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Education & Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• Best Practices Training Exchange was held on 5 July 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal
• WAI announcements are available at http://www.w3.org/WAI/#News
• Past announcements are listed in WAI Meetings History and Press and Document Releases on the WAI Events page.

Upcoming Teleconferences

EOWG meets by teleconference most Fridays via teleconference bridge: +1.617.761.6200, 3694#. Friday teleconferences are from 8:30am - 10:30am US Eastern Time. To find what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock meeting planner, and as Daylight Saving Time changeovers occur at different times in different countries, please check times each week.

Teleconferences in July and August:

• Friday 22 July 2005: no regular teleconference, tentative WAI Web site discussion
• Friday 29 July 2005 teleconference
• (no teleconference Friday 5 August 2005)
• Friday 12 August 2005 teleconference
• Friday 19 August 2005 teleconference
• Friday 26 August 2005 teleconference

Face to Face Meetings

EOWG meets face-to-face several times per year. The following face-to-face meetings are being planned:

• most recent: 28 February - 3 March 2005 in conjunction with W3C Technical Plenary, Boston, MA, USA
• tentative - early Dec 2005: Melbourne, Australia - tentative
• in conjunction with the W3C Technical Plenary week Monday 27 February to Friday 3 March 2006, Cannes-Mandelieu, France- exact dates to be determined

Meeting Minutes

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

Current Work

EOWG Task Forces:

1. Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BADTF Requirements
2. Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements (in development)
3. Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and LTF Requirements
4. WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement

EOWG Deliverables:

Deliverables currently under development or revision [this section needs updating]

• Why Standards Harmonization is Essential to Web Accessibility (stds harmonization changelog)
• How People With Disabilities Use the Web, Working Draft (how people use web changelog)
• WAI Web site redesign, through the WAI Site Task Force of EOWG (WSTF)
• Overview and introduction pages for WAI site
• Lexicon, through the Lexicon Task Force of EOWG
• Best Practices Exchanges planning

Complete list of planned and in-progress deliverables

• EOWG Deliverables

Completed deliverables

• Completed EOWG Deliverables

Publications

• WAI Resources is an annotated list of current resources on the WAI site, many developed by EOWG.
• The Completed Deliverables section of the EOWG Deliverables lists work completed by EOWG.

About EOWG

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) develops strategies and materials to increase awareness among the Web community of the need for Web accessibility and to educate the Web community regarding solutions to Web accessibility.

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Chair: Judy Brewer < jbrewer @ w3.org >
• EOWG W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter

Mailing Lists

• EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
• Instructions for subscribing to the EOWG mailing list
• EO Editors mailing list archives are publicly available for edits of specific documents

Membership

• How to join the EOWG
• EOWG participants in good standing

Document Information

[Contacting WAI] Feedback welcome to wai-eo-editors@w3.org (a publicly archived list).

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