Re: Reminder: Thursday, November 14, 2024 - COGA Internationalization Subgroup Call

Unexpected Regrets today
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From: Jan McSorley <mcsorleyjan@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 10:10:03 AM
To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Cc: Katy Brickley <katy.brickley@kcl.ac.uk>; Andy <andydesignux@gmail.com>
Subject: Reminder: Thursday, November 14, 2024 - COGA Internationalization Subgroup Call

Hi everyone,

Our next COGA Internationalization Subgroup meeting is this Thursday, November 14, 2024. This will be a working meeting where the majority of our time will be spent going through the Internationalization (i18n) Working Group guidance and trying to identify references that may apply to COGA patterns. The Internationalization Accessibility Community Group (global-inclusion) has been assigned homework to review patterns in objectives 1, 2, and 5, so those are the objectives we will address during our meeting.

The  teleconference information is at :  Call info for coga<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.w3.org/2017/08/telecon-info_coga&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3yaId2m-fcHg5Dd0Z1z7Fu>

Time:
11:00 a.m. Eastern Time
4:00 p.m. UK Time
6:00 p.m. Israel Time
9:30 p.m. India Time

IRC access:
An IRC (Internet Relay Chat) channel will be available during the call. (The server is  irc.w3.org<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://irc.w3.org/&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw3bzuLD29MZnghxjupeQPCB> ,The port number is 6665 )

  *   IRC is like our chat room. You can join us on IRC simply by clicking on  http://irc.w3.org/?channels=coga<https://www.google.com/url?q=http://irc.w3.org/?channels%3Dcoga&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw2c6oTN9C1LehKxdG2BvZYZ>
  *   The channel is #coga
  *   You can write any name as a nickname

Have a look at our page on our tips for IRC <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/coga/wiki/IRC,_scribing_and_running_meeting&sa=D&source=calendar&usd=2&usg=AOvVaw1LRsGL_V9Nt1wipOQy9CdF>

Agenda:

  *   Review the following i18n resources

     *   Internationalization Best Practice for Spec Developers<https://www.w3.org/TR/international-specs/>

     *   Short i18n review checklist<https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/techniques/shortchecklist>

  *   Identify possible i18n guidance that could be added to patterns in Objectives 1, 2, and 5 of Content Usable Patterns Spreadsheet<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ARdgFWjFQb2vOEDQkHYu24ociCeRMDF9xQhaMQgW1MA/edit?usp=sharing>

  *   Reminder to everyone to continue sending out the recruiting email<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14urDbLrdkARcfQhDRUItUUYGm23bY5FAWnKx4xjpAM4/edit?usp=sharing> text to recruit members for the Internationalization Accessibility Community Group.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jan McSorley
Accessibility Consultant
512-731-7957 (mobile)
linkedin.com/in/janmcsorley<https://www.linkedin.com/in/janmcsorley>

We put a man on the moon in the 1960's. Surely we can make information technology fully accessible to people with disabilities. It can be done. It must be done. It will be done!