- From: Michael Cooper <cooper@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:33:37 -0400
- To: WCAG WG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <0c875c9b-6af5-e51b-272c-0a44314bcfd3@w3.org>
To follow up on today's update on the progress of the updated charter: https://www.w3.org/2019/10/29-ag-minutes#item01 Below are changes to the charter we have suggested to address comments from the Advisory Committee. Discussion is ongoing and there could be further changes before the charter is finalized. I will send an update on further changes as things progress. The following changes were made to the charter in response to the collective comments from the Advisory Committee: * Mission: The mission of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is to develop specifications to support the implementation of digital content and applications which aremaking implementations of web technologies accessible for people with disabilities, and to develop and maintain implementation support materials. * Silver scope: Develop Silver (provisional name) to succeed WCAG 2.x. The goal is to provide information that can be used to improve the accessibility of products when using the guidelines on a variety of platforms, without writing normative requirements for thenon-web platformsthemselves. As noted in the Requirements for Silver <https://w3c.github.io/silver/requirements/>, it will use a different framework to allow it to address more disability needs, and address publishing requirements and emerging technologies on the web such as augmented / virtual reality (AR/VR/XR) and digital assistants, and. It will provide non-normative support (for instance, through supporting techniques) for authoring tools and user agents, and technologies that impact accessibility such as assistive technologies, software, and operating systemsauthoring tools, user agents, and assistive technologies in order to clarify the ways in which web technologies need to work together to support people with disabilities. This framework is intended to support better coverage across disabilities, and be easier to maintainover time, so that the Silver framework will be more durable over time as technologies evolve. This will require development of a new conformance model, engaging policy makers in that process, and testing the model with policy makers from different settings. * Silver timeline: Change CR to April 2022 and Rec to April 2023, changing note "after charter expiry, subject to change" to "Note: this is a projected date after the expiry of this charter and will be revised in a subsequent charter based on progess.". A version of the charter with the proposed changes in place is available at https://raw.githack.com/w3c/wcag/charter-2019/charter.html A diff from the version reviewed by the Advisory Committee is available at https://github.com/w3c/wcag/compare/9a8c257b5a749fd6bf546ae396341e7d87c39bfe...charter-2019
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