The Web Real-Time Communication Working Group has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of Media Capture and Streams. This document defines a set of JavaScript APIs that allow local media, including audio and video, to be requested from a platform.

The Web Application Security Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Fetch Metadata Request Headers. This document defines a set of Fetch metadata request headers that aim to provide servers with enough information to make a priori decisions about whether or not to service a request based on the way it was made, and the context in which it will be used.

The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group, with support from the Research Questions Task Force, has published an updated Working Draft of Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA, alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web. This update includes changes that address the substantial comments received since the May 2019 version, which have helped us improve our analysis of the state of the art in telling human users apart from their robotic impersonators. Comments are requested by 26 July 2019. Please, read more in a dedicated blog post by Janina Sajka, Chair Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group, and learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Animation Worklet API. The Animation Worklet API provides a method to create scripted animations that control a set of animation effects. The API is designed to make it possible for user agents to run such animations in their own dedicated thread to provide a degree of performance isolation from main thread.