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- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:28:17 -0500
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W3C Weekly News
19 April - 28 April 2006
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Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released a Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0," Working Drafts of "Understanding WCAG 2.0" and
"Techniques for WCAG 2.0," and "About Baselines for WCAG 2.0."
Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority
of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using
many different devices including a wide variety of assistive
technologies. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about
the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20060427/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/baseline/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Last Call: Timed Text Distribution Profile
The Timed Text (TT) Working Group has released a second Last Call
Working Draft of the "Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 –
Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP)." The format enables
authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing
associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles
and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 18 May.
"Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements" were
published as a Working Group Note. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia
home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ttaf1-dfxp-20060427/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-ttaf1-req-20060427/
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Browser Vendors, Finance Communities Convene to Address Pressing Web
Security Issues
Google, HP, IBM, KDE, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, Sun
Microsystems, VeriSign, Yahoo! and many other W3C Members and research
organizations gathered with leaders of the online finance community in
New York City, USA, to address pressing Web security issues at the
March 2006 W3C Workshop on "Usability and Transparency of Web
Authentication." The Workshop report, including suggested next steps,
is now available. W3C thanks Citigroup for hosting and Cisco for
network services. More information is available in the press release.
Read about W3C Workshops.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/usability-ws/report
http://www.w3.org/2005/12/security-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
W3C China Office Opens
The W3C China Office is open in Beijing, China, hosted at the School
of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University. For more
information on the opening ceremonies on 27-28 April, please refer to
the press release. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local
languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international
participation in W3C Activities. W3C invites organizations in China
who wish to become W3C Members to contact the W3C China Office and
join W3C.
http://www.chinaw3c.org/
http://www.w3.org/2006/04/chinaoffice-pressrelease
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
Incubator Group on Multimedia Content to Show Benefits of the Semantic
Web
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Multimedia Semantics
Incubator Group, chartered to show how metadata interoperability can be
achieved by using the Semantic Web technologies to integrate existing
multimedia metadata standards. The group is sponsored by W3C Members
IVML-NTUA, CWI, University of Aberdeen, University of Maryland and
DFKI. Read about the Incubator Activity, a new initiative to foster
development of emerging Web-related technologies.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/mmsem/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
Working Draft: Language Tags and Locale Identifiers
The Internationalization Core Working Group has released the First
Public Working Draft of "Language Tags and Locale Identifiers for the
World Wide Web." The draft includes mechanisms for identifying or
selecting the language of content or locale preferences used to process
information using Web technologies. It describes how document formats,
specifications, and implementations should handle language tags, as
well as data structures for describing international preferences.
Visit the Internationalization home page.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ltli-20060419/
http://www.w3.org/International/
W3C Talks in May
Browse W3C presentations and events also available
as an RSS channel.
* On behalf of the W3C Spanish Office, Allan Beaufour presents
at the Ciclo de Conferencias on 10 May in Oviedo, Spain.
* On behalf of the W3C Benelux Office, Bert Bos gives a
tutorial on Cascading Style Sheets on 12 May in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
* Molly Holzschlag gives a tutorial at the Los Alamos
National Laboratories Web Design Conference on 15 May in Los
Alamos, NM, USA.
* Steven Pemberton presents on 16 May and Dave Raggett presents on
19 May at XTech 2006 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
* Rhys Lewis gives a keynote at W4A 2006 - Building the
Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility? on 22 May in
Edinburgh, UK.
* Ivan Herman presents at the Workshop on E-Government:
Barriers and Opportunities on 23 May in Edinburgh, UK.
* W3C presents the W3C Track at the 15th International
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2006) on 24-26 May in Edinburgh,
UK.
Browse upcoming W3C appearances and events, also available as
an RSS channel.
http://www.w3.org/Talks/
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