Call for Participation: Pointer Events Working Group Charter approved; Join the Pointer Events Working Group

Dear members of the Pointer Events Working Group,

I'm relaying the following announcement that was sent to W3C Advisory 
Committee Representative earlier today, to notify the group of the new 
charter approval and call for participation.

With kind regards,
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Call for Participation: Pointer Events Working Group Charter 
approved; Join the Pointer Events Working Group
Date:  Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:27:40 +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]

W3C is pleased to announce the recharter of the Pointer Events Working 
Group.
https://www.w3.org/2026/06/pointer-events-wg-charter.html

The group is chartered through 30 June 2028.

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.

Please use the following form to have your organization join the group. 
The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pointer-events/join/

Please consider diversity when proposing people to participate in W3C 
groups. Representation from a wider group of people, especially people 
from under-represented groups, is vital for creating web standards that 
meet the needs of the wider web community.

Current participants will remain in this group and are not required to 
re-join, because the charter includes no new deliverables that require 
W3C Patent Policy licensing commitments.

The group chair is Patrick H. Lauke (TetraLogical). The Staff Contact is 
Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org> for a total of 0.01 FTE.

More information about the group can be found on the group home page:
https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/pointer-events/

[...]
To see all changes relative to the proposed charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F05%2Fproposed-pointer-events-wg.html&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2026%2F06%2Fpointer-events-wg-charter.html

To see all changes relative to the previous 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%2F06%2Fpointer-events-wg-charter.html

This announcement follows section 5.7.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#ACReviewAfter

and the Call for Participation follows section 4.5 of the W3C Process 
Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#cfp

Thank you,

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