Archives for Category: Publications

HTTP Protocol for RDF Stores

Last week the W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a number last call working drafts for SPARQL 1.1. Much have been already said on various fora on the new features of SPARQL 1.1, like update, entailment regimes, property paths; I...

 

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Filed by Ivan Herman on May 17, 2011 7:44 AM in HTTP, Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) moves to Candidate Recommendation (CR)

Today the Protocols and Formats Working
Group (PFWG) published WAI-ARIA
1.0 as a Candidate Recommendation. This is a major milestone in development of
this technology, indicating that it is considered feature complete after
years of development and multiple public consultations. As ARIA enters the Candidate Recommendation phase, the focus shifts from specification
development to implementation testing.

 

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Filed by Michael Cooper on January 18, 2011 5:12 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News, Web Applications
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New and Improved WCAG 2.0 Techniques

Today W3C WAI published updated Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and Understanding WCAG 2.0, following a public review and comment period. The WCAG Working Group is developing more techniques and would like your help...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on October 14, 2010 1:14 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Web Design
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An Update on CSS 2.1

So where are we (that "we" meaning the CSS Working Group) on CSS 2.1? In short, we're making fast and excellent progress: we are currently resolving the last outstanding issues ; almost all our weekly conference calls are entirely dedicated...

 

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Filed by Daniel Glazman on June 30, 2010 5:34 AM in CSS, Publications
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Make Your Presentations Accessible to All

Do you remember a time when people around you broke out in laughter, but you didn't hear the joke? You could be doing a similar thing to your audience — leaving some people out.... Read on to learn how to make presentations, talks, meetings, and training accessible to all of your potential audience, including people with disabilities and others...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on June 15, 2010 3:45 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Reference, Technology 101, Tools, W3C Life
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XHTML Modularization: a markup language designer's toolkit

The current maintenance update to XHTML Modularization is in response to the inevitable bug reports and clarifications that come from actual use. Since there have recently been some misconceptions expressed about the purpose of the spec, I'd thought I'd take...

 

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Filed by Steven Pemberton on June 3, 2010 8:45 AM in HTML, Publications, Technology 101, XML
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Working Group Publication Requests and Approval

In response to some questions about W3C process from the past few days, a brief FAQ is being published regarding the Working Group publication requests and approval.

 

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Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on February 16, 2010 5:04 PM in Publications, W3C Life
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Take a few minutes to encourage web accessibility. You can make a difference.

What do you do when you come across an inaccessible website?. . .

...WAI just published: Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites. It walks through steps, provides lots of tips, and includes sample e-mails...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on January 6, 2010 12:00 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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Share Resources Supporting the Web Accessibility Business Case

W3C WAI today published a collection of statistics, case studies, and articles supporting the business case for web accessibility in Resources for Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization.... Would your organization be willing to share your case study to support the business case for web accessibility?...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on December 14, 2009 3:21 PM in Accessibility, Publications
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RIF and OWL

The W3C RIF Working Group has just published the RIF specification as a Candidate Recommendation. As a coincidence, the OWL 2 Working Group published the OWL 2 specification as Proposed Recommendation just a few days before. Ie, two major sets...

 

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Filed by Ivan Herman on October 6, 2009 3:39 PM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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WCAG 2.0 in your mother tongue

I come from Egypt, live in Austria, work in France, and when I start speaking, some people think I'm American. I speak fluent German and English, but no matter what I do, some expressions and thoughts will always be easier...

 

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Filed by Shadi Abou-Zahra on June 26, 2009 5:04 PM in Accessibility, Internationalization, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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HTML5 isn't a standard yet

Watching the Google I/O first day keynote, I'm pleased to see the level of support and interest from Google about HTML5. Sure enough, I wished SVG would have been mentioned there, as they did for the Canvas API, since...

 

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Filed by Philippe Le Hégaret on May 28, 2009 9:04 PM in HTML, Publications
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Food, agriculture, and SKOS

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has a number of (online) publications (e.g., “Food, Nutrition and Agriculture”). As all such sites, they also have to offer an easy way to search through the articles, find the right papers based...

 

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Filed by Ivan Herman on March 20, 2009 8:42 AM in Publications, Semantic Web, Technology, W3C・QA News
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A personal reflection on the WCAG 2.0 publication

Today W3C WAI published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This is a momentous occasion. Another post links to the official announcements. Here is another perspective, my personal perspective...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 3:11 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, W3C Life, W3C・QA News
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A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized

WCAG 2.0 was published today as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation". Check out the official announcement, e-mail, press release, testimonials, and a personal reflection on WCAG. Here are some additional perspectives on a few points...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on December 11, 2008 2:49 PM in Accessibility, Mobile, Publications, Technology, W3C・QA News
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With real world implementations WCAG 2.0 steps closer to expected December 2008 publication

Today W3C WAI published WCAG 2.0 as a "W3C Proposed Recommendation". This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been used successfully in real websites. Up next: final publication as a Web standard, which we expect in December!

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on November 3, 2008 6:34 PM in Accessibility, Publications, Technology, Technology 101, Video, eGov
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HTML 5 Publications

Four documents have been recently published for HTML 5 by the HTML Working Group.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on June 11, 2008 1:51 AM in HTML, Publications
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Web Typography - Your wish list

Give your feedback and tell about your wishes list on Web Typography.

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on May 1, 2008 5:06 AM in CSS, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn

WCAG 2.0 is going, boldly, where it's never gone before: Today WCAG 2.0 is at "W3C Candidate Recommendation"! Can you feel the Web accessibility world shake? Candidate Recommendation means that we think the technical content is stable and we want developers and designers to start using WCAG 2.0, to test it out in every-day situations....

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on April 30, 2008 5:35 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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Is WCAG 2.0 almost done?!

A Last Call Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 was just published. This means that the WCAG Working Group has integrated all resolutions from previous comments. Yeah! Now the question is whether this draft of WCAG 2.0 is ready for the community to support moving it on towards becoming a Web standard (W3C Recommendation)...

 

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Filed by Shawn Henry on December 12, 2007 2:52 PM in Accessibility, Opinions & Editorial, Publications
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kicking the tires with MT

my standard battery of editing tests... list editing excerpting Four score and seven years ago today W3C hmm... no list editing. Does this thing try to add paragraph breaks? Ah... at user option. Category UI is nice. The javascript buttons...

 

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Filed by Dan Connolly on August 17, 2006 3:53 AM in Publications
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The QA Handbook published as a W3C Working Group Note

The QA Handbook, designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note....

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on September 6, 2005 12:42 AM in Publications
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Variability in Specifications published as a W3C Working Group Note

Variability in Specifications, a companion to the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, has been updated and published as a W3C Working Group Note. The Note contains advanced specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a specification's conformance...

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on August 30, 2005 12:46 AM in Publications
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QA Framework: Specification Guidelines is a W3C Recommendation

QA Framework: Specification Guidelines, the main document produced by the QA Working Group has been published as a W3C Recommendation on August 17. Publication as a W3C Recommendation is the sign that this document has received the endorsement of W3C...

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on August 18, 2005 12:47 AM in Publications
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“WaSP asks W3C", Adding Multimedia in Web Documents (part 2) published

Last week, in a new instance of the WaSP asks W3C project, the QA Team completed its answer on Adding Multimedia in Web Documents with more details on the use and implementation of the object tag in HTML. Discussion and...

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on May 31, 2005 12:50 AM in HTML, Publications, Tutorials
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Test FAQ

The QA Working Group has released a Test FAQ. The 17 questions it addresses match the different topics the QA Working Group has found particularly important for most Working Groups in W3C and incorporate examples and ideas from various existing...

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on May 11, 2005 1:00 AM in Publications
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“More About Custom DTD" article published in A List Apart

The QA Team has written an article for A List Apart, entitled More About Custom DTDs, explaining when custom DTDs make sense, and when they don't....

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on May 11, 2005 12:57 AM in HTML, Publications, Tutorials
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Specification Guidelines and Variability in Specifications updated

The QA Working Group has published an update of two of its documents: QA Framework: Specification Guidelines and Variability in Specifications. The new version of Specification Guidelines includes the resolutions of the comments received during the Last Call period, and...

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on April 28, 2005 1:01 AM in Publications
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New Article: Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML

A new technical article on the topic of Ampersands, PHP Sessions and Valid HTML was published by the QAIG, courtesy of David Dorward. The QA Interest Group welcomes such contribution of material, see our Contribution Guidelines for details....

 

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Filed by Karl Dubost on April 26, 2005 1:04 AM in Publications, Tutorials
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