Re: Rechartering of the Browser Testing and Tools WG

I'm still excited about pushing AT Driver forward. My team and I are 
actively exploring funding avenues.

On 5/7/26 05:30, Francois Daoust wrote:
> 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.
>