Call for Review: Cognitive Accessibility User Research

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

WAI invites you to review the First Public Working Draft of Cognitive Accessibility User Research at:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/coga-user-research

This planned W3C Working Group Note describes the challenges of using web technologies for people with learning disabilities or cognitive disabilities. This document provides a basis for subsequent work to identify gaps in current technologies, suggest strategies to improve accessibility for these user groups, and develop guidance and techniques for web authors.

Draft for Review:
This First Public Working Draft is comprehensive, but preliminary. We particularly invite:
* Review for accuracy, completeness, and understandability
* Editorial input on structure, spelling, and grammar
* Suggestions to address other user needs in the area of cognitive accessibility and learning disabilities

Comments:
Comments are welcome via e-mail or GitHub *by 13 February 2015*.
* Publicly-archived e-mail list: public-coga-comments@w3.org
* GitHub repository: https://github.com/w3c/coga
In GitHub, *please submit each comment as a separate issue or pull request*, so that we can process them separately. We encourage you to submit editorial suggestions as GitHub pull requests. Information about using GitHub to submit comments is available at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/#how_github>

Task Force:
This document is developed by the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force. The objective of the Task Force is to improve web accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities. Learn more from: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/> We invite you to contribute to the Cognitive Accessibility Task Force work. Active participation in the Task Force takes about 4 hours per week, including teleconferences. More about participation is at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/#participation>

URI:
The first URI above goes to the latest version of the document. The "dated" version of this Draft is: <http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-coga-user-research-20150115/>The difference between these URIs are explained in Referencing and Linking to WAI Guidelines and Technical Documents at: <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/linking.html>

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.
Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
Lisa Seeman, Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Task Force Facilitator
Janina Sajka, Protocols and Formats WG Chair
Andrew Kirkpatrick, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Joshue O Connor, WCAG WG Co-Chair
Michael Cooper, Protocols and Formats WG and WCAG WG W3C Staff Contact
Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
Judy Brewer, WAI Director

Received on Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:35:55 UTC