(Fwd) Start of refinement for a draft Accessibility Guidelines Working Group charter

Dear members of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group,

For your information:

-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject:  Start of refinement for a draft Accessibility Guidelines 
Working Group charter
Date:  Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:28:59 +0800
From:  Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
To:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org


Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
[This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]

With this charter review notice, the W3C Team initiates refinement for a 
draft Accessibility Guidelines Working Group charter:
https://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/2025/ag-wg.html

The mission of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) is to 
develop specifications to support making implementations of web 
technologies accessible for people with disabilities, and to develop and 
maintain implementation support materials.

We encourage early discussion of this draft charter in this public forum:
https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/508

Members may use w3c-ac-forum@w3.org (archive [1]) for general 
expressions of interest and support for the charter, but please use the 
public forum for detailed discussion.

Section 4.2 of the Process Document [2] describes activities during 
charter refinement and the role of the Chartering Facilitator to seek 
consensus among those who provide feedback about the charter.

The W3C Team estimates that this charter refinement will last until 
approximately 2026-03-20.

If you should have any questions or need further information, please 
feel free to contact the Chartering Facilitator, Kevin White <kevin@w3.org>.

This announcement follows section 4.1 of the Process Document:
https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-initiation

For Philippe le Hégaret, VP, Technical Strategy;
Xueyuan Jia, Manager, Member Communications

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/
[2] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/20250818/#charter-development