The 2008-05-05 version of the W3C Public Newsletter is online:
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Ian Jacobs, W3C Communications Team
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W3C Invites Implementations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG) 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation)
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has
released "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" as a Candidate
Recommendation, and published updated Working Drafts of
"Understanding WCAG 2.0" and "Techniques for WCAG 2.0," along with
How to Meet WCAG 2.0 and Comparison of WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints to WCAG
2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites, Web applications, and other
Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Working closely
with Web developers, the WCAG Working Group expects to receive
initial implementations by 30 June 2008 and to show evidence of
meeting the "exit criteria" by 31 August 2008. Read the press
release, invitation to implement, Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents,
and about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20-20080430/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20080430/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/from10/comparison/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status_exit
http://www.w3.org/2008/04/wcag20cr-pressrelease
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2008AprJun/0042
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php
Canonical XML Version 1.1 Is a W3C Recommendation
The XML Core Working Group has published the W3C Recommendation of
"Canonical XML Version 1.1." Canonical XML Version 1.1 is a
revision to Canonical XML Version 1.0 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. Canonical XML
Version 1.1 is applicable to XML 1.0 and defined in terms of the
XPath 1.0 data model. It is not defined for XML 1.1. As a
Recommendation, this is a stable document and may be used as
reference material or cited from another document. Learn more about
the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-c14n11-20080502/
XProc: An XML Pipeline Language Draft Published
The XML Processing Model Working Group has published a Working Draft
of "XProc: An XML Pipeline Language." This specification describes
the syntax and semantics of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language, a
language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents.
Pipelines are made up of simple steps which perform atomic
operations on XML documents and constructs similar to conditionals,
iteration, and exception handlers, which control which steps are
executed. The status section of the document lists the most
important changes since the previous draft. Learn more about the
Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
http://www.w3.org/XML/Processing/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-xproc-20080501/
Product Modelling Incubator Group to Identify Basic Ontology for
Product Modelling
W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the Product Modelling
Incubator Group, sponsored by W3C Members TNO, POSC-Caesar
Association, and Fraunhofer. Per the charter, the SWOP and S-TEN
projects, with the POSC Caesar Association, believe that it is
possible to define a small core of basic classes and properties for
product modelling. This "product core" could be the basis of the
ontologies defined by the two projects, and for many other
application ontologies. This core could help the development of Web
ontologies derived from existing international standards, such as
IFC, STEP and ISO 15926. The XG has been proposed to work on this
core set. Read more about the Incubator Activity, an initiative to
foster development of emerging Web-related technologies. Incubator
Activity work is not on the W3C standards track.
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/w3pm/
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/w3pm/charter
http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting in Beijing
W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on 21-22 April
in Beijing, China. W3C Member organizations participate in two days
of discussions and strategic planning about W3C Activities and
future work. The meeting takes place alongside WWW2008; you are
invited to the W3C Track at WWW2008. The media are invited to a
press conference with Tim Berners-Lee on 23 April at 3pm local time.
Learn how to become a W3C Member and attend the next Advisory
Committee Meeting in October 2008 (part of Technical Plenary Week)
in Cannes, France.
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/activities
http://www.w3.org/2008/04/w3c-track.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-news/2008AprJun/0000
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join
Past home page news...
W3C Questions and Answers Blog
* Vertical Layouts for Canvas Text (CJK) by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/canvas-text-and-cjk.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* How to add RDF information to a page using RDFa? by Ivan Herman
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/using_rdfa_to_add_information.html
* Web Typography - Your wish list by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/web-typography.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* W3C, Process and Perception by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/05/w3c-process-perception.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* WCAG 2.0 takes a giant leap forward — Now it's your turn by
Shawn Henry
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/04/wcag20_cr_april2008.html
http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
* font is dead, vive le style by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/04/font-dead-style-global.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* alt attributes authoring practices by Karl Dubost
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/04/alt-authoring-practices.html
http://www.w3.org/People/karl/
* Past Q&A Blog ...
Upcoming Meetings
* Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social
Development, 2-3 June
* More About Workshops...
http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/
* W3C Membership Meeting Calendar...
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/meetings
Upcoming Talks
* 6 May, Gelsenkirchen, Germany: Verordnete (Barriere-)Freiheit.
Shadi Abou-Zahra participates in a panel at Einfach-für-Alle
Tagung.
* 6 May, Dublin, Ireland: XForms 1.1. Steven Pemberton gives a
tutorial at XTech 2008.
* 8 May, Dublin, Ireland: CSS Advanced Layout is not only for big
grids. Bert Bos presents at XTech 2008.
* 8 May, Dublin, Ireland: Why you should have a Website. Steven
Pemberton presents at XTech 2008.
* 14 May, Stockholm, Sweden: Internationalisering och lokalisering
-- språk på webben. Olle Olsson presents at Språk och Internet.
* 18 May, San Jose, CA, USA: State of the Semantic Web. Ivan
Herman presents at 2008 Semantic Technology Conference.
* 19 May, Canberra, Australia: Improving Government through better
use of the Web. José Manuel Alonso gives a keynote at Web
Directions South: Government.
* 20 May, Barcelona, Spain: Fast Forward: Get Ready for Web 3.0.
Steve Bratt gives a keynote at bdigital Global Congress.
* 21 May, Sydney, Australia: Towards eGovernment 2.0. José Manuel
Alonso gives a keynote at eGovernment Forum at CeBIT.
* 22 May, San Jose, CA, USA: Bringing SemTech Back to the
Business. Ivan Herman participates in a panel at 2008 Semantic
Technology Conference.
* 27 May, London, United Kingdom: One Big Happy Family: Practical
Collaboration on Meaningful Markup . Dan Brickley presents at
Microformats vEvent.
* 2 June, Västerås, Sweden: Framtidssäkra eFörvaltningen. Olle
Olsson participates in a panel at Offentliga Rummet 2008.
* 17 June, New York, NY, USA: Web of Data. Tim Berners-Lee
presents at LinkedData Planet Conference: exploring the new web
of linked data.
* 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.
* 26 June, Frankfurt, Germany: Mobile Internet – the Way Forward.
Steve Bratt participates in a panel at Next Generation Mobile
Internet Industry Conference 2008.
* View upcoming talks by country
http://www.w3.org/2004/08/W3CTalks?date=Recent+and+upcoming&coun
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