Notices by World Wide Web Consortium (w3c@w3c.social)

The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations incorporate digital products and services into broader sustainability reporting initiatives. These guidelines will enable people to better understand the Internet’s impact on sustainability reporting.
Learn more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/sustainable-web-interest-group-is-formed/

Web technologies that meet the varied needs of society do not happen by chance. They are designed and standardized, not by one company, country, or community, but through the work of the Web Consortium.

Discover the value for organizations to join as Members. #aboutW3C
https://www.w3.org/membership/

At W3C@30 @npdoty spoke on "Supporting human rights in web standards"

"...human rights must not be an afterthought to the work that we're doing.

In today's world, there cannot be human rights offline if they aren't protected online.

And they can't be protected online without the careful work of the people here today, the people online, among many others"
See more at:
https://www.w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/talk/w3c30-nick-doty#talk

W3C blog: "Accessibility education and outreach: Another milestone in W3C's 30-year history and evolution" by @wai's Shawn Lawton Henry
"As W3C celebrates 30 years, we also celebrate the success of the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), share news of its closure, and look forward to a new chapter in W3C accessibility work."
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/accessibility-education-and-outreach-another-milestone-in-w3cs-30-year-history-and-evolution/

#AboutW3C

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @timbl 🎊

We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet.

(It is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AA8EP5UPa-k )

Version with audio description:

You may agree with our work or not, but please, be kind in how you engage. Here’s why

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If you are an attendee at #w3cTPAC we have a thank you gift for you.

Please come to the registration desk to get yours!

We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable.
We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @evan @tomcoates @mallory are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member.

https://socialwebfoundation.org/mission/

The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Federated Credential Management API, a Web Platform API that allows users to login to websites with their federated accounts in a privacy preserving manner.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-federated-credential-management-api/

"Third-party cookies have got to go" by Hadley Beeman
"We have updated our finding to highlight the importance of removing third-party cookies from the web. We will continue to offer our help to those trying to make the web better (as we write in our design principle Leave the web better than you found it), and we hope that all browsers and user agents will continue to work collaboratively to make that happen."
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/third-party-cookies-have-got-to-go/

On 6 August 1991 Tim Berners-Lee invited the world to use an "easy but powerful global information system” - the World Wide Web.
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt

The power of the web, of using technology to connect and share information, has changed all our lives.

The Internationalization Working Group has published the following three Draft Notes: Hebrew Script Resources; Arabic Script Resources; and Chinese Script Resources.

These documents respectively point to resources for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese script.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/draft-notes-hebrew-arabic-chinese-script-resources/

W3C tech in the news: "Threads Is Diving Deeper Into the Fediverse. Here's What to Know" at CNET"

"The Fediverse is the term given to federated social media -- platforms belonging to a larger group or organization. Federated social media platforms are united under a set of open-source, decentralized ActivityPub protocols, built by the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C"

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/threads-is-diving-deeper-into-the-fediverse-heres-what-to-know/

"How People with Disabilities Use the Web" is a new resource from @wai

The page includes new videos and updated user stories which show:that "Accessibility: It's about people."

This page introduces how disabled people use digital technology.and helps developers, designers, content creators, and others understand the reasons behind creating accessible digital products.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/

The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has just published a Working Group Note of Verifiable Credentials Overview.

The Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials like driver's licenses, university degrees and government-issued passports described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-verifiable-credentials-overview/

Last week @seth posted "Web Accessibility: removing barriers, designing a web for everyone"

"Making the Web work, for everyone
The Web is one of the greatest advancements in connecting humanity, yet without focus on making sure there is one web for all, many of us will be left behind...Work on accessibility standards and resources to support accessibility throughout technologies and organizations remains a vital part of our mission."

Read more at:
https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/web-accessibility-removing-barriers-designing-a-web-for-everyone/

W3C tech in the news: "Google Is Now Indexing EPUB Files"

"Google announced that it is now indexing .epub documents, a format commonly used to print books for e-readers. Google is already showing EPUB books in the search index.

EPUB is an XML-based eBook publishing format based on a standard developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, which in 2016 was subsequently merged with the World Wide Wide Web Consortium (W3C)."

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-is-now-indexing-epub-files/517586/

At our recent AC meeting Hiroshima, Japan 🇯🇵 Yosuke Kaneko, President of the Interplanetary Networking Special Interest Group (IPNSIG), spoke on his thoughts about connecting humanity even beyond the limits of our world.

He spoke about the potential to create a communications network from Earth to the Moon, and even to Mars 🌎 🌖 ✨

🎬 Watch the video: https://youtu.be/H2vDEZFbTw8

W3C tech in use on the web "Printing music with CSS Grid"
"CSS Grid allows us to align other symbols inside the notation grid too. Chords and lyrics, dynamics and so on can be lined up with, and span, timed events: "
https://cruncher.ch/blog/printing-music-with-css-grid/

In "The Internet and Climate Change" Dan York of ISOC wrote: "...in the face of climate change, the Internet’s infrastructure needs our help to be able to continue to operate"

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a new Sustainable Web Community Group developing best practices for building more sustainable websites... Get involved... the W3C’s Sustainable Web Community Group is open"

https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2024/04/the-internet-and-climate-change/