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Upcoming: W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents
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The goals of this workshop are to identify stakeholders of Voice Agents standardization to drive the development of Web standards aligned with the real needs of Voice Agents, and to clarify reasonable applications for Voice Agents technologies we agree to build.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now an approved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard: ISO/IEC 40500:2025.
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) becomes a first public Draft Note
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This specification defines guidelines that use planetary, people, and prosperity principles (the PPP approach) throughout the decision-making process, allowing users to minimize their environmental impact in various ways.
W3C Invites Implementations of Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1
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Act Rules Format defines a format for writing accessibility test rules that can be used for developing automated testing tools and manual testing methodologies.
DPUB-ARIA and DPUB-AAM are now W3C Recommendations
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The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group has published Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 (DPUB-ARIA) and Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings 1.1 (DPUB-AAM) as W3C Recommendations.
Draft Note for Review: Guidance on Applying WCAG 2.2 to Mobile Applications (WCAG2Mobile)
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WCAG2Mobile describes how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 principles, guidelines, and success criteria can be applied to mobile applications, including native mobile apps, mobile web apps, and hybrid apps using web components inside native mobile apps.
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Updated
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The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group published an update that addresses minor technical issues in the December 2024 publication of WCAG 2.1.
Authorized Translation of WCAG 2.2 in Brazilian Portuguese
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W3C published the Authorized Brazilian Portuguese Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, Diretrizes de Acessibilidade para Conteúdo Web (WCAG) 2.2.
Updated W3C Recommendation: EPUB 3.3
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This specification defines the authoring requirements for EPUB 3 publications and represents the third major revision of the standard.
Seven Proposed Recommendations published by the Verifiable Credentials Working Group
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The Verifiable Credentials Working Group published Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0, Verifiable Credential Data Integrity 1.0, Data Integrity EdDSA Cryptosuites v1.0, Data Integrity ECDSA Cryptosuites v1.0, Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE, Controlled Identifiers v1.0 and Bitstring Status List v1.0 as W3C Proposed Recommendations.
