Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group

Charter

The APA Working Group is chartered until 31 July 2025.

To learn about the group’s focus, scope and deliverables, see the APA Working Group Charter.

Current work

For details of the current work, see the APA Working Group wiki.

Contribute to the work

W3C and the APA Working Group welcome input on APA work from the global accessibility community.

Contribute without joining the group

There are ways you can contribute without being a member of the working group:

• Comment on publications: During development, the group publishes working drafts for public comment — these are announced on the WAI News pages and on the WAI Interest Group mailing lists.
• Raise, comment on, or propose fixes to APA issues: If you’re aware of an issue with any of the published APA resources, W3C welcomes you to raise a new issue on GitHub — you can also comment on and, even better, propose solutions for existing issues.
• Contribute to APA discussions: You may contribute your views to the APA Working Group’s mailing list discussions.

Become a participant in the group

Joining the APA Working Group enables you to participate fully in the development of the work and influence the deliverables. You and your organization will also be listed as contributors, where appropriate.

Being a participant involves commitment to support the work of the group in the following ways:

• Engage actively with other participants in the working group using the group’s communication channels.
• Keep up with weekly tasks and the progress of the work — for example, via the minutes of past meetings, mailing list discussions, and GitHub issue comments.
• Give your input promptly, when it’s needed.

See Instructions for joining the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group.

Group members and task forces

• Chairs
• Current participants
• Task forces that support the APA Working Group

Communications and decisions

• Calendar of meetings
• Minutes from previous meetings
• Mailing list archive
• Record of decisions
• Decision policy

GitHub repositories

The APA Working Group maintains the following GitHub repositories:

• Accessible Platform Architectures
• Accessible Platform Architectures Review
• Accessibility Maturity Model
• Accessibility Request
• Accessibility Review
• Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility
• Framework for Accessible Specification of Technologies
• Pronunciation
• Research Questions
• WAI-Adapt

Publications and copyright

List of technical reports published by the APA Working Group.

W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group — for details, see Intellectual property rights — APA Working Group.

There are also instructions for How to Make a Patent Disclosure.

Contact the chairs

If you have a question for the APA Working Group’s chairs or the W3C staff contact, email group-apa-chairs@w3.org.