Communication

The APA Working Group uses the following tools and procedures to perform its work.

Teleconferences

The APA WG and its task forces participate in the following teleconferences. Unless otherwise mentioned, times are given in Boston time because the UTC time floats with U.S. Daylight Savings Time changes. Follow the link to convert to local time. Meetings take place on Zoom, using the link given on the meeting name. IRC is used for text chat and minute taking. It is not expected that participants will join all meetings; instead please strive to be a regular participant in the meeting(s) of greatest relevance to your work in the group.

• Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group: Wednesdays at 10:00 until 11:00 Boston time
• APA Plan: Tuesdays at 8:00 until 9:00 Boston time
• COGA Coordination: Tuesdays at 7:30 until 8:00 Boston time
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force: Mondays at 11:00 until 12:00 Boston time
• Maturity Model Task Force: Wednesdays at 11:00 until 12:00 Boston time
• Spoken Presentation Task Force: Mondays at 11:00 until 12:00 Boston time
• Research Questions Task Force: Wednesdays at 9:00 until 10:00 Boston time
• WAI-Adapt: Mondays at 10:00 until 11:00 Boston time
• WAI-Adapt Plan: Tuesdays at 10:00 until 10:30 Boston time

Minutes of past teleconferences are available.

Face to Face Meetings

Previous meetings of the APA WG are available.

Email lists

• public-apa@w3.org - Working Group discussion list; public archive; public can post; inquire to subscribe (public-apa archives).
• public-apa-admin@w3.org - Working Group decision list; public archive; must be WG member to post or subscribe (public-apa-admin archives).

Source repository

Publications under development are maintained in the APA GitHub repository. This distributed source control system allows multiple people to edit simultaneously, public view of changes as they are committed, and “pull requests” to enable people without direct commit access to suggest contributions. Publication editors are designated by the WG chair and have direct commit access. Editors commit to execute the group consensus, request review of non-editorial changes, process conflicting input (from issues, pull requests, and discussions) in a neutral manner, and maintain document quality.

IRC

W3C Working Groups use IRC for synchronous text chat and, with the aid of some IRC bots, to record minutes of teleconferences. The APA WG uses the following IRC channels. They are available at any time but are only routinely logged during teleconferences.

• #apa for the main Working Group.
• #adapt for the WAI-Adapt Task Force.
• #coga for the Cognitive Accessibility Task Force.
• #maturity for the Maturity Model Task Force.
• #pronunciation for the Spoken Presentation Task Force.
• #rqtf for the Research Questions Task Force.

Other

The APA WG uses the following web-based resources as well:

• Wiki, to develop or record content not immediately intended for formal publication. This is writeable by WG members and publicly readable.
• Web-Based Surveys (WBS), to measure aggregate group opinion. These can be completed by WG members with publicly readable results.
• GitHub Issues, to track issues for publications maintained in the GitHub repository. Users with a GitHub account can file or comment on issues, and issues are publicly readable.