Registration is now open for the online symposium on Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies to be held on 3 December 2014. Researchers, practitioners, users with disabilities, and others are invited to explore new and on-going research and development on accessible way-finding using web technologies. Symposium participants will examine different technologies, applications, concepts, and solutions that help people with disabilities orient themselves, explore, and navigate through the physical world. For details and registration, see the Accessible Way-Finding Using Web Technologies Symposium page. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Pointer Events Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Pointer Events. This document defines events and related interfaces for handling hardware agnostic pointer input from devices like a mouse, pen, or touchscreen. For compatibility with existing mouse based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for pointer device types other than mouse. Comments are welcome through 4 December. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft of Mixed Content. This specification describes how user agents should handle rendering and execution of content loaded over unencrypted or unauthenticated connections in the context of an encrypted and authenticated document. Comments are welcome through 11 December. Learn more about the Security Activity.

The Timed Text Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of WebVTT: The Web Video Text Tracks Format. This specification defines WebVTT, the Web Video Text Tracks format. Its main use is for marking up external text track resources in connection with the HTML element. WebVTT files provide captions or subtitles for video content, and also text video descriptions, chapters for content navigation, and more generally any form of metadata that is time-aligned with audio or video content. Learn more about the Video in the Web Activity.