An updated Working Draft of Website Accessibility Conformance Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) was published today by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG) and Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG), through the joint WCAG 2.0 Evaluation Methodology Task Force ( Eval TF ). WCAG-EM describes an approach for evaluating how websites -- including web applications and websites for mobile devices -- conform to WCAG 2.0. Learn more from the call for review e-mail and about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of The WebSocket API. This specification defines an API that enables Web pages to use the WebSocket protocol (defined by the IETF) for two-way communication with a remote host. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Web Applications Working Group has published the First Public Working Draft of DOM Parsing and Serialization. This specification defines various APIs for programmatic access to HTML and generic XML parsers by web applications for use in parsing and serializing DOM nodes. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group invites implementation of the Candidate Recommendation of CSS Flexible Box Layout Module. The specification describes a CSS box model optimized for user interface design. In the flex layout model, the children of a flex container can be laid out in any direction, and can "flex" their sizes, either growing to fill unused space or shrinking to avoid overflowing the parent. Both horizontal and vertical alignment of the children can be easily manipulated. Nesting of these boxes (horizontal inside vertical, or vertical inside horizontal) can be used to build layouts in two dimensions. Learn more about the Style Activity.

The Technical Architecture Group has published the First Public Working Draft of Publishing and Linking on the Web. This document is intended to inform future social and legal discussions of the Web by clarifying the ways in which the Web's technical facilities operate to store, publish and retrieve information, and by providing definitions for terminology as used within the Web's technical community. This document also describes the technical and operational impact that does or could result from legal constraints on publishing, linking and transformation on the Web. Comments should be sent before end of september 2012, for consideration during the upcoming TAG meeting. This is not a deadline, comments can be sent anytime. Learn more about the Technical Architecture Group.