Meetings and Communication

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group uses the following tools and procedures to perform its work.

Teleconferences

The AG WG and its task forces participate in the following teleconferences. Unless otherwise mentioned, times are given in Boston time because the UTC time floats with U.S. Daylight Savings Time changes. Follow the link to convert to local time. Meetings take place on WebEx, using the link given or by dial-in to +1-617-324-0000. If using the web interface to WebEx, the meeting password must be obtained in advance from the chair or staff contact. IRC is used for text chat and minute taking. It is not expected that participants will join all meetings; instead please strive to be a regular participant in the meeting(s) of greatest relevance to your work in the group.

Minutes of past teleconferences are available.

Face to Face Meetings

The Working Group holds occasional face-to-face meetings. These are usually listed in the meetings wiki.

Email lists

The AG Admin list will be used to approve WCAG 3 issues. Proposed resolutions will be discussed in the relevant subgroup before coming to the group via email on this list. When proposed resolutions are brought to the list, the group will have 7 days to vote.

Source repository

Publications under development are maintained in the WCAG 2 GitHub repository. This distributed source control system allows multiple people to edit simultaneously, public view of changes as they are committed, and “pull requests” to enable people without direct commit access to suggest contributions. Publication editors are designated by the WG chair and have direct commit access. Editors commit to execute the group consensus, request review of non-editorial changes, process conflicting input (from issues, pull requests, and discussions) in a neutral manner, and maintain document quality.

IRC

W3C Working Groups use IRC for synchronous text chat and, with the aid of some IRC bots, to record minutes of teleconferences. The ARIA WG uses the following IRC channels. They are available at any time but are only routinely logged during teleconferences.

Other

The ARIA WG uses the following web-based resources as well:

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