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This is the 29 November – 6 December 2013 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in […]
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Today we invite guest blogger Gerardo Capiel, VP of Engineering of Benetech, who joined the Consortium to participate in the Digital Publishing Interest Group (DPUB IG). This is cross-posted on the Digital Publishing Blog. In October of this year, Benetech joined the World Wide Web Consortium to more deeply participate in the evolution of standards […]
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As a complement to the HTML5 Tour in India and last year’s HTML5 Tour in Europe, the W3C Germany and Austria Office (W3C.DE/AT) invites you to the fourth HTML5 day. The event will be held in Vienna and targets Web developers, programmers, students, teachers and everybody interested in the evolution of the Web. After a […]
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October 14th was chosen in 1946 to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy. Last year for the WSD, we celebrated the creation of OpenStand, as a way to crystallize the principles of standardization used to create and evolve the Internet and the Web. This […]
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We've got another update to the WCAG 2.0 supporting documents for your review... Some of the updates in these drafts provide important clarifications on the role of techniques....
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After a successful start on Monday, the workshop on eBooks and W3C continued and concluded yesterday. The goal of the Workshop, as I explained yesterday, was to explore how the digital publishing community could work with W3C for a better...
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The IndieUI Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of IndieUI: Events 1.0. IndieUI: Events focuses on common types of user interface interactions that are controlled in different ways across platforms, such as scrolling the view, canceling an action, changing the value of a user input widget, selecting a range, placing focus on an object, etc. These user intentions can be inferred from hardware- and platform-specific user interactions through the keyboard, mouse, speech, or touch input.
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We're very pleased to announce that WCAG 2.0 is now also an ISO International Standard, ISO/IEC 40500:2012. ISO/IEC 40500 is exactly the same as the original WCAG 2.0 standard from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), which remains freely available along with supporting resources from the WCAG Overview.
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W3C (and friends, like Nigel Shadbolt) will participate in the first edition of the Open Data Conference taking place on September 27, 2012 in Paris, France. This conference brings together an international set of experts to discuss current challenges as...
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Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out....
Read on to learn how to make your presentations, talks, meetings, training, conferences, etc. accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...
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