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I too am salty about this, but the W3C uses IRC for discussions and have no easy forum or boards for RFCs (like TC39 with their use of GitHub for ECMAScript proposals).

Contributing to web standards is not really accessible and that contributes to this Chromium-centric world.



The CSS Working Group uses GitHub primarily, and any minutes from IRC are added to the issue. Here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues

You are very welcome to contribute!


What kind of chat would be more accessible than IRC?


What kind of chat wouldn't be more accessible than IRC?


> Contributing to web standards is not really accessible

How so? AFAICT if you want to contribute just go contribute. It's open to all. Discussions are had on public mailing lists, github, etc...

Here's one place to start

https://github.com/w3c


Where would one raise a proposal for something like adding a `sandbox` flag to `<script>` elements, the proposal of adding a feature like a "Context Menu API" for PWAs or discussions around pro-privacy features?




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