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Issue 55: July 2002

Euroweb 2002 Conference.

The Euroweb 2002 Conference will be held at St Anne's College, Oxford, UK on the 17th and 18th December 2002. EuroWeb 2002 will be a major international forum at which research on the World Wide Web, GRIDs and Web Services is presented. EuroWeb 2002 follows on from the success of the EuroWeb 2001, which was held in Pisa in December, 2001 on the topic of the web in public administration.

XML Conformance Test Suite Released

12 June 2002: W3C is pleased to release the XML 1.0 (Second Edition) Conformance Test Suite, built in cooperation with NIST and formerly hosted by OASIS. The suite contains over 2000 test files that any developer can download free of cost and use to test the conformance of an XML processor to the XML Recommendation. Read the press release.

Amaya 6.2 Released

Amaya is W3C's Web browser and authoring tool. Version 6.2 is internationalized and includes more encodings. New features include easier install on Windows; a choice of typical, compact, or custom installation; German documentation thanks to Rudolf Troeller; and CSS, SVG, STIX font, and Annotea icon enhancements. Download Amaya binaries for Solaris, Linux, and Windows. Source code is available. If you are interested in annotations, visit the Annotea home page.

Director's Decision on Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group Results

On 13 June, W3C announced the Director's decision on the the Voice Browser Patent Advisory Group results. Based on two months of Advisory Committee review and the substantial number of comments received, the Voice Browser Working Group will be rechartered as a royalty-free (RF) Working Group. The Working Group will re-examine its specifications in order to arrive at RF core versions, removing features that require technology which is not available on a RF basis.

Media Queries Becomes a W3C Candidate Recommendation

8 July 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Media Queries to Candidate Recommendation. This module of the upcoming CSS3 specification proposes a registry of media types to describe what type of devices a style sheet applies to, and expressions to limit a style sheet's scope. Comments are invited. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

Candidate Recommendations

WAI DA Update, July 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. European Parliament Passes Resolution on Web Accessibility
2. Web Accessibility Keynote and Workshops at ICCHP in 2002 Linz
3. WAI Meetings
4. Comments invited on Requirements Document for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
5. Seeking Contacts at Web Design Associations in Europe
6. About the Web Accessibility Initiative and this WAI DA Update

1. European Parliament Passes Resolution on Web Accessibility

On 13 June 2002 the European Parliament adopted a resolution supporting the importance of Web accessibility in European institutions and Member States. In particular, the resolution states that Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (priority levels 1 and 2) and future versions, should be implemented on public Web sites, and that EU Institutions and Member States should also comply with the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines by 2003.
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/

2. Web Accessibility Keynote and Workshops at ICCHP 2002 in Linz


The ICCHP 2002 Conference in Linz, 15-19 July, will include several events focusing on Web accessibility. These include a keynote on Wednesday by Judy Brewer; two workshops also on Wednesday (one for beginners, one advanced) on evaluating Web sites for accessibility by Sylvie Duchateau and Henk Snetselaar, with Wendy Chisholm; and a thematic session on eEurope -- eAccessibility on Thursday morning. The beginning level evaluation workshop will also be given in German on Tuesday.
http://www.icchp.at/

3. WAI Meetings


- The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, and the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, will meet in Linz on 15-16 July, at the start of the ICCHP Conference.
WCAG WG http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2002/07/f2f-agenda
AUWG http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2002/07/f2f-agenda
- The Education and Outreach Working Group will meet in Toronto on 29-30 July; discussion will include review teams for evaluation of Web accessibility.
EOWG http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/2002/07-agenda
- The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group met last month in Bristol, UK, 24-26 June; reports from that meeting are available.
ERT WG http://www.w3.org/2002/05/er-swade-f2f
- Information on upcoming WAI meetings can regularly be found in the News section of the WAI home page.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/#News

4. Comments Invited on Requirements Document for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0


Comments are invited on the Requirements document for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, which has already had several public Working Drafts available for comment. The Requirements documents highlights some of the changes and improvements intended in WCAG 2.0, although WCAG 1.0 will remain stable and referenceable for the foreseeable future.
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2002AprJun/0339.html>
http://www.w3.org/TR/wcag2-req/

5. Seeking Contacts at Web Design Associations


The WAI DA Project seeks contact information for Web design associations in Europe, particularly where such contacts are electronic, and members may be interested in receiving information on Web accessibility. Please contact Sylvie Duchateau <sylvie.duchateau@snv.jussieu.fr> if you have contacts to suggest.

6. 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 of WAI, funded by the EC Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, to increase outreach and localizations of Web accessibility information in Europe. Additional information is available:
W3C http://www.w3.org/
WAI http://www.w3.org/WAI/
WAI Resources http://www.w3.org/WAI/Resources/
WAI DA http://www.w3.org/WAI/waida/

Sylvie Duchateau for the WAI DA Project (sylvie.duchateau@snv.jussieu.fr)
and
Judy Brewer, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative(jbrewer@w3.org)

W3C Team Talks in July

Browse past W3C Team talks and presentations and upcoming W3C appearances and events.

Web Services Conference 11-12 July in Tokyo, Japan

W3C is pleased to co-sponsor the Web Services Conference to be held 11 July 2002 (Technology day) and 12 July (Business day) at Aoyama TEPIA in Tokyo, Japan. On 11 July, Hugo Haas, Services Activity lead, gives the keynote speech, and Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Device Independence Activity lead, moderates a panel discussion. Registration is open.

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