Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

Recent Publications, Current Work and Participation are listed lower on this page.

Announcements and Meetings for EOWG Participants

• EOWG Wiki
  • Work for this week
  • Agenda for next teleconference
• EOWG surveys/questionnaires (“WBS”):
  • Availability for Upcoming EOWG Teleconferences
  • (Work for this week has the link to the weekly survey)
  • Other Open questionnaires for EOWG
  • (templates: weekly, new approval, approval of changes)

Teleconferences

EOWG teleconferences are open to participants of EOWG; Participating in EOWG has information about joining EOWG.

• Upcoming agendas in the wiki. (past agendas linked in the Meeting pages below)
• Teleconference logistics includes WebEx and IRC connections
• EOWG Participation Info wiki page has additional information on teleconferences, IRC, and more.

Face-to-Face Meetings

• Upcoming face-to-face meetings are linked from the EOWG F2F wiki page

Meeting Minutes with Agendas

• Agendas, summaries, and links to minutes from 2014-present are linked from the top of EOWG Meetings wiki page after “Meeting summaries:”
• Links to minutes from 2001-2013: EOWG Minutes Archive

Current and Upcoming Work

• EOWG Current Projects lists current and upcoming work

EOWG primarily works through GitHub and weekly surveys (W3C “WBS”), in addition to teleconferences. We use a wiki for some things like developing requirements and organizing project documentation. (We don’t use e-mail much.)

Publications

EOWG deliverables announcements since 2005 are listed in the News Archive or the older Highlights Archive and include:

• Evaluating Web Accessiblity Overview Videos (May 2020 videos announcement)
• Curricula on Web Accessibility (December 2019 Curricula announcement)
• Making Audio and Video Media Accessible (September 2019 Media resource announcement)
• Accessibility Principles update May 2019
• Input into All WAI Translations and Translating WAI Resources (March 2019 translations announcement, July 2019 translations announcement)
• Developing an Accessibility Statement (November 2018 Statement announcement)
• EOWG Resources updated with WAI site redesign (May 2018 update announcement)
• How to Meet WCAG 2.0: Customizable Quick Reference redesign (March 2016 QuickRef announcement, Nov 2015 QuickRef announcement)
• Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility update (Dec 2016 Easy Checks updated announcement)
• Web Accessibility Perspectives - videos: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone (Sept 2016 Perspectives updated announcement, May 2016 Perspectives announcement)
• Web Accessibility Tutorials: Guidance on how to create websites that meet WCAG (April 2017 Tutorials updated announcement, March 2015 Tutorials announcement)
• Tips for Getting Started with Web Accessibility (Oct 2015 Tips announcement)
• Web Accessibility Laws and Policies (June 2017 Policy announcement)
• Planning and Managing Web Accessibility update (Dec 2016 Planning announcement on 3 updates)
• How People with Disabilities Use the Web updated in May 2017
• WCAG-EM Report Tool: Web Accessibility Evaluation Report Generator (March 2015 Report announcement)
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools database (Dec 2014 Tools announcement)

Additional information on deliverables:

• EOWG Deliverables describes the types of deliverables EOWG produces, and lists deliverables that were in the 2015 Charter.
• Previous EOWG deliverables are listed in the Completed Deliverables section of the old EOWG Deliverables Plan.

About EOWG

The mission of the Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is to develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, and implementation of web accessibility; and to support the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Working Groups. EOWG is chartered to work collaboratively with other WAI Working Groups to support public awareness, understanding, and successful implementation of WAI guidelines, specifications, Notes, and other resources.

Work of the EOWG is in accordance with the W3C Process. EOWG work is funded in part by the WAI-Core 2015 Project, WCAG TA Project, and WAI Sponsors.

Communication

EOWG primarily conducts work through:

• Weekly surveys on active topics (all EOWG surveys)
• GitHub
• Teleconference discussions

(EOWG does not use e-mail or W3C Tracker much.)

Mailing Lists

• EOWG mailing list archives are publicly available for the EOWG main mailing list
• Instructions for subscribing to the main EOWG mailing list
• Additional EOWG mailing lists

Chair and Contacts

• EOWG Co-Chairs: Brent Bakken, Sharron Rush, Kris Anne Kinney
• W3C Team Contact: Shawn Henry < shawn @ w3.org >

Charter

• EOWG Charter 2020

EOWG Task Forces

• [active] WAI Curricula Task Force Work Statement
• [drafted] Evaluation Resource Suite Task Force (ERS TF) Work Statement and ERSTF Requirements
• [inactive] Before/After Demo Task Force (BADTF) Work Statement and BAD Requirements
• [inactive] User Materials Task Force Work Statement
• [inactive] WCAG 2.0 Materials Support Task Force Work Statement
• [inactive] Lexicon Task Force Work Statement (LTF) Work Statement and Lexicon/Glossary Requirements
• [closed] WAI Site Task Force (WSTF) Work Statement and WAI Web Site Redesign Project page
• [closed] Web Accessibility and Ageing Task Force (WAI-AGE TF) Work Statement

Participation, Contributing to EOWG Work

• Participating in EOWG includes instructions for joining the EOWG mailing list, contributing through GitHub and other venues, and becoming an active participant.
• EOWG participants