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DataViz Accessibility Advocacy and Advisory Group: Governance and Membership

Table of Contents (Jump to):

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  1. Core Team
    1. Vision, Mission and Values
    2. Members
  2. Subcommittees
    1. Advocacy
      1. Objectives
      2. Measures
      3. Members
    2. Development
      1. Objectives
      2. Measures
      3. Members
  3. Current contributing members and invited experts
  4. Guide to roles and membership
    1. Chairpersons
    2. Core Members
    3. Contributing Members
    4. Invited Experts
    5. Community Members

# Core Team

The Dataviz Accessibility Core Team is responsible for establishing and protecting the overarching purpose, fundamental values and ethical principles along with managing the activities of the group, subcommittee leadership, and any cross-cutting issues.


# Vision, Mission, and Values

Vision

A world where all data visualization, and the tools and frameworks used to create them, are accessible and equal.

Mission

To identify best practices for accessible data visualization, and create materials and guidelines for making charts and graphs accessible to everyone.

Values

Our work will be guided and informed by our beliefs and commitments to:

  • Inclusiveness - we respect people, value diversity and are committed to equality.
  • Participation - we value and recognise the contribution of volunteers within organisations and communities.
  • Quality - we strive for excellence through continuous improvement.
  • Openness - we are committed to a culture of teamwork and collaboration.
  • Sustainability - we understand burnout related to volunteering, and value open communication and flexibility of capacity and ability to contribute.

(Very heavily referenced from diycommitteeguide.org)


# Core Team Members

Chair

  • Frank Elavsky

Core Members:

  • Sarah Fossheim
  • Emily Kund
  • Larene Le Gassick

# Subcommittees

Subcommittees (SC) produce deliverables to achieve the SC planned objectives.

There are currently two (2) subcommittees:

  • Advocacy
  • Development

The Advocacy SC focuses on education and awareness activities, to teach and guide as many data visualization professionals (or anyone who works with dataviz) as possible.

The Development SC supports the Advocacy SC activities with development work, e.g. building a platform to host resources and references used to teach/raise awareness. The Development SC will also conduct research, collect information, and build examples of best practices in dataviz accessibility.

Many objectives will require collaboration between both subcommittees, to be organized as needed by SC chairpersons.


# Advocacy Subcommittee

View the Advocacy Subcommittee roadmap, here.

Objectives

  • Raise awareness on why we need accessible data communications
  • Inform & facilitate data visualization practitioners about good/better/best practices
  • Facilitate change at a tool level

Measures

  • Identify stakeholders across the industry
  • Communicate with stakeholders using mediums they are open to engaging with
  • Provide recognition in the industry

List of Advocacy subcommittee members

SC Chair(s):

  • Emily Kund

Core members:

  • TBA

# Development Subcommittee

View the Development Subcommittee roadmap, here.

Objectives

  • Develop a set of guidelines/standards reference for dataviz accessibility general, and then tooling-specific
  • Develop a set of guidelines for how to test/audit dataviz accessibility
  • Build demonstrations of our findings
  • Identify gaps
  • Support the advocacy subcommittee with development

Measures

  • Identify and provide deliverables as needed
  • Ongoing accuracy of information and transparency
  • Analytics and usefulness of information

List of Development subcommittee members

SC Chair(s):

  • Sarah Fossheim
  • Larene Le Gassick

Core members:

  • TBA

# List of current contributing members and invited experts

TBA


# Guide to roles and membership

Chairperson responsibilities

  • Provide leadership
  • Guide strategy and project management
  • Public-facing representative of the group
  • Facilitate voting process on committee decisions

Core Member responsibilities

  • Prepare for and attend committee meetings
  • Have voting rights
  • Has the potential to contribute to a project (can be a active contributor to more than 1 project)
  • Can help to drive project work, as needed.

Contributing members

  • Has assigned tasks or roles (e.g. dataviz accessibility speaker) related to group initiatives.
  • Can be nominated to become a core member if they wish to more actively contribute to the group's advocacy or development efforts.

Community members

  • Are keen to learn and share dataviz accessibility knowledge
  • Are able to invite other community members
  • Are able to participate in activities hosted by Dataviz A11y committees.

Questions? Please contact the Dataviz Accessibility Core Team accessible-visualization [AT] outlook [DOT] com