W3C Public Newsletter 1 June 2009

W3C Opens Senegal Office

2009-05-26: W3C announces today the launch of the W3C Senegal Office, hosted by the Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP), attached to the UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop), in Dakar, Senegal. Ibrahima Ngom (ESP) and Alex Corenthin (ISOC Senegal) will jointly manage this new W3C Office. W3C looks forward to increasing interaction with the French-speaking community, especially neighboring countries in West Africa. The opening ceremony will take place 27 May. Read the press release and learn more about the W3C Offices, which assist W3C with promotion efforts in local languages, help broaden W3C’s geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities. (Permalink)

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Candidate Recommendation Updated: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language

2009-05-28: The XML Processing Model Working Group has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. This specification describes the syntax and semantics of a language for describing operations to be performed on XML documents. The status section of the document summarizes the list of changes since the Candidate Recommendation was first published. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. (Permalink)

Last Call: Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration

2009-05-28: The Web Applications Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of Widgets 1.0: Packaging and Configuration. This document standardizes a packaging format for a class of software application known as a widget. Widgets are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using Web standards and packaged for distribution. They are typically downloaded and installed on a client machine or device where they run as stand-alone applications, but they can also be embedded into Web pages and run in a Web browser. Examples range from simple clocks, stock tickers, news casters, games and weather forecasters, to complex applications that pull data from multiple sources to be "mashed-up" and presented to a user in some interesting and useful way. Comments are welcome through 19 June. Learn more about the Rich Web Client Activity. (Permalink)

Relationship Between Mobile Web and Web Content Accessibility Working Draft Published

2009-05-26: The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group and the WAI Education and Outreach Working Group have published an updated Working Draft of Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). This draft is complete and is provided as a last opportunity for public review and comment before publication as a W3C Working Group Note. See the announcement email.

The groups encourage people to start by reading Web Content Accessibility and Mobile Web: Making a Web Site Accessible Both for People with Disabilities and for Mobile Devices, which shows how design goals for accessibility and mobile access overlap. A third document, Shared Web Experiences: Barriers Common to Mobile Device Users and People with Disabilities, provides examples of barriers that people (without disabilities) face when interacting with Web content via mobile devices, and similar barriers for people with disabilities using desktop computers. Learn more about the Mobile Web Initiative and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). (Permalink)

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4 June, Rabat, Morocco: Content for All: Web Accessibility Guidelines.Shadi Abou-Zahra gives a keynote at International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services.
6 June, Danbury, CT, USA: Digital Media for All .Jeanne Spellman presents at Connecticut Film Festival.
9 June, Premantura, Croatia: International Standards for Web Accessibility.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at Pristupačnost ili informacijske barijere?.
11 June, Santander, Spain: Guidelines for Mobile Web Content Adaptation by Third-party Proxies.François Daoust presents at ICT-MobileSummit 2009.
11 June, London, United Kingdom: De-Fragmentation & Apps in the Cloud.Philipp Hoschka participates in a panel at Open Mobile Summit 09.
15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: What is New in W3C Land?.Ivan Herman presents at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
15 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introduction to the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
16 June, San Jose, CA, USA: Introducing OWL 2.Ivan Herman participates in a panel at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
17 June, San Jose, USA: XBRL and the Semantic Web.Dave Raggett, Diane Mueller present at 2009 Semantic Technology Conference.
30 June, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: The Future of Code.Steven Pemberton presents at Kings of Code.
14 July, Linz, Austria: WCAG 2.0 ist da, was nun?.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at IKT Forum 2009.
20 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility: It's for Everyone and Everything.Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009 Seattle.
21 July, Seattle, WA, USA: Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World.Shawn Henry presents at Web Design World 2009 Seattle (discount "Passport" registration code: S9W06).
24 July, San Diego, USA: WCAG 2.0 Test Samples Repository.Shadi Abou-Zahra presents at HCI International 2009.
29 August, Nanjing, China: Introduction to the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a tutorial at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
30 August, Nanjing, China: State of the Semantic Web.Ivan Herman gives a keynote at 第三届中国语义万维网研讨会 (CSWS 2009).
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