The upcoming WAI-Adapt Face to Face

Dear All:

I'm sending this update regarding the upcoming Face to Face meeting of
the WAI-Adapt Task Force to those of you who responded to our invitation
requesting to send someone from among your colleagues because you,
yourself were personally unavailable. Thank you for this implicit
support of our work in AAC symbols support for web
content! it is noted and much appreciated.

Our simple answer is "Yes, but ..." Please read on for a fuller
explanation!

We say "yes," because we are always happy to welcome our professional
colleagues into our activities. We want you to know what we're doing and
why, and we very much want your questions, critiques, and perhaps even
your active participation.

We say "but" because our face to face time is very precious. We need to
stay focussed on the goals we believe can only be met by concerted focus
in the few in person hours available to us.

Therefore, we would ask only that you allow us to bring your designees
up to speed on our work ahead of our joint time in Staines-Upon-Thames.
We will be happy to spend the time needed to bring our invitees up to
speed using Zoom ahead of our in person meetings. We believe this would
also enable those new to our deliberations to participate as equals when
we're present in person--an outcome we deeply desire.

Though somewhat dated, a great starting point is this video presentation from 2023 provided
others in W3C:

[AAC Symbols in Web Content--2023 Breakout Presentation](https://www.w3.org/2023/09/TPAC/breakouts.html#b-89a19590-3b11-41d1-8129-c03c870f6c29)

Please note the technology we're now using differs from that presented
in the above video. The use cases we address, however, have not changed.

Please feel free to share this email and please cc us when you do.

Warmly,
Janina


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Janina Sajka (she/her/hers)
Accessibility Consultant https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa

Linux Foundation Fellow
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/board-of-directors-2/

Received on Thursday, 17 April 2025 17:58:24 UTC