Call for Participation: Browser Testing and Tools Working Group Charter Approved; Join the Browser Testing and Tools WG

Dear Members of the Browser Testing and Tools 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: Browser Testing and Tools Working 
Group Charter Approved; Join the Browser Testing and Tools WG
Date:  Tue, 9 Jul 2024 22:11:10 +0800
From:  xueyuan <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 re-charter of the Browser Testing and 
Tools Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2024/btt-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered to continue through 8 July 2026.

To have your organization join or re-join the group, use the following form:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/browser-tools-testing/join/

If your organization currently has participants in the group, please 
note that you will need to have your organization re-join the group 
because the charter adds a new deliverable, with licensing obligations 
under the W3C Patent Policy. This Call for Participation triggers the 
start of the 45 days grace period to re-join:
https://www.w3.org/2020/09/15-pp-faq.html#recharter

Please consider diversity when choosing participants from your 
organization to join 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 charter adds a new deliverable, the AT Driver specification, which 
defines a protocol for introspection and remote control of assistive 
technology (AT) such as screen readers, using a bidirectional 
communication channel.

The overall mission of the group continues to produce technologies for 
automating testing of Web applications running in browsers.

David Burns (W3C Invited Expert) continues as the group chair. 
Michael[tm] Smith is the W3C Team Contact for the group (0.05 FTE).

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/browser-tools-testing/

[...]
To see all changes relative to the previous charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2021%2F08%2Fbbtt-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2024%2Fbtt-wg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#ACReviewAfter

The Call for Participation follows section 4.4 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#cfp

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead,
Michael[tm] Smith, Browser Testing and Tools WG Team Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications