The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group ( AG WG ) has published a First Public Working Draft of  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 . WCAG provides recommendations for making web content more accessible to people with disabilities. It addresses accessibility of web content on desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile devices. Following these guidelines also makes your web content more usable to  all users in a variety of situations . Please see the blog post for information on what’s new in this draft and upcoming work:  Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 in Development .

25 February 2020 The  W3C Website redesign Request For Proposals  has concluded with W3C awarding the project to  Studio 24 , a small, independent digital agency in the heart of Cambridge, UK, founded in 1999. The project covers a subset of the public-facing pages of our Website and will span the next 10 months. Please, read more in our  joint press release . We are aiming for  this phase  to scale well to cover the redesign expectations for the rest of the site. Future phases will include the Member and Team spaces, internal Work Groups homepages, specifications template, mailing lists archives, W3C Community Groups and Business Groups. The current website was implemented  ten years ago  and is no longer as effective in supporting W3C’s mission and goals as it could be. We believe that by  implementing current web best practices and technologies, revising the information architecture, creating a content strategy and revamping the ...

The  CSS Working Group  has published two First Public Working Drafts today: Resize Observer : This specification describes an API for observing changes to Element’s size. CSS Scroll Anchoring Module Level 1 : Changes in DOM elements above the visible region of a  scrolling box  can result in the page moving while the user is in the middle of consuming the content. This spec proposes a mechanism to mitigate this jarring user experience by keeping track of the position of an anchor node and adjusting the scroll offset accordingly. CSS  is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

The  Distributed Tracing Working Group  has published  Trace Context  as a W3C Recommendation. This specification defines standard HTTP headers and a value format to propagate context information that enables distributed tracing scenarios. The specification standardizes how context information is sent and modified between services. Context information uniquely identifies individual requests in a distributed system and also defines a means to add and propagate provider-specific context information.

W3C is pleased to announce a  report  from the  W3C Workshop on Inclusive Design for Immersive Web Standards , held on 5-6 November 2019 in Seattle, WA, USA. This report contains a brief summary and collects highlights from the individual sessions, with links to the presentation slides. Workshop participants learned from existing approaches that have been taken in making XR experiences (on and off the Web) accessible before looking at what lessons could be derived from these existing research and experiments in the context of the Immersive Web architecture. These lessons brought forward four aspects of accessible XR experiences: visual interactions, motricity considerations, audio aspects and assistive technologies adaptation. The relevant follow-up work in W3C spans across at least 6 standardization Working Groups and 6 pre-standardization and incubation Community Groups, and also intersects with at least 3 Khronos Working Groups – pointing toward the need f...