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...