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Issue 99: March 2005

W3C Hosts Sixth Annual Technical Plenary Week

photo of stage, presenter and plenary attendees 2006-02-28: W3C held its Technical Plenary Week from 27 February - 3 March in Cannes-Mandelieu, France where 30 W3C Working Groups and Interest Groups had face-to-face meetings. All attendees are asked to complete the meeting survey by 17 March. The next Technical Plenary is planned for November 2007 in the Boston, Massachusetts area, USA.

May 2006 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting, Edinburgh

2006-03-10: Registration will open soon for the Advisory Committee Meeting on 21-22 May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Your suggestions for agenda topics and structure would be appreciated by 24 March.

Semantic Web Activity Proposal

2006-02-24: The Team is currently working on a draft Semantic Web Activity Proposal. For more information, please feel free to contact Eric Miller, Semantic Web Activity Lead.

XSL 1.1 Is a W3C Candidate Recommendation

2006-02-21: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Version 1.1 updates and enhances the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are welcome through 31 May. Read about the XML Activity.

XForms 1.0 Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation

2006-03-14: W3C released XForms 1.0 Second Edition as a W3C Recommendation. The new generation of Web forms, XForms separate presentation and content, minimize round-trips to the server, offer device independence, and reduce the need for scripting. This second edition adds clarifications and corrects errors as reported in the first edition errata. Second edition publications include the following documents.

Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers

2006-03-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group has published A Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers as a Working Group Note. Produced by the group's Software Engineering Task Force, the Note shows how development processes can use the Semantic Web as a platform for domain model creation, sharing and reuse. RDF Schema and OWL are shown used in tandem with mainstream object-oriented languages. Visit the Semantic Web home page.

WAI-TIES Update

Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site

"Improving the Accessibility of Your Web Site" provides guidance for fixing accessibility barriers in existing Web sites. It describes strategies for identifying priorities, developing a retrofitting plan, and repairing accessibility barriers efficiently.

2. Why Standards Harmonization is Essential for Web Accessibility

"Why Standards Harmonization is Essential for Web Accessibility" describes the benefits of adopting a consistent set of international technical standards for Web accessibility. It explores reasons why people develop different standards, as well as the accelerated progress that can be made through adoption of a common standard.

3. Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility

"Using Combined Expertise to Evaluate Web Accessibility" explores how to conduct higher quality evaluations of Web site accessibility by combining diverse kinds of expertise from different evaluators different evaluators.

4. Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA

The W3C Note "Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web" provides an updated explanation of why these increasingly frequent features of Web sites, often required to gain permission to sign up for services on a Web site, present accessibility barriers to many people with disabilities.

5. Information about W3C, WAI, and WAI-TIES

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international forum which develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.

W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) addresses accessibility of the Web for people with disabilities, through a variety of activities, including technical and guidelines development and educational work.

If you are interested in ongoing news from WAI, sign up for WAI news feeds at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/highlights/about-rss.html

WAI Training, Implementation, Education and Support (WAI-TIES) a project of WAI, was funded by the European Commission Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme to increase training and implementation support on Web accessibility in Europe. This is the final WAI-TIES Update, and can be found online at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/#updates

This WAI-TIES Update may be circulated to other mailing lists as appropriate, avoiding cross-postings. Additional materials produced through this project can be found at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/TIES/

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