In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs reports on the selection of 26 recipients in a funding program related to W3C's stakeholder strategy and Community Engagement support.| W3C
In this blog post about the newly published W3C Statement “Vision for W3C”, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs emphasizes the importance of principle-driven leadership and how vision gives clarity to move towards meaningful goals.| W3C - Blog
Today, W3C is pleased to announce the publication as a W3C Statement of Vision for W3C. W3C Statements provide a stable reference for documents not intended to be formal standards but that have been formally reviewed and are endorsed by W3C.| W3C
W3C recently published specifications will build foundations for new ways to represent identity on the web. Verifiable Credentials 2.0 and the first draft of Digital Credentials API enable the secure, seamless exchange of digital credentials on the web, emphasizing flexibility, emerging cryptography, compliance with regulation, and W3C principles related to privacy and security. All of these topics will be on the agenda of the Global Digital Collaboration, co-organized by W3C.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C President and CEO Seth Dobbs introduces the initiatives for 2025-2028 that will support W3C’s strategic objectives.| W3C - Blog
The W3C Board of Directors has open seats that can be appointed by the Board of Directors itself for two-year terms. W3C is seeking community input to identify Board Director candidates with financial skills, legal acumen, and fundraising experience, as well as with connections to other SDOs, who might improve the collective skills of the existing W3C Board of Directors.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how privacy on the web as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions current focus on Global Privacy Control (GPC), private advertising, and the recent W3C Statement on privacy principles.| W3C
Protecting user privacy is fundamental to creating a web that works for everyone. Last week, W3C published its Statement on Privacy Principles, which provides definitions for privacy concepts plus privacy principles to guide web development. Learn more about this guide and how it can help us all to create a more trustworthy web for users around the world by “levelling up” privacy.| W3C
Shawn Henry shares her thoughts about a recent trip as part of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Program in Hong Kong on Digital Accessibility| W3C
The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) has finalized the EPUB 3.3 specification, clarifying language and aligning it with related specifications. The group is now working on the next major revision, EPUB 3.4. This revision will include new features such as dark mode support and standardized footnote/endnote practices. Additionally, new task forces are exploring digital comics support and EPUB annotations.| W3C - Blog
The goal of the Exploration Interest Group is to provide a platform to help W3C investigating emerging technology trends, analyzing their impacts on the evolution of Web technologies, and proposing ways for W3C to collaborate shaping the trends for the benefit of the Web users.| W3C - Blog
The WebDX Community Group has completed a first nearly complete catalog of web features targeted at web developers, along with support data across main browsers. The catalog already powers MDN, Can I Use, and is now being integrated in tools and libraries. Feedback welcome!| W3C - Blog
The W3C SWAG (Security Web Application Guidelines) Community Group, launched in June 2024, aims to simplify security features in web app development. SWAG's mission is to enhance web app security by creating best practices for developers and fostering collaboration. A key output includes videos on configuring CSP and Trusted Types, which mitigate XSS. Based on Google’s adoption experience, these resources offer tools to help developers securely configure these protections with minimal effort.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares impressions from representing W3C for the first time at the World Economic Forum, and illustrates how our distinctive human-centric focus in the world of Standards Development Organizations positions W3C to be helping to shape the future of the web.| W3C
The W3C Web Interoperable Runtimes Community Group ("WinterCG") and Ecma International (the organization which standardizes ECMAScript, also known as JavaScript) have collaborated to create a new Ecma Technical Committee,TC55 – Web-interoperable server runtimes, dubbed "WinterTC", for the development of a common web-aligned API surface for server-side JavaScript runtimes like Node.js, Deno and Cloudflare Workers.| W3C
Discover the World Wide Web Consortium’s 30th anniversary year animated holiday card and read about some of the highlights of the year 2024 in W3C’s CEO Seth Dobbs’ blog post.| W3C - Blog
W3C is seeking community input between December 17 and January 5 for appointment to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), to complement the TAG election by actively seeking candidate appointees in order to support a diverse and well-balanced TAG, including diversity of technical background, knowledge, and skill sets.| W3C - Blog
The Ethical Web Principles are a manifesto of W3C’s core values and principles. In this post, W3C Technical Architecture co-chair Dan Appelquist outlines how to go from words to action.| W3C - Blog
The Ethical Web Principles, which build on W3C’s core values and principles in the web and its architecture, are a call to action for the web industry and for W3C itself, aiming to deliver positive social outcomes. As we expand the web platform, we must consider the consequences of our work. As members of the web community, we each play a part in shaping its future.| W3C - Blog
the workshop will discuss Semantic interoperability - key to open ecosystems on the Web| W3C - Blog
Announcement of the formation of the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs describes W3C’s 30th anniversary event, and shares his impressions after attending for the first time a W3C TPAC which attracts in a week several hundreds from the W3C community in order to coordinate solutions to web problems.| W3C - Blog
In this post, the staff who organize TPAC breakout sessions share thoughts on the topics covered this year and some feedback received so far.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C's Head of Marketing and Communications Coralie Mercier shares a recent filmed interview for W3C Member Igalia on the history of the Web, and reflects on the importance of standards and how they are done in the very long run.| W3C
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.| W3C
The W3C blog is for in-depth Web standards topics and educational materials.| W3C
The W3C Technical Architecture Group explains how third-party cookies reduce users’ privacy and why they must be removed from the web. This blog post introduces the latest TAG finding, Third-party cookies must be removed.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs illustrates why enabling access to a Web for All is central to W3C’s mission, and our internationalization efforts help make this a reachable reality.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs aims to inspire people to take action to improve Web accessibility.| W3C
Breakouts Day 2024 was the first experiment with a fully remote version of the breakouts sessions popular at W3C’s annual big meeting. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs considers participation at W3C as he explores which changes to adopt to ensure continued value and impact on humanity.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs looks back at the strengths of the Web and forward at its opportunities.| W3C
Our bespoke End of Year card with good wishes for the new year to our community| W3C
W3C is seeking input for appointment to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) as part of new rules set by the Process Document.| W3C
Read about free online accessibility resources, translations, the international W3C WAI team, and how to get WAI updates| W3C
W3C believes that enabling greater web accessibility in healthcare is important and is in service to the public good.| W3C
In this introductory blog post by newly appointed W3C President and CEO, Seth Dobbs shares background information and his ambition to ensure the durability and viability of W3C.| W3C
This article addresses that Web Environment Integrity is not being worked on at W3C, and proceeds to explaining how work is brought to W3C and the processes that foster the development of Web standards and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web.| W3C
A recent survey affirms the need to drive developer awareness and adoption of Web security standards & practices.| W3C
The post illustrates why selected W3C standards made the Web the premier information commons it is today; and features a graphical timeline that puts W3C standards in perspective with Internet adoption figures, and important websites or services launched.| W3C
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs depicts how from a humble beginning 35 years ago, the Web is now central to the daily lives of billions of people.| W3C