W3C

Today W3C and JTC 1, a joint technical committee of ISO and IEC, announced formal approval of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 as an ISO/IEC International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500. "This important accessibility standard, which is already widely deployed internationally, can now benefit from additional formal recognition from ISO/IEC national bodies," noted Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO. "Such recognition is expected to increase internationally harmonized uptake of WCAG 2.0 by governments, business, and the broader Web community."

ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original WCAG 2.0 Standard from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Supporting resources that provide practical advice for meeting ISO/IEC 40500 / WCAG 2.0 are freely available from the WCAG Overview. Read the full press release, learn more about W3C's PAS Submitter status in the W3C PAS FAQ, and comment on the blog post.

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Implementing ATAG 2.0: A guide to understanding and implementing Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. Implementing ATAG 2.0 is a planned Note to support ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The WebFonts Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of WOFF File Format 1.0. This document specifies the WOFF font packaging format. This format was designed to provide lightweight, easy-to-implement compression of font data, suitable for use with CSS @font-face rules. Any properly licensed TrueType/OpenType/Open Font Format file can be packaged in WOFF format for Web use. User agents decode the WOFF file to restore the font data such that it will display identically to the input font. Comments are welcome through 08 November. Learn more about the Fonts Activity.

The Semantic Web Interest Group has published a Group Note of Microdata to RDF. HTML microdata is an extension to HTML used to embed machine-readable data into HTML documents. Whereas the microdata specification describes a means of markup, the output format is JSON. This specification describes processing rules that may be used to extract RDF from an HTML document containing microdata. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.