Actions needed when the AG transitions to new charter

Hello,

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG) expects to be moving to our new charter late August or early September. When this occurs, the new group will have no participants.  This is true for our task forces as well since they are subsets of the working group.  If you are in the COGA task force through APA and not otherwise involved in AG, then please disregard this email.

We are sending out the first of several reminder emails to ensure everyone is aware of what will be happening and has time to ask questions.  While I am including instructions, there is no immediate action needed.

If you are part of a member organization<https://www.w3.org/membership/list/>, after you receive the automated email saying you’ve left the group:

  *   Reach out to the Advisory Committee (AC) representative for your organization.
  *   Your organization's AC representative needs to approve and submit you as a representative to the new group.
  *   Note: This can occasionally take time (particularly when an organization has a new AC representative), so we suggest starting the conversation with your AC representative sooner rather than later.


If you are an Invited Expert (IE)<https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/> , after you receive the automated email saying you’ve left the group:

  *   Reapply under Participation to join the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group<https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/ag/>
  *
Note: The W3C has issued new guidance on invited experts<https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/#review> that requires the chairs to review and reconsider all IE's as part of moving to a new charter.

No immediate action is required at this time. If you have questions, please reach out to the chairs or ask at the upcoming training sessions.



Kind regards,



AG Chairs