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

Phill,

 

I do remember, I think Judy and I are going to do a rendition of David’s song at the Deque hosted ‘Sign Language Karaoke’ at CSUN……:) 

 

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From: Phill Jenkins [mailto:pjenkins@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2017 11:32 AM
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Subject: Re: W3C membership and Director have approved the re-charter of the WCAG Working Group

 

Yay and Congrats.
many IBMers have already joined.  

second order of business - how to pronounce ACWG?  ack-waag or ace-wug or ace waag?  

Someone with phonetic skills needs to help us here.  

and of course we need to commission a song writer - remember wa wa wech gag?
 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWBT4Tk3t0> Web Accessibility WCAG Theme Song - YouTube
 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWBT4Tk3t0> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWBT4Tk3t0
@davidmacd
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IBM Research Accessibility
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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
 
Our new public home page is at:  <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/ 
 
Happy Friday!
 
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* katie *
 
Katie Haritos-Shea
Principal ICT Accessibility Architect
Chair, W3C WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) Interest Group ( <https://twitter.com/w3c_wai> @w3c_wai)
 
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