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CSS Fonts Module Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation

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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

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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

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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.