The Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) published updated resources related to mobile accessibility. They cover how mobile accessibility is addressed in existing W3C standards/guidelines, and how the overlap between mobile web design/development and accessibility strengthens the business case. Learn more from the Mobile Accessibility Resources e-mail and read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Research and Development Working Group (RDWG) will hold an online symposium to explore easy-to-read language to meet the needs of people with cognitive disabilities or low language skills. The Call for Papers is open until 12 October 2012. Learn more about the Easy-to-Read on the Web Symposium and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Events Specification. This specification defines the Document Object Model Events Level 3, a generic platform- and language-neutral event system which allows registration of event handlers, describes event flow through a tree structure, and provides basic contextual information for each event. The Document Object Model Events Level 3 builds on the Document Object Model Events Level 2. Comments are welcome through 27 September. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

W3C is organizing an HTML5 Tour across Europe from 10 to 20 September 2012. The guest speaker of the tour, Michael Smith, W3C HTML Activity Lead, will present the latest in HTML5 and W3C Open Web Platform. Michael Smith, in his HTML5 Europe Tour, will visit Berlin, Budapest, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid and Rome.

Each stop is organized by the corresponding regional W3C Office. Almost all events are open to the public and free of charge. Find out more about the dates, the locations, the registration pages and the events' agenda in the program.

W3C has published a new edition of Standards for Web Applications on Mobile , an overview of the various technologies developed in W3C that increase the power of Web applications, particularly in the mobile context.

A deliverable of the MobiWebApp project, this seventh edition of the document highlights changes since May 2012, particularly two new proposed charters to start work on Near-Field Communications (NFC) and System Applications (i.e. native apps built with Web technologies), and the work on Web Intents, storage quota management and multimedia integration.

Learn more about the Web and Mobile Devices.

The First Public Working Draft of Research Report on Web Accessibility Metrics, a W3C Working Group Note, is now available for review. See the Call for Review: Web Accessibility Metrics Research Report e-mail for more information. Comments are welcome through 30 September 2012.

The MultilingualWeb-LT Working Group has published a Working Draft of Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 2.0. Content or software that is authored in one language (the source language) is often made available in additional languages or adapted with regard to other cultural aspects. This is done through a process called localization, where the original material is translated and adapted to the target audience. In addition, document formats expressed by schemas may be used by people in different parts of the world, and these people may need special markup to support the local language or script. For example, people authoring in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Urdu need special markup to specify directionality in mixed direction text.

ITS 2.0 is a technology to add metadata to Web content, for the benefit of localization, language technologies, and internationalization. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.

Five leading global organizations—IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)—today announced that they have signed a statement affirming the importance of a jointly developed set of principles establishing a modern paradigm for global, open standards. The shared “OpenStand” principles—based on the effective and efficient standardization processes that have made the Internet and Web the premiere platforms for innovation and borderless commerce—are proven in their ability to foster competition and cooperation, support innovation and interoperability and drive market success. Read the full press release and join the supporters by showing you stand with us.

The SVG Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2. This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics. This version of SVG builds upon SVG 1.1 Second Edition by improving the usability of the language and by adding new features commonly requested by authors. See the list of changes from SVG 1.1. Learn more about the Graphics Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Values and Units Module Level 3. This CSS3 module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions. A test suite will be available as part of the CSS test suites. Learn more about the Style Activity.