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The first accessibility testing tools and methodologies emerged soon after first publication of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in 1999. Already back then some of these implemented slightly different interpretations of WCAG. For example, a method may mistakenly fail text alternatives that are too long when that is not actually defined by WCAG. […]
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(This post is part of a series recapping the October 2018 W3C Strategic Highlights and does not include significant updates since that report.) Browser Testing and Tools Browser testing plays a critical role in the growth of the Web by: Improving the reliability of Web technology definitions; Improving the quality of implementations of these technologies by helping vendors to […]
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W3C’s work enables the Web to scale to meet the new challenges and opportunities while selected technologies and features continue to give way to incredible core innovation once again. Next week W3C will host its annual Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee meeting in Lyon, France at which our CEO, Jeff Jaffe, will present our Strategic […]
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Today we celebrate the publication of the WebDriver specification as a W3C Recommendation. WebDriver is a powerful technology for browser automation, often used to enable cross-browser testing of Web applications, but also used for many other purposes. The WebDriver spec defines a set of interfaces and a wire protocol that are platform- and language-neutral and […]
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For those of you involved in the effort to build a cross-browser testsuite for the majority of the web platform, you are currently noticing that the project is moving to a new organization on GitHub. The move is intended to improve the management and handling of the WPT project on GitHub and Travis. There is […]
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The WAI-Tools Project, co-funded by the European Commission, was launched on 1 November 2017. The primary objective of the project is to support the W3C work on Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT), to provide a common interpretation of WCAG 2 in evaluation tools and methodologies. The project will develop automated, semi-automated, and manual test rules that […]
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Back in 2013, Tobie Langel wrote about testing the Open Web Platform. The vision was simple: W3C was launching an unprecedented effort to scale up its test offering and the journey was 1% finished. Many things have been happening since then and this week is a great opportunity to look at the project again. In […]
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Today W3C published a First Public Working Draft of the Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 specification. It defines a common approach for writing test rules for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This allows people to document and share testing procedures, including automated, semi-automated, and manual procedures. This accelerates the development of evaluation […]
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On March 26, W3C Keio host held a “Digital Signage and HTML5” seminar with the support of the Japanese Digital Signage Consortium. With a capacity crowd of 115 attendees it was a full afternoon of presentations, discussions and high expectations. As well as an introduction to the work towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic […]
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This is the 28 November – 5 December 2014 edition of a “weekly digest of W3C news and trends” that I prepare for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list (publicly archived). This digest aggregates information about W3C and W3C technology from online media —a snapshot of how W3C and its work is perceived in […]
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