First Public Working Drafts: Open Screen Application Protocol and Network Protocol

 The Second Screen Working Group has published two First Public Working Drafts: Open Screen Application Protocol and Open Screen Network Protocol. These documents result from splitting the Open Screen Protocol document into two independent parts. The Open Screen Application Protocol allows user agents to implement the Presentation API and the Remote Playback API in an interoperable fashion. The Open Screen Network Protocol is a network protocol that allows two Open Screen agents to establish a secure network transport in an interoperable fashion

First Public Working Draft: Pointer Events Level 4

 The Pointer Events Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Pointer Events Level 4. The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, touchscreen, etc. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types.

W3C receives Ford Foundation core funding toward development of web accessibility work

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has received US$ 660,037 in core funding from the Ford Foundation via their Technology and Society program, to provide core support through July 2026 to W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) work developing web accessibility standards, guidelines, and implementation resources to support access for people with disabilities.

This funding is significant both as it helps further our work in accessibility, and is the first we receive since we established in January 2023 as a US public-interest non-profit organization.

W3C Invites Implementations of Device Posture API

The Devices and Sensors Working Group has published Device Posture API as a W3C Candidate Recommendation. This document specifies an API that allows web applications to request and be notified of changes of the posture of a device.