Start of refinement for a draft Browser Testing and Tools Working Group charter

Dear members of the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Browser Testing and Tools 
Working Group charter
Date:  Tue, 19 May 2026 16:19:03 +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]

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft Browser Testing and Tools Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2026/charter-wg-btt.html

The mission of the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group is to produce 
technologies for use in testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of Web 
applications running in Web browsers.

No substantive change of scope is envisioned at this stage. We encourage 
early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/558

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [1]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-06-19. Check the public forum for extension 
announcements.

If you have any questions or need further information, please feel free 
to contact the Chartering Facilitator, François Daoust <fd@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development