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13 December 2012 The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group ( WCAG WG )  published an updated Working Draft of Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (WCAG2ICT) . It is a draft of an informative (that is, not normative) W3C Working Group Note that will clarify how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 can be applied to non-Web ICT. Please see important information in the Call for Review e-mail . Comments are welcome through 15 February 2013. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

13 December 2012 The WebFonts Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of WOFF File Format 1.0 . This document specifies the WOFF font packaging format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of font data, suitable for use with CSS @font-face rules. Any properly licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format file can be packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents decode the WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will display identically to the input font. Learn more about the Fonts Activity .

13 December 2012 The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) published a Proposed Recommendation of Role Attribute , an XML attribute that allows authors to add semantic information to documents. Role Attribute supports WAI-ARIA , the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification for making dynamic, interactive web content accessible to people with disabilities. Comments are welcome through 1 February 2013. Read the Role Attribute Proposed Recommendation e-mail announcement for more information, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

06 December 2012 The Device APIs Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Proximity Events . This specification defines a means to receive events that correspond to a proximity sensor detecting the presence of a physical object. Comments are welcome through 24 January. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity .

06 December 2012 The Voice Browser Working Group published a Las Call Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction . This document describes SCXML, or the "State Chart extensible Markup Language". SCXML provides a generic state-machine based execution environment based on CCXML and Harel State Tables. Comments are welcome through 11 January 2013. Learn more about the Voice Browser Activity .

06 December 2012 The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group published a Last Call Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 . This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). Comments are welcome through 10 January 2013. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity .

06 December 2012 The Web Applications Working Group published three Working Drafts : The Screen Orientation API . The Screen Orientation API's goal is to provide an interface for web applications to be able to read the screen orientation state, to be informed when this state changes and to be able to lock the screen orientation to a specific state. XMLHttpRequest . The XMLHttpRequest specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data between a client and a server. DOM4 , published in co-operation with the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group . DOM defines the event and document model the Web platform uses. The DOM is a language- and platform neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content and structure of documents. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity .