Pointer Events Working Group Charter Extended until 31 July 2026

Dear members of the Pointer Events Working Group,

I'm relaying the announcement to the group's primary public mailing list 
to notify the group of its charter extension.

Best regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  VOTE by 2026-06-22: Proposed Charter for the Pointer Events 
Working Group; Current Charter Extended
Date:  Fri, 22 May 2026 22:53:37 +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]

This is a Call for Review of a proposed recharter for the Pointer Events 
Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2026/05/proposed-pointer-events-wg.html

Please review the charter and indicate your support using this online form:
https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/pointer-events-2026/

The deadline for responses is 23:59 UTC on 2026-06-22 [0].

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 only change in this proposed new charter was to make it clearer that 
Mouse Events are within the scope of the Working Group. The group scope 
remains unchanged since it was only a clarification.

Current participants will not need to rejoin the group if the revised 
charter is approved.

The horizontal review of the charter is available as a Strategy Github 
repository issue:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/515

A disposition of comments on the draft charter is available at:
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues?q=%22wg%2Fpointer-events%22

To see all changes relative to the current charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2023%2F11%2Fwg-pointer-events-charter.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F05%2Fproposed-pointer-events-wg.html

The current charter [1] is hereby extended until 31 July 2026 to 
accommodate the charter review period.

More information about the group can be found on its home page [2], 
including information about group Chair, Staff Contact, and instructions 
for joining the group.

If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Team Contact for the Pointer Events 
Working Group.

This charter review and extension follow section 4.4 and section 4.6 of 
the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#CharterReview
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-extension

Thank you,

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

[0] 
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20260622T2359&p1=1440
[1] https://www.w3.org/2023/11/wg-pointer-events-charter.html
[2] https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pointer-events/