Change to WCAG Working Group mailing list

Dear WCAG Working Group mailing list subscribers,



The WCAG Working Group chairs have decided to implement a change to the subscription policy of the Working Group mailing list. For the list to be an active working list for the WG, only formal participants in the group will remain on the list. Other subscribers will be removed. This message is to explain the rationale for this and provide information about how people not in the WG can continue participation in other ways.



Over the past six years since the finalization of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, both the support needed from the WG, the set of participants, and the set of channels available for outside contribution has evolved. An important aspect of these needs is to help people who are not participants in the Working Group to more easily contribute comments, suggestions, edits, techniques, etc. At the same time, the group has determined that it needs to adopt a more  focused and asynchronous mode of work to be able to respond to this broadened input.  This involves, among other tools, a greater use of the mailing list for active Working Group participants.



We continue to welcome your input in a variety of ways described here.

If you wish to participate actively in the Working  Group but are not a formal participant, you may wish to join the group:



http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation.html



Otherwise, there are many other ways to continue to track the work and submit input. It is also still possible to follow the work on the public  mailing list archives:



http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/



To discuss current work of the Working Group with others, you may post to the WAI Interest Group mailing list. This list is followed by participants in the WCAG WG and also by many other accessibility experts. WCAG participants will follow or participate in discussions there and bring input into the Working Group discussion as needed. To join this list, see:



http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/#mailinglist



If you wish to pose a question directly to the WG, you may file a public  comment. Instructions for submitting comments are at:



http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/



The above resource also documents how you can suggest edits directly on the documents developed by the WCAG Working Group. You can use GitHub features to raise issues or file pull requests, which are proposed edits  that, if accepted, can be incorporated efficiently into the documents.



To raise a question directly to the WCAG chairs without a public archive  of your question, you can also send mail to:



wai-wcag-editor@w3.org<mailto:wai-wcag-editor@w3.org>



Please let us know if you have any questions about this change. Thank you for your continued interest in Web accessibility..



Andrew Kirkpatrick, co-chair

Joshue O Connor, co-chair

Michael Cooper, staff contact