of learning got a bit of a boost over
> the past year, to help keep students' attention during this difficult
> period, and there should be interesting questions to explore there as well.
>
> So while I don't expect to be able to join the group on a regular basis,
> and don't want my time zone to count in meeting planning, I would like to
> welcome and encourage this work, and will be interested to watch the
> progress.
>
> Best,
>
> - Judy
>
> On 5/13/2021 3:16 PM, Suzanne Taylor wrote:
>
> Hey hey!
>
>
>
> This email is to see if we can get the W3C Accessibility for Children
> Community Group <https://www.w3.org/community/accessibility4children/>
> active again for the purposes of:
>
>    - Identifying user needs for children with disabilities, particularly
>    needs that are not already covered by existing W3C accessibility standards.
>    (Often these needs will also be shared by some adults, but be more apparent
>    when considering children.)
>    - Literature review to see where enough research is already available
>    to support accommodating these user needs while writing accessibility
>    standards and recommendations.
>    - Identifying open research questions and advocating for further
>    research where needed.
>
>
>
> The idea of this work taking place through this Community Group to inform
> future accessibility standards has the support of the chairs of the
> following W3C Groups, so the work is not likely to go to waste:
>
>    - Silver Task Force
>    - Silver Community Group
>    - Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
>
>
>
> If you are interested in participating, could you reply with:
>
>    - Your location and  time zone
>    - Whether you prefer meeting once a week or once every two weeks
>    - If there are particular times you absolutely can’t meet
>    - If you have any particular areas of study or interest (such as a
>    particular disability groups, particular types of accommodations,
>    particular types of products, or particular research topics)
>
>
>
> (By way of introduction, I’m Suzanne and through my company, Things
> Entertainment, I work on development of accessible games/AR and provide
> consulting on educational publishing accessibility. We also do some types
> of accessibility production work, usually focused on writing.)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Suzanne
>
>
>
> --------------------
>
> *Suzanne Taylor*
>
> Founder
>
> Things Entertainment, LLC
>
> http://www.ThingsEntertainment.com <http://www.thingsentertainment.com/>
>
> Twitter: @ThingsEGames
>
>
>
> office: 201-785-9919
>
> text: 201-390-4987
>
> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzannektaylor
>
> --
> Judy Brewer
> Director, Web Accessibility Initiative
> at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
> 105 Broadway, Room 7-128, MIT/CSAIL
> Cambridge MA 02142 USAwww.w3.org/WAI/
>
>

-- 
Melissa Malzkuhn, MFA
Founder & Creative Director, Motion Light Lab <http://motionlightlab.com/>
Founder, CREST Network <https://www.crest-network.com/>
Digital Innovation & Media Strategies Manager, the Science of Learning
Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning <http://vl2.gallaudet.edu>
Obama Fellow 2018, Obama Foundation <http://www.obama.org/fellowship>