(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Pointer Events Working Group charter; current charter extended

Dear members of the Pointer Events Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Pointer Events Working Group 
charter; current charter extended
Date:  Tue, 4 Nov 2025 15:09:11 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


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

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft Pointer Events Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2025/pointer-events-wg.html

The mission of the Pointer Events Working Group is to provide methods to 
enable simple device-independent input from pointing devices such as 
mouse, pen, and multi-touch screen. The proposed scope now includes 
exploration of how basic high-level gestures, such as "swipe left" or 
"two-finger tap", could be exposed to web content authors. See also:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/pull/715

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20in:title%20pointer-events

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive[1]) for general expressions 
of interest and support for the charter, but please use the public forum 
for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2025-12-04.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Philippe Le Hegaret 
<plh@w3.org>.

The current charter [3] is hereby extended until 7 May 2026 to cover the 
time needed for the rechartering process.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [4], 
including information about group Chair, Staff Contact, and instructions 
for joining the group.

This announcement follows sections 4.1 and 4.6 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

Thank you,

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development
[3] https://www.w3.org/2023/11/wg-pointer-events-charter.html
[4] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pointer-events/