Update on the Virtual Locators and Fixed Layout Accessibility Taskforces

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone for their patience as we worked through the publication process.

As discussed in the meeting with the Fixed Layout Accessibility Taskforce this week, as the EPUB WG work wraps up and we transition to the new maintenance working group, it’s been suggested we move the taskforce work to the Publishing Community Group.

The Community Group has been around for a while, with a focus on incubating and developing ideas that could potentially become standards. The work happening in the FXL Accessibility and Virtual Locators taskforces fit this description far better and as the work continues, moving both groups to the CG also has some additional benefits, including the ability for us to open the work to non-W3C members. CGs are public and open to everyone.

Both groups are doing really valuable work for the industry, but we need more input and incubation before anything could potentially be a standard. Moving to the CG will make this work a lot easier.

For those of you who are not yet members of the CG, you can join here: https://www.w3.org/community/publishingcg/.

There will be some transition as I move meetings and things over, and work with the CG chairs to figure out how we fit the work in, so stay tuned!

Cheers,
Wendy