(Fwd) VOTE by 2026-09-18: Proposed Charter for the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group; Current Charter Extended

Dear members of the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group,

For your information:

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Subject:  VOTE by 2026-09-18: Proposed Charter for the Browser Testing 
and Tools Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Resent-Date:  Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:05:15 +0000
Resent-From:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Date:  Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:05:07 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-forum@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed recharter for the Browser 
Testing and Tools Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2026/08/btt-wg-charter-proposed.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/btt-charter-2026/

The deadline for responses is 23:59 UTC on 2026-09-18 [0].

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.

During the previous chartering period, the Working Group focused on the 
WebDriver BiDi specification, now published on the Recommendation track 
as a Working Draft. The specification should soon undergo horizontal 
review with a view to being published as a Candidate Recommendation 
Snapshot.

The proposed scope remains unchanged. Main proposed change is to drop AT 
Driver from the list of deliverables due to lack of participation from 
would-be implementers in the Working Group. The ARIA Working Group may 
choose to adopt the specification when it considers rechartering at the 
end of 2026. Other changes align the proposed charter with the charter 
template.

The Team resource allocation remains at 0.05 FTE.

Current participants will not need to rejoin the group if the revised 
charter is approved.

For all information about the review and progress of this charter 
(including horizontal reviews), please see:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/558

No comments were received during the charter refinement period, the 
issue in the Strategy funnel summarizes the outcome of discussions with 
the ARIA Working Group around the AT Driver specification:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/558#issuecomment-5089104356

To see all changes relative to the current charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2024%2Fbtt-wg-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F08%2Fbtt-wg-charter-proposed.html

The current charter [1] is hereby extended until 23 October 2026 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [2], 
including information about group Chair, Team Contact, and instructions 
for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>, Team Contact for the Browser Testing and 
Tools Working Group.

This charter review and extension follow Section 4.4 and Section 4.6 of 
the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy,
Francois Daoust, Team contact for the Browser Testing and Tools Working 
Group;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20260918T2359&p1=1440
[1] https://www.w3.org/2024/btt-wg-charter.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/browser-tools-testing/