Member Events
Face-to-face Meeting -- WAI Authoring Tools Working Group
Dates: Monday - Tuesday 1-2 March 1999
Location: Lotus, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Contacts:
Jutta Treviranus, WAI AU WG Chair (Jutta.Treviranus@utoronto.ca)
Charles McCathieNevile, WAI AU WG Staff Contact(charles@w3.org)
Judy Brewer, WAI Domain Leader (jbrewer@w3.org)
Last updated: March 4, 1999
Participants
Attendance is limited to participants of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI) Authoring Tools Working Group (AU WG) 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 email list
as specified below.
It will be a two day technical meeting focusing only the WAI Authoring Tools
Guidelines. This meeting will be an important opportunity to identify and
resolve major issues early in the drafting process. This will allow the
milestones of the group to be reached, which is essential for producing the
deliverables on time.
If you have questions about participation please contact the AU Working Group Chair or the
W3C contacts (listed above).
Registration
will be available between 9:00 US EDT (GMT-0500) Monday 11 January and 17:00
US EDT (GMT-0500) Friday 19 February
Venue
Lotus Development Corporation
1 Charles Park
Cambridge, MA 02142
USA
Phone + 617 577 8500
Fax+ 617 693 2433
Customer Service + 1 800 782 7876
Hotel:
Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge
Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142,
phone:
+1-617-491-3600
MIT rate:
$139 plus tax.
Within
walking distance of Lotus
Room Block
is under "W3C"
Room Block
is available between Monday 11 January and Friday 12 February
Travel note:
Nearest airport is Logan International Airport, Boston (short taxi ride)
Agenda (Draft)
Monday 1 March 1999
- 8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
- 8:30 - 9:00 Introduction of participants.
- 9:00 - 9:30 Review of Agenda and Issues already raised.
- 9:30 - 10:30 Review of Document Structure and Scope
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How many documents? One document with Guidelines, Checkpoints, Techniques and
Appendices, or a separate Techniques document
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Should we address access issues of standards other than HTML (eg XML/XSL,
Schema, SMIL, etc) and if so how?
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Should we regard automatically generated markup and author-generated markup as
seperate?
- 10:30 - 11:00 Break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Discussion of issues - relationship with other
guidelines
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- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- 13:30 - 15:30 Review of current tools - current problems, current
strategies and solutions.
- 15:30 - 16:00 Break
- 16:00 - 17:30 Discussion of issues - Generation of Accessible content
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- 19:30 Dinner
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There is not a formal conference dinner but by informal arrangement a
restaurant will be selected where participants can have a meal together.
Tuesday 2 March 1999
- 8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
- 8:30 - 10:30 Discussion of issues - User Interface
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Views of content
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Usability in various hardware configurations
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Compatibility with Assistive Technologies
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Techniques
- 10:30 - 11:00 Break
- 11:00 - 12:30 Discussion of Issues - Promoting Accessibility
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- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- 13:30 - 15:00 Discussion of Issues
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Conformance
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Definitions
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Review of priorities and check for redundancies
- 15:00 - 15:30 Break
- 15:30 - 16:30 Discussion of issues - 'Thorny' issues arising in
meeting.
- 16:30 - 17:00 Procedures for meetings, teleconferences, and email
list.
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schedule for teleconferences
- 17:00 - 17:15 Review of meeting resolutions and close.
Preparation
Participants are expected to identify areas of concern and briefly outline
those concerns by email to the working group list in the week before the
meeting.
Participants are also expected to review the following documents during the
week before the meeting. Note that most of these are works in progress and
that the documents are changing over time.
Charles McCathieNevile, Jutta Treviranus