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Accessibility education and outreach: Another milestone in W3C's 30-year history and evolution
As W3C celebrates 30 years, we also celebrate the success of the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), share news of its closure, and look forward to a new chapter in W3C accessibility work.
Web Security: shaping the secure Web
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how Web Security as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions digital identities and credentials as a high-stake current focus, and invites all to participate.
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Societal, ethical, and technical impacts of digital identities
This blog post introduces an analysis of Digital Identities and their various architectural models. The paper focuses on the impact of identities on the Web and users, particularly on privacy, security, and human rights, the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact and how collaboration among various stakeholders can mitigate these threats.
Third-party cookies have got to go
The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.
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Internationalization (I18N): enabling access to a Web for All
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs illustrates why enabling access to a Web for All is central to W3C’s mission, and our internationalization efforts help make this a reachable reality.
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Web Accessibility: removing barriers, designing a web for everyone
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs aims to inspire people to take action to improve Web accessibility.
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The WCAG 3 Working Draft update is ready for your review
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By: Shawn Lawton Henry
The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) published an updated WCAG 3 Working Draft, which includes potential outcomes that the group is exploring.
Breakouts Day 2024 Recap
Breakouts Day 2024 was the first experiment with a fully remote version of the breakouts sessions popular at W3C’s annual big meeting. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.
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Managing the impact of AI & Machine Learning on the Web
This blog post introduces an analysis of the systemic impact, on the Web, of AI systems, and in particular ones based on Machine Learning models, and the role that Web standardization may play in managing that impact.
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From a humble beginning 35 years ago, the Web is now central to the daily lives of billions
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs depicts how from a humble beginning 35 years ago, the Web is now central to the daily lives of billions of people.
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