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.)
Portable Web Publications: Technology Challenges
Documents numériques et le Web : construire la convergence
Digital documents and the Web: build the convergence
Ministère de L'Éducation Nationale, de L'enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche
Catching Up with Accessibility: Beginner's Basics
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)."
ACT Now: Accessibility Conformance Testing for WCAG
My Wallet’s Gone! The 2nd mobile wallet renaissance
The Web has turned into a programming environment, turning its back on its earlier roots of simplicity and ease-of-use. And in the process many properties of the early web have been lost. This talk will examine some of the desirable properties of a future web, such as accessibility, usability, semantics, decentralisation, privacy, aggregation and even what to do about the password problem.
Data-Driven Economy - on Semantic Intelligence and AI Technologies
Bernard said it was OK to post this brief talk of AC Rep Erik Mannens during a big event from W3C Member iMinds - who asked for our help in communications - as a W3C Talk.
The WAI to Web Accessibility: An Interactive Tour Through Resources form the W3C Web Accessibility
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.
See workshop detail page for more information and, after the talk, presentation slides.
Santillana Technology Network Annual Event
WCAG: New Needs, New Work to Enhance WAI Guidelines
The Web Accessibility Initiative undertakes new WCAG work and integrates user agent and authoring tool guidance. Come give us your views on priorities!
31st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference
In this third talk at SemWebPro in as many years, Phil Archer will describe the state of current activities at W3C related to the Semantic Web, such as Permissions and Obligations Expression, SHACL, Spatial Data on the Web Best Practices, SoLID and more, and look ahead to possible future standardisation work. For example, a current hot topic is how W3C can be better at supporting the development and management of vocabularies. What can we learn from the success of schema.org?
How the W3C and OGC are working together to create better understanding between the GIS and Web communities.
Payments and Blockchain on the Web
Dados na Web: porque é importante conectar
Interligar dados e aplicar técnicas da Web semântica em datasets abertos para torná-los encontráveis na Web pode significar um belo empurrão para quem faz uso de dados abertos. Complementar essas técnicas com muitas outras, como o Machine Learning por exemplo, pode aumentar as chances de negócios e ajudar na interoperabilidade em, tempos de IoT.
Data Science: O Y da questão
Introduction to Writing Systems and Unicode
This tutorial will provide you with a good understanding of the many unique characteristics of non-Latin writing systems, and illustrate the problems involved in implementing such scripts in products. It does not provide detailed coding advice, but does provide the essential background information you need to understand the fundamental issues related to Unicode deployment, across a wide range of scripts. The tutorial goes beyond encoding issues to discuss characteristics related to input of ideographs, combining characters, context-dependent shape variation, text direction, vowel signs, ligatures, punctuation, wrapping and editing, font issues, sorting and indexing, keyboards, and more. The concepts are introduced through the use of examples from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Hindi/Tamil, Russian and Greek.
Big Data Europe, an infrastructure for all
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.
International Workshop in Big Data Standards: European Initiatives
Petroleum retail opportunities with the web
Bernard Gidon will discuss the ‘Petroleum retail opportunities with the web’. Having led business development in a global context for the World Wide Web Consortium, Bernard is part of a team that develops and promotes open standards. t
“Portable multimodal applications for connected everything using W3C multimodal architecture”
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets
"Frictionless Multimodal Interfaces"
Web Payment is the next milestone in E-Commerce and in the digitalization of the merchant & customer relationship
The third Browser Was is over and it’s a bloodshed
The third Browser War ignited more or less in 2010 when the four (yes, only four…) companies owning a major Web rendering engine started fighting for market shares. That war now reaches an end, and the browser landscape is, in five years’ time, extremely different from what it used to be. In this talk, I’m going to give you an insider’s view of the events, and will dive into the specifics of some that made the headlines more than others. You will discover a world deeply driven by technology, but with one unique goal, world domination, and where individual behaviours are not always at their best.
web2day
REST Interfaces to the Internet of Things
This talk shares insights from an on-going project coordinating data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and using a declarative interface to that data. REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is the architectural basis of the web. As Wikipedia points out “REST’s coordinated set of constraints, applied to the design of components in a distributed hypermedia system, can lead to a higher-performing and more maintainable software architecture.” So how can you apply the same ideas to the Internet of Things? The Internet of Things is driven by many tiny low-powered processors that produce data in a variety of different formats, and produce the data in different ways, sometimes on demand (such as thermostats), sometimes by pushing it (such as presence detectors). Traditionally, applications have to be a mash up of accesses to devices and formats. To use the data in a cohesive application, the data has to be collected and integrated; this allows very low demands to be put on the devices themselves. This project places a thin REST-layer around a diverse collection of Internet of Things devices, hiding the data-format and data-access differences, and updating the devices automatically as needed; this then allows a REST-style declarative interface to access and control the devices without having to worry about the variety of device-interfaces and formats.
Digital Contracts: The new economy disruptor
Digital contracts are mechanisms to express the terms and conditions for digital content usage. Many attempts in the past have struggled with proprietary Digital Rights Management (DRM) infrastructure to assure content and rights information are transparently transacted. Digital permissions can also support Privacy and other policy assertions related to usage of digital data where no enforcement is desirable. With the emergence of HTML5 and Encrypted Media Extensions, we can envisage a truly open DRM system with digital contracts. This presentation will provide an overview of the past and present work in digital rights, and the emerging W3C permission expression language (ODRL). It will also cover the potential disruption with contract data becoming a part of the BlockChain infrastructure to support independently verifiable rights transactions.
Saving the Web from Itself: Security, Privacy, and the Social Web
For many users, Web purchases can be a frustrating experience, especially on mobile devices. Poor user experiences such as typing information again and again or following complex steps to payment lead all too often to error and high rates of cart abandonment. W3C has begun to work on a standard API to help streamline checkout. This API will enable superior user experiences and enable merchants to take advantage of more secure payment methods to reduce liability and protect sensitive user information. In this Webinar we will discuss the goals of this standards effort, the emerging architecture for the payment request API, and the anticipated impact on merchants and other e-Commerce players. We will also introduce other payment-related activities and discussions at W3C that will affect merchants and other stakeholders in the global payment ecosystem.
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Invisible XML is a technique for treating any parsable format as if it were XML, and thus allowing any parsable object to be injected into an XML pipeline. The parsing can also be undone, thus allowing roundtripping. This talk discusses issues with automatic serialisation, and the relationship between Invisible XML grammars and data schemas.
Invisible XML, ixml for short, is a generic technique for treating any parsable format as if it were XML, and thus allowing any parsable object to be injected into an XML pipeline. Based on the observation that XML can just be seen as the description of a parse-tree, any document can be parsed, and then serialised as XML. The parsing can also be undone, thus allowing roundtripping. This paper discusses issues around grammar design, and in particular parsing algorithms used to recognise any document, and converting the resultant parse-tree into XML, and gives a new perspective on a classic algorithm.
The Right Tool for the Job: Traditional Standards, Open Source, and Hybridization
Melhores práticas para Dados na Web
This lecture will provide best practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines. Where data is used in some way, whether by the originator of the data or by an external party, such usage should also be discoverable and the efforts of the data publisher recognized. In short, following these best practices will facilitate interaction between publishers and consumers.
Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
XForms is a W3C standard that was originally designed to allow the specification of form-handling on the web. However, after the release of version 1.0, it was quickly realised that with a small amount of generalisation the markup could be used for more general processing and application definition. And so was born XForms 1.1. XForms has now been in use for a number of years, and is widely used on websites, but also for other applications, such as the definition of machine interfaces, the operation of submarines, for ship-building, banking and insurance, food processing, medical research, and many others. The Dutch weather service KNMI is based on XForms; several Dutch government ministries use XForms. XForms is an integral part of ODF, the Open Office Format. XForms has a number of unique properties when compared with most framework languages. Firstly it has a strict separation of data and user-interface, allowing you to specify what might be called data sheets with initial values, types, constraints and dependencies, separately from the interface. Secondly, the interface uses intent-based controls that only specify what the control is supposed to do, and not how it should achieve that. That means for instance that the same control can drive a menu, or a drop down list or radio buttons, depending on needs. This can be changed by style sheets for instance. This makes applications far more device-independent, since an application can adapt to its environment, rather than requiring the author to write different applications for different devices. Thirdly, functionality is specified declaratively rather than procedurally. This reduces the size of application significantly, and vastly reduces production times and costs (examples have shown that an order of magnitude savings can be achieved). This talk introduces the elements of XForms, and then develops a Google-maps-style application in about 100 lines of code.
NLUUG najaarsconferentie
Les Assises du Livre Numérique
11th International Digital Curation Conference
The Significance and Technical Opportunities of the Data Boom
Databoom - responses from municipalities and government
A história das CSS: do Working Group às especificações
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I'm Newton Calegari, I'm currently working at W3C Brazil's office, hosted at NIC.br. I'll delivery this presentation in the Northeast region at an event for Web Developers focused on CSS.
The CSS History: from the Working Group to the specs
The CSS history will be shown in this presentation, which also will show about the CSS Working Group as well as the W3C process of creating specs and recommendations.
The publishing industry uses more and more Web technologies. E-books are already based on HTML and CSS. That opens the perspective of more integration between books and the Web: Books can connect to the Web and the Web can benefit from better typography and structuring of information. But, in reality, HTML and CSS are barely enough for a simple novel. CSS needs better typographic quality and more layout capabilities.
Web.br 2016 Conferência Web W3C Brasil
The WAI to Web Accessibility: Education & Outreach Update 2016
Learn how to get the most from new and updated web accessibility educational resources. And learn how you can directly help advance web accessibility.
CSUN - International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference
A combination of improvements in hardware and software capabilities has resulted in a lot of excitement around virtual reality experiences. In this session, we will explore how many of these improved capabilities are supported in modern browsers, and why the Web provides a promising pre-existing ecosystem for creating, distributing and experiencing virtual reality content, applications, and services.
Migration vers HTTPS des serveurs Web du W3C - retour d'expérience
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.
W3C Web Standards Work for the Automotive Industry
The World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, is known for standards like HTML and CSS but there's a lot more to it than that. Mobile, automotive, publishing, graphics, TV and more. Then there are horizontal issues like privacy, security, accessibility and internationalisation. Many of these assume that there is an underlying data infrastructure to power applications. In this session, W3C's Data Activity Lead, Phil Archer, will describe the overall vision for better use of the Web as a platform for sharing data and how that translates into recent, current and possible future work. What's the difference between using the Web as a data platform and as a glorified USB stick? Why does it matter? And what makes a standard a standard anyway?
The Language User Interface to the Internet of Things: Tools, Standards and Resources
Which emerging standards, such as WebRTC, SCXML and discovery and registration of multimodal modality components, should SpeechTEK attendees be aware of? What new standards and extensions for existing standards are needed to accelerate the development of new applications using speech technologies? Which standards would enable virtual agents to communicate with one another? What new speech standards are needed, such as statistical language models or JavaScript APIs in the browser? Which standards organizations should be involved? How can standards accommodate advances in spoken dialogue technology, such as statistical dialogue management or incremental speech processing?
An overview of the current and possible future activities at W3C with an emphasis on Phil Archer's particular interest of data.
Autralian Government Digital Transformation Office
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?
Testing: A Critical Accelerator for Accessibility, and How to Get There
What is the role of the Web in Big Data? What are the opportunities and potential pitfalls?
The future of big data in the UK: growth, challenges and the policy context
The state of the W3C Web Performance Working Group
Over the last few years, the W3C Web Performance Working Group has been working to add several new performance-related APIs and to evolve the existing ones. Todd Reifsteck and Philippe Le Hegaret discuss the work the W3C Web Performance Working Group is doing, as well as performance-related efforts by other groups, so that you can be up to date with the latest developments and what’s coming next. Todd and Philippe 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.
Tackling Data Security and Privacy Challenges for the Internet of Things
Understanding the unique challenges of security for the IoT, and preparing for the next evolutions of the technologies involve Addressing the risks of big data – greater volume of sensitive data creating a greater risk of data and identity theft, device manipulation, data falsification, IP theft and server/network manipulation etc. Enabling data security in IoT – protecting integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of information Exploring issues of privacy – to what extent users require privacy, and how it can be maintained whilst still making data useful Overcoming the fragmentation of the IoT - W3C's work on the Web of Things
Developing Multimodal Applications for New Platforms
Multimodal interfaces, combining speech, graphics, and sensor input, are becoming increasingly important for interaction with the rapidly expanding variety of nontraditional platforms, including mobile, wearable, robots, and devices in the Internet of Things. User interfaces on these platforms will need to be much more varied than traditional user interfaces. We demonstrate how to develop multimodal clients using standards such as WebRTC, WebAudio, and Web Sockets and the Open Web Platform, including open technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. We also discuss integration with cloud resources for technologies such as speech recognition and natural language understanding. Attendees should have access to a browser that supports the Open Web Platform standards, for example, the current versions of Chrome, Firefox, or Opera. Basic knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript would be very helpful.
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.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity
WAI International Program Office Activity