LYNX-DEV Fw: W3C Web Accessibility Working Group Meeting, April 6, 1997

[Jonn Lau - SunIntegration Vienna VA]

> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:47:05 -0500
> >  
> >  The W3C is pleased to announce the First meeting of the Web Accessibility
> >  Working Group scheduled to be held on Sunday, April 6, 1997 in Santa Clara,
> >  California.  The intention of this meeting is to launch the W3C Web
> >  Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Project and International Program Office
> >  (IPO).  The goal is to obtain feedback and validate our working model (IPO,
> >  Interest group, 3 W3C working groups, 5 activity areas, etc).
> >  
> >  A draft agenda is included below for your review.  Please also review the
> >  Call for Participation and the Briefing Packing which were both emailed on
> >  February 21, 1997.  The Call for Participation asks for member input
> >  regarding the Web Accessibility Inititiative (WAI) before March 27, 1997.
> >  
> >  Note:  We received considerable interest in this initial Web Accessibility
> >  Working Group Meeting at the AC meeting in England.  Due to timing, the
> >  decision on whether to proceed on this Project will be announced at the
> >  April 6th meeting. 
> >  
> >  W3C Web Accessibility Meeting
> >  Date:              Sunday, April 6, 1997
> >  Schedule:  Start 08:30 am with continental breakfast
> >             Close 05:30 pm
> >  Location:  Santa Clara Marriott
> >             2700 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, CA
> >             (nearby WWW6 Conference, 20 minute walk/5 minute drive)
> >  Registration
> >  DUE:               March 28, 1997 by 05:00 pm EST
> >  
> >  URLs:  
> >  Registration:  http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/Reg.html
> >  Draft Agenda: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/agenda
> >  Call for Participation: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/callmeeting
> >  Briefing Package: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/access-brief      
> >  
> >  
> >  08:30 - 09:00   Continental Breakfast 
> >  09:00 - 09:15   Introduction: Jean Francois Abramatic, Chairman W3C
> >  09:15 - 09:45   Keynote Presentation: TBA
> >  09:45 - 10:00   Project/International Program Office (IPO) Presentation:
> >  Jim Miller,
> >                Meeting Chair, W3C Technology & Society Domain Leader
> >  10:00 - 10:15   Gary Strong, National Science Foundation (NSF)
> >  10:15 - 10:45   Break/Chat
> >  11:00 - 12:30   Presentations by:
> >              Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director (via video)
> >      Gregg Vanderheiden, Trace Research, US
> >          Peter Bosher, Royal National Insitute for the Blind (RNIB), UK
> >      Michael Sfyrakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
> >      Murray Maloney, SoftQuad, Canada
> >      Mike Paciello, Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation (YRIF), US
> >  12:30 - 01:30   Lunch
> >  01:30 - 01:45   Disability Funders Group
> >  01:45 - 02:15   Presentations by:
> >      Earl Johnson, Sun Microsystems, US
> >      T.V Raman, Adobe, US
> >  02:15 - 03:00   Panel for Q&A session
> >      Jean-Francois Abramatic, W3C Chairman
> >          Daniel Dardailler, W3C Europe
> >      Carl Cargill, Netscape Communications, US
> >          Larry Goldberg, WGBH, US
> >          Scott Isaacs, Microsoft Corporation, US      
> >          Murray Maloney, SoftQuad, Canada
> >      Mike Paciello, Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation (YRIF), US
> >  03:00 - 04:30   Breakout: Technology, Guidelines, and Education
> >      Each breakout will concentrate on 3 topics:
> >          1.  Technology:  HTML, CSS extensions, HTTP negotiation,
> >             certification tools, and use of PICS.
> >          2.  Guidelines:  Existing guidelines for HTML authoring as well as 
> >             the different levels of accessibility depending on the point 
> >             of view.  In addition some of the style guide/usability 
> >             guidelines will be addressed.
> >          3.  Education: Focus on what audience(s) we want to address,
> >             how to proceed, etc.
> >  04:30 - 05:00   Plenary report (3 for 10 minutes each)
> >  05:00 - 05:30   Charles Goldfarb, Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation
> >  
> >  
> >  W3C
> >  
> > *****************************************************************************
> >  Susan M. Hardy                     World Wide Web Consortium
> >  Meeting Planner                    MIT/Laboratory for Computer Science     
> >         
> >  Email: address@hidden                      545 Technology Square
> >  Telephone: +1-617-253-2613         Cambridge, MA 02139  U.S.A.
> >  FAX: +1-617-258-5999
> \
> /gra
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