Re: Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group (WebAI) - Please introduce yourselves.

Dear Fabien and WebAI Interest Group,

It's great to see this group come together and I look forward to
contributing.

My interests in AI focus on accessibility: the benefits it can bring, the
risks it introduces, and how those risks can be avoided in practice.
Alongside exploring how AI can be used ethically to support accessibility
in our customers’ products, I’ve been working with the University of Surrey
and the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in AI for Digital Media Inclusion
(CDT) [1].

I’m a co-founder and Director at TetraLogical and have previously
contributed to W3C work, including the Web Accessibility Initiative
Education and Outreach Working Group and the User Agent Accessibility
Guidelines Working Group.

Henny

[1] https://www.surrey.ac.uk/artificial-intelligence/cdt



On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 at 13:48, Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de> wrote:

> Dear Fabien, dear all,
>
> it’s great that we finally have a group at W3C that can focus on all
> things Web & AI.
>
> I’ve been working on relevant related topics for quite some time (as a
> principal researcher at DFKI in the Speech and Language Technology lab),
> both in national and also EU projects that I coordinated, especially
> concerning language technologies and natural language processing but also
> including semantic web-related technologies.
>
> As the W3C AC rep of DFKI, I’ll mostly try to keep an eye on the
> discussion and to pull in colleagues whenever it makes sense. I’ll also
> make an effort to contribute to ongoing activities myself.
>
> Finally, I noticed the meeting invitation that was circulated a few
> minutes ago. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to participate in Monday 16-17
> meetings because I’m teaching in that time slot (until mid February). It
> would be great if we could set up a doodle poll to identify a day and time
> slot that works for all/most of us.
>
> All the best,
> Georg
>
>
> On 17. Dec 2025, at 18:16, Fabien Gandon <fabien.gandon@inria.fr> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group, known as WebAI.
>
> As a co-chair, I am delighted to have you join us.
>
> The mission of the Web & AI Interest Group is to provide a forum to
> explore and discuss how emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) related
> technologies are impacting and intersecting with Web technologies and
> consider how the community could collaborate to shape these evolutions for
> the benefit of web users.
>
> Everyone who is involved in the WebAI is expected to behave in accordance
> with the W3C Code of Conduct:
>   https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/
>
> Please send a first email to introduce yourself including:
>  - Your name, firstname, affiliation job, links and homepage
>  - Your participation to other W3C groups
>  - Your interest in AI and Web, their coupling, the impact of AI, usage of
> AI, etc.
>  - Any links, pointers, resources you could share on these topics
>
> WebAI works will be carried out on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/webai
>
> If you have not already done so, please link your GitHub and W3C accounts:
>   https://www.w3.org/users/myprofile/connectedaccounts
>
> All the tools of WebAI are found here:
>   https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/webai/tools/
>
> As background, you might want to read these documents:
>   Charter: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/webai-ig-charter.html
>   Initial motivating documents:
> https://www.w3.org/2025/10/webai-ig-charter.html#deliverables
>
> Best regards,
>
> Fabien Gandon, Wimmics <https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/> (Inria,
> Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
> @fabien_gandon <https://twitter.com/fabien_gandon> - http://fabien.info
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm>*
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