Call for Participation: Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group Charter Approved; Join the APA WG

Dear Members of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group,

I'm relaying the following announcement that was sent to W3C Advisory 
Committee Representative earlier today, to notify the group of the new 
charter approval and call for participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Marketing & Communications


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Accessible Platform Architectures 
Working Group Charter Approved; Join the APA WG
Date:  Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:19:00 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

W3C is pleased to announce the recharter of the Accessible Platform 
Architectures Working Group.
https://www.w3.org/2025/06/apa-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 2027-07-31.

The mission of the group is to ensure W3C specifications provide support 
for accessibility to people with disabilities. The group advances this 
mission through review of W3C specifications, development of new 
specifications and technical support materials, collaboration with other 
Working Groups, and coordination of harmonized accessibility strategies 
within W3C, including monitoring and participation in W3C Security, 
Privacy, and Internationalization activities.

Please use the following form to have your organization join the group. 
The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/apa/join/

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

Current participants are not required to rejoin this group because the 
charter includes no new deliverables that require W3C Patent Policy 
licensing commitments.

The group chairs remain Matthew Atkinson (Samsung) and Janina Sajka 
(Invited Expert). The Staff Contact is Ruoxi Ran <ran@w3.org> for a 
total of 0.4 FTE.

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/apawg/

[...]
To see all changes relative to the previous charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F07%2Fapa-wg-charter&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2025%2F06%2Fapa-wg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20231103/#cfp

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Ruoxi Ran, Staff Contact for Accessible Platform Architectures WG;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications