W3C Public Newsletter, 2017-12-11

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 final Working Draft

   7 December 2017
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6715>

   A final Working Draft of "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1" has been published for wide review before a planned advance to Candidate Recommendation in January 2018. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, which extends Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible to people with disabilities, and more usable to users in general. Please comment no later than 12 January 2018 in the WCAG 2.1 GitHub repository or by email to public-agwg-comments@w3.org.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/>
   <https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/>
   <mailto:public-agwg-comments@w3.org>

Update to the Candidate Recommendation: CSS Writing Modes Level 3; First Public Working Draft: CSS Writing Modes Level 4

   7 December 2017
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6698>

   The CSS Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of "CSS Writing Modes Level 3." This document defines CSS support for various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts).

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-css-writing-modes-3-20171207/>

   Along with this updated Candidate Recommendation, the group also published a First Public Working Draft of "CSS Writing Modes Level 4." The difference from the CSS Writing Modes Level 3 is the set of features that were deferred from Level 3 due to later implementation uptake.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-css-writing-modes-4-20171207/>

   "CSS" is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, in speech, etc.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/>

First Public Working Draft: Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis

   7 December 2017
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6700>

   The Accessible Platform Architectures and Accessibility Guidelines Working Groups have published a First Public Working Draft of "Cognitive Accessibility Roadmap and Gap Analysis." Developed by the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force, it explores user needs for people with cognitive or learning disabilities and identifies where additional web content authoring guidance is needed to help authors meet these needs. This information is important to new guidance being added to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/APA/>
   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/WD-coga-gap-analysis-20171207/>
   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/cognitive-a11y-tf/>
   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/>

Call for Review: ActivityPub is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

   5 December 2017
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6688>

   The Social Web Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "ActivityPub." The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ "ActivityStreams" ] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.

   <https://www.w3.org/Social/WG>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/PR-activitypub-20171205/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/PR-activitypub-20171205/#bib-ActivityStreams>

   ActivityPub is already implemented and deployed to a number of projects and a wide userbase, including over 1 million registered users across thousands of Mastodon instances. It provides the possibility to build social network capabilities into small or large scale software projects which may or may not present social network as their core offering.

   <https://activitypub.rocks/implementation-report/>
   <https://mnm.social/>
   <https://joinmastodon.org/>

   Comments are welcome through 2 January 2018.

W3C Invites Implementations of CSS Color Module Level 3

   5 December 2017
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6691>

   The CSS Working Group invites implementations of the "CSS Color Module Level 3" Candidate Recommendation. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language for describing the rendering of HTML and XML documents on screen, on paper, in speech, etc. It uses color-related properties and values to color the text, backgrounds, borders, and other parts of elements in a document. This specification describes color values and properties for foreground color and group opacity. These include properties and values from CSS level 2 and new values.

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-css-color-3-20171205/>

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Workshops

     * 2018-01-22 (22 JAN) – 2018-01-23 (23 JAN)
       W3C Workshop on Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies
       <https://www.w3.org/2017/11/web5g-workshop/>
       London, UK
       Hosted by GSMA
     * 2018-03-07 ( 7 MAR) – 2018-03-08 ( 8 MAR)
       Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies
       <https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/>
       Vienna, Austria
       Hosted by WU Wien
       A W3C Workshop on Linked Data and Privacy

W3C Blog

     * Ask us anything on WebAssembly
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/ask-us-anything-on-webassembly/>
       11 December 2017 by Coralie Mercier
       <http://coraliemercier.wordpress.com/>
     * W3C and OGC Augmented Reality Pilot – an exciting adventure for W3C!
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/w3c-and-ogc-augmented-reality-pilot-an-exciting-adventure-for-w3c/>
       7 December 2017 by J. Alan Bird
     * Video: Web Accessibility Standards and Benefits
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/web-accessibility-standards-and-benefits/>
       6 December 2017 by Shadi Abou-Zahra
       <https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>

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