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w3c , 1 hour ago to random

"The WCAG 3 Working Draft update is ready for your review" by Shawn Lawton Henry of @wai

"The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) published an updated WCAG 3 Working Draft... The purpose of this draft is to better understand the scope of user needs and how they could be addressed in an accessibility standard; request assistance in identifying gaps, and locating and conducting research to validate or invalidate the drafted outcomes."
Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/the-wcag-3-working-draft-update-is-ready-for-your-review/

w3c , 1 day ago to random

Enjoyable talk on designing on the Web by @mia indeed!

5 minutes before the end, she shows several ways to fix the "CSS is awesome" broken box 👌
https://toot.cafe/@bkardell/112462162740363797

w3c , 3 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.

He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8

w3c , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD).

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Founding Director and inventor of the Web

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative @wai develops technical specifications, guidelines and supporting resources that describe accessibility solutions.

Would you like to do something now to improve accessibility? Check out: https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate/easy-checks/ #GAAD

w3c , 4 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan spoke on "Identity on the Web"."Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, privacy and security.

Heather is the co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity WG. She discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/GI3UTZJ0Ue4

w3c , 5 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 @p20n, spoke on Data sovereignty.

Data sovereignty is the ongoing effort of individuals and organizations to oversee the data they produce, store, disseminate, and exchange.

Pierre-Antoine, W3C Data Strategist, evaluated several organizations and projects concerning data sovereignty and autonomy, exploring potential future collaboration opportunities. #DataSovereignty

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

w3c , 6 days ago to random

The HTML WG has published a Working Draft of HTML Ruby Markup Extensions.

Ruby, a form of interlinear annotation, are short runs of text alongside the base text. They are typically used in East Asian documents to indicate pronunciation or to provide a short annotation. This specification revises and extends the markup model established by HTML to express ruby.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/working-draft-html-ruby-markup-extensions/

w3c , 6 days ago to random

At our recent AC meeting in Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵, Leonard Rosenthol, of Adobe, introduced the work of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).

The C2PA work leverages W3C standards and aims to develop technical specs for widespread content provenance and authenticity, allowing users to trace media origins. #VerifiableCredentials, #WebAnnotations,

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/tQDTvzjr5CQ

w3c , 7 days ago to random

At our Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 AC meeting Dr. Naoshi Hirata spoke about how the Internet and Web are vital in emergencies, enabling seamless collaboration and information sharing.

Dr. Hirata, of the University of Tokyo, presented: "distributed disaster management data" using a case study for the Noto peninsula earthquake that struck Japan on January 1, 2024.

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/v3vV8i2-3Ts

w3c , 11 days ago to random

The Internationalization Working Group has published Thai Layout Requirements and Lao Layout Requirements as Draft Notes. These two documents respectively describe or point to requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Thai and Lao scripts.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/draft-notes-thai-and-lao-layout-requirements/

w3c , 12 days ago to random

The W3C Advisory Committee, having nominated six individuals, will be voting until 29 May 2024 to fill five seats in the W3C Advisory Board (AB) election.

The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-opens-advisory-board-ab-election/

w3c , 13 days ago to random

W3C tech in use on the web "Printing music with CSS Grid"
"CSS Grid allows us to align other symbols inside the notation grid too. Chords and lyrics, dynamics and so on can be lined up with, and span, timed events: "
https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

w3c , 14 days ago to random

W3C has approved the Decentralized Identifier Working Group Charter
"The mission of the Decentralized Identifier WG is two-fold. First, it will maintain the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification and related WG Notes. Second, it will seek consensus around the best way to achieve effective interoperability through common requirements, algorithms, architectural options, and various considerations for the DID resolution and DID URL dereferencing processes"
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-did-wg/2024Apr/0000.html

w3c , 18 days ago to random

Earlier this month W3C held "Breakouts Day 2024" with Detailed technical discussions (including FedCM and RDF Star); High-level strategic discussions (including Building Consensus, Privacy Principles, Ethical implications of Generative AI); Ideas for working more effectively (including trackers and registries); Raising awareness about new or proposed groups and Improving the Web for developers (including web security docs for MDN). Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/breakouts-day-2024-recap/

w3c , 19 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to random

In "The Internet and Climate Change" Dan York @danyork of ISOC wrote: "...in the face of climate change, the Internet’s infrastructure needs our help to be able to continue to operate"

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a new Sustainable Web Community Group developing best practices for building more sustainable websites... Get involved... the W3C’s Sustainable Web Community Group is open"

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/04/the-internet-and-climate-change/

w3c , 19 days ago to random

On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.

Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!

You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html

w3c , 20 days ago to random

The Timed Text Working Group published IMSC Hypothetical Render Model as a W3C Recommendation. This specification specifies a Hypothetical Render Model (HRM) that constrains the presentation complexity of documents that conform to the Text Profiles specified in any edition of Internet Media Subtitles and Captions ([IMSC]).
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/imsc-hypothetical-render-model-is-a-w3c-recommendation/

w3c , 20 days ago to random

The Verifiable Credentials WG invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE. This spec defines how to secure credentials conforming to the Verifiable Credential data model with JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE), Selective Disclosure for JWTs, and CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE). This enables the Verifiable Credentials to be implemented with standards for signing and encryption
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-invites-implementations-of-securing-verifiable-credentials-using-jose-and-cose/

w3cdevs , 24 days ago to random

In the evolving digital landscape, "Identity on the Web" is crucial for online interaction, #privacy and #security.

At the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, Heather Flanagan, co-chair of the newly created W3C Federated Identity #WorkingGroup discussed challenges in establishing a common understanding of #identity and explored this topic's technological, social, and #ethical dimensions in relation to the W3C’s mission.

▶️ https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/fedid/
🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/GI3UTZJ0Ue4

w3c , 25 days ago to random

Our Advisory Board has published a Draft Note for W3C's Vision

"Technology is not neutral; new technologies enable new actions and new possibilities, and we must take responsibility to address the actual impact of our work...

W3C’s Vision for the World Wide Web

The Web is for all humanity.

The Web is designed for the good of its users.

The Web must be safe for its users.

There is one interoperable world-wide Web."
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/

w3cdevs , 25 days ago to random French

🌎 🌖 Connecting beyond our world, into the universe!
The potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars, is a dream which is closer to being made reality. Dr. Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke at the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵 with his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.
🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8

w3c , 26 days ago to random

The new Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group Draft Charter, with the mission to maintain SVG, is under Advisory Committee review through 25 May.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) describes graphics in a way that is scalable to different device resolutions in a manner that is accessible, stylable, and scriptable.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2024Apr/0004.html

w3c , 27 days ago to random

W3C tech in the news "4 Big Developments in WebAssembly "In many ways, Wasm has shown its maturation. Almost all mainstream languages now support WebAssembly....

But just as Java found use cases beyond its original intent, we also see Wasm opportunities opening up in fascinating areas like IoT as well as emerging areas like Wanix. This serves as a good reminder that maturity does not entail stagnation"
https://thenewstack.io/4-big-developments-in-webassembly/

w3c , 28 days ago to random

The W3C Advisory Board has published a Group Note of the Vision for W3C.

The document articulates W3C’s mission, what W3C is, what it does and why that matters, and the values and principles by which it operates and makes decisions. This version is the first public Note published by Advisory Board consensus, developed with the community, as a first step towards creating a W3C-endorsed W3C-wide Vision for the organization, to be ultimately published as a W3C Statement.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-vision-for-w3c/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

W3C does its work in the open. W3C hosts thousands of mailing lists for our group members and the general public to discuss and send feedback on Web standards work at W3C.

The corresponding mailing list archives contain millions of messages dating back to the earliest days of the Web, eg:
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1991SepOct/0001.html

Find more about our mailing lists at:
https://www.w3.org/email/ #aboutW3C

w3c , 1 month ago to random

The Internationalization WG has published a first Draft Note of Khmer Layout Requirements. This document describes or points to requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Khmer script.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/draft-note-khmer-layout-requirements/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

The Verifiable Credentials Working Group invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Data Integrity BBS Cryptosuites v1.0. This specification describes a Data Integrity Cryptosuite for use when generating digital signatures using the BBS signature scheme. The Signature Suite utilizes BBS signatures to provide selective disclosure and unlinkable derived proofs.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-invites-implementations-of-data-integrity-bbs-cryptosuites-v1-0/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

The Web Machine Learning WG invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Web Neural Network API. This document describes a dedicated low-level API for neural network inference hardware acceleration.

The Web Neural Network API defines a web-friendly hardware-agnostic abstraction layer that makes use of Machine Learning capabilities of operating systems and underlying hardware platforms without being tied to platform-specific capabilities.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/updated-candidate-recommendation-web-neural-network-api/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

We are an open forum where diverse voices from around the world and industries come together, incubate and build consensus for global standards for web technologies.

We are socially responsible and committed to ensure that the web is for everyone; we greatly emphasize accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security.

We are committed to developing open and royalty-free standards with high focus on interoperability and collective empowerment.
#aboutW3C
https://www.w3.org/mission/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

Did you know W3C has many open source tools and validators?

Check out our checkers, validators, other tools. You can even find help or contribute.
https://www.w3.org/developers/tools/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

Access to a Web for All has been a fundamental concern and goal of the World Wide Web Consortium since the beginning, and is a natural requirement for Web-based applications, given that they can be accessed by people around the world.

If you internationalize, you design or develop your content, application, specification, and so on, in a way that ensures it will work well for, or can be easily adapted for, users from any culture, region, or language. Learn more at:
https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/about

w3c , 1 month ago to random

Learn from curated resources and our online training, or participate in W3C via discussion lists, blogs, translations, and other means.

https://www.w3.org/resources

aardrian , 1 month ago to random

Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09

Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state & local government sites:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-publish-final-rule-strengthen-web-and-mobile-app-access-people

Fact sheet:
https://www.ada.gov/notices/2024/03/08/web-rule/

#accessibility #a11y

w3c , 1 month ago to random

Did you know? W3C has won several Emmy Awards.

For its work to make online videos more accessible with captions and subtitles, W3C received a 2016 Emmy Award. For its work to standardize a Full TV Experience on the Web, W3C received a 2019 Emmy Award. And for its work standardizing font technology for custom downloadable fonts and typography for web and TV devices, W3C received a 2021 Emmy Award. #aboutW3C

https://www.w3.org/about/press-media/#awards-recognition

w3c , 1 month ago to random

W3C has approved the Federated Identity Working Group Charter.

The mission of the Federated Identity Working Group is to develop specifications to allow a website to request a federated identity credential or assertion with the purpose of authenticating a user and/or requesting a set of claims in a compatible way to OIDC or SAML.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedid-wg/2024Mar/0000.html

w3c , 1 month ago to random

W3C tech in the news: "Making Sense of Meta’s Move to Join the Fediverse"

"Threads leverages ActivityPub — a decentralized, open social networking protocol built by the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) – to connect to the fediverse. Meta’s initiative to bring the platform into the fediverse may have a downstream impact on the creator economy, allowing creators greater autonomy over their content and monetization strategies"
https://www.pymnts.com/meta/2024/making-sense-of-metas-move-to-join-the-fediverse/

infosec_jcp , 1 month ago to random

@w3c

A few questions about your #fediverse experience and a brief Q & A about how things are going so far, if I may:

¹ How has administration of your #fediverse instance served you so far?

² Have you felt that the investment has been worth the overhead so far owning your own data and providing your reporters 1:1 interactions with the public when you own the server platform for applying your rules and values as a applied to the #fediverse?

³ How has this experience differed from other Social Media platforms that you have zero control over vs. the #fediverse ?

⁴ Do you see #interoperability tests with other decentralized networks as a future engagement point in your roadmap & also as a valuable data point to compare with other centralized zero control by you platforms currently?

Thanks! Answer at your leisure. I have no deadline for anything.

Cheers!

w3c , 1 month ago to random

The RDF Dataset Canonicalization and Hash WG published RDF Dataset Canonicalization as a W3C Proposed Recommendation.

"At times, it becomes necessary to compare the differences between sets of graphs, digitally sign them, or generate short identifiers for graphs via hashing algorithms. This document outlines an algorithm for normalizing RDF datasets such that these operations can be performed"
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/rdf-dataset-canonicalization-is-a-w3c-proposed-recommendation/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

W3C tech in the news: "Adobe Developers Use WebAssembly to Improve Users’ Lives"

"Once finalized, a component model that will enable WebAssembly to not just see its expanding use beyond web browsers and servers — but will be able to allow users to deploy different applications running inside numerous lightweight modules at very high speeds across thousands of endpoints simultaneously through a component interface called the without changing one iota of code"
https://thenewstack.io/adobe-developers-use-webassembly-to-improve-users-lives/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

We are hiring! We are searching for a Chief Development Officer (CDO) to lead our efforts to communicate our organization’s philanthropic value proposition, to accelerate philanthropy and grow and diversify our funding base of support.

Please share in your networks. See more at:
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-chief-development-officer/

w3c , 1 month ago to random

We have updated our Code of Conduct. The Code defines expected and unacceptable behaviors and promotes high standards of professional practice. The goals of this Code are to:
Ensure that everyone who participates is treated equitably and with respect.
Define a standard of acceptable behavior for the organization.
Contribute to the identity of the organization.
Identify unacceptable behaviors.
Provide guidance to participants on addressing issues.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/w3c-adopts-updated-code-of-conduct-code/

w3c , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

W3C @wai are excited to announce two immediate job openings to join the highly-collaborative international W3C WAI team:

We are seeking an Accessibility Content Specialist, for full-time remote work on digital accessibility materials

We are seeking a Web Technical Specialist, for full-time remote work in the USA, on a project developing the technical infrastructure to support accessibility materials development and delivery.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/hiring-accessibility-content-specialist-worldwide-technical-specialist-usa/