Dear APA Task Force Colleagues:
I am pleased to forward the attached announcement of APA's new Working
Group Charter. This is very good news because we cannot meet or publish
without an active Charter, and our last Charter expired on 31 July.
Please be aware that there's an associated action that is required of
you. You will need to rejoin APA at some point during the next 45 days
and accept the terms of the policies governing our work. If you do not
initiate this yourself, you will receive an email reminder. If too much
time passes you will eventually be dropped for failure to rejoin.
Fortunately, this is not a complicated process, and all you need to know
is referenced in the attached document.
I look forward to our continuing work together.
Janina
PS: Note that COGA operates under joint sponsorship of APA and AG, and
many COGA members participated under the Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group Charter rather than the APA Charter. If that's you, this
announcement does not apply to you.
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Janina Sajka
https://linkedin.com/in/jsajka
Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Co-Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa
Forwarded message 1
Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Cc Chairs for info,
The Director is pleased to announce the recharter of the Accessible
Platform Architectures Working Group:
https://www.w3.org/2021/08/apa-wg-charter.html
The group is chartered through 31 July 2023.
The mission of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group is to
ensure W3C specifications provide support for accessibility to people
with disabilities. The group advances this mission through review of W3C
specifications, development of new specifications and technical support
materials, collaboration with other Working Groups, and coordination of
harmonized accessibility strategies within W3C.
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/apa/join
If your organization is currently in the group, please note that you
will need to have it re-join the group as the new charter is now
operating under the revised 2020 Patent Policy. This Call for
Participation triggers the start of the 45 days grace period. See:
https://www.w3.org/2003/12/22-pp-faq.html#recharter
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.
The Working Group chairs are Becky Gibson (Invited Expert) and Janina
Sajka (Invited Expert). Team Contacts are:
Michael Cooper (0.30 FTE Primary TC [external funds])
Ruoxi Ran (0.25 FTE for Personalization Semantics, Pronunciation, and
AHR)
Joshue O Connor (0.80 FTE for RQTF [external funds])
Judy Brewer (0.10 FTE for RQTF [external funds])
More information about the Accessible Platform Architectures Working
Group can be found on its homepage:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/
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Results of Charter Call for Review
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We called for charter review on 16 April, 2021:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2021AprJun/0017.html
Thanks to the 32 Members who provided input:
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/apa-charter-2021/results
28 reviewers supported the charter as is, 2 suggested changes, and 2
formally objected.
The charter was changed to set a two-year charter duration, from the
expected start date. Thus one original formal objection was withdrawn.
One change was to increase the focus on horizontal review by linking the
term when used in the Scope and adding a sub-section in the Deliverables
with details about horizontal review work. We believe this addresses the
remaining formal objection, but the formal objection was not formally
withdrawn.
We also have added a liaison to the EPub Working Group, as requested.
Regarding the *Personalization and Pronunciation* specifications, while
we agree that it might be preferable to move these specifications to
dedicated Working Groups, these items are essential for web users with
disabilities. From discussions over the past year we do not believe it
is likely that there would be resource allocation for new groups in a
timely way. Additionally, while there is a preference that most
incubation work be done in community groups, we believe that these
deliverables still need the support of an established Working Group.
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To see all changes relative to the previous charter, follow this link:
https://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2018%2F08%2Fapa-charter&doc2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2021%2F08%2Fapa-wg-charter.html
This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#ACReviewAfter
and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process
Document:
https://www.w3.org/2020/Process-20200915/#cfp
Thank you,
For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
Philippe le Hégaret, Project Management Lead,
Judy Brewer, WAI Director,
Michael Cooper, APA WG Staff Contact;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications