W3C Public Newsletter, 2020-05-04

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W3C opens Advisory Board (AB) election

   4 May 2020
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8519>

   The W3C Advisory Committee having nominated eight individuals, is invited today to vote until 1 June 2020 for five seats in the W3C Advisory Board (AB) election. Please, read the statements of the nominees.

   <https://www.w3.org/2002/ab/>
   <https://www.w3.org/2020/05/04-ab-nominations>

   Created in March 1998, the Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the W3C Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. The Advisory Board hears appeals of Member Submission requests that are rejected for reasons unrelated to Web architecture. For several years, the AB has conducted its work in a public wiki.

   <https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB>

   The elected Members of the Advisory Board participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. Advisory Board participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user.

First Public Working Draft: Challenges with Accessibility Guidelines Conformance and Testing, and Approaches for Mitigating Them

   1 May 2020
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/8517>

   The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "Challenges with Accessibility Guidelines Conformance and Testing, and Approaches for Mitigating Them." This document explores how testability and page-based conformance verification of the WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 accessibility guidelines are challenging to apply to a broad range of websites and web applications. It also explores approaches for mitigating these challenges, to realize as accessible a site as possible.

   <https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2020/WD-accessibility-conformance-challenges-20200501/>

   More news: <http://www.w3.org/blog/news/>

Workshops

     * 2020-09-21 (21 SEP) – 2020-10-31 (31 OCT)
       Remote-only W3C/OGC Joint Workshop Series on Maps for the Web
       <https://www.w3.org/2020/maps/>
       Distributed, online workshops
       Hosted by Natural Resources Canada

W3C Blog

     * W3C and XR Immersive Enterprise 2020
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2020/05/w3c-and-xr-immersive-enterprise-2020/>
       1 May 2020 by J. Alan Bird

Upcoming Talks

     * 2020-05-20(20 MAY)
       Siteimprove Accessibility Day
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/siteimprove-accessibility-day/>
       Online
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/venue/online/>

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New Members

     * Global Teams Internacional Latinoamerica

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