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Ensuring Accessibility Support in HTML5
HTML5 was announced as a W3C Last Call Working Draft on 25 May 2011. The W3C press release invites broad review to determine to what extent HTML5 has met its technical requirements and dependencies. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages your comments and participation.
- accessibility
- auto
- disabilities
- egov
- html
- html5
Semantic Web? It's Not Rocket Science. Except at NASA.
I met Jeanne Holm last week during the W3C Advisory Committee meeting. Jeanne is the Chief Knowledge Architect at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, and leads the Knowledge Management Team at NASA. When we started talking...
HTML5: Are We There Yet?
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By: Philippe le Hegaret
The HTML Working Group published 6 of their documents as Last Call documents. It's time to get more people to look at those documents and give some feedback.
- html
- html5
RDFa 1.1 with a rich snippet example
With RDFa 1.1 making its way out of last call, I looked at the examples from Google’s Webmaster Central to see what RDFa 1.1 brings to those. A typical example is the one on reviews; here s where it...
- html
- rdf
- rdfa
- semantic-web
HTTP Protocol for RDF Stores
Last week the W3C SPARQL Working Group has published a number last call working drafts for SPARQL 1.1. Much have been already said on various fora on the new features of SPARQL 1.1, like update, entailment regimes, property paths; I...
- http
- rdf
- sparql
Open Web Platform Weekly Summary - 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-16
The HTML WG is about to reach a very important step of the current W3C Process: Last Call. For a W3C Technology, it is the moment where the WG members think, they have solve any major issues. The document is considered mature and stable enough. Last Call is here to give another chance for all participants to review a stable version of the specification. All comments will be formally recorded and answered.
- html
- html5
- http
- open-web
- webapps
Web Tracking and User Privacy Workshop: Test Cases for Privacy on the Web
The level of interest and participation in last month's Workshop on Web Tracking and User Privacy - about a hundred attendees spanning multiple countries, dozens of companies, a wide variety of backgrounds - confirms the broad interest in Do Not Track. These discussions are test cases for how we will handle privacy on the Web and how standards can address complex issues involving both technology and policy.
Hash URIs
There's been quite a bit of discussion recently about the use of hash-bang URIs following their adoption by Gawker, and the ensuing downtime of that site. The TAG at the W3C have also been drafting a document on Repurposing the Hash Sign for the New Web which takes a rather wider view than just the hash-bang issue, and on which they are seeking comments. All matters of design involve weighing different choices against some criteria that you decide on implicitly or explicitly
- http
- uri