W3C: 2005-11-23: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and a First Public Working Draft of Understanding WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast ...

W3C: 2005-11-23: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 incorporating Last Call comments. The guidelines are written to help developers create accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content. ...

W3C: 2005-11-23: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web as a Working Group Note. Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision or have a learning disability ...

W3C: 2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the nomination of Daniel Dardailler, W3C Associate Chair based in Europe, as W3C liaison to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors. Thomas Roessler will serve on the 2006 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). W3C’s involvement ...

W3C: 2005-11-22: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) and an updated Working Draft of its requirements. Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization ...

W3C: 2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners Healthcare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation ...

W3C: 2005-11-21: The Mobile Web Initiative Device Description Working Group released a First Public Working Draft of Device Description Ecosystem, a future Working Group Note. Serving as input for the group’s requirements document, this draft outlines business models and participants in the field of device ...

W3C: 2005-11-21: The Compound Document Formats Working Group has released four Working Drafts: the Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0, WICD Core 1.0, WICD Full 1.0, and WICD Mobile 1.0. The drafts describe behavior for audio, video, images, fonts, layout, events, scripting, links and encoding when ...

W3C: 2005-11-21: W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on ’feedvalidator’, and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax ...

W3C: 2005-11-18: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Efficient XML Interchange Working Group. Robin Berjon (Expway) and Oliver Goldman (Adobe Systems) are Chairs. The group’s objective is to define an alternative encoding of the XML Information Set that addresses the requirements identified in the ...