Work in Progress on Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)

Hello,

This is an advance notice that a draft updated charter for the 
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is being developed, as the 
current charter will soon expire. The AG WG proposed charter:

     * Enables the group to work on WCAG 2.2. (WCAG 2.1 was published in 
June 2018.) We currently plan to complete WCAG 2.2 by December 2020.
     * Allows the group to continue work on the successor accessibility 
guidelines project that is called "Silver" and move this from 
incubation, in a community group and task force, to the Recommendation 
track. This project will use a different framework to allow it to 
address more disability needs, emerging technologies (such as 
augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR/XR) and digital assistants), and 
support (for instance, through supporting techniques) for the 
technologies that impact accessibility such as digital content and 
applications, authoring tools, user agents, assistive technologies, 
software and web applications, and operating systems. This will use a 
different conformance model, which will require support from policy 
stakeholders. We currently plan to complete the first version in Q4 2022.
     * Maintain the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) as 
needed.

The draft charter is at:
     https://raw.githack.com/w3c/wcag/charter-2019/charter.html

We welcome input and feedback on the draft charter in the GitHub 
repository, where feedback is made public:
     https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues

or by email to <group-ag-chairs@w3.org>. W3C Members may also discuss on 
<w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org> or Judy Brewer <jbrewer@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 5.2.2 of the W3C Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#WGCharterDevelopment

For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Michael Cooper, Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Staff Contact,
Judy Brewer, Web Accessibility Initiative Director,
Philippe Le Hégaret, W3C Project Management Lead;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2019 06:10:18 UTC