-----Original Message----- Subject: Cognitive Accessibility Task Force - Seeking Participation The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has established a Cognitive Accessibility Task Force to develop more specific guidance on meeting the web accessibility needs of people with cognitive and learning disabilities. The Cognitive Accessibility Task Force home page is: http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/ The Cognitive Accessibility Task Force expects to: * Identify related work inside and outside of the W3C and build a repository of related research into cognition and disabilities. * Review existing techniques and propose new features where needed. * Build a use case repository to describe different cognitive disabilities and scenarios for how persons with atypical ability profiles use technology successfully or unsuccessfully. * Document business cases and identify areas of resistance, risks and opportunities. *We invite you to contribute to the Cognitive Accessibility Task Force work*. * Active participation in the Task Force takes about 4 hours per week, including teleconferences. * Participation is through either the Protocols and Formats Working Group or the WCAG Working Group. * More about participation is at <http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/#participation> If you cannot commit that much time, you can still review draft documents. To get announcements of drafts for review, see <http://www.w3.org/WAI/about/announcements>. Please let us know if you have any questions. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Regards, Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair Andrew Kirkpatrick and Joshue O Connor, WCAG WG Co-Chairs Michael Cooper, PFWG and WCAG WG Team Contact ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -