Easy Checks: A First Review of Web Accessibility Updated Draft

20 December 2013

The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published an updated draft of the WAI resource Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility. Easy Checks helps you assess if a Web page addresses accessibility. It provides simple steps for anyone who can use the Web; no accessibility knowledge or skill is required. The checks cover just a few accessibility issues and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive. Learn about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

W3C at CeBIT 2014

20 December 2013

W3C will be present at CeBIT 2014, in Hannover, Germany. The main topic of CeBIT 2014 is Datability which relates in many ways to upcoming W3C work e.g. in the W3C Data Activity and the Web of Things. W3C is looking forward to meeting you on 11 March, at the DFKI booth. Consider to schedule a meeting with:

• Phil Archer, Data Activity Lead;
• Alan Bird, Global Business Development Leader;
• Bernard Gidon, Business Development Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA);
• Dave Raggett, team contact in several Ubiquitous Web Working Groups and chair of the Web of Things Community Group; and
• Georg Rehm, W3C German-Austrian Office Manager.

Meeting slots are limited and decided on a first come, first served basis.

Registration Open for Mobile Web Apps course; Early bird rate through 25 December

14 December 2013

The W3C Mobile Web 2: Programming Applications online course is back! Now open for registration and to start on 13 January 2014, this course covers all techniques for programming successful mobile Web applications that can ship both online and in application stores. You will have access to high quality content material, be trained by a first-class expert, and learn step by step. Register before 25 December 2013 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus, the W3C online training for Web developers.

W3C Launches New Data Activity

11 December 2013

Today W3C launched a new Data Activity to lead the Web to a new level of data interoperability. The Activity includes two new groups:

• CSV on the Web Working Group, whose mission is to provide technologies whereby data dependent applications on the Web can provide higher interoperability when working with datasets using the CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or similar formats.
• Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group, whose mission is (1) to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers; (2) to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data; (3) to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.

The Data Activity subsumes and expands upon the work done in the Semantic Web and eGovernment Activities. W3C will continue to complete and enhance the Semantic Web in the light of growing real-world experience and demands.
Learn more about the Data Activity.

Last Call: CSS Shapes Module Level 1

3 December 2013

The CSS Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of CSS Shapes Module Level 1. CSS Shapes describe geometric shapes for use in CSS. For Level 1, CSS Shapes can be applied to floats. A circle shape on a float will cause inline content to wrap around the circle shape instead of the float’s bounding box. Comments are welcome by 7 January 2014. Learn more about the Style Activity.

CSS Object Model (CSSOM) Draft Published

3 December 2013

The CSS Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Object Model (CSSOM). CSSOM defines APIs (including generic parsing and serialization rules) for Media Queries, Selectors, and of course CSS itself. Learn more about the Style Activity.

W3C/IAB workshop on Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring (STRINT)

2 December 2013

The Internet Architecture Board and W3C just announced a Workshop, Strengthening the Internet Against Pervasive Monitoring, 28 February – 01 March 2014, in London (UK). The event is co-located with the 89th IETF Conference that will take place from 02 – 07 March at the Hilton Metropole in central London (UK).
The Vancouver IETF plenary concluded that pervasive monitoring represents an attack on the Internet. Pervasive monitoring targets protocol data that we also need for network manageability and security. This data is captured and correlated with other data. There is an open problem as to how to enhance protocols so as to maintain network manageability and security but still limit data capture and correlation.
The overall goal of the workshop is to steer IETF and W3C work so as to be able to improve or strengthen the Internet in the face of pervasive monitoring. A workshop report in the form of an IAB RFC will be produced after the event.
Participants are required to submit a position paper or an Internet Draft by 15 January 2014.