14 December 2017 The  Web of Things (WoT) Working Group  has published the first draft of its Group Note of  Web of Things (WoT) Security and Privacy Considerations . This document provides non-normative guidance on Web of Things (WoT) security and privacy. The Web of Things is descriptive, not prescriptive, and so is generally designed to support the security models and mechanisms of the systems it describes, not introduce new ones.

14 December 2017 The  CSS Working Group  invites implementations of three updated Candidates Recommendations: CSS Counter Styles Level 3 : This module introduces the  ‘@counter-style’  rule, which allows authors to define their own custom counter styles for use with CSS list-marker and generated-content counters  [CSS-LISTS-3] . It also predefines a set of common counter styles, including the ones present in CSS2 and CSS2.1. CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 : This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for user interface design. In the grid layout model, the children of a grid container can be positioned into arbitrary slots in a predefined flexible or fixed-size layout grid. CSS Scroll Snap Module Level 1 : This module contains features to control panning and scrolling behavior with “snap positions”. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on sc...

14 December 2017 The  Web Platform Working Group  has published a W3C Recommendation of the  HTML 5.2  specification that would obsolete the  HTML 5.1 Recommendation . The HTML 5.2 specification defines the 5th major version, second minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version,  new features  continue to be introduced to help Web application authors, new elements continue to be introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention continues to be given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. The group also published a First Public Working Draft of  HTML 5.3 , which defines the 5th major version, third minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

14 December 2017 The  Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)Working Group  has published  Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1 ,  Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 ,  Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 , and  Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.0  as W3C Recommendations. WAI-ARIA provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. These semantics are designed to allow an author to properly convey user interface behaviors and structural information to assistive technologies in document-level markup. DPub-ARIA extends WAI-ARIA with roles specific to helping users of assistive technologies navigate through long-form documents used in digital publishing. DPub-AAM describes how these roles map to features of platform accessibility APIs. WAI-ARIA 1.1 is supported by...

14 December 2017 The  CSS Working Group  has published a Proposed Recommendation of  CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI) . This specification describes user interface related properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3 to style HTML and XML (including XHTML). It includes and extends user interface related features from the properties and values of CSS level 2 revision 1. It uses various properties and values to style basic user interface elements in a document. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. Comments are welcome through  1 February 2018 .

12 December 2017 The  Web Payments Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  Payment Method Manifest . This specification is designed to increase the security of payment applications. It defines the machine-readable manifest file, known as a payment method manifest, that describes how a payment method participates in the Web Payments ecosystem.

7 December 2017 A final Working Draft of  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1  has been published for wide review before a planned advance to Candidate Recommendation in January 2018. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, which extends Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, and more usable to users in general.  Please comment no later than 12 January 2018  in the  WCAG 2.1 GitHub repository  or by email to  public-agwg-comments@w3.org .

7 December 2017 The  CSS Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  CSS Writing Modes Level 3 . This document defines CSS support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts). Along with this updated Candidate Recommendation, the group also published a First Public Working Draft of  CSS Writing Modes Level 4 . The difference from the CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is the set of features that were deferred from Level 3 due to later implementation uptake. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.