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10 March 2008

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Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Working Draft

2008-03-10: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group published updated Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and Implementation Techniques for ATAG 2.0. ATAG helps developers design tools that are accessible so that people with disabilities can use the tools, and so that the tools help produce accessible Web content. Read the invitation to review the updated ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts and learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)

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Note: Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases

2008-03-07: The Web Security Context Working Group has published the Group Note Web Security Experience, Indicators and Trust: Scope and Use Cases. The Working Group is chartered to recommend user interfaces that help users make trust decisions on the Web. This Note explains the group's technical aims (complementing the group charter), what technologies may be used to achieve the group's mission, and how proposals will be evaluated. This Note also includes an initial collection of use cases that the group expects will drive its technical work. Learn more about the Security Activity. (Permalink)

W3C Video on the Web Seminar in Tokyo on 14 March

2008-03-06: W3C invites the public to join a seminar on "Video on the Web" on 14 March 2008 from 13:00-15:30 at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; the meeting page is available in Japanese. Philippe Le Hégaret, co-chair of the W3C Video on the Web Workshop (December 2007 in Brussels) will present a report on that Workshop. The seminar also includes a panel session with Web Video industry specialists in Japan to discuss current practices and future direction on "Video on the Web" in Japan. All sessions will be held in Japanese (except Philippe's talk), and one-by-one interpretation between English and Japanese will be provided for Philippe's talk and the panel session. There are a limited number of seats available. Please use the registration page, also in Japanese. (Permalink)

RDB2RDF Incubator Group to Study Mapping Relational Data into RDF

2008-03-05: W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the RDB2RDF Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members Oracle, HP, PartnersHealthcare, and OpenLink Software. The mission of this Incubator Group is twofold: (1) to examine and classify existing approaches to mapping relational data into RDF and assess whether standardization is possible and/or necessary in this area, and (2) to examine and classify existing approaches to mapping OWL classes to Relational data, or, more accurately, SQL queries, moving towards the goal of defining a standard in this area. See the charter for more information. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. (Permalink)

Upcoming Meetings

W3C Presentations at WWW2008

Multiple presenters will be at W3C Track, The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008) in Beijing, China.

23 April
  • Mobile Web in Rural China, by Stéphane Boyera
  • Linking Open Data, by Chris Bizer, Tom Heath, Tim Berners-Lee
  • What you Need to Know to Reach a Chinese Audience?, by Richard Ishida
  • Semantic Web Development in China, by Huajun Chen
  • Making a Web Site Accessible Both for Mobile Devices and for People with Disabilities, by Henny Swan
  • Adopting International Standards Locally: The Importance of Harmonization , by Judy Brewer
  • Geolocation in the Mobile Web , by Dave Raggett
  • International Domain Names, by Tina Dam
  • News from W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, by Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
  • Internationalizing Speech Synthesis, by Zhi Wei Shuang
  • Managing Online Video (or Multimedia) Content with the Semantic Web, by Raphaël Troncy, Lynda Hardman
  • A World of Stakeholders: Lessons from Global Outreach, by Daniel Dardailler
24 April
  • HTML 5, the future of Web Content, by Michael Smith
  • POWDER Use Cases, by Kai-Dietrich Scheppe
  • Standards and mobile applications, services and widgets, by Art Barstow
  • Building a More Secure Browser, by Mary-Ellen Zurko
  • Designing the Web for All of Society, by Shawn Henry
  • Accessibility for rich Web applications, by Lisa Pappas
  • Wicked Wide Web: Integrating Documents and Devices, by Doug Schepers
  • Video on the Web, by Philippe Le Hégaret
  • Web applications security issues, by Thomas Roessler
  • Web Usage in China, by Weihan Liu
  • Improving Access to Government through Better Use of the Web, by José Manuel Alonso

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