RE: COGA guidance subgroup: Summary + minutes for July 24th meeting

Thank you so much for the idea of using Zoom summary notes as well as the scribe notes.    I know Zoom sometimes misses things, but the length of these notes is perfect for me and getting them in email makes life very easy. 

 

Best wishes

E.A. 

 

From: Julie Rawe <jrawe@understood.org> 
Sent: 25 July 2025 13:00
To: public-cognitive-a11y-tf <public-cognitive-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Subject: COGA guidance subgroup: Summary + minutes for July 24th meeting

 


Hi, folks, in addition to scribing COGA meetings on IRC, we're trying out using Zoom's AI note-taking tool to summarize our meetings. Is this level of detail helpful? Is this summary too long? Eager for feedback, thanks! 


July 24th, 2025


Meeting Summary


Overview of proposed structure for COGA subgroups


Julie described Lisa’s proposal to reorganize the COGA subgroups into two main subgroups:

* Research subgroup: 

* This group would handle issue papers, mental health topics, and other early-stage research.
* Possible meeting time: Thursdays at 9am ET

* Guidance subgroup: 

* This group would focus on Making Content Usable, WCAG 3 coordination, and internationalization.
* Likely meeting time: Thursdays at 11am ET


Making Content Usable update


* We’re working on converting 4-5 patterns into the new format, with "Page Purpose" being the first one that is nearly ready. 
* Getting the patterns ready is a multi-step process:

* Editors finish working on a pattern
* Share with the COGA task force for consensus

* Will also ask for feedback from the Global Inclusion community group

* Give to Rain for coding

* Rain will do the HTML coding by late September/early October. 
* This fall, we’ll share with the public and get feedback before we convert more patterns into the new structure.


WCAG 3 coordination update


* The Accessibility Guidelines (AG) Working Group chairs will publish a new working draft this summer. This draft will only include the short names for the requirements and one-sentence descriptions of the requirements. The user needs, testing, and techniques will *not* be published in this new draft.
* The WCAG 3 subgroups have early drafts of user needs, testing, and techniques that COGA can review in google docs.
* One challenge will be how to map out the COGA reviews so the workload feels manageable. 


August scheduling update


* Julie will be out the week of August 4th.
* Rain will be unavailable August 21st, 28th, and likely September 4th due to a family matter.
* Will determine the focus of each week’s guidance subgroup meeting after finding out when Jan is available to discuss internationalization.


Challenges discussed


* Wanting a clearer understanding of how the research subgroup prioritizes research topics and what the task force can do as a whole to ensure no gaps in COGA’s research or guidance work
* Balancing COGA workload across multiple work streams
* How to approach the AG’s WCAG 3 publication trade-off discussio <https://github.com/w3c/wcag3/discussions/343> n (Rachael to explain more at the COGA task force meeting on Monday)


Minutes and attendees


* https://www.w3.org/2025/07/24-coga-minutes.html 
* Julie, Rain, John Kirkwood

 

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