CSS Fonts Module Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation

The CSS Working Group has published CSS Fonts Module Level 3 as a W3C Recommendation. This CSS Module describes how to specify fonts used in CSS, including Web Fonts downloaded on demand. It also describes how to access advanced typographic features in fonts, and how to control font loading. This specification is implemented in all modern browsers. More information is available in the blog post: CSS Fonts 3 is a W3C Recommendation.

W3C Invites Implementations of Web Audio API

18 September 2018

The Audio Working Group invites implementations of Web Audio API Candidate Recommendation. Web Audio is a high-level Web API for processing and synthesizing audio in web applications. The primary paradigm is of an audio routing graph, where a number of AudioNode objects are connected together to define the overall audio rendering. The actual processing will primarily take place in the underlying implementation, but using AudioWorklet, direct script processing and synthesis from JavaScript or WebAssembly is also supported.

Authorized Translation of WCAG 2.1 in Italian

Today the World Wide Web Consortium released the Authorized Italian Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Linee guida per l’accessibilità dei contenuti Web (WCAG) 2.1, contributed by International Web Association (IWA). This translation of WCAG 2.1 coincides with the adoption of the EU Web Accessibility Directive and the related European Standard EN 301 549, which refers to WCAG 2.1. You may read W3C Blog post to learn more about the Adoption of WCAG 2.1 in Europe. Roberto Scano from IWA, who coordinated the translation, published a blog post in Italian.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages the development of W3C Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.1 in all languages. Read about the Policy for W3C Authorized Translations.

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Display Module Level 3

The CSS Working Group invites implementations of CSS Display Module Level 3 Candidate Recommendation. This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and defines the ‘display’ property that controls it.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3; Level 4

The CSS Working Group invites implementations of two updated Candidate Recommendations of CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3 and CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 4. The CSS module defined in these documents describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements. By way of cascading and inheritance, values are propagated for all properties on all elements. New in the Level 4 are the ‘revert’ keyword and <supports-condition> for the ‘@import’ rule.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.