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17 December 2002: The World Wide Web Consortium today released User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Written for software developers as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative, the guidelines explain how to design browsers and media players that lower barriers to the Web for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological) and improve usability for all users. Companion techniques are updated. Read the press release, FAQ and 23 testimonials. (News archive)
19 December 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SOAP Version 1.2 to Candidate Recommendation. The specification is in three parts: Part 0: Primer, Part 1: Messaging Framework and Part 2: Adjuncts. Publicly developed, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Comments are welcome. Read about the Web Services Activity. (News archive)
19 December 2002: The Math Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) Version 2.0 (2nd Edition). MathML 2.0 is and XML application that allows mathematical notation and content to be served, received, and processed on the Web. The 2nd edition contains clarifications and errata corrections. Comments are welcome. Visit the Math home page. (News archive)
18 December 2002: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Namespaces in XML 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Identified by IRI references, namespaces qualify element and attribute names in XML documents. Version 1.1 incorporates errata corrections and provides a mechanism to undeclare prefixes. Comments are welcome through 14 February. Read about the XML Activity. (News archive)
18 December 2002: The HTML Working Group has released the third Working Draft of XHTML 2.0. XHTML 2.0 is a relative of the Web's familiar publishing languages, HTML 4 and XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, and is not intended to be backward compatible with them. The draft contains the XHTML 2.0 markup language in modules for creating rich, portable Web-based applications. Comments are welcome. Visit the HTML home page. (News archive)
18 December 2002: Due to construction at MIT, on Friday, 27 December, power for W3C MIT-based systems will be turned off at approximately 23:00 UTC for about twenty-six hours. All services will be suspended and the W3C site will be accessible in a read-only state. Mail sent to W3C archives will be queued and posted when the power is restored. Power is expected to return on Sunday, 29 December at 01:00 UTC. We apologize for the inconvenience. (News archive)
13 December 2002: Richard Ishida of the W3C Team has become co-chair of the Internationalization & Unicode Conference. The event (renamed from "Unicode Conference" to more accurately reflect its content) is the premier technical conference worldwide for both software and Web internationalization. The W3C Internationalization Activity is pleased to be able to reaffirm in this way its longstanding and beneficial association with the event. The 23rd Internationalization & Unicode Conference (IUC23) is to be held on 24-26 March 2003 in Prague, Czech Republic. (News archive)
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