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

Woopie!

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:44 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
wrote:

> To clarify on my earlier note, I’ve been corrected that member companies
> DO need to join AGWG and make sure that their people are assigned as reps
> for AGWG.  Sorry for the confusion.
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> Thanks,
> AWK
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> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
> Adobe
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> akirkpat@adobe.com
> http://twitter.com/awkawk
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> On 1/27/17, 08:42, "Andrew Kirkpatrick" <akirkpat@adobe.com> wrote:
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> >WCAG’ers,
> >Congratulations - our charter was approved! The name of the group is now
> officially changed, so I won’t be calling you “WCAG’ers” any more...
> >
> >Below the message suggests how to join the group, but if you were a
> member of WCAG yesterday then you are a member of AGWG today (see
> participant list: http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=35422&
> public=1).
> >
> >Josh, Michael, and I thank you all for your hard work in getting to this
> point, and of course what this approval does is allow us to continue our
> important work.
> >
> >We have high expectations from the W3C member companies and from around
> the world, but with our great team we know that we can rock this!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >AWK
> >
> >Andrew Kirkpatrick
> >Group Product Manager, Standards and Accessibility
> >Adobe
> >
> >akirkpat@adobe.com
> >http://twitter.com/awkawk
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> >
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> >
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> >On 1/27/17, 02:45, "Coralie Mercier" <coralie@w3.org> wrote:
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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/
> >>
> >>------------------------------
> >>Results of Charter Call for Review
> >>------------------------------
> >>
> >>We called for charter review on 4 November 2016:
> >>  https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/
> 2016OctDec/0031.html
> >>
> >>Thanks to the 36 Members who provided input:
> >>  https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/accessibility-
> guidelines-2016/results
> >>
> >>32 members supported the charter, 3 Formally Objected, 1 did not
> support, and 0 formally abstained. In response to review feedback, we
> revised the charter and shared the revisions with AC reviewers. Two
> withdrew their objection; one has not done so; other reviewers supported or
> did not object to the revisions. The changes from the original reviewed
> charter are summarized as follows:
> >>
> >>      • Increase the priority of delivering WCAG 2.1 on the intended
> timeline;
> >>      • Remove Accessibility Guidelines 3.0 as a formal deliverable;
> >>      • Clarify the Accessibility Conformance Testing deliverable;
> >>      • Clarify the intended meaning of "mobile" devices;
> >>      • Remove references to user agent and authoring tool guidelines;
> >>      • Add liaisons to Digital Publishing Interest Group and National
> Information Society Agency (Korea);
> >>      • Clarify liaisons to WAI Interest Group and European
> Telecommunications Standards Institute;
> >>      • Describe intended key implementers.
> >>
> >>A detailed disposition of comments is available:
> >>  https://www.w3.org/2017/01/AG_DOC
> >>
> >>as well as a diff <http://services.w3.org/htmldiff?doc1=https%3A%2F%
> 2Fwww.w3.org%2F2016%2F11%2Fproposed-ag-charter&doc2=
> https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2017%2F01%2Fag-charter>.
> >>
> >>
> >>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
> >>
> >>--
> >>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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