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Setting the Feb. 25, 26 Face to Face Meeting Agenda (with the IMS accessibility working group-AWG). We are hoping to have joint discussions interspersed with break out to work on drafting techniques. Information about the IMS initiative can be found at http://www.imsproject.org/. Proposed agenda items for the joint section include:
JR: Jan Richards
JT: Jutta Treviranus
JB: Judy Brewer
PJ: Phill Jenkins
HS: Heather Swayne
CMN: Charles
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JT: Reports 12 hour difference between send and receive to the list
PJ: 45mins for him
JT: Background on IMS-AWG - see URL in agenda. They are working on E-Learning Guidelines and Harmonization of Accessibility with Metadata, LIP, Learning Objects, etc.
JT: Due to shared membership, we decided to meet together in Nice.
JB: How many IMS people.
JT: Andy Heath, Cathleen or Madelaine, Martin Cooper, Chetz Colwell, Liddy, Reidy, WebCT person
JB: We should have a meeting doc.
CMN: Look in Meetings/
JB: Will create meeting doc during this call.
JT: Has sent to the list some proposed agenda items.
JT: Might be a good time to look at Content Management techniques (with respect to Courseware).
JT: Transformable content becoming a big topic in e-learning. This requires user prefs - that can have acceesibility rolled in (LIP-learner information package). How does it relate to W3C.
PJ: Seems to be done at delivery time, not authoring time. At server end, not client end.
JT: But at the authoring end, the content needs to be authored so that transformability is possible.
PJ: How will this work? Will the developers report?
JT: XML support: entire chapter devoted to XML, but the AU document doesn't talk much about XML support. IMS request more strongly worded XML recommendations in AU.
JT: EO advocating conformance to ATAG: IMS has all the courseware tools as mewmbers. This could be an advocacy vehicle.
PJ: He will be making his action report as well.
JB: Has come up with the meeting page template.
PJ: Likes the EO related item. Perhaps Tuesday.
JB: Last thing on Tuesday.
JT: We can also get some best practice reports from
PJ: What about smartforce (large content group)?
JT: They are in IMS, but not the AWG. They are in the Harmonization.
JT: So start with presentation by courseware.
PJ: Let's do a walkthrough of ATAG with respect to Courseware.
JT: We also need to look at interactive pieces.
JR: It would be helpful to do the ATAG walkthrough
JB: How long to present? An hour?
JT: It might be brief to avoid proprietary.
PJ: Can share accessibility features for IBM learning tools
JB: Who will be there?
JT: Blackboard, WebCT, E-college, IBM WebConferences
JB: Then the walkthrough.
JT: A discussion of how ATAG will apply to IMS.
JB: What about MicroSoft products.
HS: We have and educational dept. - will investigate
JB: How long? Until break and then on to lunch?
JT: OK, now what about authoring transformable content, XML support
JT: Right after lunch - things that have came up in the morning.
JT/JB: Coordination on Tuesday afternoon
JT: Only other joint item is supporting transformable content
JB: Other goals?
PJ: ATAG-508 mapping?
JB: That might fall under EO stuff at the end of Tuesday?
HS: Joint marketting effort to developers would be important.
JB: Maybe we can add more effort to marketting to end user
JR/JT: Techniques
PJ: Eval/correction tools - some tools got it wrong.
JB: Working on proposal to move eval/corr forward.
PJ: PageScreener for ex. asks user to remove all colour
JB: Another work item will be to get better QA control over implementation.
PJ: Do we need to resurrcet AERT?
JB: WCAG 2.0 will have this built in.
JB: There is an existing tools for transformation, eval and repair doc. EO will be redoing this document. Scheduled for Q2 this year. This seems to span AU as well.
JB: So the agenda item would be potential updating pof AU parts of AERT document
JB/JT: [detailed scheduling discussion]
JR: I will update the meeting page