Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Revised Charter Approved; join the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (Call for Participation)

Dear members of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,

I'm relaying the Call for Participation to the Working Group's primarily public mailing list, to notify the group of the charter approval and call for participation.

Best regards,
Coralie

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Subject: Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Revised Charter Approved; join the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (Call for Participation)
> Date: 27 January 2017 at 08:45:14 GMT+1
> To: W3C Members <w3c-ac-members@w3.org>
> Cc: chairs@w3.org
> Message-Id: <EA3E37D8-9685-4233-9550-AC4AC71A9CBE@w3.org>
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> 
> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> Chairs,
> 
> The Director is pleased to announce the approval of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group charter:
>  https://www.w3.org/2017/01/ag-charter
> 
> The group is chartered through 31 October 2019.
> 
> The Accessibility Guidelines seeks to develop specifications to make content on the Web accessible for people with disabilities and to participate in the development and maintenance of implementation support materials for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It will develop WCAG 2.1 to address gaps in WCAG 2.0 related to content, develop a framework and repository of test rules to promote a unified interpretation of WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1, and continue development of non-normative documents to support implementation of accessibility guidelines. 
> 
> Additional detail is available in the charter's Scope section:
>  https://www.w3.org/2017/01/ag-charter#scope
> 
> Please use the following form to join the group. The form will also instruct you how to nominate participants:
>  https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/35422/join
> 
> The Working Group chairs are Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe) and Joshue O Connor (Invited Expert). The initial Team Contacts are Michael Cooper, Shadi Abou-Zahra, and Shawn Lawton Henry with a planned fourth contact for a total of 1.1 FTE.
> 
> More information about the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group can be found on its home page:
>  https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
> 
> […]
> 
> This announcement follows section 7.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
>  http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter
> 
> and the Call for Participation follows section 5.2.4 of the W3C Process Document:
>  http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#cfp
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
> Wendy Seltzer, Strategy Lead, 
> Judy Brewer, WAI Director, and
> Michael Cooper, Shadi Abou-Zahra, Shawn Lawton Henry, AG WG Team Contacts;
> Coralie Mercier, Head of W3C Marketing & Communications

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Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Marketing & Communications -  http://www.w3.org
mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/

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