W3C Public Newsletter, 2007-12-11

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Janet Daly, W3C Communications Team
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Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Working
Draft

   The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
   released a second Last Call Working Draft of "Web Content
   Accessibility Guidelines 2.0," and Working Drafts of "Understanding
   WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques 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 requested by 1 February 2008. Read the WCAG Overview, Call for
   Review, and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.

   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag
   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2007OctDec/0060.html
   http://www.w3.org/WAI/

W3C Invites Implementations of EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation
markup language (Candidate Recommendation)

   The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has published the Candidate
   Recommendation of "EMMA: Extensible MultiModal Annotation markup
   language." Implementation feedback is welcome through 14 April
   2008. EMMA is a data exchange format for the interface between input
   processors and interaction management systems within the "Multimodal
   Architecture and Interfaces," and defines the means to annotate
   application specific data with information such as confidence
   scores, time stamps, input mode, alternative recognition hypotheses,
   and partial recognition results. Visit the Multimodal Interaction
   home page.

   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-emma-20071211/
   http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-arch/
   http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi

"Emergency Information Interoperability Framework" Focus of Incubator
Group

   W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Emergency Information
   Interoperability Framework Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members
   NICTA, Google, SICS, and IBM. The mission of this Incubator Group is
   to review and analyze the current state-of-the-art in vocabularies
   used in emergency management functions and to investigate the path
   forward via an emergency management systems information
   interoperability framework. Read about the Incubator Activity, an
   initiative to foster development of emerging Web-related
   technologies.

   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/eiif/
   http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
   Past home page news...

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

Upcoming Meetings

     * W3C Workshop on Video on the Web, 12-13 December
     * More About Workshops...
       http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
     * W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
       http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings

Upcoming Talks 

     * 11 December, New York, USA: Video Search Engines. Philippe Le
       Hégaret participates in a panel at WebVideo Summit 2007.
     * 14 December, Venezia, Italy: Le nuove linee guida internazionali
       per l'accessibilità del Web. Oreste Signore presents at
       L’evoluzione dell’accessibilità informatica.
     * 23 January 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA: Unifying a Fragmenting
       Market Through Standardisation to Encourage Mobile Web Industry
       Development. Matt Womer presents at Mobile Web USA.
     * 31 January 2008, Gijón, Spain: TIC y Gobernabilidad. José Manuel
       Alonso participates in a panel at Cooperación al desarrollo 2.0.
     * 7 March 2008, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
       Herman presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
     * 1 April 2008, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
       Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
       Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
       internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data
       in HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
       17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 21 April 2008, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
       (through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
       World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
     * 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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