[wbs] Response to 'Call for Review: Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group Charter'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review:
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group Charter' (Advisory
Committee) for Mozilla Foundation by Tantek Çelik.

Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed until 2025-07-22 at:
  https://www.w3.org/wbs/33280/wai-ig-2025/

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 * (x) supports this Charter as is.
 * ( ) suggests changes to this Charter, but supports the proposal whether
or not the changes are adopted (your details below).
 * ( ) does not support this Charter for the reasons cited in comments but
is not raising a Formal Objection (your details below).
 * ( ) suggests changes to this Charter, and only supports the proposal if
the changes are adopted [Formal Objection] (your details below).
 * ( ) opposes this Charter and requests that this group not be created
[Formal Objection] (your details below).
 * ( ) abstains from this review.

Comments: 

This is a good incremental improvement to this charter. Thanks for putting
in this work. 

We do sympathize with the questions asked in issue 669 (
https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues/669 ) about whether a CG or IG
is more appropriate, however it seems the least disruptive path for the
moment is to continue with an IG, while leaving open the question of how do
we enable the use of CGs more broadly for groups that want a discussion
list (or similar resources) while explicitly disclaiming any deliverables
or at least disclaiming any IP impacts. 

We suggest that either issue 669
be opened to help drive this, or, perhaps
the issue can be transferred (recreated?) into the W3C "Strategy" GitHub
repo ( https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/ ) as a broader discussion
topic beyond this one charter (we lean towards this latter option).

At a
minimum it would be helpful to learn from the discussion in 669, and
fix or improve CGs accordingly so that two years from now, all the
obstacles have been removed to use a CG, either for this IG or similar IGs.

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> These answers were last modified on 22 July 2025 at 04:00:29 U.T.C.
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