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Web Design and Applications involve the standards for building and Rendering Web pages, including HTML, CSS, SVG, device APIs, and other technologies for Web Applications (“WebApps”). This section also includes information on how to make pages accessible to people with disabilities (WCAG), to internationalize them, and make them work on mobile devices.

            HTML & CSS 
            
        HTML and CSS are the fundamental technologies for building
        Web pages: HTML (html and xhtml) for structure, CSS for
        style and layout, including WebFonts. Find resources for good Web page design
        as well as helpful tools.
      
            JavaScript Web APIs 
            
	Standard APIs for client-side Web Application
        development include those for Geolocation, XMLHttpRequest, and
        mobile widgets. W3C standards for document models (the
        “DOM”) and technologies such as XBL
	allow content providers to create interactive
        documents through scripting.
      
            Graphics 
            
        W3C is the home of the widely deployed PNG raster format,
	SVG vector format, and the Canvas API. WebCGM is a more specialized
	format used, for example, in the fields of automotive engineering,
	aeronautics.
      
            Audio and Video 
            
        Some of the W3C formats that enable authoring audio and video
	presentations include HTML, SVG, and SMIL (for synchronization).
	W3C is also working on a timed text format for captioning and
	other applications.
      
            Accessibility 
            
        W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has published
	Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to
        help authors create content that is
        accessible to people with disabilities. WAI-ARIA gives authors
	more tools to create accessible Web Applications by providing
	additional semantics about widgets and behaviors.
      
            Internationalization 
            
        W3C has a mission to design technology that works across
	cultures and languages. W3C standards such as HTML
	and XML are built on Unicode, for instance. In addition,
	W3C has published guidance for authors related to language tags
	bi-directional (bidi) text, and more.
      
            Mobile Web 
            
	  W3C promotes “One Web” that is available on any device.
	  W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices help authors understand
	  how to create content that provides a reasonable
	  experience on a wide variety of devices, contexts, and
	  locations.
      
            Privacy 
            
	  The Web is a powerful tool for communications and transactions
	  of all sorts. It is important to consider privacy and
	  security implications of the Web as part of technology design. Learn more about tracking and Web App security.
      
            Math on the Web 
            
        Mathematics and formula are used on the Web for business
        reports, education materials and scientific research. W3C’s MathML
	enables mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the World Wide Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for other types of
	content.