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Agenda for Project Working Sessions
Monday, June 3, 2002

Objectives:

  • Review and refine the content and plans for each Project’s deliverables.

  • Achieve consensus among the Project Team’s members on current deliverables.

  • Explore opportunities and plans for packaging deliverables.

9:00 AM to 3:00 PM - Project Team Working Sessions (Parallel Meetings):

Room 4 - AT-E&IT Interoperability Project Team

  1. Introductions to the Project Work Sessions

  2. Deliverables completed and underway:
    a. Software and O/S
    - Review of draft AT Interoperability Guidelines developed at February Forum Meeting
    - Working group Guidelines for Federal Agencies
    b. Telecommunications Products
    c. Video and multimedia
    - WGBH interoperability data and guidelines
    - Working group Guidelines for Federal Agencies
    d. Web-based information and applications
    e. Desktop and PC
    f. Self-contained, closed systems

Room 6 - Objective Measures Project Team

  1. Introductions to the Project Work Sessions

  2. Deliverables completed and underway
    a. Software and O/S
    b. Web-based information and applications
    c. Telecommunications products
    d. Video and multimedia
    e. Desktop and PC
    f. Self-contained, closed systems

3:00 – 3:30 PM Afternoon Break

3:30 – 4:30 PM Auditorium: Joint meeting of both groups to discuss opportunities and plans for packaging deliverables.

Tuesday - June 4, 2002 - 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Welcome - Thurman M. Davis, Sr., of the General Services Administration
Mr. Davis is Deputy Administrator of GSA and has just been elected Chair of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) for the third time./ Agenda Review
  • Council and Project Status Reports
  • Speaker: Ed Reniker, Accessibility Forum Program Director
  • Panel Sessions: Non-Federal Response to Section 508
  • Panel Sessions: Government Response to Section 508
  • Reception 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm

Wednesday - June 5, 2002 - 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM

  • Opening Remarks - Dr. I. King Jordan, President of Gallaudet University
  • Speaker : Madeline Bryant McIntire, Director of Microsoft's Accessible Technology Group
  • Speaker : Eugene Seagriff, Panasonic
  • Panel: 508 and the Web
  • Open Q & A Session