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

On 3/4/2020 3:24 PM, Judy Brewer wrote:
>
> 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.
And thank you to Adobe, for supporting Andrew's work in this role.
>
> 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
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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/

-- 
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/