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- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:12:12 -0400
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The 2010-04-26 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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Join W3C in Discussions on HTML5, Linked Open Data at WWW2010
20 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8772
[] W3C invites WWW2010 conference participants to attend two
W3C track sessions on April 29 and 30 in Raleigh, North
Carolina (USA). Responding to the Web community’s demand for
open discussion on the future of HTML5 and Linked Data, W3C
organizes this year an HTML5 camp and a Linked Open Data camp.
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, will lead off the Linked Open
Data camp and participate in discussions on topics such as open
data deployment in government and managing privacy as the Web
of data grows. At the HTML5 camp on April 30, W3C staff will
lead discussions on what developers can expect today and in the
near future from the open Web platform that is HTML5. W3C’s
Chief Executive Officer, Jeff Jaffe and several other W3C staff
will participate in and lead events at WWW2010 and other
co-located meetings. Read the media advisory for more
information.
http://www2010.org/
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/w3c-track
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/w3ctrack-pr
Community Invited to Discuss Augmented Reality on the Web at W3C
Workshop
24 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8780
W3C announced today a Workshop on Augmented Reality on the Web,
15-16 June 2010 in Barcelona (Spain). Augmented reality (AR) is
a long standing topic in its own right but it has not been
developed on the Web platform. As mobile devices become more
powerful and feature-rich, the workshop will explore the
possible convergence of AR and the Web. The objective of this
Workshop is to provide a single forum for researchers and
technologists to discuss the state of the art for AR on the
Web, particularly the mobile platform, and what role
standardization should play for Open Augmented Reality.
Position papers are due 29 May. Please see the Call for
Participation for more information.
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-omweb.
htm
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-omweb.
htm
Updated Resources Encourage Developers and Users Working Together for
Better Accessibility
22 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8779
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach
Working Group (EOWG) has updated the following resources as
part of the WAI-AGE Project:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WAI-AGE/
* Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites
provides guidance on encouraging organizations to make
their websites accessible, particularly when you find
accessibility barriers on a website.
* Involving Users in Web Projects for Better, Easier
Accessibility describes how project managers, designers,
developers, editors, and others can better understand
accessibility issues and implement more effective
accessibility solutions by getting people with disabilities
involved from the beginning of projects.
* Involving Users in Evaluating Web Accessibility provides
the basics for anyone wanting to ensure that their
websites, applications, and tools work well for people with
disabilities.
More about these resources is in the blog posts Discover new
ways of thinking about accessibility and Take a few minutes to
encourage web accessibility. Your voice counts. Learn about
Accessibility and visit the WAI home page.
http://www.w3.org/QA/2009/12/discover_new_ways_of_thinking
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/01/encourage_accessibility_make_a_dif
ference
http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C Invites Comments on First Drafts of RDFa Core 1.1, XHTML+RDFa 1.1
22 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8777
The RDFa Working Group has published the First Public Working
Drafts of "RDFa Core 1.1" and "XHTML+RDFa 1.1." RDFa Core is a
specification for attributes to express structured data in any
markup language. XHTML+RDFa 1.1 is an application of RDFa Core
1.1 for XHTML. Both of these documents are expected to
supersede the "RDFa in XHTML" (RDFa 1.0) specification.
Together, these specifications enable the human-readable and
machine-readable markup of people, places, events, products,
recipes, social networks, and many other concepts that are
frequently published on the web. These documents improve upon
RDFa 1.0 by adding a number of Web community requested features
to ease authoring. Learn more about the Semantic Web.
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/rdfa/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-rdfa-core-20100422/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xhtml-rdfa-20100422/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-syntax/
http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
Judy Brewer to Testify on Web Accessibility Before US House
Subcommittee
21 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8776
[] On Thursday, April 22, Judy Brewer, Director of the Web
Accessibility Initiative (WAI), will be among those testifying
at a Hearing on Achieving the Promise of the Americans with
Disabilities Act in the Digital Age – Current Issues,
Challenges, and Opportunities before the US House Judiciary
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil
Liberties. In her testimony, she will speak about how web
accessibility has progressed over the past ten years, and why
it is important to continue to lower accessibility barriers on
the web as we rely more heavily on the web for education,
employment, health care, social networking, and more. Learn
about W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
http://www.w3.org/People/Brewer/
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100422_1
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/pdf/Brewer100422.pdf
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
Early Bird Registration for New Mobile Web Training Course ends 23
April
21 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8775
W3C has updated the popular online training course
"Introduction to Mobile Web Best Practices" for 2010. The first
run of this updated course begins on Monday, 10 May. Early Bird
registration ends this Friday, 23 April! (although full
registration remains open until after the course has begun).
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/mobitrain_course_description
Led by members of W3C's Mobile Web Initiative, people attending
the course will:
* learn about the specific promises and challenges of the
mobile platform;
* learn how to use W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices to design
mobile-friendly Web content and to adapt existing content
for mobile;
* learn client side and server side techniques for adapting
your content to different classes of device.
Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
W3C Invites Implementations of Widget Access Request Policy
20 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8774
The Web Applications Working Group invites implementation of
the Candidate Recommendation of "Widget Access Request Policy"
. User agents running widgets are expected to provide access to
potentially sensitive APIs (phone book, calendar, file system,
etc.) that expose data which should not be exposed without the
user's consent. The purpose of this specification is to define
the security model for network interactions from within a
widget that has access to sensitive information. It provides
means for a widget to declare its intent to access specific
network resources so that a policy may control it. Follow the
group's development of an implementation report and learn more
about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/CR-widgets-access-20100420/
http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets-access/imp-report/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
Last Call: View Mode Media Feature
20 April 2010 | Archive
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8773
The Web Applications Working Group has published a Last Call
Working Draft of "View Mode Media Feature." Web applications,
be they widgets or in-browser, can on most platforms be run in
multiple visual modes. At times they may occupy the entire
screen, at others they may be minimized to a specific docking
area; at times they may have chrome that matches the operating
system's style while at others they may be providing their own
controls. The user is generally in control of at least several
aspects of these modalities, and it is therefore important for
authors to be able to react to these in order to provide
different styling to their applications. In order to achieve
this, this specification defines a media feature that allows
different CSS style rules to be applied depending on whether a
given media query matches. Comments are welcome through 18 May.
Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-view-mode-20100420/
http://www.w3.org/2006/rwc/
More news: http://www.w3.org/News/archive
Workshops
* 2010-05-13 (13 MAY) – 2010-05-14 (14 MAY)
Workshop on Future Standards for Model-Based User
Interfaces
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/mbui/cfp
Rome, Italy
Hosted by CNR/ISTI
Web application developers face increasing difficulties due
to wide variations in device capabilities, in the details
of the standards they support, the need to support
assistive technologies for accessibility, the demand for
richer user interfaces, the suites of programming languages
and libraries, and the need to contain costs and meet
challenging schedules during the development and
maintenance of applications. Research work on model-based
design of context-sensitive user interfaces has sought to
address the challenge of reducing the costs for developing
and maintaining multi-target user interfaces through a
layered architecture that separates out different concerns.
Workshop participants will collectively help to identify
opportunities and challenges for new open standards in the
area, particularly concerning the semantics and syntaxes of
task, abstract and concrete user interface models. In
addition, workshop participants will have the opportunity
to discuss the role of model-based approaches in relation
to other standards, for instance, XForms, ANSI/CEA-2018 and
MDA, and the relationship to work on standards for Web
delivery including HTML5 and browser scripting APIs.
* 2010-06-15 (15 JUN) – 2010-06-16 (16 JUN)
Augmented Reality on the Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/04/W3C-augmented-reality-workshop-om
web.htm
Barcelona, Spain
Augmented reality (AR) is a long standing topic in its own
right but it has not been developed on the Web platform. As
mobile devices become more powerful and feature-rich, the
workshop will explore the possible convergence of AR and
the Web. The objective of this Workshop is to provide a
single forum for researchers and technologists to discuss
the state of the art for AR on the Web, particularly the
mobile platform, and what role standardization should play
for Open Augmented Reality.
* 2010-06-18 (18 JUN) – 2010-06-19 (19 JUN)
W3C Workshop on Conversational Applications
http://www.w3.org/2010/02/convapps/cfp
Somerset, NJ, USA
Openstream
The goal of the workshop is to understand the limitations
of the current W3C language model in order to develop a
more comprehensive model. We plan to collect and analyze
use cases and prioritize requirements that ultimately will
be used to identify improvements to the W3C language model.
Just as W3C developed SSML 1.1 to broaden the languages for
which SSML is useful, this effort will result in improved
support for language capabilities that are unsupported
today.
* 2010-06-26 (26 JUN) – 2010-06-27 (27 JUN)
RDF Next Steps
http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/
Palo Alto, CA
Hosted by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology
(NCBO), at Stanford University
The goal of the workshop is to gather feedback from the Web
community on whether and, if yes, in which direction "RDF"
should evolve. One of the main issues the Workshop should
help deciding is whether it is timely for W3C to start a
new RDF Working Group to define and standardize a next
version of RDF.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-primer-20040210/
W3C Blog
* RDFa 1.1 version of the pyRdfa distiller
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/rdfa_11_version_of_the_pyrdfa
22 April 2010 by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan
* Volcanic ash, Europe, and W3C
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/volcanic_ash_europe_and_w3c
19 April 2010 by Jeff Jaffe
http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/
* Why does the address bar show the tempolink instead of the
permalink?
http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/why_does_the_address_bar_show
19 April 2010 by Jonathan Rees
Upcoming Talks
* 2010-05-03 (3 MAY)
How to make business worldwide with the multilingual web
keynote by Felix Sasaki
Business Information Systems 2010
http://bis.kie.ae.poznan.pl/13th_bis/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-05-07 (7 MAY)
Some Steps from the Web to a Semantic Web
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0507NewDelhi-KB-IH/
World Wide Web: Technology, Standards and
Internationalization Conference
http://www.w3cindia.in/conf-site/conference-index.htm
New Delhi, India
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Web Accessibility from the Usability and UX Perspectives
by Shawn Henry
AccessU, Usability Track
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/?content=usabilitytrac
k
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-10 (10 MAY)
Accessibility Now
keynote by Shawn Henry
AccessU
http://www.knowbility.org/conference/
Austin, TX, USA
* 2010-05-24 (24 MAY)
Develop a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your
Organization
by Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
panel features Shawn Henry
UPA 2010: Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience
Design for the World
https://www.usabilityprofessionals.org/conference/2010/inde
x.new
Munich, Germany
* 2010-05-27 (27 MAY)
Semantically-Enabled Standard development
by Laurent Lefort
Metadata Australia 2010 Conference - Sharing Data, Sharing
Ideas
http://www.metadataaustralia2010.com/
Canberra, Australia
* 2010-06-09 (9 JUN)
Standards and Best Practices for the Multilingual Web
by Richard Ishida
Localization World
http://www.localizationworld.com/
Berlin, Germany
* 2010-06-10 (10 JUN)
SVG: Today and Tomorrow
by Doug Schepers
@media 2010
http://atmedia.webdirections.org/
London, United Kingdom
* 2010-06-22 (22 JUN)
Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies
http://www.w3.org/2010/Talks/0622-SemTech-IH/
by Ivan Herman
2010 Semantic Technology Conference
http://www.semantic-conference.com/
San Francisco, CA, USA
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