WCAG 2.1 under exploration, comments requested by 1 November

12 October 2016 by Michael Cooper | Posted in: Accessibility, accessibility, WCAG

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group announces a plan to develop WCAG 2.1, which builds on but does not supersede WCAG 2.0. The group would like input from stakeholders on this plan. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 11 December 2008. It has been one of the major resources […]
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W3C Fall 2016 meeting and W3C Highlights

11 October 2016 by Jeff Jaffe | Posted in: CEO, Community and Business Groups, Decentralization, Digital Publishing, Meetings, Open Web, tpac

We held this year’s all work-group annual meeting a few weeks ago in Lisbon, Portugal. TPAC 2016 was a very productive and smooth meeting, where more than 550 experts from the Web community met. It was the highest attendance ever for a TPAC held in Europe, and close to the highest ever anywhere. Notably, it was […]
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Bringing Virtual Reality to the Web platform

19 September 2016 by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux | Posted in: Virtual Reality

The world of Virtual Reality in 2016 feels a lot like the world of Mobile in 2007: a lot of expectations around a new way to interact with users, a lot of innovations in hardware and software to make it a reality, and a lot of unknowns as to how these interactions would develop. Having […]
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HTML – from 5.1 to 5.2

15 September 2016 by Charles McCathie Nevile | Posted in: HTML, interoperability, specification, web standards, working group

There is a First Public Working Draft of HTML 5.2. There is also a Proposed Recommendation of HTML 5.1. What does that mean? What happened this year, what didn’t? And what next? First, the Proposed Recommendation. W3C develops specifications, like HTML 5.1, and when they are “done”, as agreed by the W3C, they are published […]
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Just how should we share data on the Web?

15 September 2016 by Phil Archer | Posted in: Data, Open Web, Workshops

The UK government is currently running a survey to elicit ideas on how it should update data.gov.uk. As one of the oldest such portals, despite various stages of evolution and upgrade, it is, unsurprisingly, showing signs of age. Yesterday’s blog post by Owen Boswarva offers a good summary of the kind of issues that arise […]
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Portable Web Publications Use Cases and Requirements FPWD

13 September 2016 by Tzviya Siegman | Posted in: Digital Publishing, Uncategorized

How do publications differ from web sites? What are the nuances of publishing on the web and making use of the tools of the Open Web Platform? Do publishers really need more than linked web sites? Yes, we do! Portable Web Publications Use Cases and Requirements provides detailed use cases and requirements from the Digital […]
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Dave Raggett at Industry of Things World

12 September 2016 by Coralie Mercier | Posted in: Conference, Open Web, Web of Things

It is our pleasure to announce that Dave Raggett, W3C lead for the Web of Things; and Georg Rehm, Manager of the German / Austrian Office of W3C, will hold a workshop at Industry of Things Worls in Berlin, Germany on Monday September 19, 2016. Workshop description: The value of the Internet of Things will […]
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Memento at the W3C

31 August 2016 by Herbert Van De Sompel | Posted in: HTTP, Semantic Web, Web Architecture

The W3C Wiki and the W3C specifications are now accessible using the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” protocol. This is the result of a collaboration between the W3C, the Prototyping Team of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Web Science and Digital Library Research Group at Old Dominion University. The Memento protocol is […]
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Building Blocks to Blockchains: a Report on the W3C Blockchains and the Web Workshop

26 August 2016 by Doug Schepers | Posted in: Blockchain, Community and Business Groups, Meetings, Technology, Web of Things, Web payments, Workshops

In June, W3C hosted a workshop to determine whether there were any aspects of blockchains that intersected with Web technologies, and if there were any specific technologies that were mature enough to consider for incubation toward standardization. We had lots of promising discussions and identified several next steps. You can read more details in the […]
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W3C Day in Spain: Web of Things to boost industrial productivity

16 August 2016 by Martin Alvarez-Espinar | Posted in: Conference, Offices, Web of Things, industry, iot, wot

Recently the W3C Spanish Office organized the W3C Day in Spain, an annual conference held in different cities across Spain. The objective of this event is facilitating a collaborative  environment that enables local stakeholders to share their knowledge on ICTs. This W3C Day is considered as one of the major forums in Spain to discuss about the future […]
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