RE: WAI-AGE task force teleconf

Dear All 

I am working with the IDEN (Inclusive Design Economy Network). Alan
Newell has been working on a 'user sensitive' approach to ageing for
some time now. At Dundee they have an excellent track record on
participation and have their own drop-in centre where older people can
learn about computing, internet etc, and by way of trade become
participants in the research work and in education through the student
projects. Vicki Hanson ex IBM has just taken over as head of the
research centre at Dundee, as Alan is 'retired' (but still working).

IDEN members are just  in the process of reporting back on the results
of the network which had funding for about 12-18 months - so there
should be more 'content' including the results of the literature search
coming on to the website in the next few months. I was just talking to
the person running the lit search  and am looking forward to seeing  a
strong ethnographic focus which sets out the 'real' context.

Best wishes for the holiday/Easter weekend.

Suzette

 

From: public-wai-age-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-wai-age-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of William Loughborough
Sent: 09 April 2009 13:04
To: Darren Lunn; public-wai-age@w3.org
Subject: 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/