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Talks by W3C Speakers (Recent and Upcoming)

Many in the W3C community — including staff, chairs, and Member representatives — present W3C work at conferences and other events. Below you will find a list some of the talks. All material is copyright of the author, except where otherwise noted.

September 2009

October 2009

  • 2009 7 Oct

    W3C and the Social Web

    by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux , in cooperation with the Italy Office

    Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    An increasing number of our social interactions are now done through the Web: this Social Web offers numerous innovation opportunities for enriching both the personal and work life of its participants. But beyond these opportunities, there are still many technical, policy and social challenges that need to be addressed, some of which W3C has started to tackle, through a workshop early 2009, and an ongoing incubator group dedicated to that topic.

  • 2009 9 Oct

    Opening up social networks

    by Renato Iannella , in cooperation with the Australia Office

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    The W3C Social Web Incubator Group (XG) has been investigating challenges with the purpose to define a number of new standards that can address the needs of the social web users and balance the needs from the servicer providers. This talk will look at the social profile portability needs and the policy (privacy and rights) directions needed to break down the “walled gardens” of social networks

  • 2009 12 Oct

    Mobile Web Best Practices

    by Phil Archer

    London Web Standards Meetup

    London, United Kingdom

    Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:

    How do you create great content for mobile? What do you do differently compared with the desktop world? How do you make sure that no matter what device someone is using, they will be able to access your content and services while on the move? Do you create completely separate mobile and desktop versions?

    These are the sorts of questions addressed in the W3C’s own Mobile Web Best Practices course. Phil Archer, who leads the training course at W3C, will argue that a standards-based approach is an important foundation but what’s really required is a different way of thinking that reflects the stark difference between a user sitting in front of a desk and one sitting on a park bench, or a bus, a restaurant table or wherever.

    Designing for mobile consumers is the key, rather than designing for mobile technology.

  • 2009 14 Oct

    An Introduction to Writing Systems & Unicode (tutorial)

    by Richard Ishida

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    The 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. It has also proved to be an excellent orientation for newcomers to the conference, providing the background needed to assist understanding of the other talks! 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 a nd Greek. While the tutorial is perfectly accessible to beginners, it has also attracted very good reviews from people at an intermediate and advanced level, due to the breadth of scripts discussed. No prior knowledge is needed.

  • 2009 14 Oct

    Creating HTML Pages with Right-to-Left Scripts (tutorial)

    by Richard Ishida

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    This short tutorial explains how to go about creating XHTML and HTML pages containing text written in the Arabic or Hebrew scripts. The tutorial examines how best to achieve the correct effect for these bi-directional scripts using appropriate markup, CSS properties and Unicode code points or entities. It covers the basics, and goes beyond to provide recommended techniques for some of the tricky situations that even native speakers can struggle with. The tutorial assumes a basic familiarity with the bi-directional characteristics of Arabic and Hebrew, as well as a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.

  • 2009 14 Oct

    Internationalization: An Introduction (tutorial)

    by Addison Phillips

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:

    What is internationalization? What do developers, product managers, or quality engineers need to know about it? How does a software development organization incorporate internationalization into the design, implementation, and delivery of an application?

    This tutorial track provides an introduction to the topics of internationalization, localization and globalization. Attendees will understand the overall concepts and approach necessary to analyze a product for internationalization issues, develop a design or approach, and deliver a global-ready solution. The focus is on architectural approaches and general concepts, but will include specific examples and exercises.

  • 2009 15 Oct

    W3C and W3C Offices - an overview

    by Klaus Birkenbihl , in cooperation with the Germany and Austria Office

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) claims to "lead the Web to its full potential". The talk illustrates by whom and how it is done. One part of the concept are the W3C Offices. The first W3C Offices were part of a project that was initiated by W3C with support from the EU in 1997. Offices were established to improve the regional presence of W3C and to overcome language barriers. The first 4 Offices were in UK, Netherlands, Germany and Greece. It will be outlined why the Offices program turned out to be a success and what are the challenges and chances for the future.

  • 2009 15 Oct

    W3C y Linked Open Data (W3C and Linked Open Data)

    by Martín Álvarez

    Jornada sobre Interoperabilidad del ITI
    (ITI's Conference on Interoperability)

    Valencia, Spain

    Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .

  • 2009 15 Oct

    BCP47: Language and Locale Identification

    by Addison Phillips

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:

    In 2006, the IETF issued an updated version of BCP 47 "Tags for Identifying Languages", which updated the way languages are identified in most computer programs and protocols. The latest version of BCP 47 (2009) incorporates over 7,000 new languages and many other improvements. This presentation, from the authors of the updated and previous RFCs, covers:

    • the format of language tags and the language subtag registry
    • the matching algorithms for comparing language tags to user preferences
    • plus distance-based algorithms
    • the new features in BCP 47 and their impact on developers
    and how BCP 47 is being used in:
    • Unicode locales (CLDR)
    • prominent open-source libraries such as ICU
    • companies such as Google and Amazon

  • 2009 16 Oct

    Evolution of the Web on Mobile Devices (panel)

    by Matt Womer

    Mobile 2.0

    San Francisco, California, USA

    Relevant technology areas: Web Design and Applications , Browsers and Other Agents , and Web of Devices .

  • 2009 16 Oct

    Developing for Mobile with HTML5

    by Matt Womer

    Mobile 2.0

    San Francisco, California, USA

    Relevant technology areas: Web Design and Applications , Browsers and Other Agents , and Web of Devices .

  • 2009 21 Oct

    Browser Standardization (panel)

    by Philipp Hoschka

    Mobile Web and Applications 2009

    London, United Kingdom

    Relevant technology area: Web of Devices .

  • 2009 21 Oct

    La visión del W3C sobre la accesibilidad (W3C's vision on accessibility)

    by Martín Álvarez

  • 2009 21 Oct

    Estándares en la Web (Standards in the Web)

    by Martín Álvarez

    Conferencia IADIS Ibero Americana
    (WWW/INTERNET 2009 Iberoamercian IADIS Conference )

    Madrid, Spain

  • 2009 26 Oct

    Little vs Large Semantics: What's next for the Semantic Web languages? (panel)

    by Ivan Herman

    Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .

  • 2009 27 Oct

    Linked Open Data e Interoperabilidad (Linked Open Data and Interoperability)

    by Martín Álvarez

    Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .

  • 2009 27 Oct

    Semantic Web and microformats

    by Bert Bos

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    Microformats provide an easy way for people to make certain common kinds of information in Web pages machine-readable. They contribute greatly to the semantic Web. But privacy features are not (yet) part of them.

  • 2009 29 Oct

    The Open Web

    by Steven Pemberton

    NLUUG Najaarsconferentie "Het Open Web"
    (NLUUG Autumn Conference "The Open Web")

    Ede, The Netherlands

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

  • 2009 29 Oct

    WAI-ARIA Introduction: Making Advanced Websites and Web Applications Accessible

    by Shawn Henry

    ATIA 2009 Chicago

    Chicago, IL, USA

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    This presentation introduces WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Internet Applications. WAI-ARIA defines a way to make websites and web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. With WAI-ARIA, developers can make advanced web applications accessible and usable to people with disabilities. Currently certain functionality used in web applications is not available to some users with disabilities, especially people who rely on screen readers and people who cannot use a mouse. WAI-ARIA addresses these accessibility challenges, for example, by defining new ways for functionality to be provided to assistive technology. More specifically, WAI-ARIA provides a framework for identifying user interaction features, how they relate to each other, and their current state. For example, with WAI-ARIA, developers can identify menus, navigat ion, primary content, and other regions of pages, and thus enable keyboard users to easily move among regions, rather than having to press Tab many times. This session describes the problems that WAI-ARIA addresses, and introduces how WAI-ARIA solves them. We'll also clearly demonstrate the more simple aspects of WAI-ARIA that apply even to basic websites.

  • 2009 29 Oct

    ¿Por qué los servicios electrónicos se usan tan poco? cómo hacer frente a la cruda realidad

    by José Manuel Alonso , in cooperation with the Spain Office

  • 2009 30 Oct

    Web技術の現状と将来 (Web Technology now and the future)

    by Masao Isshiki , Kazuyuki Ashimura , and Michael(tm) Smith

    オープンソースカンファレンス 2009 Tokyo/Fall
    (Open Source Conference 2009 Tokyo/Fall)

    Tokyo, Japan

  • 2009 30 Oct

    Introduction to the Semantic Web (tutorial)

    by Ivan Herman

    Company Presentation at Johnson & Johnson

    Philadelphia, USA

    Relevant technology area: Semantic Web .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    This tutorial gives an overview of the basic Semantic Web Technologies developed at W3C. Using practical examples, the fundamentals of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) are presented, followed by an overview of RDF Schemas (a.k.a. RDF Vocabulary Description Language), the standard Query language (SPARQL), and the Web Ontology Language (OWL), including some of the recent features of OWL 2. The presentation also includes some words on the newest evolution of rules in the Semantic Web, namely RIF. During the presentation examples of practical usage, coming from industrial or governmental applications, are also provided.
    Participants are not expected to have a prior knowledge of Semantic Web technologies.

  • 2009 30 Oct

    Web Accessibility Standards and Guidelines Update 2009

    by Shawn Henry

    ATIA 2009 Chicago

    Chicago, IL, USA

    Relevant technology area: Web Design and Applications .

    (see abstract)

    Abstract:
    This presentation provides the latest on new international Web accessibility standards from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), and the U.S. TEITAC Committee report for updating Section 508 and Section 255 standards. WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 published in December 2008 defines how to make websites accessible, including web applications developed with Ajax. In 2009, WAI accessibility guidelines/standards are being updated for browsers and other "user agents", as well as for authoring tools including content management systems (CMS), blog software, social networking sites, and more. This session also covers the overlap between designing for people with disabilities and designing for older users with age-related impairments. We'll review the findings and current work of the WAI-AGE project (Web Accessibility Initiative: Ageing Education and Harmonisation). You'll also get examples of the overlap between making a website accessible for a mo bile device and for people with disabilities. The presentation gives you background and support for promoting web accessibility in a variety of situations, from individual websites to government requirements. You'll get a clear overview of how the different standards relate, a summary of the new requirements, and practical guidance on finding the information you need.

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