Re: RDWG Charter Renewal

Hi David,

Now included in charter and timelines.

Cheers

On 08/04/2013 12:16, DavidSloan wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I also like the idea of identifying (say) alternate RDWG meetings as admin/managerial and research discussion, and Christos’ blog-post-as-minutes idea is a good one too. The concern would be if people only participated in the research discussion meetings, and management was left for only a couple of people to deal with!
> 
> Also, Shadi reminded me that I’d expressed an interest in the "Tips for Accessibility-Aware Research" mentioned in the current charter. I think this would still be a valuable resource for RDWG to provide, and would be keen to see it retained as a planned activity and output of the group.
> 
> It seems to me that such a deliverable could serve two purposes:
> 
> 1. accessible dissemination of research output (including links to e.g. best practice in accessible document authoring and presentations)
> 2. guidance on considering the accessibility implications of innovations emerging from research activity (e.g. the development of tools, standards, investigations into specific relevant web technologies where a failure to consider diverse user needs might introduce new barriers). This second purpose will obviously be the more challenging one to address, and will probably require from the group a shared reflection of past innovations in web technology that have presented problems from an accessibility perspective.
> 
> Dave
> 
> From: Christos Kouroupetroglou [mailto:chris.kourou@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 28 March 2013 00:46
> To: Yeliz Yesilada
> Cc: Simon Harper; RDWG
> Subject: Re: RDWG Charter Renewal
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I really like the idea of research discussion meetings and I'd like to tie this with the discussions we had now and then about a little bit more informal channel of communication and engagement from researchers. So, I was thinking that these discussions could lead to the writing of short blog posts summarizing the discussion and presenting the main outcomes whatever they are (research questions/ ideas/ debates/ etc.). Given that we allow comments on these blog posts, this could help the discussions to be kept alive and open to public even after their end.
> 
> Regards,
> Christos
> 
> 
> 
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> Dr. Christos Kouroupetroglou
> Web Accessibility Research & Engineering
> Website: http://aetos.it.teithe.gr/~kourou/
> Blog: http://a11y2020.wordpress.com/
> 
> 2013/3/27 Yeliz Yesilada <yyeliz@metu.edu.tr>
> On 27 Mar 2013, at 17:23, Simon Harper wrote:
> 
>> Further, we've noticed that meetings can be quite managerial and so it
>> is our desire to put the research back into them by making 1 or 2
>> meetings a month research discussions only? Does this sound like
>> something you'd like - again comments to the list please.
> +1
> 
> I think this is a very good idea. It would be very good to discuss interesting research topics in the meetings.
> 
> Regards,
> Yeliz.
> 
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