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Issue 50: February 2002

SVG Hands-On Introduction

A one day workshop lead by David Duce and Bob Hopgood, two of the originators of SVG. Thursday 21 March 2002, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford.

XML-Signature Becomes a W3C Recommendation

14 February 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a W3C Recommendation. Produced by the joint IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group, XML digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer authentication services. Read the press release and testimonials. (News archive)

Registration for the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002) is now open. Early bird registration rates apply through 28 February 2002.

The WWW Conference Series is co-hosted with the May W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, and features the W3C track and the Refereed Paper track as the core of its technical content. Track updates are made daily, and the plans look promising for Developers Day. Marie-Claire Forgue is this year's W3C track chair; once the fine tuning of the track is set, W3C will let the Members know about the range of topics covered over the three main conference days.

W3C Publishes Current Patent Practice

W3C has published Current Patent Practice as a W3C Note. Reviewed by the Advisory Board, the Note represents the current state of W3C patent practice as implemented by the Team for W3C Recommendations. It serves as a guide for W3C Activities between now and when the policy developed by the Patent Policy Working Group is finalized. Comments are welcome on the publicly archived mailing list www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org.

Marriage of Grid and Web Services announced

Leading participants in the development of geographically distributed "grid" computing projects are bolstering security and other protocols necessary to deliver Web services atop grid networks...IBM, along with the Global Grid Forum in Toronto Feb. 19-20, 2002, will propose a number of distributed protocols centered around security, authentication, identification, & collaboration, according to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM's vice president of technology and strategy. Grid computing start-up Avaki will also propose a global naming specification.

W3C Team Presentations in February

Representing the W3C Team at PAGE2002 in Tokyo, Japan: on 7 February, Norio Touyama gives an Introduction to W3C Activities and Max Froumentin speaks on Web-based publishing using XSL, and on 8 February Martin J. Durst speaks on Metadata and the Semantic Web (in Japanese). Charles McCathieNevile gives a series of talks in Finland including a two-day workshop at Mlab/UIAH in Helsinki on 5-6 February. On 12-14 February, Thierry Michel and Vincent Hardy give SVG and SMIL demos at the W3C booth at IMAGINA.02 held at the Grimaldi Forum, Monaco. On 25 February, Ivan Herman presents a tutorial 2D Web Graphics: SVG at the Web3D 2002 Symposium in Tempe, Arizona, USA.

WAI DA Update, February 2002

This update provides information on activities of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), for the Web Accessibility Initiative Design for All (WAI DA) Project in Europe. Please circulate to other mailing lists as appropriate, avoiding cross-postings where possible.

Contents:

  1. EC Communique on adoption of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  2. Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible
  3. Interested in reviewing Web pages for accessibility?
  4. Education and Outreach Meeting in Cannes, 28 February and 1 March, 2002
  5. Report from Education and Outreach Working Group meeting in Amsterdam, June 2001
  6. W3C seeks implementations of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines
  7. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this WAI DA Update

1. EC Communique on adoption of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

In September 2001 Commissioner Liikanen of the European Commission released a Communique addressing adoption of W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by the EC and by EU Member States.

2. Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible

WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) recently updated "Getting Started: Making a Web Site Accessible." This page has helpful links to online resources for people new to Web accessibility. Translations into Danish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are available, and other translations are in progress.

3. Interested in reviewing Web pages for accessibility?

Reviewing Web pages for accessibility involves more than just running a page through a semi-automated accessibility checker. The draft document "Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility" explains how to do preliminary reviews and more comprehensive conformance evaluations of Web site accessibility. We invite you to try the recommended evaluation procedures and comment on the document; and also to contact us if you are interested in setting up review teams to evaluate Web sites.

4. Upcoming Education and Outreach Meetings (28 Feb - 1 Mar; 23-24 Mar)

WAI's Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) will meet on 28 February (Thursday) and 1 March (Friday) in Cannes, France. The Thursday meeting will address work of the EOWG such as further development of the implementation planning resource suite for Web accessibility, and the Friday meeting will provide an opportunity to exchange information among individuals and organizations promoting Web accessibility within Europe. Information on that meeting, and on other events including the EOWG meetings 23-24 March following the CSUN conference in Los Angeles, is available:

5. Report from Education and Outreach Working Group meeting in Amsterdam, June 2001

Individuals and organizations promoting Web accessibility within a number of European countries met together on 22 June 2001 in Amsterdam to exchange information and brainstorm about strategies to promote Web accessibility. A report from that meeting is available:

6. W3C seeks software implementations of guidelines for browsers and multimedia players

W3C's "User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" (UAAG 1.0), which explain how to make browsers and multimedia players accessible to people with disabilities, entered W3C's "Candidate Recommendation" phase in September 2001. These guidelines complement the accessibility solutions in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, which are already W3C Recommendations. Once UAAG 1.0 has at least two implementations of each checkpoint, they can become a Proposed Recommendation, and then a W3C Recommendation (the final stage of W3C's standards process).

7. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this WAI DA Update

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an international effort based at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). WAI addresses accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities through a variety of activities including technical and guidelines development, and educational work. WAI Design for All (WAI DA) is a project funded by the EC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to increase outreach and localizations of Web accessibility information in Europe. Additional information is available:

SUBSCRIPTIONS: The WAI DA Update is a periodic mailing about information and opportunities relating to Web accessibility in Europe. Distribution is primarily through existing mailing lists. If you manage or can post to an electronic mailing list within Europe and would like to receive distribution of the WAI DA Update, please contact Sylvie Duchateau at sduchate@snv.jussieu.fr and provide information about the mailing list to which you have access.

ONliNE ACCESS: This WAI DA Update is available online at

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Technical Reports and Publications

Members are encouraged to review current technical documents produced by the W3C. Non-members can see from the list of titles the work that is currently active in W3C. If you join W3C you could contribute to this work. Publications since the last Newsletter are:

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