Member Events

Face-to-face Meetings -- WAI Groups

Dates:  Saturday-Sunday 15-16 May 1999 Following WWW8
Location: Toronto, Canada

• Participants: please register by 7 May 1999
• Venue and Accommodation: travel  information
• Agenda (and later, minutes also)
• Preparation Documents, Drafts, History; Position Papers

Contacts:

Participants

This meeting is for participants of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group (IG), Evaluation & Repair Working/Interest Group (ER), Protocols & Formats Working Group (PF), and Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group (AU) who have pre-registered for the meeting.

Participants must also have prepared for the meeting by reading background materials and taking part in the discussion on the group e-mail lists as specified below. If you have questions about participation please contact the W3C contacts (listed above).

Registration for the meeting will be available until 7 May 1999.

Venue

These WAI meetings will be held immediately following the Eighth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW8) in Toronto, Canada, which offers a broad range of sessions on issues related to Web applications.

The WAI meetings will be held at the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) of the University of Toronto.

Local contact is Jutta Treviranus, Manager of the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre and Chair of the Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group.

Toronto Hotels

• Quality Hotel - Recommended by Jutta
  ph +1 416 968 0010
  280 Bloor West st
  There is a special rate for people coming to University of Toronto, around USD$50
• Intercontinental Hotel, Bloor St ph +1 416 960 5200
• Park Plaza, Avenue Rd, ph +1 416 924 5471 or +1 800 268 4927

Travel note:

Nearest airport is Toronto Island Airport (5-15 minutes taxi ride, approx $10). Toronto International Airport is 45 to 90 minutes by taxi - approximately $25 to $40. Buses run hourly to major hotels for a fee of about $10 to $15. Wheelchair accessible taxis should be booked in advance, as the wait is usually in excess of one hour.

Agenda Overview

• Saturday morning: WAI Interest Group.
• Saturday afternoon: split
  • Evaluation & Repair Working/Interest Group.
  • Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group starts

  and then

  • Protocols & Formats Working Group in plenary
• Sunday all day: Authoring Tools Working Group.

Minutes:

• WAI Interest Group
• Evaluation and Repair Tools
• Protocols and Formats (Member only)
• Authoring Tools

Detail: Saturday 15 May 1999

WAI Interest Group.

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 WAI Interest Group meeting

Updates on all WAI Working Groups

• Protocols & Formats Working Group
• Web Content Guidelines Working Group
• User Agent Guidelines Working Group
• Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group
• Evaluation & Repair Working/Interest Group
• Education & Outreach Working Group

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30 in parallel

• Evaluation & Repair Working & Interest Groups
• Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00 in parallel

• Evaluation & Repair Working & Interest Groups
• Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:30 Protocols & Formats Working Group (SVG, Events)

19:00 Dinner

Dinner to be arranged at a local restaurant (self-paid).

Detail: Sunday 16 May 1999

Authoring Tools Guidelines Working Group (all day)

8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00

10:30 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:30

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 17:00

17:00 - 17:30 Wrap up

Preparation (additional detail to be added)

• List of WAI IG update off IG Home page
• ER Home page
• Current PF issues off Member private PF Home page 
• For AU Meeting:
  • AU Home page
  • Latest AUTOOLS draft

Last updated:  April 14, 1999