- From: <public-council@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:56:13 +0000
- To: "Jennifer Strickland" <jstrickland@mitre.org>,"Daniel Lipton" <daniel+w3@liminoid.space>,"Wendy Reid" <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>,"Tzviya Siegman" <tsiegman@wiley.com>,"Sheri Byrne-Haber" <sbyrnehaber@vmware.com>,Cc: public-council@w3.org
With your support, the Equity Community Group has been launched:
http://www.w3.org/community/equity/
This group was originally proposed on 2023-02-01
by Jennifer Strickland. The following people supported its
creation:
Jennifer Strickland
Daniel Lipton
Wendy Reid
Tzviya Siegman
Sheri Byrne-Haber
To join the group, please use:
http://www.w3.org/community/equity/join
Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.
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The Equity CG seeks to enable equity in W3C processes, specifications,
and expertise. Equality is equal access, while 'equity' is equal
outcomes (Antoinette Carroll, Creative Reaction Lab Founder
(https://crxlab.org/)). The Equity CG will discuss approaches to
creating more equitable specifications and implementations of those
specifications. The group will determine whether it wants to address
internal specifications (as in a self-review questionnaire before CR) or
provide a tool for assessing equity (like WCAG). This will require
recruiting experts in equity as well as those who reflect the diversity
of the world and will take time. In time, the CG hopes to propose an
Equity Horizontal Review Board (HRB).
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team
Received on Thursday, 9 February 2023 15:56:20 UTC