W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-06-04

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit,
11-13 June

   W3C is pleased to participate as a partner in the Gartner
   Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit to be
   held 11-13 June in Nashville, TN, USA. Steve Bratt, W3C CEO, will
   speak on increasing interoperability through Web standards at
   16:30-17:30 on 12 June, and W3C will participate in the summit
   Standards Corner running throughout show floor hours. A W3C
   Members-only discount is available. The conference features 6 tracks
   and over 60 sessions on SOA, Web services, application development
   and integration. Read about W3C Member benefits and more about Web
   services.

   http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=499170&tab=overview
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/2007AprJun/0048
   http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership
   http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: Working Drafts

   The Protocols and Formats Working Group published updated Working
   Drafts of " WAI-ARIA Roles" and "WAI-ARIA States and Properties."
   WAI-ARIA attributes provide information about objects that extends
   what is available from markup. This allows people with disabilities
   using assistive technologies such as screen readers to access rich
   Web content built with Ajax and DHTML. This release provides better
   alignment to accessibility APIs and provides more explanatory
   material. Read the WAI-ARIA Overview and about the Web Accessibility
   Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-aria-role-20070601/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-aria-state-20070601/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

EXI Performance Testing Framework Available for Download

   The Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Working Group testing framework
   for evaluating properties of alternate XML formats is now available
   for download. It can be used to measure processing efficiency and
   compactness, and includes support for in-memory and network testing.
   The download includes over 100 documents ranging from a few bytes to
   several megabytes and covering over 20 different schemas, taken from
   the over ten thousand samples used by the Working Group for their
   own measurements. Results and analysis from this framework for eight
   candidate binary XML formats are to be published by the EXI Working
   Group in July. Visit the XML home page.

   http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/#TestingFramework
   http://www.w3.org/XML/
   Past home page news...

   http://www.w3.org/News/

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on HTML Mail, 24 May
     * W3C Workshop on Declarative Models of Distributed Web
       Applications, 5-6 June
     * Toward More Transparent Government:Workshop on eGovernment and
       the Web, 18-19 June
     * W3C/OpenAjax Alliance Workshop on Mobile Ajax, 28 September
     * W3C Workshop on RDF Access to Relational Databases, 25-26
       October
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 5 June, London, United Kingdom: What's New, WCAG 2.0, and
       Current Issues. Shawn Henry presents at Web Accessibility
       Update.
     * 7 June, London, United Kingdom: Advancing Web Accessiblity.
       Shawn Henry presents at @media07 Europe.
     * 12 June, Bristol, United Kingdom: W3C Ubiquitous Web
       Applications Activity - reaching out into the physical world of
       sensors and effectors. Dave Raggett presents at HP Laboratories.
     * 12 June, Austin, Texas, USA: New Guidelines and Standards for
       Web Accessibility" and "Including Accessibility throughout the
       Design Process. Shawn Henry participates in a panel at UPA 2007
       Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for Usability).
     * 13 June, Austin, Texas, USA: SIG: What's New in Standards for
       Usability and Accessibility?. Shawn Henry participates in a
       panel at UPA 2007 Conference (Patterns: Blueprints for
       Usability).
     * 21 June, Seattle, USA: Getting Real with Accessibility. Shawn
       Henry presents at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
     * 31 August, Singapore, Singapore: Introduction to the Semantic
       Web. Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at International Conference on
       Dublin Core and Metadata Applications.
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: New Aspects of InkML for
       Pen-Based Computing. Stephen M. Watt presents at International
       Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR).
     * 24 September, Curitiba, Brazil: Streaming-Archival InkML
       Conversion. Stephen M. Watt, Birendra Keshari present at
       International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
       (ICDAR).
     * 26 September, Sydney, Australia: CSS. Bert Bos gives a lecture
       at Web Directions South / W3C SIG Day.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: Web Directions breakfast. Bert
       Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 27 September, Sydney, Australia: A new life for old standards.
       Bert Bos presents at Web Directions South.
     * 3 October, Gijón, Spain: Browser panel. Bert Bos participates in
       a panel at Fundamentos Web 2007.
     * View upcoming talks by country
       http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
       tryListing=yes&submit=Submit
     * More talks...
       http://www.w3.org/Talks/

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