W3C Public Newsletter 4 February 2008

WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: First Public Working Drafts

2008-02-04: The Protocols and Formats Working Group published First Public Working Drafts of:

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0 combines the two previously-published ARIA draft specifications: WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties.
WAI-ARIA Primer provides background on accessibility issues related to JavaScript, and introduces the technical approach used in WAI-ARIA.
WAI-ARIA Best Practices describes how Web content developers can develop accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA.

WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content 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. An updated WAI-ARIA Roadmap was also published.

Additionally, the Education and Outreach Working Group published a new WAI-ARIA FAQ and updated WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the Call for Review: New WAI-ARIA Documents announcement and about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)

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Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop Report on eGovernment and the Web

2008-01-31: W3C has published a Workshop Report: eGovernment and the Web Workshop: "Toward More Transparent Government". Participants discussed ways to facilitate the deployment of Web standards across government sites and how to shape the ongoing research agenda in the development of Web technology and public policy in order to realize the potential of the Web for access to and use of government information. Held 18-19 June (press release), in Washington D.C., USA, the Workshop was jointly organized by W3C and WSRI. Learn more about eGovernment at W3C. (Permalink)

Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies

2008-01-29: The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Working Draft of Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. This document describes best practice recipes for publishing vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in RDF Schema or OWL). Each recipe introduces general principles and an example configuration for use with an Apache HTTP server (which may be adapted to other environments). The recipes are all designed to be consistent with the architecture of the Web as currently specified. Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity. (Permalink)

Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1 Proposed Recommendation

2008-01-29: The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Canonical XML 1.1. The specification establishes a method for determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an application has not changed a document, except for transformations permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a revision to Canonical XML 1.0 designed to address issues related to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path processing properly. Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more about W3C's XML Activity. (Permalink)

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Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Talks

4 February, New Delhi, India: Web Accessibility: International Standards for Local Users.Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at Techshare India 2008.
5 February, Tokyo, Japan: HTML 5.Michael(tm) Smith presents at Jagat.
11 February, Barcelona, Spain: .Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, François Daoust are at The Mobile World Congress.
11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All: Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your Website.Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
12 February, Seoul, Korea: 모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스.Seungyun Lee presents at 제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내.
13 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: [No title yet].Tim Berners-Lee presents at Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders in Government (ITSL) workshop.
18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On Advanced Communication Technology.
7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly.Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008 Conference.
10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and Multimodal Applications.Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search Conference.
10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER (tentative).Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at Web 2.0 Telecoms.
15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines Apply to Design for the Ageing Population.Shadi Abou-Zahra, Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C.Philippe Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage.Philipp Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in HTML.Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web (through an example…).Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works internationally.Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at 17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des Connaissances (IC2008).
19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility Standards Impact User Experience Design.Shawn Henry presents at Usability Professionals' Association International Conference 2008.
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