Approved: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group Charter

Hello,

As a follow-up to the earlier announcement, W3C approved the Web 
Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group new charter.
   https://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/charter6.html

This group is chartered until 31 March 2020.

The mission of the WAI Interest Group (WAI IG) is to promote awareness 
of, and engagement in, accessibility-related work throughout W3C. This 
includes augmenting wide review and discussion of accessibility aspects 
of deliverables being developed in W3C groups, including specifications, 
research topics, and educational materials; exploring web accessibility 
issues and solutions; and sharing information about web accessibility 
activities around the world.

The WAI IG enables exploration and contributions to W3C groups' 
deliverables by members of disability communities, research 
organizations, industry, government, and others who have an interest in 
web accessibility, yet may not have time to directly participate in more 
focused work of those groups; and from those who may participate in one 
or more accessibility-related groups, but also wish to follow progress
across all areas of accessibility work at W3C.

WAI IG is a well-established Interest Group with nearly a thousand 
participants, and averaging over a thousand messages per year. It is 
focused on understanding and implementing web accessibility guidelines 
and specifications, and increasing awareness of accessibility. The WAI 
IG's on-going discussion of general as well as technical issues related 
to web accessibility contributes to a comprehensive accessibility 
approach at W3C.

Information on how to participate is available: https://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/

The working group chair is Katie Haritos-Shea (Knowbility Board). The 
team contacts are Shawn Henry (0.05 FTE) and Judy Brewer (0.05 FTE).

More information about the WAI IG can be found on its home page:
    https://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/

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A diff since previous charter is available at:
<https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2FIG%2Fcharter5.html&doc2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FWAI%2FIG%2Fcharter6.html>

Thank you,

Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

On 01/03/2018 22:30, Xueyuan wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Today W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received a Proposal to 
> review a draft charter for the Web Accessibility Initiative Interest 
> Group (WAI IG):
>   https://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/charter6
>
> As part of ensuring that the community is aware of proposed work at 
> W3C, this draft charter is public during the Advisory Committee review 
> period.
>
> W3C invites public comments through 2018-03-29 on the proposed 
> charter. Please send comments to public-new-work@w3.org, which has a 
> public archive:
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/
>
> Other than comments sent in formal responses by W3C Advisory Committee 
> Representatives, W3C cannot guarantee a response to comments. If you 
> work for a W3C Member [1], please coordinate your comments with your 
> Advisory Committee Representative. For example, you may wish to make 
> public comments via this list and have your Advisory Committee 
> Representative refer to it from his or her formal review comments.
>
> If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
> contact Judy Brewer, WAI Director and WAI IG Team Contact, at 
> <jbrewer@w3.org>.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
>

Received on Friday, 27 April 2018 06:24:33 UTC