WAI EOWG Agenda Oct 1 1998

WAI EOWG Agenda Oct 1, 1998

Time: 
  11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. US EDT 
Phones: 
  US: +1 (617) 252-1038
  FR: +33 (0)1 56 78 14 93

Agenda:
1. Updates/check-ins:
- WAI EOWG home page updated <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO>. (Yes I know the
draft issues list is blank, I'll fix that later today)
- Missing minutes now available on WAI EO page, except for Aug 27th, for
which the minutes are gone due to a crash. If anyone has any form of notes
from that meeting, please send them. Note that the minutes now all have
indices up front so we can more easily find the topics covered in each
meeting.
- If you attended the Sept 17 meeting, please check for any significant
omissions and let me know; I was taking minutes under interesting
circumstances.

2. Review of one-pager flyer:
Note that this is not the flashy promotional flyer we discussed earlier
(still coming), but rather a basic single-sheet "pointers" list that has
been evolving for a few months. Feedback welcome. Document appended
(straight text) and attached (word 7).

3. Upcoming events submissions deadlines:
Any report from Jim (or Kitch)?

4. Question of accessible design consultants:
Getting more & more requests to recommend consultants. Thoughts on
developing a registry? How much work? How to control it? Wait until after
we've developed training materials, and we can vouch for people having gone
through trainings?

5. Bulletin draft for review
Check your mail again before meeting starts.

6. RNIB videos
Description, comments

- Judy

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[draft of "pointers" text]

[W3C logo] Web Accessibility Initiative

"The power of the Web is in its universality.  Access by everyone
regardless of disability is an essential aspect." 
 	-- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web offers unprecedented access to information and
interaction, particularly for individuals with disabilities who have had
limited access in the past. However, there are currently barriers on the
Web for people with visual, hearing, physical and cognitive disabilities.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is committed to promoting a high degree
of usability for people with disabilities. Web accessibility solutions also
benefit other users such as those with mobile devices, low bandwidth, or
with no audio output.  W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), in
coordination with industry, disability organizations, research centers and
government, is pursuing accessibility of the Web through five complementary
activities:

*  Ensuring that Web technologies support accessibility
*  Developing guidelines for accessibility
*  Developing tools to evaluate & facilitate accessibility
*  Conducting education and outreach
*  Monitoring and engaging in research and development

RESOURCES: 

For more information about W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (overview of
WAI activities, key resources, how to get involved):
      http://www.w3.org/WAI

Current WAI Working Drafts:
  WAI Page Authoring Guidelines: 
      http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-PAGEAUTH
  WAI User Agent Guidelines:
      http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-WAI-USERAGENT

Description of accessibility improvements in W3C Recommendations
  HTML 4.0:
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/html4-access
  CSS2:
      http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/css2-access

Information on the World Wide Web Consortium
      http://www.w3.org

WAI will be offering a monthly bulletin in the near future. To sign up send
e-mail to w3c-wai-bulletin-request@w3.org with "subscribe" in the subject
line.

For additional information contact Judy Brewer at jbrewer@w3.org.

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative International Program Office is
supported in part by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation,
U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and
Rehabilitation Research, European Commission's TIDE Programme, Microsoft
Corporation, IBM/Lotus, and NCR.

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Judy Brewer    jbrewer@w3.org    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) International Program Office
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
MIT/LCS Room NE3-355, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA