W3C Track Announced at WWW 2007 Conference
2007-04-17: The Consortium welcomes the public to meet the W3C Staff and Members, who will present recent achievements and future work plans through the W3C Track at the WWW2007 conference, to be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from 9 to 11 May 2007. Chaired by Marie-Claire Forgue, the nine sessions cover recent achievements and future work plans of W3C Activities. Read the press release. (Permalink)
Authoring Tool Accessibility: Techniques Working Draft
2007-04-23: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a Working Draft of Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. These techniques, sample strategies and resources are an aid for developers who wish to satisfy the checkpoints in Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG). ATAG helps developers design tools and authoring interfaces that are accessible to users including those with disabilities, and that produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers. Learn more about the WAI Technical Activity (Permalink)
Progress Events 1.0: Working Draft
2007-04-20: The Web API Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Progress Events 1.0. Five events and their interfaces are defined for use in XHR (AJAX) Web applications. When additional data is downloaded on demand, scripts can monitor progress, construct loading bars, and take action once data has been transferred. Read about the Rich Web Clients Activity. (Permalink)
Upcoming Meetings
- W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
- W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web Applications, 5-6 June
- Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and the Web, 18-19 June
Upcoming Talks
- 23 April, Stavanger, Norway: Introduction to the Semantic WebIvan Herman gives a tutorial at Semantic Days 2007.
- 24 April, Stockholm, Sweden: Informationsstandarder - mervärde eller förutsättningOlle Olsson presents at Workshop Informationsstandarder och rättslig informationsförsörjning.
- 24 April, Stavanger, Norway: State of the Semantic WebIvan Herman presents at Semantic Days 2007.
- 1 May, McLean, VA, USA: Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the WebJosé Manuel Alonso presents at SOA for eGovernment 2007.
- 2 May, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Abstraction and extraction: in praise ofSteven Pemberton gives a keynote at Apachecon 07.
- 9 May, Stockholm, Sweden: Mot web 2.0, och bortomOlle Olsson presents at TelekomDagarna.
- 9 May, Banff, Canada: W3C boothMarie-Claire Forgue is at The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).
- 11 May, Banff, Canada: xH: A Standards-based Web Application Programming LanguageMark Birbeck presents at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007).
- 14 May, Paris, France: XML vocabulary design and specification using XML Schema 1.0Michael Sperberg-McQueen gives a tutorial at XTech 2007: The ubiquitous Web.
- 28 May, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Global eStandards and Web Architectures for eGovernment projectsJosé Manuel Alonso presents at 13th GCC eGovernment and eServices Forum.
- 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web AccessiblityShawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
- 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with AccessibilityShawn Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 16th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada:
9 May
- HTML Reloaded, by Chris Lilley
- Next steps for HTML Forms, by Dave Raggett
- Mobile Web Initiative: The Road Ahead, by Michael Smith, Daniel Appelquist
- Content Accessibility with WCAG 2.0, by Michael Cooper
- Describing, Exchanging, and Aggregating Test Results, by Shadi Abou-Zahra
- Mobile Web Applications, by Kevin Kelly
- Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA), by Dave Raggett
- Mobile Web Initiative Success Stories, by Michael Smith
- WICD and Ubiquitous Web Applications, by Dave Raggett
- Device Description: Important New Work in Progress, Why We Need your Participation, by Rhys Lewis
- CSS, 10 Years After, by Bert Bos
- Widgets and Web Applications, by Art Barstow
- Enriching the Web Application Model?, by Arun Ranganathan
- The Future of the Web Page, by Chris Lilley, Dave Raggett
- Mobile Web to Bridge the Digital Divide, by Charles McCathieNevile
- Towards a mobileOK Web, by Daniel Appelquist
10 May
- Semantic Annotations for WSDL, by Jacek Kopecky
- Bootstrapping the Semantic Web with GRDDL, Microformats, and RDFa, by Harry Halpin, Fabien Gandon
- Report from the Web of Services for Enterprise Computing Workshop, by Philippe Le Hégaret
- Harnessing the Semantic Web to Answer Scientific Questions; A HCLS IG Demo, by Susie Stephens, Alan Ruttenberg
- Usability Design and Testing for Security, by Rachna Dhamija
- Rule Interchange Format Work Report, by Sandro Hawke
- Web Services Policy Language, by Charlton Barreto
- Why Should We Care About the Web Services Description Language 2.0?, by Philippe Le Hégaret
- Moving User-Centered Security from Grand Challenge to Standards Work, by Mary Ellen Zurko
- Design by Crowds: User Experience Design and Testing with Open Source Projects, by Mike Beltzner
11 May
- XML Application Components and Controllers, by Rafah Hosn
- XSL-FO, the XSL Formatting Language, by Sharon Adler, Liam Quin
- Schema Support inXQuery to Help Developers, by Mary Holstege
- Voice on the Web: Input/Output Modality Challenges, by Jerry Carter
- How to Author Multimodal Web Applications, by Kazuyuki Ashimura
- Efficient XML Interchange, by Mike Cokus
- The W3C Rich Web Application Backplane, by John Boyer
- State Chart XML: the Core Component for Multimodal Web Applications, by Rafah Hosn
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