Happy birthday WAI; WCAG 2.1; i18n full justification; TimBL wins Turing Award; W3Ctrack at WWW2017; US Net Neutrality; WebRTC

 
This is the 3 - 10 April  2017 edition of the "weekly digest  of news and trends" that the W3C Communications Team prepares for the W3C Membership and public-w3c-digest mailing list [1]. 

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-w3c-digest/


1) W3C, Web and HTML5 related Twitter trends
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[What was tweeted frequently, caught my attention, etc. -  with most *popular* first]

6 April 2017
@philarcher1
Happy 20th birthday @w3c Web Accessibility Initiative! Original press release at https://www.w3.org/Press/WAI-Launch … This Is For Everyone!
https://twitter.com/philarcher1/status/850257732598878209
(54 Retweets, 54 Likes)


4 April 2017
@debraruh
.@awkawk introduces @w3c #WCAG 2.1 to a standing room audience at #funka2017 @Adobe
https://twitter.com/debraruh/status/849210947302510593
(32 Retweets, 7 Likes)

3 April 2017
@webi18n 
New article: "Approaches to full justification" – high level summary of how text justify works in various scripts https://www.w3.org/International/articles/typography/justificationhttps://twitter.com/webi18n/status/848928426144747520
(21 Retweets, 9 Likes)

4 April 2017
@TheOfficialACM
2016 #ACMTuringAward recipient @timberners_lee founded the @W3C based on a simple vision for the Web: "This is for everyone.”
(17 Retweets, 20 Likes)

4 April 2017
@marieforgue
#www2017perth #w3ctrack Learn about Web accessibility and how Australian laws and policies support it https://kwz.me/WG  @w3c
https://twitter.com/marieforgue/status/849506779436388353
(10 Retweets,10  Likes)




2) Other news: (open web and net neutrality
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*    U.S. net neutrality advocates blast Pai effort to reverse rules
7 April 2017
Reuters
by  David Shepardson 
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-internet-idUSKBN17932E



*    Turing Award 2016 awarded to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web inventor, by ACM
4 April 2017
ZD Times
by Christina Cardoza
http://sdtimes.com/world-wide-web-inventor-sir-tim-berners-lee-receives-2016-turing-award/




3) W3C and W3C technologies in the Press (or blogs)
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1 article
[Most recent first. Find keywords on our Press clippings page: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles ]

*  WebRTC Market Worth US$81.52 Billion by 2025: Transparency Market Research
6 April 2017
Yahoo finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/webrtc-market-worth-us-81-123000640.html



 

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Amy van der Hiel
W3C/MIT
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amy@w3.org

Received on Monday, 10 April 2017 19:25:38 UTC