Information Presentation Minutes, Day 1 (Jan 4, 99)

["Jim Fruchterman"<jim@arkenstone.org>]

     Information Presentation Breakout 1/4/99 (first day of meeting)
     In attendance:
     Geoff Freed WGBH
     Earl Johnson, Sun
     Larry Scadden, NSF
     Dennis Cannon, Access Board
     Mary Lou Mobley, DOJ
     Jim Thatcher, IBM
     Paul Schroeder, AFB
     Derek Shields, DoD
     Charles Shepard, NIST
     Charles Abernathy, Compaq
     Jim Fruchterman, Arkenstone (scribe)
     Pam Gregory, FCC
     Judy Brewer, W3C
     Beth Stewart, Access Board
     Susan (Brummel), GSA
     
     Summary:
     Discussions of standards process and refresh, referencing other stds
     Allow for creativity, alternate ways
     Not vendor specific
     Accessible vs. usable
     Focus on the most important issues, the next group will get covered 
     next
     The question of comparable access (when is alternative unacceptable)
     508:
     Build in as much as possible, then rely on reasonable accommodation
     The undue burden issue
     Target is the CO, who will deflect onto vendor
     Discussion of a typical procurement
     Three levels of standards recap
     Generic, performance
     Family
     Specific (to product or function)
     Stds list brainstorm
     TAAC derived
     Gregg's functional draft
     Importance to not leave out cognitive disabilities
     Working with adaptive technology, need stds for how to do this
     Global prefs, focus info
     Working with international stds
     Look at existing standards: Ed stds, WAI stds, IBM, Microsoft, EIA,Web 
     stds, PDF
     Look at what the government is buying now (top ten list)
     Final process ideas
     Write the generic stds in parallel with family
     Look at other stds as they apply to generic (did we miss something)
     Break up into small groups 
     Look at other stds as they apply to families (can we borrow something)
     Address these next meeting so we know 
     Write on collapsed topics

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