Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group Meeting
20-21 June 2001
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Registration | Participants | Agenda | Suggested Readings | Logistics | Minutes

The main goals are to:

1. Discuss usability testing of WCAG 2.0,
2. Make progress on techniques,
3. Discuss latest draft.

Registration

You must register for the meeting if you plan to attend. Registration closes 8 June 2001.

Participants

Registration is open to participants of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group.

Phone participation

To participate by phone...details to be provided.

Agenda

Agenda details have not yet been determined.

Wednesday, 20 June 2001

• 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
• 9:00 - 10:30 Introductions. Presentation of usability testing proposal - David Sloan, University of Dundee.
• 10:30 - 10:45 Break
• 10:45 - 12:30 Discussion of usability testing proposal. Open issue #14.
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 - 3:00 Testability of checkpoints. This is part of the second requirement in our Requirements Document as well as open issue #33.
• 3:00 - 3:30 Break
• 3:30 - 5:00 Techniques break out discussion (AU WG will meet with HTML subgroup)
• 7:00 Working Group Dinner with XForms, HTML, AU, and WCAG Working Groups

Thursday, 21 June 2001

• 8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast
• 9:00 - 10:30 WCAG 2.0 working session. Bread into smaller groups to discuss the current draft and issues.
• 10:30 - 10:45 Break
• 10:45 - 12:30 WCAG 1.0 Clarifications - how do we deal with these? Most of the discussion occurs on the WAI IG list. How many people read IG?
• 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch will be provided
• 1:30 - 3:00 WCAG 1.0 "until user agents" clause and baseline capabilities. Open issue #15. Open issue #28 is related. Open issue #31 is related.
• 3:00 - 3:30 Break
• 3:30 - 5:00 WCAG WG planning and next steps.

Required readings

Links to be provided once documents are available.

• WCAG 2.0 latest draft
• Proposal from David Sloan and Helen Petrie about usability testing of WCAG
• Draft techniques documents

Logistics

Meeting place, Hotel, and Transportation details

The meeting is hosted by CWI - Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 20 592 4171
Fax: +31 20 5924199

Hotel

CWI has price arrangements with a few hotels in Amsterdam. To book a hotel at this price contact Wilmy van Ojik at CWI

There are a variety of other resources for finding a hotel in Amsterdam:

• Amsterdam Hotel Guide
• Bookings NL
• Hotelres.nl

Transportation

Maps and directions are available from the "About CWI" web site. When we had meetings at CWI last May it was easy to take the bus, but it requires a 1 mile walk from the bus stop to the campus. It's a pretty walk! Cabs were also a good way to get there.

$Date: 2001/06/13 17:30:00 $ Wendy Chisholm
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