Re: Charter comments - Re: [wbs] response to 'EOWG Weekly Survey – 27 April 2015'

Thanks for the reply Shawn!

I was meaning outreach to more proactive general communities beyond the the
accessibility community, specifically general UX/UI, developer, project and
product management, government/health/education communities at large. Have
we historically done anything on those fronts?

Melody

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org> wrote:

> Hi Melody,
>
> On 4/26/2015 8:09 PM, Melody Ma via WBS Mailer wrote:
>
>>   * (x) I approve the charter and suggest the optional changes explained
>> below.
>> I would like to see a more proactive approach to the "promotion" and
>> "community engagement" parts of the charter. Many of the deliverables
>> listed are documentation creation and updates that depend on inbound
>> traffic vs. proactive outreach.
>>
>
> Thanks for completing the survey question on the EOWG charter and for this
> input.
>
> We do announcements regularly -- usually a few times per month. <
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/announcements.php>, <
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/highlights/archive>
>
> EOWG has done proactive outreach in the past -- for example, we did a
> promotional campaign for ATAG at CSUN 2014 (where we handed out cards,
> etc.) and we did some on these: <
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/Main_Page#Promotion_and_Outreach> The
> charter leaves open for us to do more of this type of work.
>
> The "Showcase examples" will provide a strong vehicle for outreach.
>
> The "Widget Library" will be a good opportunity for community engagement.
> It is intended to provide a platform to help developers to find and share
> ready-made accessible components, including frameworks, templates, and
> widgets.
>
> I look forward to your other ideas for proactive outreach.
>
> ---
>
> I also wanted to let you know that we've made minor tweaks to the charter.
> I don't expect any other changes.
>
> Under scope, we changed from:
> * Collaborating with other WAI Working Groups on the understandability,
> approachability, and ease-of-use of their deliverables, including for
> people who are new to web accessibility.
>
> to:
> * Collaborating with other WAI Working Groups on the understandability,
> approachability, and ease-of-use of their deliverables, where possible
> including coordinating with liaisons embedded in other groups.
> * Developing support material, in collaboration with other WAI Working
> Groups, to help developers, designers, authors and others understand, use,
> and implement WAI standards, including introductory and advanced resources.
>
> Best,
> ~Shawn
>