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...

25 April 2017  |  Archive Just two years after  launching its first HTML5 course  on W3Cx, W3C is expanding its program offerings with an  introductory level course in JavaScript development, created in partnership with  University Côte d’Azur . Additionally, W3C is launching a  “Front-End Web Developer” Professional Certificate  on edX.org, which consists of a suite of five W3Cx courses on the three foundational languages that power the Web: HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. All courses, designed to build or advance critical skills in Front-End Web development, are  open for enrollment  and will start on May 30. This second anniversary also includes the milestone of exceeding enrollment goals with nearly 400,000 students from every world country. Read more in the  press release .

2 March 2017 W3C published a Team Submission of  W3C Security Disclosures Best Practices , a proposal for security and privacy disclosure programs, which will serve as a basis for further work in the space of security and privacy researchers protection, further to our  announcement  late January. This document contains a template intended for organizations interested in protecting their users and applications from fraud, malware, and computer viruses, as well as interested in ensuring proper adherence to security and privacy considerations included in W3C Recommendations. It also helps to support broad participation, testing, and audit from the security community to keep users safe and the web’s security model intact. In the coming days, the W3C Director will send the W3C Membership a Call for Review for the Encrypted Media Extensions Proposed Recommendation; and solicit feedback and expression of interest for the specification and the W3C Security Disclosures Be...

21 May 2015 The HTML Working Group has published a Group Note of HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives . This document contains best practice guidance for authors of HTML 5 documents on providing text alternatives for images. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

20 May 2015 At this year’s International World Wide Web Conference – WWW2015 , W3C organizes a W3C track , where conference participants are invited to learn from, meet and discuss with W3C’s team of experts. On 20 and 21 May 2015, the W3C Track program highlights current standards work developed thanks to the support of European projects: TV and multi-screens scenarios from MediaScape , Web apps and rich Web APIs from HTML5Apps , Web security architecture from Strews and Web of data from BigDataEurope . We hope to see you in Florence, Italy!

20 November 2014 W3C has published the October 2014 edition of Standards for 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. A deliverable of the HTML5Apps project, this edition includes changes and additions since July 2014, notably emerging work such as the Second Screen Presentation Working Group API to request display of content on an external screen, a draft API from the Web Bluetooth Community Group, Device APIs Working Group work on a generic pattern for sensors APIs, as well as work on an API to manage permissions across other APIs. Learn more about the Web and Mobile Interest Group .

31 July 2014 The HTML Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of HTML5 . This specification defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

15 February 2014 W3C is pleased to launch a new edition of its JavaScript online course , to help Web developers master good JavaScript practices and avoid the pitfalls of the language. The course is 4 weeks long, to start on 17 March 2014. This course is a condensed set of tricks, advice, tools and good practices built around JavaScript, with a logical flow that is always illustrated by examples and assignments. JavaScript is one of the three major Web developer tools, along with HTML5 and CSS3, so register before February 27 to benefit from the early bird rate. Register now to the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course , to start 27 March 2014. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This course edition features additional advanced sections on time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples...

30 September 2013 W3C announces today the new charter for the HTML Working Group , until the end of June 2015. The HTML Group mission remains the development of the HTML language and its associated APIs. This new charter includes an experiment where the HTML Working Group can publish some of their Recommendation-track specifications under a permissive license. This is intended to encourage collaboration and make it easier to reuse materials. See the charter and FAQ Regarding HTML Working Group Charter License Experiment for more details. The group remains on schedule to complete HTML 5.0 to W3C Recommendation in 2014 . Learn more about the HTML Working Group .

26 September 2013 Don’t miss it! Register now for the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course that starts next Monday, 30 September 2013. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This new course edition has been significantly enhanced since the June 2013 course. It features additional sections, including a JavaScript crash course, advanced techniques regarding time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples. Learn more about W3DevCampus , the official W3C online training for Web developers.

The Timed Text Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Timed Text Markup Language 1 (TTML1) (Second 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> element in an HTML5 document, or a <text> or ...

11 September 2013 W3C is present at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF'13) , happening now in San Francisco, USA. Through talks in developer sessions and discussions at the W3C booth, W3C explains the many advantages of using the Open Web Platform technologies , and how the W3DevCampus training program helps developers to get trained on these Web technologies. W3DevCampus is the only official training program and features a W3C HTML5 course now open for registration. Meet Bernard Gidon at the W3C booth at IDF'13 to learn more and then enroll to become an HTML5 expert!

28 August 2013 Register now to the upcoming W3C HTML5 online course , to start 30 September 2013. Acclaimed trainer Michel Buffa will cover the techniques developers and designers need to create great Web pages and apps. This new course edition has been significantly enhanced since the June 2013 course. It features additional sections, including a JavaScript crash course, advanced sections on time based animation, 2D geometric transformations, Web Audio API, etc., all illustrated by numerous examples. Register before September 8 to benefit from the early bird rate. Learn more about W3DevCampus , the W3C online training for Web developers.

22 August 2013 The HTML Working Group has published a Working Draft of Public Identifiers for entity resolution in XHTML . This document adds an additional public identifier that should be recognised by XHTML user agents and cause the HTML character entity definitions to be loaded. Unlike the identifiers already listed by the HTML5 specification, the identifier added by this extension references the set of defintions that is used by HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

22 August 2013 The RDFa Working Group today published three RDFa Recommendations. RDFa lets authors put machine-readable data in HTML documents. Using RDFa, authors may turn their existing human-visible text and links into machine-readable data without repeating content. Today's publications were: HTML+RDFa 1.1 , which defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules. The group also published two Second Editions for RDFa Core 1.1 and XHTML+RDFa 1.1 , folding in the errata reported by the community since their publication as Recommendations in June 2012; all changes were editorial. The group also updated the a RDFa 1.1 Primer . Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity .

06 August 2013 The HTML Working Group updated two Candidate Recommendations today: HTML5 , which defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to defining clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. HTML Canvas 2D Context , which defines the 2D Context for the HTML canvas element. The 2D Context provides objects, methods, and properties to draw and manipulate graphics on a canvas drawing surface. Learn more about the HTML Activity .

30 May 2013 W3C announced today Get Smart: Smart Homes, Cars and Devices on the Web , a W3C Workshop on Rich Multimodal Application Development, 22-23 July 2013, Metropolitan New York/NJ, USA. The event is hosted by Openstream. The goal of this workshop is to highlight the merits of HTML5 and the W3C Multimodal Interaction (MMI) Architecture and to demonstrate the maturity of the MMI Architecture and its suitability for developing innovative and compelling user-experiences across applications/devices. This Workshop is of particular interest to industries seeking to leverage the dramatic increase in new modes of interaction, such as speech, touch, gesture, handwriting, video cameras, and other sensors. Industries including health care, financial services, publishing, broadcasting, automotive, gaming, TV's, and consumer devices will find this workshop especially valuable as a way to learn how W3C standards support these new forms of interaction. W3C membership i...

11 September 2012 The RDFa Working Group has published a Working Draft of HTML+RDFa 1.1 .This specification defines rules and guidelines for adapting the RDFa Core 1.1 and RDFa Lite 1.1 specifications for use in HTML5 and XHTML5. The rules defined in this specification not only apply to HTML5 documents in non-XML and XML mode, but also to HTML4 and XHTML documents interpreted through the HTML5 parsing rules. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.

31 July 2012 The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0 . This document defines data categories and their implementation as a set of elements and attributes called the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 2.0. ITS 2.0 is the successor of ITS 1.0; it is designed to foster the creation of multilingual Web content, focusing on HTML5, XML based formats in general, and to leverage localization workflows based on the XML Localization Interchange File Format (XLIFF). In addition to HTML5 and XML, algorithms to convert ITS attributes to RDFa and NIF are provided. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity .

W3C is pleased to announce its newest online course dedicated to "Game Development in HTML5" . Developed and taught by Michal Budzynski, who recently ran onGameStart , where W3C/OpenMedia explored standardization needs around games with the Web games community. This course will last 4 weeks from 31 Oct. to 27 Nov. 2011 . Through this course, students will create browser based multiplayer games by using open Web technologies such as HTML5 Canvas, CSS Transitions, Timing control for script-based animations, Web Sockets and other JavaScript APIs. The full price of the course is €225 but we have a limited number of seats available at the early bird rate of €145, open until 22 October 2011. Register today!