Groups
A variety of W3C groups
enable W3C to pursue its mission through the creation
of Web standards, guidelines, and supporting
materials.
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Compound Document Formats
Efficient XML Interchange
Evaluation and Repair Tools
Internationalization Core
Mobile Web Best Practices
Mobile Web Initiative Test Suites
Contact: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Protocol for Web Description Resources (POWDER)
Service Modeling Language
Ubiquitous Web Applications
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Services Resource Access
Internationalization (I18n)
Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)
Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D)
Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences
Model-based User Interfaces
Open Web Education Alliance
About W3C Groups
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Working Groups
- Working Groups typically produce deliverables
(e.g., standards track technical reports, software,
test suites, and reviews of the deliverables of other
groups).
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Interest Groups
- The primary goal of an Interest Group is to bring
together people who wish to evaluate potential Web
technologies and policies. An Interest Group is a
forum for the exchange of ideas.
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Coordination Groups
- A Coordination Group manages dependencies and
facilitates communication with other groups, within
or outside of W3C.
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Incubator Groups
- Incubator Groups foster rapid development, on a
time scale of a year or less, of new Web-related
concepts. Target concepts include innovative ideas
for specifications, guidelines, and applications that
are not (or not yet) clear candidates for development
and more thorough scrutiny under the current W3C
Recommendation Track.
In addition to these groups, W3C has chartered two
permanent groups:
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Technical Architecture Group
(TAG)
- W3C created the TAG to document and build
consensus around principles of Web architecture and
to interpret and clarify these principles when
necessary. The TAG also helps to resolve issues
involving general Web architecture brought to the
TAG, and helps coordinate cross-technology
architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
Some TAG Participants are elected by by the W3C
Members, others are appointed by the W3C
Director.
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Advisory Board (AB)
- The Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to
the Team on issues of strategy, management, legal
matters, process, and conflict resolution. The
Advisory Board also serves the Members by tracking
issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings,
soliciting Member comments on such issues, and
proposing actions to resolve these issues. The
Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. AB
Participants are elected by the W3C Members.
Closed Activities and Groups