Rechartering of the Browser Testing and Tools WG

Hi Browser Testing and Tools Working Group participants,

The current charter of the Working Group ends on 8 July 2026:
https://www.w3.org/2024/btt-wg-charter.html

The group needs to recharter to continue its work on WebDriver 
specifications. I prepared a new draft charter for the group to guide 
discussions:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/charter-wg-btt.html

Main changes since the current charter are:
- The draft adopts the suggestion from the charter template to have 
expressions of interest from at least two potential implementors before 
incorporating new features.
- The draft has a new Motivation and Background section at the 
beginning. That section is informative by nature.

Other updates should be more editorial in essence, aligning the text 
with the current charter template. I did not make any change to the 
scope and list of deliverables.

Diff between the current charter and the new draft charter:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2024%2Fbtt-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fw3c.github.io%2Fcharter-drafts%2F2026%2Fcharter-wg-btt.html

Please review the draft charter and let me know if that looks good to 
you. The Motivation and Background section may need tweaking in 
particular. Also, if you'd like to make any change to the scope and list 
of deliverables, now would be the right time to mention it ;)

One thing that the group needs to discuss is the AT Driver 
specification. If the Working Group wants to continue work on this 
specification in the next chartering period, we should publish it as a 
First Public Working Group as soon as possible, otherwise we would 
likely receive pushback that the Working Group did not seem to have made 
substantive progress on it.

You may raise issues or propose changes in the underlying repository 
(email is fine too):
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts

Thanks,
François.

Received on Thursday, 7 May 2026 09:30:08 UTC