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First Public Working Draft: Selectors Level 5
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Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one of several technologies that can be used to select nodes in a document. Selectors have been optimized for use with HTML and XML, and are designed to be usable in performance-critical code. They are a core component of CSS, which uses Selectors to bind style properties to elements in the document. Selectors Level 5 describes the selectors and further introduces new selectors for CSS and other languages.
Second W3C Team appointment to the TAG
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Heather Flanagan of W3C Member Spherical Cow Consulting is appointed as new TAG member by the W3C Team
Group Note Draft: Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts)
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The purpose of this document is to provide a high level understanding of the trade-offs that are required when designing and deploying differentially private systems (e.g., privacy, utility, number of trusted parties).
W3C Team appointment to the TAG
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Brian Kardell of W3C Member Igalia is appointed as new TAG member by the W3C Team
Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation
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ACT Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules.
Group Note Drafts: Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules
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This set of modules looks at different Web technologies and provides a detailed analysis of accessibility issues for people with disabilities that may require cognitive accessibility supports, user needs, areas for further research and directions for solutions.
Group Note Draft: W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0
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This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
Group Note Draft: Cryptography usage in Web Standards
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This document serves as a clear, practical, and standards-compliant guide for recognized cryptographic algorithms and their appropriate applications in various scenarios.
Group Note Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
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This document describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
Agenda available for W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
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The W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents will take place on 25-27 February 2026, virtually on Zoom. The workshop agenda is now available.
