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In your materials for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), we encourage you to include relevant resources from the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). WAI Resources for GAAD For a list of free online resources to support digital accessibility, see WAI Resources. Resources particularly relevant for GAAD include: Making Events Accessible – Checklist for meetings, conferences, […]
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the World Wide Web into the public domain, for general use, and at no cost, on 30 April 1993 by CERN. This quiet gesture, advocated by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has had implications beyond what he or anyone imagined at that time: the Web, free […]
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New! AT support tables in the Authoring Practices Guide (APG) The ARIA and Assistive Technologies Community Group (ARIA-AT CG) and ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force (APG TF) are excited to announce the launch of “Assistive Technology Support” tables in the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG). This initial release includes tables showing JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver […]
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The World Wide Web Consortium’s Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has recently established a task force to create a set of privacy principles for the web. This initiative is part of the W3C’s ongoing efforts to promote and protect privacy on the web. The Privacy Principles document lays out a set of principles that aim to guide the […]
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Today we launched a beta version of the redesign of our website. The goals of the redesign are to achieve a cleaner and modern look and greater usability, better accessibility, as well as ultimately simplifying how the site is managed. We also want to offer integrated Japanese and Chinese versions, which we will roll out […]
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It is with bittersweet emotions, that I share that Karen Myers’ time as W3C Business Development Leader for the Americas and Australia is ending. After 18 years, Karen has chosen to retire from the World Wide Web Consortium to pursue personal endeavors. We want to take this opportunity to thank Karen and to reflect upon […]
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With the start of the year 2023 we pass a milestone in the evolution of the global collaboration project that is the World Wide Web Consortium: In our 29th year of operation, we are operating now as World Wide Web Consortium Inc, continuing with Beihang University (China), ERCIM (France), and Keio University (Japan) as partners. […]
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Latest EPUBCheck 5.0.0 preview is available! We are pleased to announce the latest preview release of the next major version of EPUBCheck, v5.0.0. For the first time, this version fully implements the new rules in EPUB 3.3 (W3C Candidate Recommendation Draft). We encourage users to effectively test this version of EPUBCheck in their production workflows […]
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When surveyed, 38% of developers in general seem to dread using Web technologies (HTML & CSS, JS in StackOverflow 2022 survey); and when asking Web developers and designers more specifically, 23% aren’t satisfied with the Web platform (MDN DNA 2020 survey). This could be worse – but how can we make it better? As a […]
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Associated with several WAI transitions, it has been announced that I will take over some aspects of Judy Brewer’s role, in order to ensure continuity of the WAI program after her departure in January. I want to share with everyone what I know so far about what this means for WAI. This is an interim […]
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