What is EOWG?
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The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) aims to improve the understandability, approachability, and ease-of-use of W3C's web accessibility standards and resources. The EOWG develops support materials to help developers and others implement accessibility standards. It also works to promote standards harmonization internationally and emerging areas like mobile accessibility. The EOWG is involved in outreach to web and disability communities to advance accessibility. It identifies and addresses education needs through a wide range of resources.
What is EOWG?
- 1. WHAT IS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH WORKING GROUP? Eric Eggert, W3C IRC: #eo
- 2. WHAT IS EOWG DOING?
- 3. SCOPE Contributing to the understandability, approachability, and ease-of- use of other WAI Working Groups' deliverables, where possible through EOWG liaisons embedded in other groups.
- 4. SCOPE Developing support material, in collaboration with other WAI Working Groups, to help developers, designers, authors and others understand, use, and implement WAI standards, including introductory and advanced resources.
- 5. SCOPE Encouraging and facilitating international standards harmonization through awareness and uptake of WAI standards, Authorized Translations, and supporting resources.
- 6. SCOPE Promoting WAI's work on mobile accessibility, HTML5 accessibility, and other emerging areas.
- 7. SCOPE Improving findability of W3C's web accessibility resources.
- 8. SCOPE Engaging with the broad web communities and disability communities to advance web accessibility and WAI work.
- 9. SCOPE Identifying education and outreach needs around web accessibility, developing strategies to address those needs, and creating and maintaining a wide range of education and outreach resources to meet identified needs.
- 10. WHO IS INVOLVED?
- 12. TEAM CONTACTS ERIC EGGERTSHAWN LAWTON HENRY
- 13. PARTICIPANTS BEFORE: 12 PARTICIPANTS, 8 ACTIVE, 6 INVITED EXPERTS TODAY: 31 PARTICIPANTS, 21 ACTIVE, 3 INVITED EXPERTS
- 14. MEMBER ORGS KNOWBILITY, PEARSON, IBM, DEQUE SYSTEMS, COMCAST, THE PACIELLO GROUP, AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICE (AGIMO), EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICES
- 15. SOME OF OUR (80+) RESOURCES
- 16. HOW TO MEET WCAG 2.0 HTTPS://WWW.W3.ORG/WAI/WCAG20/QUICKREF/
- 17. HOW PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES USE THE WEB HTTPS://WWW.W3.ORG/WAI/INTRO/PEOPLE-USE-WEB/
- 30. HOW TO KEEP THE BALL ROLLING
- 35. ALSO: WAI SITE TF REDESIGNING AND ADDING BETTER FINDABILITY TO W3.ORG/WAI
- 37. DISCUSSION MORE INFORMATION ON EOWG: HTTPS://WWW.W3.ORG/WAI/EO/