Member Events
Face-to-face Meeting -- WAI User Agent Working Group
Dates: Sunday-Monday, October 25-26, 1998
Location: Hotel Sofitel, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Note: WAI Meeting immediately follows the Closing the Gap
Conference in Minneapolis
Contacts:
Daniel Dardailler, WAI Project Manager(danield@w3.org)
Judy Brewer, WAI/IPO Director (jbrewer@w3.org)
Jon Gunderson, WAI UA WG Chair (jongund@uiuc.edu)
Last updated: October 2, 1998, (Brewer)
Participants
Attendance is limited to participants of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI) User Agent Working Group (UA WG) who have pre-registered for the
meeting. Participants must also have prepared for the meeting by reading
background materials listed below.
It will be a two day technical meeting discussing only the User Agent
Guidelines and will be an important step in the process of creating a Proposed
Recommendation for the W3C. There will be no other W3C WAI working group
meeting at this time. The Closing the Gap (CTG) Conference was chosen to
assist in bringing assistive technology developers into the UA guideline
process.
If you have questions about participation please contact the UA Working
Group Chair or the W3C contacts listed above.
Registration
extended to Friday, October 9, 1998, 17:00 US EDT.
Venue
Hotel:
W3C/WAI has reserved a block of guest/sleeping rooms at the Hotel Sofitel,
where the WAI UA WG meeting will be held, for the nights of Saturday October
24, Sunday October 25, and Monday October 26. The cut-off date
for the room rate of $109 is October 9th. Please make your reservations
at the Hotel Sofitel, under the room block "W3C/WAI."
Hotel Sofitel
Phone: 612-835-1900
Fax: 612-835-2696
5601 W. 78th St.
Bloomington, MN 55439
Rate: $109/night
Room Block: "W3C/WAI"
Additional information about Venue:
For information about the Closing the Gap Assistive Technology Conference
which immediately preceeds the WAI UA WG meeting, or about the twin cities
of St.Paul/Minneapolis:
Agenda
NOTE: This agenda is based on the current status of the user agent
working draft. The agenda may change based on the issues raised, dicsussed
and/or resolved in the working group between now and the face-to-face meeting.
Members of the working group will be informed of changes to the agenda
and agenda changes will be posted to this document.
Sunday, October 25, 1998
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 Jon Gunderson, Chair UA Working Group
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Introduction of meeting participants
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Review of agenda
9:15 - 9:30 Judy Brewer, W3C/WAI/IPO Director
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Overview of W3C Process for developing a proposed recommendation
9:30 - 10:30 Presentation adjustability and HTML compatibility
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 CSS1 and CSS2 compatibility
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 Images, objects and alternative views
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 17:30 Keyboard navigation of documents
Monday October 26, 1998
8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 Table rendering and navigation
10:00 - 10:30 Visibility of accessibility features and documentation
issues
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Frame navigation and orientation
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 DOM and compatibility with third party assistive technology
14:30 - 15:00 SMIL user agent accessibility
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:00 MathML user agent accessibility
16:00 - 16:30 Statement and review of action items for working draft
and working group
Preparation: Drafts for Review
Judy Brewer, Daniel
Dardailler