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Last Call: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0

2006-04-27: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and About Baselines for WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technologies. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)

Working Drafts: XQuery Update Facility

2006-05-08: The XML Query Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of the XQuery Update Facility and its Use Cases. XML Query can perform searches, queries and joins over collections of XDM instances such as documents and databases. The specifications provide expressions to create, modify and delete nodes within those instances. Visit the XML home page. (News archive)

Full-Text Search Working Drafts Published

2006-05-03: The XML Query and XSL Working Groups have released an updated Working Draft of XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-Text. The draft defines a language that extends XQuery and XPath to allow full-text searching of XML text and documents. The companion Use Cases Working Draft has also been updated and provides examples for full-text search over data model collections. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)

Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on a Device Description Repository

2006-04-28: Position papers are due 31 May for the W3C International Workshop on the Implementation of a Device Description Repository to be held 12-13 July 2006, in Madrid, Spain, hosted by Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo. Participants will discuss the design, implementation and use of a Device Description Repository (DDR) being proposed by the MWI Device Description Working Group. The proposed DDR will provide device information to content and service providers for adapting content to suit client devices. Read about W3C Workshops and the Mobile Web Initiative. (News archive)

W3C China Office Opens

photo of W3C China Office opening ceremony 2006-04-27: The W3C China Office is open in Beijing, China, hosted at the School of Computer Science & Engineering of Beihang University. For more information on the opening ceremonies on 27-28 April, please refer to the press release. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. W3C invites organizations in China who wish to become W3C Members to contact the W3C China Office and Join W3C. (Photo credit: Marie-Claire Forgue. News archive)

Last Call: Timed Text Distribution Profile

2006-04-27: The Timed Text (TT) Working Group has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP). The format enables authors and authoring systems to interchange style, layout and timing associated with text. DFXP helps to transform and distribute subtitles and captions to legacy systems. Comments are welcome through 18 May. Timed Text (TT) Authoring Format 1.0 Use Cases and Requirements were published as a Working Group Note. Visit the Synchronized Multimedia home page. (News archive)

W3C Talks in May

2006-04-27: Browse W3C presentations and events also available as an RSS channel. (News archive)

Browser Vendors, Finance Communities Convene to Address Pressing Web Security Issues

photo of Workshop attendees 2006-04-25: Google, HP, IBM, KDE, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Yahoo! and many other W3C Members and research organizations gathered with leaders of the online finance community in New York City, USA, to address pressing Web security issues at the March 2006 W3C Workshop on "Usability and Transparency of Web Authentication." The Workshop report, including suggested next steps, is now available. W3C thanks Citigroup for hosting and Cisco for network services. More information is available in the press release. Read about W3C Workshops. (Photo credit: José Kahan. News archive)

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