Re: W3C membership and Director have approved the re-charter of the WCAG Working Group

I vote for ack-wig, I think it means scone in Slovenian :)

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Phill Jenkins <pjenkins@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Yay and Congrats.
> many IBMers have already joined.
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> second order of business - how to pronounce ACWG?  ack-waag or ace-wug or
> ace waag?
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> Someone with phonetic skills needs to help us here.
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> and of course we need to commission a song writer - remember wa wa wech
> gag?
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> From:        "Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL" <ryladog@gmail.com>
> To:        "'WAI Interest Group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
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> Date:        01/27/2017 10:04 AM
> Subject:        W3C membership and Director have approved the re-charter
> of the WCAG Working Group
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> Dear WAI Interest Group,
>
> Great news for Accessibility: the W3C membership and our Director, Tim
> Berners-Lee, have approved the re-charter of the WCAG Working Group!
>
> However, under the new charter our name has officially changed. We are now
> the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group or AGWG...:-)
>
> Please consider having your organization join the W3C and the new AGWG.
> The W3C has put out a Call for Participation in AGWG. We need all the
> expert help we can get building WCAG 2.1, and improving our resource docs
> and techniques.
>
> Please see the following information about how to join the group:
> *https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation*
> <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/participation>
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> Happy Friday!
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