Title Slide: Project Information
Forum Projects and Next Steps
Bill Hetzner and Jim Kindrick
Accessibility Forum Staff

Slide 1: Discussion on Forum Projects
Types of Projects
    Foundation/Core Projects
        ‘Big Winners’
        Umbrella Activities
    Foundation Support
        ‘Runners Up’
        Potential building blocks for the ‘Big Winners’

Slide 2: Characteristics of Projects
Possible Objectives
Likely Project Interrelationships

Slide 3: Project 8: Enhance AT/EIT Interoperability 
Possible Objectives
    AT Industry Profile
    Interoperability Protocols and APIs (Interfaces)
    AT-EIT Industry Communication Channels
    AT-EIT Interoperability Assessment
Likely Project Interrelationships
    Project 3: AT product/vendor inventory
    Project 6: Index of related technical resources/standards
    Project 7: Standard Terminology/Glossary

Slide 4: Project 11: Enhance the Availability of Objective Measures
Objectives
    Identify technical provisions with respect to the applicability of objective measures
    Gather best practices for accessibility testing methods from industry and academia
    Create a common reporting mechanism for reporting results of the accessibility measurements
Likely Project Interrelationships
    Project 10: Identify Existing 508-related Assessment Tools
    Project 6: Index of related technical resources/standards
    Project 7: Standard Terminology/Glossary

Slide 5: Project Interrelationship
Likely to support both ‘Big Winners’
    Project 6: Index of related technical resources/standards
    Project 7: Standard Terminology/Glossary
Likely to directly support a ‘Big Winner’
    Project 3: AT product/vendor inventory
    Project 10: Identify Existing 508-related Assessment Tools

Slide 6: Considerations
Ballot results indicate the ‘Big Winners’ should be initiated
Forum Staff / resources can support a total of only 4 concurrent Projects
Forum must decide upon the order of Project initiation for the ‘Runners Up’

Slide 7: Discussion / Decision
The ‘Big Winners’ will be started first?
In what order will the Forum initiate the ‘Runners Up’?