W3C Public Newsletter 4 June 2007

Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit, 11-13 June

2007-06-01: W3C is pleased to participate as a partner in the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit to be held 11-13 June in Nashville, TN, USA. Steve Bratt, W3C CEO, will speak on increasing interoperability through Web standards at 16:30-17:30 on 12 June, and W3C will participate in the summit Standards Corner running throughout show floor hours. A W3C Members-only discount is available. The conference features 6 tracks and over 60 sessions on SOA, Web services, application development and integration. Read about W3C Member benefits and more about Web services. (Permalink)

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WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: Working Drafts

2007-06-01: The Protocols and Formats Working Group published updated Working Drafts of WAI-ARIA Roles and WAI-ARIA States and Properties. WAI-ARIA attributes provide information about objects that extends what is available from markup. This allows people with disabilities using assistive technologies such as screen readers to access rich Web content built with Ajax and DHTML. This release provides better alignment to accessibility APIs and provides more explanatory material. Read the WAI-ARIA Overview and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)

EXI Performance Testing Framework Available for Download

2007-05-30: The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group testing framework for evaluating properties of alternate XML formats is now available for download. It can be used to measure processing efficiency and compactness, and includes support for in-memory and network testing. The download includes over 100 documents ranging from a few bytes to several megabytes and covering over 20 different schemas, taken from the over ten thousand samples used by the Working Group for their own measurements. Results and analysis from this framework for eight candidate binary XML formats are to be published by the EXI Working Group in July. Visit the XML home page. (Permalink)

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Upcoming Talks

5 June, London, United Kingdom: What's New, WCAG 2.0, and Current Issues.Shawn Henry presents at Web Accessibility Update.
7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
12 June, Bristol, United Kingdom: W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity - reaching out into the physical world of sensors and effectors.Dave Raggett presents at HP Laboratories.
12 June, Austin, Texas, USA: New Guidelines and Standards for Web Accessibility" and "Including Accessibility throughout the Design Process.Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
13 June, Austin, Texas, USA: SIG: What's New in Standards for Usability and Accessibility?.Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility.Shawn Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for Pen-Based Computing.Stephen M. Watt presents at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML Conversion.Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS.Bert Bos gives a lecture at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel.Bert Bos participates in a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
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