The 2008-02-04 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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WAI-ARIA for Accessible Rich Web Applications: First Public Working
Drafts
The Protocols and Formats Working Group published First Public
Working Drafts of:
* "Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) Version 1.0"
combines the two previously-published ARIA draft specifications:
WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties.
* " WAI-ARIA Primer" provides background on accessibility issues
related to JavaScript, and introduces the technical approach
used in WAI-ARIA.
* " WAI-ARIA Best Practices" describes how Web content developers
can develop accessible rich Web applications using WAI-ARIA.
WAI-ARIA defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more
accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with
dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with
Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies. An updated "
WAI-ARIA Roadmap" was also published.
Additionally, the Education and Outreach Working Group published a
new WAI-ARIA FAQ and updated WAI-ARIA Overview. Read the Call for
Review: New WAI-ARIA Documents announcement and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-primer-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-practices-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-wai-aria-roadmap-20080204/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/aria/faq
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008JanMar/0023
Toward More Transparent Government: Workshop Report on eGovernment and
the Web
W3C has published a Workshop Report: eGovernment and the Web
Workshop: "Toward More Transparent Government". Participants
discussed ways to facilitate the deployment of Web standards across
government sites and how to shape the ongoing research agenda in the
development of Web technology and public policy in order to realize
the potential of the Web for access to and use of government
information. Held 18-19 June (press release), in Washington D.C.,
USA, the Workshop was jointly organized by W3C and WSRI . Learn more
about eGovernment at W3C.
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/summary
http://www.w3.org/2007/06/eGov-dc/summary
http://www.w3.org/2007/05/egovpressrelease
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Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies
The Semantic Web Deployment Working Group has published the Working
Draft of "Best Practice Recipes for Publishing RDF Vocabularies."
This document describes best practice recipes for publishing
vocabularies or ontologies on the Web (in "RDF Schema" or "OWL" ).
Each recipe introduces general principles and an example
configuration for use with an Apache HTTP server (which may be
adapted to other environments). The recipes are all designed to be
consistent with the architecture of the Web as currently specified.
Learn more about the Semantic Web Activity.
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20080123/
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/
http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
Call for Review: Canonical XML 1.1 Proposed Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation
of "Canonical XML 1.1." The specification establishes a method for
determining whether two documents are identical, or whether an
application has not changed a document, except for transformations
permitted by XML 1.0 and Namespaces in XML. Canonical XML 1.1 is a
revision to "Canonical XML 1.0" designed to address issues related
to inheritance of attributes in the XML namespace when
canonicalizing document subsets, including the requirement not to
inherit xml:id, and to treat xml:base URI path processing properly.
Comments are welcome through 07 March. Learn more about W3C's XML
Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xml-c14n11-20080129/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* New resources on making Ajax and related technologies accessible
by Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/02/new_resources_on_making_ajax_a.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
* CSS Validator Translation - Polish and Chinese translators
wanted! by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/css_validator_translation.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* link test suite by olivier Théreaux
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/link_test_suite.html
http://www.w3.org/People/olivier/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 4 February, New Delhi, India: Web Accessibility: International
Standards for Local Users. Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at
Techshare India 2008.
* 5 February, Tokyo, Japan: HTML 5. Michael(tm) Smith presents at
Jagat.
* 11 February, Barcelona, Spain: . Marie-Claire Forgue, Dominique
Hazaël-Massieux, François Daoust are at The Mobile World
Congress.
* 11 February, Wellington, New Zealand: Achieving Web for All:
Improving the Accessibility, Usability, and Quality of Your
Website. Shawn Henry gives a tutorial at Webstock 2008.
* 12 February, Seoul, Korea: 모바일 웹 2.0과 모바일 컨버전스. Seungyun Lee
presents at 제10회 통신핵심기술 워크샵 안내.
* 13 February, Cambridge, MA, USA: [No title yet]. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at Innovation Through IT for Senior Leaders in
Government (ITSL) workshop.
* 18 February, Phoenix Park, Korea: Mobile Web 2.0 Technologies.
Seungyun Lee presents at The 10th International Conference On
Advanced Communication Technology.
* 7 March, Tokyo, Japan: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
presents at INTAP Semantic Web Conference 2008.
* 8 March, Austin, TX, USA: Catching up with Accessibility: The
Basics Quickly. Shawn Henry presents at SXSW Interactive 2008
Conference.
* 10 March, San Diego, CA, USA: New W3C Standards For Speech and
Multimodal Applications. Deborah Dahl presents at Voice Search
Conference.
* 10 March, Berlin, Germany: An Introduction to POWDER
(tentative). Phil Archer, Thomas Tikwinski give a tutorial at
Web 2.0 Telecoms.
* 15 March, Los Angeles, USA: How Web Accessibility Guidelines
Apply to Design for the Ageing Population. Shadi Abou-Zahra,
Andrew Arch present at CSUN 2008.
* 17 March, Geneva, Switzerland: Video on the Web at W3C. Philippe
Le Hégaret presents at Media Distribution over Open Internet.
* 1 April, Berlin, Germany: Analysing The Importance Of
Standardisation In Driving Mobile Internet Usage. Philipp
Hoschka presents at Mobile Internet.
* 21 April, Beijing, China: RDFa: Extensible Structured Data in
HTML. Ben Adida, Elias Torres, Ivan Herman give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web
(through an example…). Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 17th
World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 21 April, Beijing, China: Producing XML that works
internationally. Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki give a tutorial at
17th World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008).
* 18 June, Nancy, France: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan Herman
gives a keynote at 19èmes Journées Francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances (IC2008).
* 19 June, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: How New Web Accessibility
Standards Impact User Experience Design. Shawn Henry presents at
Usability Professionals' Association International Conference
2008.
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