Fwd: Feedback - Planning and Managing

Received today from new EO participant Scott Hollier...

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From: Scott Hollier <Scott.Hollier@mediaaccess.org.au>
Date: Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:10 AM
Subject: Feedback - Planning and Managing
To: Sharron Rush <srush@knowbility.org>

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The document looks great, the only one bit of feedback I wanted to see if
the EOWG would consider is in the Initiative – Learn the Basics where
there’s a point “Set up assistive technology demonstrations.”  I was
wondering if it were possible to expand this, or include as an additional
point, trialling the use of assistive technology.  It’s been my experience
that showing demonstrations have some impact, but actually getting someone
to try using a screen reader, pointing device, screen magnifier etc.
themselves really helps them to realize the challenges and significance of
the process.  In the course I teach we get the students to use a really
basic screen reader and just try doing three basic tasks.  Whether they
succeed or not, from that point on they really understand the issues in a
way that is more effective than a demo.  Given that most computers and
mobile devices have accessibility features built in, I think the resource
would benefit from encouraging people to actually try experiencing the web
in a different way at this very early stage of the resource  - not to
beocme a user or expert, but just to understand how it works on a person
level and reinforce that the web can work differently for different people.



Thank you,



Scott.



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*From:* Sharron Rush [mailto:srush@knowbility.org]
*Sent:* Friday, 22 January 2016 3:53 AM
*To:* Vivienne Conway <v.conway@webkeyit.com>; Scott Hollier <
Scott.Hollier@mediaaccess.org.au>; Lisa Herrod <lisa.herrod@digital.gov.au>;
Kazuhito Kidachi <k-kidachi@mitsue.co.jp>
*Cc:* Arch, Andrew <Andrew.Arch@digital.gov.au>; EOWG Chairs <
team-eowg-chairs@w3.org>; Kenny Zhang <kunzhang@w3.org>
*Subject:* Following up to yesterday's EOWG Asia-Pacific info meeting



Hello friends,

I am feeling pretty foolish about now since missing the meeting we spent 3
months setting up.  We kept speaking about Thursday's meeting but of course
it was Wednesday here in Central Texas when you all met without me and
co-chair Brent Bakken who shared my misunderstanding. I am disappointed
since I was so looking forward to catching up with you all!

But moving forward, first let me say thanks a million for your interest and
for being understanding of my tripping over the international dateline.
Shawn reported on the meeting and helped us understand what might be most
useful as followup.

With that in mind, we updated <
https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EOWG_Current_Projects> with more specific
status of the items under "Current work Q1 2016".  Please let us know if
you have additional questions about those.

If you're ready to jump in now (as I hope you are), here are a few things
to start with:

1. Planning and Managing Web Accessibility <
http://w3c.github.io/wai-dynamic-planning/> is taking shape and your input
would be very timely. Please complete the weekly survey at:
        <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35532/EOWG15Jan2016/>
*Let us know if you can complete that survey by Wednesday 27 January*, or
later next week.

2. You may want to take a quick look at Developing Organizational Policies <
https://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/pol> and Improving the Accessibility of Your
Website < https://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/improving > There will be a survey
for those posted in the next couple of days.

3. QuickRef redesign <https://w3c.github.io/wai-wcag-quickref>
It's almost done! We don't expect any new issues at this point; however, if
you have any, please submit them as soon as possible. You can submit them
through GitHub or e-mail to <wai-eo-editors@w3.org>.

I have included the mailing lists below and hope you won't hesitate to
reach out with questions or comments about how participation works. My
understanding is that we are going to continue to recruit Asia/Pacific
participation and look for a monthly date to meet regularly. In the
meantime, you can stay current on the EO meetings wiki page ,
https://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/wiki/EOWG_Meetings> and by reading the summary
and/or minutes of the weekly teleconference.

Thanks again and next time, I swear I will get the date/time worked out
correctly.

Best,

Sharron (on behalf of both Brent and myself)


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EOWG mailing lists:
* main EO list: <w3c-wai-eo@w3.org> - goes to everyone, including all
active EOWG participants and about 100 list lurkers. Is publicly-archived.
* EO editors list: <wai-eo-editors@w3.org> - goes to the chairs and
editors. Use for things that all of EOWG list might not need in their
in-box, but that we do want publicly-archived. Is publicly-archived.
* EO Chairs list: <team-eowg-chairs@w3.org> - goes to Sharron, Brent,
Shawn, Shadi. Is not publicly-archived; archive can only be seen by W3C
staff.




-- 

Sharron Rush | Executive Director | Knowbility.org | @knowbility
*Equal access to technology for people with disabilities*



-- 
Sharron Rush | Executive Director | Knowbility.org | @knowbility
*Equal access to technology for people with disabilities*