Notices by World Wide Web Consortium (w3c@w3c.social), page 2

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/

On 30 April 1993, at Tim Berners-Lee's urging, CERN released the code for the World Wide Web to the public for free.

Thank you CERN and thank you Tim!

You can learn more about the history of the Web including how the development of the Web was picked up at W3C at: "A Little History of the World Wide Web"
https://www.w3.org/History.html

Our Advisory Board has published a Draft Note for W3C's Vision

"Technology is not neutral; new technologies enable new actions and new possibilities, and we must take responsibility to address the actual impact of our work...

W3C’s Vision for the World Wide Web

The Web is for all humanity.

The Web is designed for the good of its users.

The Web must be safe for its users.

There is one interoperable world-wide Web."
https://www.w3.org/TR/2024/NOTE-w3c-vision-20240403/

The W3C Advisory Board has published a Group Note of the Vision for W3C.

The document articulates W3C’s mission, what W3C is, what it does and why that matters, and the values and principles by which it operates and makes decisions. This version is the first public Note published by Advisory Board consensus, developed with the community, as a first step towards creating a W3C-endorsed W3C-wide Vision for the organization, to be ultimately published as a W3C Statement.

https://www.w3.org/news/2024/group-note-vision-for-w3c/

Access to a Web for All has been a fundamental concern and goal of the World Wide Web Consortium since the beginning, and is a natural requirement for Web-based applications, given that they can be accessed by people around the world.

If you internationalize, you design or develop your content, application, specification, and so on, in a way that ensures it will work well for, or can be easily adapted for, users from any culture, region, or language. Learn more at:
https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-drafts/nav/about

W3C has approved the Federated Identity Working Group Charter.

The mission of the Federated Identity Working Group is to develop specifications to allow a website to request a federated identity credential or assertion with the purpose of authenticating a user and/or requesting a set of claims in a compatible way to OIDC or SAML.
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-fedid-wg/2024Mar/0000.html