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Welcome to the WIKI for the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA)

We are trying to improve Web Accessibility for people with learning and cognitive disabilities.

See our key links to make content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities:

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  Making content usable for people with cognitive and learning disabilities. - Full guidance for designers, content developers, policymakers etc. Includeds design guide, persona, user needs, user testing and more. You can find the design guide in a more interactive format at WCAG 2 supplements.

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  Getting started. Do you have urgent or essential content that needs to be published yesterday? This should help you get started to make sure everyone can use it.

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  tips

  “ten tips”. Top ten tips for making content useable by people with age-appropriate forgetfulness, and cognitive and learning disabilities! For designers.

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  Developer resources, business resources, and user resources. This page is for researchers, designers, developers, and content authors. It may be useful at any point in the research and development lifecycle.
• Slides and other resources

We would love to hear your comments. To comment you can:

• Open an [issue on github], or
• Send an [email] on our comments list

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Task force members - work and planning

See the [actions page] for our current list of tasks. Also see [priorities] , work, and [timelines].

Subgroups

See the list of subgroups.

More useful documents

We are working on documents for research, planning technology for more inclusion, and content with practical advice on what to do You can find more work at our Key Documents page

Background Research Documents

This is background level research about the issues and challenges. It is useful for reaserchers, policy makers and people wanting more information:

• Research doc contains: Research by disability (latest draft: https://w3c.github.io/coga/user-research/)
• Issue papers (docs) on topics such as security, safety and how they are affected by cognitive disabilities. (Works in progress are also at https://github.com/w3c/coga/tree/master/issue-papers and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919553/)

We have also used the research from Research sources

Gap analysis

This is for W3C groups and standard makers looking to understand where the issues lay and how technology could help.

See road map and gap analysis, (doc). It contains:

• Summary of issues
• Summary of techniques
• Roadmap - Tables of user needs and how tech and standards could help
• We may add challenges from the research module above.

Key team wiki pages

See

• Key Documents
• Actions
• Summary of Priorities, schedules and Work
  • [actions page] for our current list of tasks.
  • [priorities]
  • [timelines]
• Key Resolutions
• Issues

Training

• IRC, scribing and running meeting
• Github for members
• Github for editors

For more information on our work see our home page, our public email list or our work statement.

Additional key resources

• COGA Task Force Shared Google Drive with working drafts and collaboration resources