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

Welcome Rachel and Chuck

I'm looking forward to working together to make a great standard.

Cheers,
David MacDonald



*Can**Adapt* *Solutions Inc.*

Tel:  613-806-9005

LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100>

twitter.com/davidmacd

GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald>

www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/>



*  Adapting the web to all users*
*            Including those with disabilities*

If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy
<http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html>


On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:35 AM Steve Lee <stevelee@w3.org> wrote:

> Rachael  Chuck, welcome and let the fun commence!
>
> Steve
>
> On 04/03/2020 20:24, 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.
> >
> > 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/
> >
>
>