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Not enough people available to take part in a F2F meeting at ICCHP this July
So this plan is not going ahead
Vivienne - has received enquiry from an organization involved in a new hospital project on means of accessible way finding methods, QR codes, iBeacons mentioned as possible methods.
Vivienne - such wayfinding methods need to be easy to use and reliable given high cognitive load some users may experience
Vivienne - lack of information on accessibility of some wayfinding methods, but opportunities exist for using smartphones and tablet devices
Vivienne - has started a catalogue of information on accessibility and wayfinding methods
christos - has experience of developing a wayfinding app for outdoor navigation and identifying accessible places in a particular location
christos - other similar apps exist. Most use a similar approach - looking at accessibility *of* places. Question of how to aggregate and integrate location information that different apps hold?
christos - this work has connections with Web of Things, and augmented reality
christos - this is an interesting area to do more work in
annika - there is a project that worked on a smartphone app making it easier for blind/visually impaired people to acquire a target such as a QR code
annika - has worked on a project investigating support for navigation by older people; has done literature review in this area
annika - need to establish a focus on how this relates to web accessibility
annika - agree that augmented reality is another important area of study
<shadi> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/geo/XGR-geo-ont-20071023/
<shadi> http://www.w3.org/2014/03/lgd/
shadi - agree with annika and christos. In addition, there is a geospatial angle to this area of research
shadi - looking at outputs of this work would be useful
shadi - wayfinding seems to be an application of several different areas of research coming together. Is there a need for some catalogue items to be more foundational, covering each contributing topic?
sharper - is accessible wayfinding a good symposium topic?
vivienne - keen to work on this as a topic, will need some help
christos - would be interested in contributing too
<shadi> +1 possibly a strucutred discussion to pursue
<Vivienne> I stuck the title up under the catalogue titles today
<shadi> [[also relates to accessible maps item]]
<Vivienne> Annika wants to help also
RESOLUTION: develop a catalogue topic on accessible wayfinding as a precursor to a symposium
<Vivienne> That's great. I'll get something up on the catalogue topic entry in the next couple of days and we three can all add to it
<scribe> ACTION: vivienne, christos and annika to work on developing accessible wayfinding catalogue topic [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/05/21-rd-minutes.html#action01]
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sharper - we could contact W3C community and business groups for future symposia ideas
sharper - need to develop other symposia ideas. For example look at catalogue topics and rank them in order of priority
sharper - does anyone have contacts in industry that might suggest symposium topics?
vivienne - ePublishing is a possible topic, discussed at W4A
vivienne - added epublishing content to wiki but edits don't seem to have been persistent
I'm interested in ePublishing too; happy to work on this once TC4R is finished
shadi - Chet Cooper at Ability Magazine is interested in this topic too
vivienne - will add information to wiki, and then see who else is interested in developing this topic further
<Vivienne> I found a quote from Judy Brewer about the ePub3 standard
shadi - there is ongoing work on ePublishing within W3C - not sure what the accessibility research challenges are.
Are ePublishing authoring tools and authoring workflow a possible topic?
shadi - current areas of investigation include CSS and pagination. Haven't yet heard accessibility questions, but lack of clarity in this area suggests there is scope for RDWG gathering information.
<shadi> +1 Dave - yes, I think relates to ATAG as well
<sharper> http://www.w3.org/community/sensorweb/participants
sharper - also looking at sensors group. Could this feed into the wayfinding activity, or is this something big enough to be a separate symposium?
sharper - any thoughts on symposia topics, please share them with the group
shadi - sensors are a sub-part of Web of Things
<sharper> http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/wiki/Research_Topics
shadi - prioritisation of category topics - may be some suggestions in last week's meeting minutes, but otherwise nothing formal
sharper - plans to clean up Research Topics page to clarify suggestions for future; to help group create a Top 10 list of topics to address going forward
<Vivienne> sounds fine
<markel> yes
<annika> +1
sharper - RDWG members should agree on an ordered list of most important 10 topics to cover. Members could write a list without consulting the wiki, or consult the list that's currently there
<silvia_mirri_> fine also for me
<christos> +1
+1 for me
<markel> isn't a list of 10 too long?
<markel> discussion sounds good to me
RESOLUTION: All RDWG members to contribute list of top 5 (at least) research topics that RDWG should focus on
TC4R note work is making good progress; draft planned for 2 weeks time
sharper - plans to link together related published work from RDWG