[wg/webediting] Web Editing Working Group Charter

[siusin]

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

Charter Review

Charter

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Expected end of charter refinement phase: December 2025

If applicable:

diff from previous charter

chair dashboard

What kind of charter is this? Check the relevant box / remove irrelevant branches.

• Existing

• Existing WG recharter

Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, security, and TAG. Also add a "card" for this issue to the Strategy Funnel.

Where would charter proponents like to see issues raised?
https://github.com/w3c/editing/issues/new/

Anything else we should think about as we review?

The WG is thinking about putting together a new doc on how users interact with contentEditable and EditContext, probably around the idea of editing hosts and user interaction.

/cc
@johanneswilm

[siusin]

@plehegar
Could you formally select a Chartering Facilitator?

[plehegar]

Charter refinement

[siusin]

In TPAC the group agreed to add a new Editing spec named the Caret Movement spec. It aims to improve the user experience of Bidirectional text selection in scenarios where LTR and RTL text are both used.

[johanneswilm]

It aims to improve the user experience of Bidirectional text selection in scenarios where LTR and RTL text are both used.

In addition to other complex scenarios such as arrow navigation of the cursor around inline images, text input inside of contenteditable elements, etc. .