Protocols and Formats Working Group Charter
The Protocols and Formats Working Group is now closed. It has been replaced by the Accessible Platform Architectures and Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Groups.
The mission of the Protocols and Formats Working Group
(PFWG), part of the WAI Technical
Activity, is to ensure W3C specifications provide support for accessibility
to people with disabilities. The group advances this mission through review of
W3C specifications, technical support materials, and specifications that bridge
known gaps.
This mission is complementary to the work of other Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) groups
within the WAI Technical
Activity and the WAI
International Program Office Activity. The PFWG is part of the WAI
Technical Activity.
End date |
8 October 2015 |
Confidentiality |
The group operates in Member-only space but conducts some activities in
public. |
Initial Chairs |
Janina Sajka |
Initial Team Contacts
(FTE %: 45) |
Michael Cooper |
Usual Meeting Schedule |
Teleconferences: Weekly
Face-to-face: approximately 2 per year |
Scope
- On behalf of other WAI groups, provide expertise to the W3C about the
needs of users with disabilities. This includes both serving as a passive
resource base and providing active educational inreach to the W3C community
as needed.
- Review W3C specifications as needed, particularly at the First Public
Working Draft and Last Call stages, to identify accessibility issues and
make recommendations to the appropriate Working Group.
- Work closely with Working Groups when needed to help them architect their
specifications to support, and not unknowingly interfere with,
accessibility.
- Advocate in W3C coordination activities for the creation and reuse of
common approaches to implementing functions that access depends on. Note
that WAI-ARIA is intended to be a bridging technology. It is expected that,
over time, host languages will evolve to provide semantics for objects
that currently can only be declared with WAI-ARIA.
- Collect information about technology features, implementation, and usage
patterns to institutionalize W3C knowledge about present-day accessibility
problems.
- Review non-W3C technologies that impact the accessibility of W3C
technologies. Strategize solutions within W3C and via liaisons with
external organizations.
- Create technology extensions to address accessibility issues in already
deployed technologies.
Success Criteria
- Other W3C specifications have improved accessibility.
- Release of WAI-ARIA as a W3C Recommendation.
- Release of WAI-ARIA Implementation Guide as a W3C Recommendation.
- Release of HTML 5 Accessiblity API Guide as a W3C Recommendation.
- Release of Role Attribute as a W3C Recommendation.
- Demonstrate successful implementation of WAI-ARIA and the improved
accessibility of RIch Web (Web 2.0) content in a broad range of user
agents.
Out of Scope
Education and evangelization outside of the W3C.
Deliverables
The following deliverables would be published as W3C Technical Reports:
Other Deliverables
- Feedback to W3C specification developers
- WAI-ARIA samples
- WAI-ARIA test suite, acid tests
- Accessibility API to ARIA binding information (UA developers lead?)
Milestones
Milestones
Note: The group will document significant
changes from this initial schedule on the group home page. |
Specification |
FPWD |
LC |
CR |
PR |
Rec |
WAI-ARIA 1.0 |
|
July 2010 |
Sept 2010 |
Jan 2011 |
Mar 2011 |
WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide |
|
Sept 2010 |
Jan 2011 |
Jan 2011 |
Mar 2011 |
Role Attribute |
July 2010 |
Sep 2010 |
Nov 2010 |
Dec 2010 |
Jan 2011 |
HTML Accessibility API Guide |
July 2010 |
Jan 2011 |
Mar 2011 |
Jan 2012 |
Mar 2012 |
Timeline View Summary
- Q3 2010
- Second Last Call Working Draft of WAI-ARIA
First Public Working Draft of Role Attribute
Last Call Working Draft of Role Attribute (document inherited from XHTML
2 and nearly complete so ready for rapid advancement)
Public Working Draft (on Rec track) of WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation
Guide
Public Working Draft of WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
Public Working Draft of WAI-ARIA Roadmap
Process public comments on WAI-ARIA Second Last Call, WAI-ARIA User Agent
Implementation Guide, WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices, WAI-ARIA Roadmap,
Role Attribute
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q4 2010
- Candidate Recommentation of WAI-ARIA
Candidate Recommendation of Role Attribute
Last Call Working Draft of WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide
First Public Working Draft of HTML Accessibility API Guide
Public Working Draft of WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
Proposed Recommendation of Role Attribute (small module, implementation
testing is trivial)
Call for Implementations of WAI-ARIA
Collect and evaluate implementations of WAI-ARIA
Work with WAI-ARIA implementers to address interoperability issues
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q1 2011
- WAI-ARIA Implementation Report
Last Call Working Draft of HTML Accessibility API Guide
Candidate Recommendation of WAI-ARIA Implementation Guide
Proposed Recommendation of WAI-ARIA Implementation Guide (advanced
quickly because testing done as part of the ARIA CR process)
Proposed Recommendation Working Draft of WAI-ARIA
Role Attribute becomes W3C Recommendation
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q2 2011
- Candidate Recommendation of HTML Accessibility API Guide
WAI-ARIA becomes W3C Recommendation
WAI-ARIA User Agent Implementation Guide becomes W3C Recommendation
WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices becomes Working Group Note
WAI-ARIA Primer becomes Working Group Note
WAI-ARIA Roadmap becomes Working Group Note
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q3 2011
- Requirements for future versions of WAI-ARIA
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q4 2011
- Updated Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA Working Group Note
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q1 2012
- HTML Accessibility API Implementation Report
Proposed Recommendation of HTML Accessibility API Guide
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q2 2012
- HTML Accessibility API Guide becomes W3C Recommendation
Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q3 2012
- Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q4 2012
- Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q1 2013
- Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
- Q2 2013
- Publish topical accessibility guidance as needed
Support implementation of WAI-ARIA 1.0
Review W3C Working Drafts as needed
Coordinate accessibility issues with Working Groups as needed
Participation
To be successful, the Protocols and Formats Working Group is expected to
have 10 or more active participants for its duration, with participation where
possible including representation from industry, disability communities,
accessibility research and government. Effective participation
to Protocols and Formats Working Group is expected to consume four to eight
hours per week for each participant; twice as much per week for chairs and
editors. The Protocols and Formats Working Group will allocate also the
necessary resources for building Test Suites for each specification.
Participants are reminded of the Good
Standing requirements of the W3C Process.
Communication
The work of the Working Group primarily takes place on weekly
teleconferences. This group uses the Member-only mailing list w3c-wai-pf@w3.org
(archive) for
topical discussion between meetings. Discussions that are relevant to the PFWG
scope and do not depend on W3C Member Confidential sources should be addressed
to the publicly
archived mailing list with email address wai-xtech@w3.org. Comments on PFWG Technical
Reports may be sent to public-pfwg-comments@w3.org (archive).
Information about the group (deliverables, participants, face-to-face
meetings, teleconferences, etc.) is available from the WAI home
page as well as the Protocols and
Formats Working Group home page.
Decision Policy
As explained in the Process Document (section 3.3),
this group will seek to make decisions when there is consensus. When the Chair
puts a question and observes dissent, after due consideration of different
opinions, the Chair should record a decision (possibly after a formal vote) and
any objections, and move on.
When deciding a substantive technical issue, the Chair may put a question
before the group. When the Chair conducts a formal vote to reach
a decision on a substantive technical issue, eligible voters may vote on a
proposal one of three ways: for a proposal, against a proposal, or abstain. For
the proposal to pass there must be more votes for the proposal than against. In
case of a tie, the Chair will decide the outcome of the proposal.
This charter is written in accordance with Section 3.4, Votes
of the W3C Process Document and includes no voting procedures beyond what the
Process Document requires.
Patent Policy
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy
(5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C
seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this
policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see
the W3C Patent Policy
Implementation.
About this Charter
This charter for the Protocols and Formats Working Group has been created
according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this
document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process
shall take precedence.
In July 2013, this charter was extended to 30 September 2013. In February 2015, this charter was extended to 18 May 2015. In May 2015, this charter was extended to 15 July 2015. In July 2015, this charter was extended to 13 August 2015. In August 2015, this charter was extended to 8 October 2015.
Please also see the previous charter for
this group.
Michael Cooper, PFWG Team Contact
Janina Sajka, PFWG Chair
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