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Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 is now a W3C Recommendation
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ACT Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules.
Group Note Drafts: Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules
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This set of modules looks at different Web technologies and provides a detailed analysis of accessibility issues for people with disabilities that may require cognitive accessibility supports, user needs, areas for further research and directions for solutions.
Group Note Draft: W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0
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This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
Group Note Draft: Cryptography usage in Web Standards
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This document serves as a clear, practical, and standards-compliant guide for recognized cryptographic algorithms and their appropriate applications in various scenarios.
Group Note Draft: Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements
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This document describes user requirements related to text-to-speech rendering of electronic documents containing ruby annotations.
Agenda available for W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
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The W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents will take place on 25-27 February 2026, virtually on Zoom. The workshop agenda is now available.
Updated Candidate Recommendation: Web Neural Network (WebNN) API
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This document describes a dedicated low-level API for neural network inference hardware acceleration.
Group Note Drafts: Threat Modeling Guide and Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials
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Threat Modeling Guide describes when, why, and how to perform threat modeling during the development of a specification at W3C. Threat Model for Decentralized Credentials is the live "meta" Threat Model related to Decentralized Credentials.
W3C Invites Implementations of Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3
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This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Node Expressions
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This document describes Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) Node Expressions.
