Re: WAI-AGE task force teleconf

Thank you for the link. When I examine research efforts in this field I
always suspect that "Nothing About Us Without Us" isn't as honored as I
would like.

So many academic undertakings are much heavier on perpetuating old myths
about those whom they "study" that it gets frustrating. I'm not claiming
such about the linked-to UK stuff, but the results in Andrew/Shadi survey of
past research in the area of ageing and computer/Web issues is almost all
exemplary of this mindset.

Love.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Darren Lunn <
darren.lunn@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In today's meeting we discussed eGovernment.  One resource that could
> potentially be made use of is the work carried out by the Inclusive Digital
> Economy Network led by Alan Newell at Dundee University.  The goal of the
> Network was to identify the challenges faced by older and disabled people
> when using ITC within a digital economy and what needs to be considered to
> ensure nobody is excluded from a digital society.  While the work focused on
> ITC in general, I think there may be scope to apply some of their work to
> The Web.  The Website of the Digital Inclusion group can be found at: <
> http://www.iden.org.uk/>.
>
> Regards
>
>
> Darren
>
> =========================================
> University of Manchester (UK)
> Human Centred Web Lab
> http://hcw.cs.manchester.ac.uk
>
> email:  darren.lunn@cs.manchester.ac.uk
> tel:  +44 (0)161 275 6239
> url:  http://homepages.cs.manchester.ac.uk/~lunnd<http://homepages.cs.manchester.ac.uk/%7Elunnd>
>
> On 6 Apr 2009, at 16:49, Andrew Arch wrote:
>
>  Dear Task Force,
>>
>> As per schedule, we are meeting this Wednesday (8 April) at the usual
>> time in Europe and the USA now that we are back in sync with daylight
>> saving:
>>  http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wai-age/teleconf.html#meetings
>> Teleconference Bridge:
>>  +33.4.89.06.34.99 / +44.117.370.6152 / +1.617.761.6200
>> Teleconference code: 9243# (WAGE#)
>> IRC: Channel - #waiage; server - irc.w3.org; port - 6665
>> Scribe: Darren (Suzette?)
>>  http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wai-age/teleconf.html#scribes
>>
>> *Agenda:*
>> 1. *Welcome*
>>
>> 2. *Improving Access to Government*
>> Please review "Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the
>> Web" at http://www.w3.org/TR/egov-improving/ from an accessibility
>> outreach and education perspective, that is, how the document addresses
>> accessibility, people with disabilities, and older users with
>> accessibility needs.
>>
>> This document was reviewed by EOWG recently and notes are being compiled
>> (see http://www.w3.org/2009/03/27-eo-minutes initially, and look out for
>> an EOWG email referenceing the compiled notes), but some further input from
>> the perspective of older people may be appropriate. Please send comments to
>> the mailing list for discussion at this week's teleconference.
>>
>> 3. *WAI-AGE slides*
>> - change log: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/Drafts/slides/cl-waiage-
>> slides.html
>> - latest draft: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/Drafts/slides/overview.html
>>
>> Check that you are reading April 2009 drafts. The draft has been through
>> additional editing after our last discussion and some feedback from
>> Shadi that I hope makes it more balanced and complete. This week I would
>> like to go through the slides one final time before EOWG approves for
>> publishing.
>>
>> Regards, Andrew
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Arch
>> Web Accessibility and Ageing Specialist
>> http://www.w3.org/People/Andrew/
>> http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/
>>
>>
>>
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