W3C Public Newsletter, 2021-07-05

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W3C Communications Team

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W3C offers an Inclusion Fund and Fellowships for TPAC 2021

   29 June 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9131>

   60% of the world is online and we want and need to reflect the diversity of the whole world as more people continue to access, use and create the web. We believe that more diversity means better representation, which leads to better and more inclusive design. Indeed, more background, more use cases, more edge cases, lead to a better Web. More diversity also brings higher quality results.

   We aspire to be a model in supporting greater diversity in technology. We continue to have a long way to go but we have taken steps so that we both attract more diverse participants and also encourage them to be welcome in our environment.

   Among these steps is the opening today of the W3C TPAC Inclusion Fund’s applications, until 15 August; and in September the new TPAC Fellows honorarium of US$ 500 will be awarded to a few to cover work towards W3C goals done outside of habitual paid work. Both offerings are designed for people from an underrepresented group who wouldn’t be able to attend or meaningfully contribute to TPAC without financial support.

   <https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/InclusionFund2021/>

   The TPAC Inclusion Fund is sponsored by W3C and W3C members Adobe, Samsung Electronics, Coil, Microsoft, TetraLogical, Siteimprove, as well as Charles Nevile and an anonymous donor. We recognize and thank them for this important gesture.

   Our CEO Jeff Jaffe has written about this today and we invite you to read his 2021 update on diversity and inclusion at W3C which also describes these offerings in detail.

   <https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/06/diversity-and-inclusion-at-w3c-inclusion-fund-and-fellowships-for-tpac-2021/>

Updated Candidate Recommendation: Payment Request API

   29 June 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9122>

   The Web Payments Working Group invites implementation of an updated Candidate Recommendation of "Payment Request API." This specification standardizes an API to allow merchants (i.e., web sites selling physical or digital goods) to utilize one or more payment methods with minimal integration. User agents (e.g., browsers) facilitate the payment flow between merchant and user.

   <https://www.w3.org/Payments/WG/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/CRD-payment-request-20210629/>

   Comments are welcome via the GitHub issues by 27 July 2021.

   <https://github.com/w3c/payment-request/issues/>

First Public Working Draft: CSS Fonts Module Level 5

   29 June 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9119>

   The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of "CSS Fonts Module Level 5." This document extends the ‘font-size-adjust’ property to improve legibility of fallback fonts across a wider range of writing systems, adds font metrics overrides to reduce layout shift while Web fonts load, and adds overrides to improve the synthesis of super- and sub-scripts.

   <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/WD-css-fonts-5-20210629/>

Working Group Note: The Plain CBOR Representation v1.0

   29 June 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9116>

   The Decentralized Identifier Working Group has just published a Working Group Note of "The Plain CBOR Representation v1.0, Expressing a DID Document using the application/did+cbor media type." This document defines the production and consumption rules for a CBOR representation for "DID Documents," as defined in the "Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0" Specification.

   <https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-did-cbor-representation-20210629/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/#dfn-did-documents>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/>

Working Group Note: EPUB Accessibility — EU Accessibility Act Mapping

   29 June 2021
   <https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/9113>

   The EPUB 3 Working Group has just published a Working Group Note of  "EPUB Accessibility – EU Accessibility Act Mapping."

   <https://www.w3.org//publishing/groups/epub-wg/>
   <https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-epub-a11y-eaa-mapping-20210629/>

   The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is an EU directive that establishes binding accessibility targets that must be met by many different types of products and services to strengthen the rights of people with disabilities to access goods and services, including ebooks, dedicated reading software, ereading devices, and ecommerce.

   <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L0882>

   The EAA has been approved on 27 June 2019, should be implemented by EU Member States within 28 June 2022 and will enter in force from 28 June 2025.

   This note aims to demonstrate that the technical requirements of the European Accessibility Act related to ebooks are met by the EPUB standard. The methodology used is mapping the requirements of the EU Accessibility Act related to ebooks to the "EPUB Accessibility" specification.

   <https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-a11y-11/>

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

W3C Blog

     * Diversity and Inclusion at W3C: Inclusion Fund and Fellowships for TPAC 2021
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/06/diversity-and-inclusion-at-w3c-inclusion-fund-and-fellowships-for-tpac-2021/>
       29 June 2021 by Jeff Jaffe
       <http://www.w3.org/People/Jeff/>

Upcoming Talks

     * 2021-07-07(07 JUL)
       Your CMS is an accessibility assistant
       <https://www.w3.org/blog/talks/event/your-cms-is-an-accessibility-assistant-technica11y/>
       by Hidde de Vries
       Technica11y
       <https://technica11y.org/>

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