Call for Participation: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group Charter Approved; Join ARIA WG

Dear All, 

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing list, to notify the group of the approval of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group Charter and call for participation. 

With kind regards,
Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Subject: Call for Participation: Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group Charter Approved; Join ARIA WG
> Date: 9 February 2022 at 21:04:57 CET
> To: W3C Members <w3c-ac-members@w3.org>
> Cc: Chairs <chairs@w3.org>
> Message-Id: <3BF9EAC3-DA2E-49CC-B295-4BB42DCD51AE@w3.org>
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> Chairs,
> 
> The Director is pleased to announce the rechartering of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group:
>  https://www.w3.org/2022/02/aria-charter
> 
> The group is chartered through 31 January 2024.
> 
> The mission of the ARIA Working Group is to enhance the accessibility of web content through the development of supplemental attributes, including roles, states, and other properties, that can be applied to native host language elements and exposed via platform accessibility APIs.
> 
> Because the charter changes to the 2020 Patent Policy, all participants must rejoin the group to confirm their acceptance of the IP requirements. Please use the following form to join the group. The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
>  https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/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.
> 
> The Working Group chair is James Nurthen (Adobe). Team Contact is Michael Cooper and Ruoxi Ran for a total of 0.4 FTE.
> 
> More information about the ARIA Working Group can be found on its homepage:
>  https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/
> 
> […]
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> To see all changes relative to the previous charter, please follow this link:
> https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2018%2F11%2Faria-charter&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2022%2F02%2Faria-charter
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> This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
> https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#ACReviewAfter
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> and the Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process Document:
> https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#cfp
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
> Philippe le Hégaret, Project Management Lead,
> Michael Cooper, ARIA WG Team Contact;
> Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  https://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +337 810 795 22 https://www.w3.org/People/Coralie/

Received on Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:07:53 UTC