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The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a Working Draft of CSS Transitions. This document introduces new CSS features to enable implicit transitions, which describe how CSS properties can be made to change smoothly from one value to another over a given duration. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The HTML Working Group has published two Working Drafts today:

• W3C DOM4, which defines a platform-neutral model for events, promises, and document nodes.
• Use Cases and Requirements for Standardizing Responsive Images, which captures the use cases and requirements for standardizing a solution for responsive images. The use cases and requirements were gathered with consultation with the HTML Working Group and WHATWG participants, Responsive Images Community Group members, and the general public.

Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) invites implementations of the Candidate Recommendation Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0, and comments on a Working Draft of the Note Implementing 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, and defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. ATAG is introduced in the ATAG Overview and ATAG at a Glance. Authoring tools include content management systems (CMS), learning management systems (LMS), HTML editors, blogs, wikis, social media, and development environments. AUWG invites developers of authoring tools who might be interested in sharing your ATAG implementation experience to contact AUWG by 7 December 2013. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (UAWG) today published the Last Call Working Draft of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0 and a Working Draft of Implementing UAAG 2.0. UAAG defines how browsers, media players, and other "user agents" should support accessibility for people with disabilities and work with assistive technologies. UAWG particularly requests that developers of browsers, media players, and web applications review and comment on these guidelines by 16 December 2013. Learn more in the UAAG Overview and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).