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Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group

Announcements and Meetings

Announcements

• First Public Working Draft of the Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 published on Monday 11 July, 2005
• Latest Internal Working Draft of the Schema of the Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 available for review
• Next Teleconference on Tuesday 19 July, 2005

Upcoming Meetings

Weekly teleconference meetings on Tuesday at 16:00 to 17:00 UTC

The number of the teleconference bridge Zakim is +1.617.761.6200 and the passcode is 3794 ("ERWG")

• 09:00 to 10:00 North American Pacific Time (PST)
• 12:00 to 13:00 North American Eastern Time (EST)
• 18:00 to 19:00 Central European Time (CET)
• 02:00 to 03:00 (Wednesday) Australian Eastern Time
• (Please check the World Clock Meeting Planner to find out the precise date for your own time zone)

Minutes of Previous Meetings

Please see the description on scribing ERT teleconferences. The generated minutes are linked below:

• Tuesday 12 July, 2005
• Tuesday 28 June, 2005
• Tuesday 21 June, 2005
• Tuesday 14 June, 2005
• Tuesday 7 June, 2005
• Tuesday 31 May, 2005
• Tuesday 24 May, 2005
• Tuesday 17 May, 2005
• Tuesday 3 May, 2005
• Tuesday 26 April, 2005
• Tuesday 5 April, 2005
• Tuesday 29 March, 2005
• Tuesday 22 March, 2005
• Tuesday 8 March, 2005
• F2F 3 - 4 March, 2005
• Tuesday 22 February, 2005
• Tuesday 15 February, 2005

Minutes from previous meetings are available.

IRC

Some of us are on IRC fairly frequently. Stop by for a chat at:

• irc server: irc.w3.org
• port: 6665
• channel: #er

For help with IRC or to find a client, refer to the IRC Help Archive.

Current Work

ERT WG is focusing on the following deliverables in the first quarter of 2005:

• Internal Working Draft of the Requirements for the Evaluation and Report Language 1.0
• Proposed EARL Schema soon to become a W3C Working Draft
• Advancing the Existing Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility as a sortable list of tools (currently only a prototype)
• Providing technical input into the EOWG Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility resource

Publications

• Existing Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility
• Evaluation and Report Language 1.0 (EARL 1.0) - W3C Working Draft, 6 December 2002
  More information about EARL is available.
• Accessibility and Evaluation and Repair Techniques (AERT) - W3C Working Draft, 26 April 2000
  More information about AERT is available.

About ERT WG

The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG) develops techniques to evaluate and repair Web content for accessibility. Currently, the primary focus of our work is to develop the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) for documenting evaluation and repair information.

Chair and Contacts

• Shadi Abou-Zahra (Chair and Team Contact) <shadi@w3.org>
• Wendy A Chisholm <wendy@w3.org>

Charter

• ERT WG Charter is operational since 1 January, 2005

Mailing Lists

• Mailing list archives of the current mailing list
• Mailing list archives of the previous mailing list

Participation

• How to join the ERT WG
• ERT WG participants in good standing

Document Information

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