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Find out about the activities of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility (COGA) Task Force and how you can contribute to its objectives.
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The COGA Task Force develops guidance and techniques for content authoring and user agent implementation in order to make web content accessible to people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
To learn about the focus, scope and deliverables of the task force, see the COGA Task Force Work Statement.
The COGA Task Force supports the deliverables of two W3C working groups:
For details of the current work, see the COGA Task Force wiki.
For more information, see Cognitive Accessibility at W3C.
The COGA Task Force welcomes input from individuals and organizations around the world on the cognitive and learning accessibility work.
You can contribute to the work without being a member of the task force:
- Draft COGA resources: Review and provide feedback on drafts that are still being developed.
- Open COGA issues: Comment on or propose solutions for open issues.
- Published COGA resources: Let us know if there is a new issue with any of these.
Comment or raise a new issue in the COGA GitHub repository or email the task force (Note: This email will go to a publicly archived mailing list).
Joining the COGA Task Force enables you to participate fully in the development of the work and influence the deliverables. You and your organization will also be listed as contributors, where appropriate.
Being a participant involves commitment to support the work of the task force in the following ways:
- Engage actively in the work using the task force’s communication channels.
- Keep up with weekly tasks and the progress of the work — for example, via the minutes of past meetings, mailing list discussions, and GitHub issue comments.
- Give your input promptly, when it’s needed.
To become a participant in the COGA Task Force, you must first be a member of one of the working groups the task force supports:
- AG Working Group — see Instructions for joining the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group
- APA Working Group — see Instructions for joining the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group
Once you are a member of either the AG or APA working groups, email the W3C staff contact for the COGA Task Force to let them know you’d like to join the task force.
Note: As a participant in one of the AG or APA working groups’ task forces, you can choose to focus your time exclusively on the task force deliverables and you do not have to contribute to the working group’s other activities.
The COGA Task Force has developed the following resources for the AG and APA working groups:
- Cognitive Accessibility Supplemental Guidance
- Cognitive Accessibility User Research — Working Draft (and latest Editor’s Draft)
- Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities — Working Group Note (and latest Editor’s Draft)
- Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis — Working Draft (and latest Editor’s Draft)
- Cognitive Accessibility Issue Papers — Editor’s Draft
If you have a question for the COGA Task Force, email the task force (Note: This email will go to a publicly archived mailing list).
Alternatively, you can email the W3C staff contact.