Reminder: Internationalization Accessibility Community Group (global-inclusion) Meeting is Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to remind you that our next Internationalization
Accessibility Community Group (global-inclusion) meeting will be this
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at the following times:

UTC NY EST
UTC -4 London
UTC +1 CEST
UTC +2 Jerusalem
UTC +3 Delhi / IST
UTC +5:30 Tokyo
UTC +9
13:00:00 9:00 AM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM 4:00 PM 6:30 PM 10:00 PM

If you have not yet done so, please do the following before Wednesday's
call:

   1. Review the April 16, 2024 meeting minutes
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TeGEsD1JVf7L9bFW3_e7YTnqtmUnpTldJhD6N16ElAU/edit?usp=sharing>
   2. Vote on your preferred short name
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TeGEsD1JVf7L9bFW3_e7YTnqtmUnpTldJhD6N16ElAU/edit#heading=h.4j4dlztg03c6>,
   by following the instructions in the minutes
   3. Review the proposed meeting times
   <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UENV2-WYkzdsodaMM2xgSNxVO1K1YG1W6ToHn-wFaYI/edit?usp=sharing>
   and add your availability as per instructions in the Google Sheet. Please
   note that all time zones start on Wednesday as the day of the week, but if
   times roll into Thursday, that is noted in each affected cell.

Our W3C contact was able to get the *Community Group's IRC channel*
<https://webirc.w3.org/#/connect?channels=global-inclusion> fixed, so we
will be using that for minutes moving forward. Here's the *Zoom Link to
Join the Meeting*
<https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3436291299?pwd=OC9WbjZPZEdLUEgxSXRyaUFzUTlIUT09>.

*Agenda for May 1, 2024*:

   1. Review Meeting Minutes from April 16, 2024
   2. Review feedback on meeting times
   3. Review votes received regarding changing the short name of the group
   4. Review the draft description and mission of the group
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SgfzQMEd0MYydz6WoPBbuxx5CewjiUc5bsuu592uurI/edit?usp=sharing>
   5. Makoto will review the Internationalized Text Layout Requirements
   draft <https://www.w3.org/TR/?tags%5B0%5D=i18n#drafts>
   6. Introduce Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and
   Learning Disabilities <https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/>
   7. Introduce Content Usable Patterns
   <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ARdgFWjFQb2vOEDQkHYu24ociCeRMDF9xQhaMQgW1MA/edit?usp=sharing>
   and determine who might be interested in participating in a second round of
   review to determine which patterns may have internationalization concerns
   8. Set the agenda for the next meeting

I look forward to talking with all of you on Wednesday.

Respectfully,

*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!*