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29 June 2021 | Archive
60% of the world is online and we want and need to reflect the diversity of the whole world as more people continue to access, use and create the web. We believe that more diversity means better representation, which leads to better and more inclusive design. Indeed, more background, more use cases, more edge cases, lead to a better Web. More diversity also brings higher quality results.
We aspire to be a model in supporting greater diversity in technology. We continue to have a long way to go but we have taken steps so that we both attract more diverse participants and also encourage them to be welcome in our environment.
Among these steps is the opening today of the W3C TPAC Inclusion Fund’s applications, until 15 August; and in September the new TPAC Fellows honorarium of US$ 500 will be awarded to a few to cover work towards W3C goals done outside of habitual paid work. Both offerings are designed for people from an underrepresented group who wouldn’t be able to attend or meaningfully contribute to TPAC without financial support.
The TPAC Inclusion Fund is sponsored by W3C and W3C members Adobe, Samsung Electronics, Coil, Microsoft, TetraLogical, Siteimprove, as well as Charles Nevile and an anonymous donor. We recognize and thank them for this important gesture.
Our CEO Jeff Jaffe has written about this today and we invite you to read his 2021 update on diversity and inclusion at W3C which also describes these offerings in detail.
17 June 2021 | Archive
The Audio Working Group has published Web Audio API as a W3C Recommendation. This specification describes a high-level Web API for creating, shaping, and processing audio directly in a Web browser or in web applications.
With the API standardized and deployed as a royalty-free feature in Web browsers and other devices and platforms, both on desktop and mobile, creating sound with the Web Audio API has become a dependable, widely available, built-in capability, eliminating the need to install plugins or download separate applications. You may read more in our Press Release.
30 April 2021 | Archive
Today W3C released to the public the April 2021 edition of our W3C Strategic Highlights which documents the tremendous work to enhance, grow and strengthen the Web platform, and how the Web Consortium meets the needs of industry and society as a whole.
At the same time, as we celebrate the anniversary of the release of the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993 by CERN, our CEO Jeff Jaffe has published his reflections on the centrality of the Web Consortium as the Web has been accelerating to meet society’s needs, and on the importance of the Web infrastructure in the modern world.
Human civilization is at an extraordinary juncture. The Web Consortium is in an incredible position to host the open forum where diverse voices from different parts of the world come together to incubate and build the global standards for the Web in the 25 years to come.
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