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The Protocols and Formats Working Group and HTML Working Group published a First Public Working Draft of HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0 (HTML-AAM). This specification defines how user agents map HTML markup to platform accessibility application programming interfaces (APIs). Documenting these mappings promotes interoperable exposure of roles, states, properties, and events implemented by accessibility APIs, and helps to ensure that this information appears in a manner consistent with author intent. It provides HTML-specific guidance to define how the HTML user agent must respond to keyboard focus, native HTML features, and role, state, and property attributes provided in web content via WAI-ARIA. It is part of a set of technology-specific modules that provide accessibility API mapping support for features in WAI-ARIA 1.1.

The mappings defined in this specification were previously published as HTML to Platform Accessibility APIs Implementation Guide. Since the time that document was created, work on WAI-ARIA 1.1 and HTML 5.1 have led to a larger set of related Accessibility API mappings and the need to express the mappings for various technologies in a consistent manner, so that earlier draft specification will be retired. Learn more about the HTML Activity and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Working Draft of The Permissions API. The Permissions API allows a web application to be aware of the status of a given permission, to know if it is granted, denied or if the user will be asked whether the permission should be granted. Learn more about the Security Activity.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of HTML5 Web Messaging. This specification defines two mechanisms for communicating between browsing contexts in HTML documents. Comments are welcome through 07 May. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

Today the W3C Advisory Committee Representatives received a Proposal to license the Contacts API, Messaging API and Telephony API Specifications. Pursuant to the W3C Policy on Relicensing Unfinished W3C Specifications, the Director proposes to relicense the Specifications under a choice of license: CC-BY, W3C Software License or BSD 2-clause license. In the event that W3C chooses a default permissive license during or after this relicensing, W3C will also make the Specifications available under such license. Public comments are welcome through 5 May 2015.

The Tracking Protection Working Group has published a Working Draft of Tracking Compliance and Scope. This specification defines a set of practices for compliance with a user’s Do Not Track (DNT) tracking preference to which a server may claim adherence. Learn more about the Privacy Activity.

The HTML Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of Media Source Extensions. This specification extends HTMLMediaElement to allow JavaScript to generate media streams for playback. Allowing JavaScript to generate streams facilitates a variety of use cases like adaptive streaming and time shifting live streams.

The group also published a Working Draft of Encrypted Media Extensions. This proposal extends HTMLMediaElement HTML5 providing APIs to control playback of protected content. Learn more about the HTML Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Scroll Snap Points Module Level 1. This module contains features to control panning and scrolling behavior with “snap points”. The group also published a Group Note of CSS Template Layout Module. A grid template can be seen as a cross between table layout and absolute positioning, and can also be associated with pages in paged media to create page templates. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Working Draft of UI Events (formerly DOM Level 3 Events). This specification defines UI Events which extend the DOM Event objects defined in DOM4. UI Events are those typically implemented by visual user agents for handling user interaction such as mouse and keyboard input. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

W3C and the Web Application Security Working Group invite implementation of “Mixed Content,” a specification that aims to improve web security by describing how a user agent should handle fetching of content loaded in a mixed security context. Specifically, it provides recommendations for the handling of content fetched over unencrypted or unauthenticated connections in the context of an encrypted and authenticated document. The WebAppSec WG, part of the Security Activity, welcomes comments on its public mailing list.

The RDFa Working Group has published four Edited Recommendations for RDFa 1.1, namely HTML+RDFa 1.1, RDFa Core 1.1, RDFa Lite 1.1, and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. The HTML+RDFa 1.1 Recommendation had to be updated now that both RDF 1.1 Concepts and HTML5 are Recommendations, in order to resolve dependencies and finalize the pending normative status of some HTML+RDFa 1.1 features. Using the opportunity of a republication of this document, the few editorial errata in all the RDFa 1.1 documents have also been taken care of. The Working Group has also published a new version of the RDFa 1.1 Primer Working Group Note. Learn more about the Data Activity.

W3C announced today the W3C Workshop on Digital Marketing, 29-30 April 2015, in Tampa, Florida (USA). The event is hosted by Nielsen.

Digital Marketing and the ecosystem surrounding it are growing at an unprecedented pace as consumers take advantage of new devices, features, and content on the Web; our core focus. As the Open Web Platform and technologies such as HTML5 continue to expand and offer new functionalities, brands, interactive marketers, content publishers and third party providers are calling W3C’s attention to gaps and challenges.

Our goal is to better understand which changes to the Open Web Platform would help improve interoperability, increase efficiencies, enable new innovations, and enhance communications. Topics of discussion include Security, and interaction with security measures; Data-gathering and measurement; performance, etc. W3C membership is not required to participate. The event is open to all. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 10 April 2015.