This group supports the COGA Task Force by supplying user needs and feedback.
Scope The COGA Community Group’s work will include: - Sharing challenges when using the web and other digital displays - Suggesting user needs - Helping with research - Suggesting ways to improve accessibility for the community - Reviewing COGA’s drafts - Outreach and collecting feedback from the community - Helping with policy and the business cases for COGA guidance - Having open meetings to discuss these points Open meetings may be live video conferences or in other discussion formats
Participation
You do not need to be an expert in all topics related to cognitive accessibility to join the community group. The COGA Community Group will work in smaller groups for specific subjects, giving you the opportunity to participate on the topics you choose.
The COGA Community Group will also work together on some topics, brainstorming and building a community dedicated to improved access for all.
However, the community group will specifically benefit from including: - people with learning and cognitive disabilities, people with mental health challenges, - caregivers, therapists and people who work with people with learning, cognitive challenges and in mental health, - researchers, developers, quality assurance professionals, and user interface experts, industry, looking to share and support ideas, and policy makers.
Additional details of participation - Joining the COGA Community Group does not involve joining the COGA Task Force. - If you would prefer to join this group anonymously, please send an email to ran@w3.org. - The community group will not publish specifications, but may make suggestions to the COGA taskforce. - For more information about community groups, please visit Community and Business Groups Frequently Asked Questions. - Short link to this document: bit.ly/coga-community
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these
conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.
Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.
There is the meeting in local times for the meeting on June 5th, 2025 3:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC. Both meetings go over the same agenda. Please attend whichever meeting works best for you.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (50 minutes)
[Kiki] Meeting changes
Split meeting approach for more inclusive timezone attendance
New meeting reminder
Moving from slack to discord
[Kiki] walk through deleting only calendar invites from Kiki
[Kiki] Answer COGA Task force questions
Async Reminders and channels: As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), we will provide a meeting link hold which will also be added to this reminder starting next month. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. The zoom link is in the calendar invite.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Ciara (Kiki) Salmon know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Ciara (Kiki) Salmon know.
Identify scribe for meetings notes & review COGA community guidelines as we will have outside individuals attending.
Discuss pending matters from previous meeting (20-40 minutes)
[Async Kiki note] Please add good examples of design and interactions to meeting notes (e.g. could be a poster you see in the subway, an app you use)
[Cat, Yash, Anya] Update the broader team on what is happening in Social Media meeting
[Anya] Machine Learning and AI to help create, test, evaluate user interfaces. And to create more accessible and cognitively accessible user interfaces. [Group conversation and capture it in notes]
Closing questions, adding any items to next month agenda and next steps (5 minutes)
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Ciara (Kiki) Salmon know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Ciara (Kiki) Salmon know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Ciara (Kiki) Salmon know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.
As time zones can change (e.g. daylight savings), please feel free to use this link to place a calendar hold. This calendar hold should automatically adjust to the correct time for your timezone. Please note that this will not have the zoom link in the calendar hold. The zoom link is posted in the community slack channel.
If you would like another timezone translated into local time, please let Aditya Bikkani, Ciara (Kiki) Salmon or Jamie Knight know.
