The  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  has published  Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1  (Accname) as a W3C Recommendation. Accname describes how user agents determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects from web content languages. The name is a simple label for the object, and the description provides additional information. These are both standard features of accessibility APIs, which allow assistive technologies to identify these objects and present their names or descriptions to users. Documenting the algorithm through which names and descriptions are to be determined promotes interoperable exposure of these properties among different accessibility APIs and helps to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent. Separate accessibility API mapping (AAM) specifications define the actual way these features are exposed to accessibility APIs; Accname just describes how the name and descrip...

The  Dataset Exchange Working Group  has published two First Public Working Drafts today: The Profiles Ontology  is an RDF vocabulary to describe profiles of (one or more) standards for information resources. It describes the general pattern of narrowing the scope of a specification with additional, but consistent, constraints, and is particularly relevant to data exchange situations where conformance to such profiles is expected and carries additional context. The Profiles Ontology enables profile descriptions to specify the role of resources related to data exchange such as schemas, ontologies, rules about use of controlled vocabularies, validation tools, and guidelines. The ontology may however be used to describe the role of artifacts in any situation where constraints are made on a the usage of more general specifications. Content Negotiation by Profile  describes how Internet clients may negotiate for content provided by servers according to profiles. This...

18 December 2018 The  CSS Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  CSS Fragmentation Module Level 4 . This module describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages, columns, or regions. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

4 December 2018 The CSS Working Group invites implementations of two updated Candidate Recommendations: Geometry Interfaces Module Level 1  provides basic geometric interfaces to represent points, rectangles, quadrilaterals and transformation matrices that can be used by other modules or specifications. CSS Fragmentation Module Level 3  describes the fragmentation model that partitions a flow into pages, columns, or regions. It builds on the Page model module and introduces and defines the fragmentation model. It adds functionality for pagination, breaking variable fragment size and orientation, widows and orphans. CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

30 November 2018 The WAI Education and Outreach Working Group ( EOWG ) has published  Developing an Accessibility Statement . The resource helps you create an accessibility statement for your website, mobile app, or other digital content. It includes guidance, examples, and a free generator tool. The tool helps you collect and enter relevant information to create an accessibility statement for your particular content and situation. See more information in  How to Create Accessibility Statements blog post . Learn more about the  Web Accessibility Initiative  (WAI).

22 November 2018 The  Spatial Data on the Web Interest Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  Extensions to the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology . This specification describes some extensions to the  Semantic Sensor Network Ontology , published as a W3C Recommendation in 2017, to enable linking to the ultimate feature-of-interest for an observation, act of sampling, or actuation, and homogeneous collections of observations, in which one or more of the properties may be shared by all members of the collection.

15 November 2018 The  CSS Working Group  has published a First Public Working Draft of  CSS Shadow Parts . This specification defines the  ‘::part()’  pseudo-element on  shadow hosts , allowing shadow hosts to selectively expose chosen elements from their  shadow tree  to the outside page for styling purposes. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

9 November 2018 The WAI Education and Outreach Working Group ( EOWG ) has published  The Business Case for Digital Accessibility . It describes how accessibility can drive innovation, enhance your brand, extend market reach, and minimize legal risk. It includes direct and indirect benefits of accessibility and the risks of not addressing accessibility adequately. It provides case studies and examples that demonstrate how investment in accessibility is good for your organization. Learn more about the  Web Accessibility Initiative  (WAI).

18 October 2018 The  Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group  has published two First Public Working Drafts today: Personalization Tools 1.0  document list examples of the tools defined values, this is an extension of  Personalization Explainer 1.0 . Personalization Help and Support 1.0  document lists examples of the personalized help and support properties. This is an extension of Personalization Explainer 1.0. including the properties of literal, numberfree, easylang, alternative, explain, feedback, moreinfo,extrahelp, helptype. Read more about the  Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group  and the  Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

18 October 2018 The  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  has published a Proposed Recommendation of  Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1 . This document describes how user agents determine the names and descriptions of accessible objects from web content languages. This information is in turn exposed through accessibility APIs so that assistive technologies can identify these objects and present their names or descriptions to users. Documenting the algorithm through which names and descriptions are to be determined promotes interoperable exposure of these properties among different accessibility APIs and helps to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent. Read about the  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  and the  Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

16 October 2018 The  Pointer Events Working Group  has published a Proposed Recommendation of  Pointer Events Level 2 . 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 announced today a  Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data , 4-6 March 2019, in Berlin, Germany. The event is hosted by Neo4J. This workshop brings together people with an interest in the future of standards relating to graph data, and its ever growing importance in relation to the Internet of Things, smart enterprises, smart cities, etc., open markets of services, and synergies with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). The scope includes: Harmonising different perspectives on database management systems: The role of annotations, e.g. spatial, temporal, provenance, data quality, trust, etc. and opportunities for extending RDF to better support them; the relationship between RDF and other related approaches, e.g. Labelled Property Graphs and work by ETSI ISG CIM; requirements for graph query and update languages and requirements for rule languages for graph data. Managing the silos, big data, AI and machine learning: Techniques for deali...

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 .

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.

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 .

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.

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.

The  CSS Working Group  invites implementations of a Candidate Recommendation of  CSS Painting API Level 1 , an API for allowing web developers to define a custom CSS  <image>  with javascript, which will respond to style and size changes. See  EXPLAINER .

The  Timed Text Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Third Edition) . This document specifies Timed Text Markup Language (TTML), Version 1, also known as TTML1, in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof. The Timed Text Markup Language is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information. It is intended to be used for the purpose of transcoding or exchanging timed text information among legacy distribution content formats presently in use for subtitling and captioning functions. In addition to being used for interchange among legacy distribution content formats, TTML Content may be used directly as a distribution format, for example, providing a standard content format to reference from a  <track>  eleme...

W3C has published a new version of its  Roadmap of Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the capabilities of Web applications, and how they apply more specifically to the mobile context. The contents of the roadmap have been updated to follow the evolution of the Web platform since April 2018. See the  Change history  for details. Most of these updates focused on mechanisms that allow mobile web applications to tweak performance settings and gain finer-grained control over the browser’s default behavior. In particular, new exploratory work and technologies in progress mentioned in the  Performance and Tuning page include: the CSS Animation Worklet API to create scripted animations in a dedicated thread, the CSS  contain  property to indicate that an element’s subtree is independent of the rest of the page, the proposed CSS  overscroll-behavior  property to control the behavior o...

The  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  has published First Public Working Drafts of  Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.2  (WAI-ARIA),  Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2  (Core-AAM), and  WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2  (ARIA APG). WAI-ARIA 1.2 continues development of the technology after ARIA 1.1 was completed in December 2017. This version focuses primarily on providing roles to match features of HTML, which is needed by technologies such as  Web Components  and  Accessible Object Model . Core-AAM 1.2 provides accessibility API mappings for these new roles, and ARIA Practices 1.2 describes recommended authoring patterns for these new roles. For more information, see the blog post  Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.2 . Read about the  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  and the  Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) .

W3C published today the  report  of the  W3C Workshop on Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies , which was held on 10-11 May 2018, in London. The report contains a summary of each session with links to the presentation slides. More detailed meeting minutes are also available [ 1 ][ 2 ] . Network Operators, vendors, application developers, content provider and standard makers participated in this event which was designed to explore how the Open Web Platform could help drive the adoption of 5G innovations from the applications layer to the network level. During the two days, participants reviewed opportunities that new emerging innovations and capabilities at the application layers can bring to the 5G network. The workshop concluded with the proposed creation of a task force of participants to explore how the 5G and Web communities might work in a productive and cohesive manner. In particular, there was wide agreement on the benefit of develop...

12 July 2018 W3C announced today a  W3C Workshop on Permissions and User Consent , September 18-19, 2018, in San Diego, California, USA. The event is hosted by Qualcomm. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together security and privacy experts, UI/UX researchers, browser vendors, mobile OS developers, API authors, Web publishers and users to address the privacy, security and usability challenges presented by a complex and overlapping variety of permissions and consent systems available for hardware sensors, device capabilities and applications on the Web. The scope includes: user consent; bundling of permissions; lifetime/duration of permissions; permission inheritance to iframes and other embedded elements; relation to same origin policy; UIs and controls; interaction with private browsing modes; implicit permission grants; progressive permission grants; cross-stack permissions: how OS, browser, and web app permissions interact; permission transpare...

10 July 2018 The  Web Payments Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  Payment Request API . This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e. web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.

9 July 2018 The  Web Performance Working Group  invites implementations of  User Timing Level 2  Candidate Recommendation. This specification defines an interface to help web developers measure the performance of their applications by giving them access to high precision timestamps.

9 July 2018 The World Wide Web Consortium today launched the Internationalization Initiative to expand core work in further internationalizing the Web. “Supporting the W3C Internationalization Initiative with funding or expertise is a vital way that our Web community creates the future of the global Web,” said Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. W3C thanks Alibaba, Apple, Advanced Publishing Lab (Keio University), Monotype, and The Paciello Group who have stepped up as Founding Sponsors. Read about  W3C Internationalization and its Sponsorship Program  and the  press release and testimonials .

The  Timed Text Working Group  invites implementations of an updated  Timed Text Markup Language 2 (TTML2) Candidate Recommendation. This document specifies the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML), Version 2, also known as TTML2, in terms of a vocabulary and semantics thereof. The Timed Text Markup Language is a content type that represents timed text media for the purpose of interchange among authoring systems. Timed text is textual information that is intrinsically or extrinsically associated with timing information.

26 June 2018 W3C announced today a  W3C Workshop on Digital Publication Layout and Presentation (from Manga to Magazines) , September 18-19 2018, in Tokyo, Japan. The event is hosted by the Advanced Publishing Laboratory, at the historic  Mita Campus of Keio University . The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together experts to evaluate the current status and explore future directions of visually-rich long-form digital publications based on Web Technologies (particularly CSS, the formatting language of the Web), encompassing both fixed and dynamic layouts. Expected topics of discussion include: Advanced layout using recent and upcoming CSS innovations, particularly for mobile and other devices (CSS grid, viewport units, media queries, css-shapes, etc.) “Smart transitions” for manga/comics including “Turbo Media” and other new forms Analysis of proprietary platforms in comics, magazines, and other verticals Comparison of image-dominated and text-dominated...

26 June 2018 The  Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group  has published two Proposed Recommendations: WAI-ARIA Graphics Module (Graphics-ARIA) : Assistive technologies need semantic information about the structures and expected behaviors of a document in order to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification defines a WAI-ARIA 1.1 [WAI-ARIA-1.1] module of core roles specific to web graphics. These semantics allow an author to express the logical structure of the graphic to assistive technologies in order improve accessibility of graphics. Assistive technologies could then enable semantic navigation and adapt styling and interactive features, to provide an optimal experience for the audience. These features complement the graphics and document structure elements defined by HTML [HTML52] and SVG [SVG2]. Graphics Accessibility API Mappings (Graphics-AAM) : This specification defines how user agents map the WAI-ARIA Graphics...

26 June 2018 The  CSS Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  CSS Fonts Module Level 3 . This CSS3 module describes how font properties are specified and how font resources are loaded dynamically. The contents of this specification are a consolidation of content previously divided into CSS3 Fonts and CSS3 Web Fonts modules. The description of font load events was moved into the CSS Font Loading module.

21 June 2018 The  CSS Working Group  has published  CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI)  as a W3C Recommendation. 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. This specification is implemented in all modern browsers. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

21 June 2018 The  Web Real-Time Communications Working Group  invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of  WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers . The WebRTC 1.0 specification defines JavaScript APIs to enable real-time audio, video and data exchange on the Web. Since the previous publication as Candidate Recommendation, the specification was updated with a number of bug fixes and clarifications in its algorithms. The following new APIs were added as part of these improvements:  RTCRtpSender.setStreams() ,  RTCRtpTransceiver.currentDirection ,  RTCSctpTransport.maxChannels ,  RTCPeerConnection.onstatsended , and the  RTCStatsEvent interface.

20 June 2018 W3C announced today it was  offering Diversity Scholarships . The announcement was made as part of the  publication of W3C top-level diversity statistics . The lack of diversity in tech is a longstanding issue. We would like W3C to be a model of supporting diversity. As an international organization we can see the immense value we gain from having expertise from across multiple countries and cultures. Soon 50% of the world will be on the Web. We know we will need to reflect the diversity of the whole of our world as more and more people begin to access, use and continue to create the Web in all its full potential. During the Spring W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, a panel on diversity focused on progress we have made and how much more is required. W3C has established a modest fund for  TPAC  Diversity Scholarships, sponsored by W3C Members  Samsung Electronics ,  The Paciello Group ,  Consensus System  and  Microsoft . ...

19 June 2018 The  CSS Working Group  has published  CSS Color Module Level 3  as a W3C Edited Recommendation. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. It uses color-related properties and values to color the text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a document. This specification describes color values and properties for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and values from CSS level 2 and new values. This specification incorporates errata raised against the  previous W3C Recommendation for CSS Color 3 . This specification is fully implemented in all modern browsers.