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- Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 10:06:57 -0400
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W3C Weekly News 21 August - 26 August 2002 QA Framework: Specification Guidelines Working Draft Published 26 August 2002: The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "QA Framework: Specification Guidelines." The guidelines are designed to help W3C Working Groups write clearer, more implementable, and better testable technical reports. This is a major revision and comments are welcome. Visit the QA home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-qaframe-spec-20020826/ http://www.w3.org/QA/ HTML Working Group Rechartered 23 August 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the rechartering of the HTML Working Group through August 2004. The group seeks to fulfill the promise of XML for applying XHTML to a wide variety of platforms. It supports rich Web content, combining XHTML with W3C work in areas such as math, scalable vector graphics, synchronized multimedia, and forms. Read the group's work items in its charter and visit the HTML home page. http://www.w3.org/2002/05/html/charter http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft Published 22 August 2002: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft of the "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0." Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities, and to a variety of Web-enabled devices, such as phones, handhelds, kiosks, and network appliances. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Last Call Published 21 August 2002: The User Agent Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" as a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 18 September. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion "Techniques" Working Draft is also updated. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-20020821/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20020821/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ XForms Working Draft Published 21 August 2002: The XForms Working Group has released a Working Draft of "XForms 1.0," incorporating all issues received during Last Call. Comments are welcome through 4 September. More flexible than previous HTML and XHTML form technologies, the new generation of Web forms separates purpose, presentation, and data. Visit the XForms home page. http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020821/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ _________________________________________________________________________ The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is 465 Member organizations and 72 Team members leading the Web to its full potential. W3C is an international industry consortium jointly run by the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT LCS) in the USA, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, and Keio University in Japan. The W3C Web site hosts specifications, guidelines, software and tools. Public participation is welcome. W3C supports universal access, the semantic Web, trust, interoperability, evolvability, decentralization, and cooler multimedia. For information about W3C please visit http://www.w3.org/ _________________________________________________________________________ To subscribe to W3C Weekly News, please send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. To unsubscribe, send an email to mailto:w3c-announce-request@w3.org with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________
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