The Big Data Europe project is building a powerful and flexible platform designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of researchers. From health to agriculture; from energy, climate, transport and social sciences through to security (the EC's 7 societal challenges). Providing an easy to use and unified toolkit requires that the semantics of the data are discoverable, irrespective of formats. Merging and manipulating multiple datasets or real time data sources may also require a knowledge of permissions and obligations expressed by the data owner. W3C's Data Activity Lead will look briefly at the pilot studies being carried out under the Big Data Europe project and the challenges for standardisation that they present.

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The W3C Web Performance Working Group have been working in the last few years to add several new performance related APIs and to evolve the existing ones.

The session will cover the work of the working group as well as other performance related efforts that are being worked by other groups, so that you can be up to date with the latest developments and with what’s coming next.

It will also discuss how easy it is to get involved, provide feedback and influence the direction that these standards will take, in order to help shape the future of Web performance and the Web in general.

Learn how to get the most from new and updated web accessibility educational resources. And learn how you can directly help advance web accessibility.

The Web Accessibility Initiative undertakes new WCAG work and integrates user agent and authoring tool guidance. Come give us your views on priorities!

Les nouvelles tendances de sécurité poussent depuis quelques années à l’adoption du tout HTTPS pour sécuriser l’intégrité et la confidentialité des échanges entre serveurs et navigateurs. Orthogonalement, on a des nouvelles spécifications complémentaires développées au W3C et à l’IETF qui permettent de faciliter la migration d’un serveur et son contenu vers HTTPS (HSTS, Upgrade-Insecure-Requests). Enfin, un dernier niveau permet d’indiquer aux navigateurs des politiques de sécurité pour l’utilisation du contenu (CSP), afin de minimiser, voire éliminer les attaques XSS et clickjacking parmi d’autres et en même temps d’ouvrir de manière contrôlée le partage des données issues de différentes domaines (CORS). Je propose de donner une introduction à ces différentes technologies, leurs possibilités et des outils permettant d’évaluer le niveau de sécurité d’un serveur en se basant sur un retour d’expérience de la migration vers HTTPS des serveurs Web du W3C.

If you're just getting started in web accessibility or if you want to make sure you have the basics covered, this class is for you. It provides you with a solid foundation for understanding how people with disabilities use the web, experiencing common web accessibility barriers, and learning the easy things and the most important things you can do now to get up to speed on accessibility. We'll focus mostly on the user experience aspects of web accessibility, and mention a little about the underlying code. (You don't need to know HTML or coding to get a lot from this class.) For those who want to learn about checking/evaluating web accessibility, this class provides a good basis for tomorrow's class, "Easy Checks for Web Accessibility: Get the Gist (No Experience Necessary)."

Have you ever wondered: "Is this web page accessible?" If you can use the Web, you can get a good start at an answer — no expertise required! Whereas web accessibility evaluation tools spit out complex results that require knowledge to interpret, the W3C resource "Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility" provides a different approach. It walks you through some basic accessibility evaluation with guidance for understanding what you are checking. Most people can complete these checks in about 10 minutes once they understand them. If you're new to web accessibility, it will take some time to learn. This session provides a jump start to understanding and using Easy Checks so that you can start to answer: "Is this web page accessible?” (Monday's class, "Catching Up with Accessibility: Beginners Basics," provides a handy background for this class; however, it is not a prerequisite.)

W3C WAI is best know for WCAG, the international web standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Yet WAI provides a wealth of web accessibility information for project managers, content authors, developers, designers, testers, policy makers, trainers, people with disabilities, accessibility advocates, and others. However, some people are overwhelmed from starting with the standards. But there's an easier way! In this class we'll help you find the gold within the WAI website. WAI provides resources to help you create an environment where accessibility flourishes -- whether you need to better understand how people use the web, prepare a business case to secure management support, train developers new to accessibility, integrate accessibility into a project plan, write an accessibility policy, meet international standards, or learn best practices for mobile accessibility. Whatever your web accessibility questions, and we'll show you where to go for answers. You'll also get a sneak peak at new resources in development and learn how you can help advance web accessibility and share your insights with others.

One of the Web’s greatest strengths is its generality, its openness to new links and unexpected uses. Openness also means that different applications and users have different security goals and threat models. A mash-up that’s desired by one may be dangerous to another. As stewards of the Open Web Platform, W3C aims to accommodate these different needs through modular components, including work on user security and authentication, cooperative policy enforcement, and platform-level reviews. I’ll talk about what’s done, what’s in progress, and where we’re looking next to support an environment for trustworthy application development. Among the topics of current work, I will share updates on: WebCrypto and Authentication: can we kill the password yet? WebAppSec CSP and more: cooperative policy enforcement in the browser HTTPS upgrade: making it easier for Web apps to go secure Security and Privacy Considerations: building security in to specs and their implementations We’ll also talk about broader patterns. While we can’t guarantee the security of “the Web” as an application platform, we can make it easier for authors to write secure Web apps, and for users to distinguish those they trust. Can we take the hard-earned lessons of Web security to other environments that are opening, such as the burgeoning universe of connected things and cars? Can we get both security and space for innovation?