Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) now closed

Dear members of the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group,

The Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) is now closed.
   https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/eowg/

The group charter expired in June 2024. The mission of the EOWG was to 
develop strategies and resources to promote awareness, understanding, 
implementation, and conformance testing for W3C accessibility standards; 
and to support the accessibility work of other W3C Groups.

Web accessibility has evolved and W3C's options for group work have 
evolved. While most W3C Members strongly support W3C's continued work on 
accessibility education and outreach, there is insufficient Membership 
support for the work in a Working Group. After much deliberation, we 
decided not to propose re-chartering the Group.

W3C's accessibility education and outreach work continues:

* Existing and new WAI staff, including a full-time accessibility 
content specialist, will update and develop accessibility resources and 
expand outreach. This staff work is funded by a grant and non-Member funds.
* We will encourage collaboration and vetting through the new Advancing 
Accessibility Resources Community Group 
<https://www.w3.org/groups/cg/adva11yresources/>.
* We will seek input through GitHub, through user studies, and through 
the existing WAI Interest Group 
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/about/groups/waiig/> mailing lists. You can 
subscribe to the Announcements list to learn about drafts for review.

Please read the blog post 'Accessibility education and outreach: Another 
milestone in W3C's 30-year history and evolution' for thanks to 
Co-Chairs and participants, and next steps.
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/accessibility-education-and-outreach-another-milestone-in-w3cs-30-year-history-and-evolution/

If you have any further questions, please contact Shawn Lawton Henry 
<shawn@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 4.6 of the Process Document:
   https://www.w3.org/2023/Process-20231103/#GeneralTermination

Thank you,

For Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Program 
Lead and Accessibility Education and Communications Lead;
Philippe Le Hegaret, W3C Strategy and Project Lead;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

Received on Thursday, 3 October 2024 15:23:08 UTC