Thank you, Holiday Wishes, Minutes, & Homework: December 18, 2024 - Internationalization Accessibility Community Group

Hi everyone,

We had a very productive call today and wrapped up our first-pass review of
patterns in Making Content Usable. The minutes from today's call, December
18, 2024 <https://www.w3.org/2024/12/18-global-inclusion-minutes.html>,
provide details on feedback for Objectives 6, 7, and 8.

I am so thankful for this *VERY FUN* and *VERY TALENTED* group and all that
we have accomplished during the past few months. It is such an honor to
work with passionate and intelligent people who generously volunteer their
time to build a more inclusive world. I am grateful for each person who has
faithfully contributed to this work, but I want to express special thanks
to the following people:

   - *Philipp* - for sharing his expertise, nestled in his wit and humor
   and for his faithful participation, even though our meetings are way past
   his bedtime in Tokyo.
   - *Andy* for stepping up to be co-chair and for bringing her extensive
   experience, passion, skills, and insights to this work.
   - *Jean* for reaching out to help on multiple occasions and for allowing
   us to leverage her amazing spreadsheet ninja skills to make our work easier.
   - *Katy* for helping with our first pass through the Content Usable
   patterns and for leveraging her expertise in linguistics to provide
   feedback on how to integrate internationalization.
   - *Tiffany* for her unique insights and for sharing her expertise and
   ideas on how we can leverage AI to help with this work.
   - *Julie Rawe* for her consistent support and for mentoring me and
   helping me understand the history that led to the development of this group.
   - *Lisa Seeman* for doing all the hard work to get the group set up and
   for helping us with direction.
   - *John Kirkwood* for his faithful attendance and for leveraging his
   experience in both COGA and in his "day job." Thank you, John for
   faithfully sharing lessons learned and resources that apply to the work of
   this group.
   - *Frankie* for helping us identify patterns in feedback and for
   offering some very key ideas about possible adjustments that will improve
   overall usability and internationalization issues.
   - *Makoto* for helping us identify internationalization gaps in Content
   Usable and for sharing other W3C resources and groups that we can connect
   with as we continue addressing how Content Usable and AG guidance can be
   written to support multiple languages and cultures.

I wish you all a very Happy Holiday season and hope you get time to rest,
relax, and spend quality time with friends and family. Please remember how
much I appreciate each one of you!!

*Our next call*:
January 15, 2025 at the following time:


UTC

NY EST

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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

11:00 PM

*Homework*:

   - Review existing COGA Personas
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/#persona>
   - Bring the following information to the January 15th meeting:
      - Notes on COGA Persona review. How can we ensure that:
         - Intersectionality is properly addressed
         - Persona names have broad geographic and cultural representation
      - Ideas for a new persona, as suggested by the i18n working group.
      They would like a persona of someone who is a non-native speaker with
      limited language skills

Many thanks,

*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!*