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- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 14:38:49 +0000
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The 2018-03-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
https://www.w3.org/News/Public/pnews-20180305
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W3C Communications Team
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WOFF File Format 2.0 is now a W3C Recommendation
1 March 2018
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6846>
The WebFonts Working Group has published "WOFF File Format 2.0" as a W3C Recommendation. Based on experience with WOFF 1.0, which is widely deployed, this specification was developed to provide improved compression and thus lower use of network bandwidth, while still allowing fast decompression even on mobile devices. This is achieved by combining a content-aware preprocessing step and improved entropy coding, compared to the Flate compression used in WOFF 1.0. Read more in the W3C Media Advisory.
<https://www.w3.org/Fonts/WG/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-WOFF2-20180301/>
<https://www.w3.org/2018/02/media-advisory-woff2-rec.html.en>
W3C Opens Technical Architecture Group (TAG) Special Election
5 March 2018
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6871>
The W3C Advisory Committee having nominated three individuals, is invited today to vote until 2 April 2018 for one seat in the 2018 special election to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) per Process Document now granting an additional seat.
<https://www.w3.org/2018/03/05-tag-nominations>
<https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#changes>
The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered under the W3C Process Document, with stewardship of the Web architecture. Some aspects of its mission include
<https://www.w3.org/2018/Process-20180201/#TAG>
* to document and build consensus around principles of Web architecture and to interpret and clarify these principles when necessary;
* to resolve issues involving general Web architecture brought to the TAG;
* to help coordinate cross-technology architecture developments inside and outside W3C.
W3C Invites Implementations of the High Resolution Time Level 2
1 March 2018
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6852>
The Web Performance Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation of "High Resolution Time Level 2." This specification defines an API that provides the time origin, and current time in sub-millisecond resolution, such that it is not subject to system clock skew or adjustments.
<https://www.w3.org/webperf/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/CR-hr-time-2-20180301/>
Call for Review: TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0.1 (IMSC1) is a W3C Proposed Recommendation
27 February 2018
<https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/6850>
The Timed Text Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of "TTML Profiles for Internet Media Subtitles and Captions 1.0.1 (IMSC1)." This document specifies two profiles of [ "TTML1" ]: a text-only profile and an image-only profile. These profiles are intended to be used across subtitle and caption delivery applications worldwide, thereby simplifying interoperability, consistent rendering and conversion to other subtitling and captioning formats.
<https://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/TT/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/PR-ttml-imsc1.0.1-20180227/>
<https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/PR-ttml-imsc1.0.1-20180227/#bib-TTML1>
Comments are welcome through 27 March 2018.
More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>
Workshops
* 2018-04-17 (17 APR) – 2018-04-18 (18 APR)
W3C Workshop on Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies
<https://www.w3.org/2018/vocabws/>
Vienna, Austria
Hosted by WU Wien
A W3C Workshop on Linked Data and Privacy
* 2018-05-10 (10 MAY) – 2018-05-11 (11 MAY)
W3C Workshop on Web5G: Aligning evolutions of network and Web technologies
<https://www.w3.org/2017/11/web5g-workshop/>
London, UK
Hosted by GSMA
W3C Blog
* WOFF 2.0, the inside scoop
<https://www.w3.org/blog/2018/03/woff-2-0-the-inside-scoop/>
1 March 2018 by Chris Lilley
Upcoming Talks
* 2018-03-21(21 MAR)
Harmonized Accessibility Testing for WCAG
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/harmonized-accessibility-testing-for-wcag/>
by Wilco Fiers, Mary Jo Mueller, Shadi Abou-Zahra
<https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>
CSUN Conference
<http://csunconference.org/>
San Diego, United States
* 2018-03-21(21 MAR)
International Uptake of WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 Including in Europe and China
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/international-uptake-of-wcag-2-0-and-wcag-2-1-including-in-europe-and-china/>
by Judy Brewer, Shadi Abou-Zahra, Roy (Ruoxi) Ran
<https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>
CSUN Conference
<http://csunconference.org/>
San Diego, United States
* 2018-03-21(21 MAR)
Mobile Accessibility in WCAG 2.1 and Beyond
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/mobile-accessibility-in-wcag-2-1-and-beyond/>
by Shadi Abou-Zahra, Kathy Wahlbin
<https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>
CSUN Conference
<http://csunconference.org/>
San Diego, United States
* 2018-03-22(22 MAR)
Publishing@W3C Talk
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/publishingw3c-talk-at-ebookcraft-toronto-22-march-2018/>
by Karen Myers, Tzviya Siegman
ebookcraft Toronto
<http://techforum.booknetcanada.ca/location/>
Toronto, Canada
* 2018-04-18(18 APR)
Web Accessibility: Looking into the Future
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/web-accessibility-looking-into-the-future/>
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
<https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>
Funka Days
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/venue/funka-days/>
Stockholm, Sweden
* 2018-05-22(22 MAY)
Accessibility: Future-Proofing Your Web Content
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/accessibility-future-proofing-your-web-content/>
by Shadi Abou-Zahra
<https://www.w3.org/People/shadi/>
STC Summit
<https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/venue/stc-summit/>
Orlando, United States
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