Re: Approve next steps with BAD Before-After Demo

  (fyi, we are getting some more comments this week. we will address them before calling it done.)

On 11/15/2011 2:44 PM, Shawn Henry wrote:
>  EOWG,
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> We announced BAD on 13 Oct, over a month ago. We have received only a couple comments, and Shadi has addressed them. I just sent a reminder e-mail to WAI IG today (forwarded below).
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> We propose that EOWG:
> * Calls this version done -- which means removing the Draft note at the bottom and changing the Status to Published
> * Puts BAD at or near the top of the queue for promoting (a.k.a. "resource-of-the-month" <http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/changelogs/outreach>)
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> (As always, if comments come in later, we will address them as soon as we are able. )
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> We will discuss this proposal briefly at this week's teleconference. If you have any questions or concerns, please reply in e-mail (to just me or to the EOWG list as appropriate) before the teleconference.
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> Thanks,
> ~Shawn
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Reminder: Call for Review: Before and After Demonstration (BAD)
> Date:     Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:38:54 -0600
> From:     Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
> To:     WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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>  We plan to wrap up this version of the Before-After Demo soon. If you have any comments, please send them this week.
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> Thanks,
> ~Shawn&  Shadi
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     Call for Review: Before and After Demonstration (BAD)
> Date:     Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:19:30 -0500
> From:     Shawn Henry<shawn@w3.org>
> To:     WAI Interest Group<w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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> Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,
>
> The W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) invites you to comment on:
>     Before and After Demonstration (BAD)
>     http://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/
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> BAD shows an inaccessible website and a retrofitted version of the same website with the accessibility barriers fixed. BAD has in-line notes ("annotations") for you to get more information. It also includes evaluation reports that list the accessibility problems for each page.
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> BAD is useful for presentations, for learning about specific web accessibility barriers and their implications, and as an example of conformance evaluation reports.
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> We would like to know how this updated WAI resource works for you and how we can improve it. (Adding video, scripting, and WAI-ARIA are already on the list of enhancements that we would like to implement in BAD.) Please send comments to the publicly-archived list:
>     wai-eo-editors@w3.org
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> Background: BAD was first developed with support of the EC-funded WAI-TIES Project. It was updated for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and to better cover accessibility issues of older users as part of the EC-funded WAI-AGE Project. Information on these past projects is available at:
>     http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/
>     http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/
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> Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.
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> Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.
> Short URI to this archived e-mail: http://bit.ly/bad1110
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> Regards,
> ~Shawn Lawton Henry, EOWG Chair
> and Shadi Abou-Zahra, BAD Task Force facilitator
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> Shawn Lawton Henry
> W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
> e-mail: shawn@w3.org
> phone: +1.617.395.7664
> about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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