Fwd: Chuck Adams and Rachael Montgomery appointed co-Chairs of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group; Andrew Kirkpatrick steps down

Dear Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Participants:

W3C is pleased to announce the appointment of Chuck Adams and Rachael 
Montgomery as Co-Chairs of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, 
and the continuation of Alastair Campbell in his Co-Chair role. At the 
same time we announce that Andrew Kirkpatrick has decided to step down 
from his Co-Chair role.

On behalf of W3C and WAI, I would like to thank Andrew for serving as 
Co-Chair of AGWG for seven years, and for his many contributions to the 
development of accessibility guidelines, including increasing the 
agility of AGWG processes, and his hard work leading the group while 
bringing WCAG 2.1 to publication.

I would also like to give a warm welcome to Chuck and Rachael in their 
new roles, and to thank Alastair for continuing as Co-Chair.

The announcement to the W3C Advisory Committee and Chairs is forwarded 
below.

Best regards,

- Judy


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Subject:  Chuck Adams and Rachael Montgomery appointed co-Chairs of the 
Accessibility Guidelines Working Group; Andrew Kirkpatrick steps down
Resent-Date:  Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:56:50 +0000
Resent-From:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
Date:  Wed, 4 Mar 2020 12:56:41 +0800
From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
Chairs,

This is to inform you that Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe) has decided to 
step down from his role as co-Chair of the Accessibility Guidelines 
Working Group [1] due to increased responsibilities at Adobe.

W3C is pleased to appoint Chuck Adams (Oracle) and Rachael Montgomery 
(Invited Expert) as new co-Chairs of the Accessibility Guidelines 
Working Group.

Alastair Campbell (Nomensa) continues as co-Chair.

The decision to appoint three co-chairs had been contemplated for some 
time. The Working Group is now actively working on 2.2 and 3.0 versions 
of its Accessibility Guidelines in addition to many support resources, 
and coordinates content submissions from several task forces and a wide 
variety of stakeholders. Managing the work and building consensus needs 
the extra support, especially with the departure of a long-term co-chair.

Rachael Montgomery has previously been co-facilitator of the Cognitive 
and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force [2]. She will delay 
her start as formal co-chair briefly in order to wrap up work in her 
role there, and provide time to identify a replacement co-facilitator. 
Chuck Adams will begin the co-chair role immediately.

The W3C Director and Team would like to express our most sincere thanks 
to Andrew Kirkpatrick for his contributions to the group. We welcome 
Chuck Adams and Rachael Montgomery to their new role.

This announcement follows section 5.1 of the W3C Process Document [3].

For Tim Berners-Lee, Director;
Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications

[1] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/
[2] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/task-forces/coga/
[3] https://www.w3.org/2019/Process-20190301/#ReqsAllGroups



-- 
Judy Brewer
Director, Web Accessibility Initiative
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
105 Broadway, Room 7-128, MIT/CSAIL
Cambridge MA 02142 USA
www.w3.org/WAI/