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

The new charter for the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working 
Group has gone into effect:

https://www.w3.org/2022/02/aria-charter

This charter moves the group to the new Patent Policy. Therefore, all 
participants must rejoin the group to confirm their acceptance of the 
changes. *Member representatives*, ask your Advisory Committee 
representative to rejoin. *Invited Experts*, you can rejoin yourself. 
The rejoin form is at:

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/join

There is a deadline to rejoin though I cannot find where it is 
indicated. Please be sure you or your organization rejoins before *10 
March 2022* to be ahead of the deadline.

Individuals and organizations that have completed the process will show 
in the list at:

https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/aria/ipr

If you do not see yourself in that list, you still need to rejoin.

Michael

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Accessible Rich Internet Applications 
(ARIA) Working Group Charter Approved; Join ARIA WG
Resent-Date:  Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:05:04 +0000
Resent-From:  chairs@w3.org
Date:  Wed, 9 Feb 2022 21:04:57 +0100
From:  Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
To:  W3C Members <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>
CC:  Chairs <chairs@w3.org>



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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Results of Charter Call for Review
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We called for charter review on 19 November, 2021:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2021OctDec/0034.html

Thanks to the 18 Members who provided input:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/2021-11_aria-charter/results

15 reviewers supported the charter as is, 2 suggested changes, and 1 
abstained. There were no objections. In response to comments, the nature 
of the group's role in test tool development was clarified, and a 
liaison to the Publishing WG updated to the EPub 3 WG.

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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

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#ACReviewAfter

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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