Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Hello and welcome to the newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on W3C presentations and photos; DOM; User Agent Accessibility Guidelines; CCXML and more.
Many thanks to this year's Australian W3C Day presenters who provided attendees with a great program of information on W3C and some of its many activities. Thanks also to the event sponsors, W3C, Microsoft and Tibco. And a special thanks to W3C Fellow, Dean Jackson (CSIRO), for his Semantic Web Workshop presentation on "A User Interface to the Semantic Web".
Photos and presentations from the W3C Day and the associated events are linked from http://w3c.dstc.edu.au
Evolve Conference: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/
Presentations and Photos: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/presentations.html
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 November. Written for developers of user agents, the guidelines lower barriers to Web accessibility for people with disabilities (visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological). The companion Techniques Working Draft is updated. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative.
User Agent ... 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/PR-UAAG10-20021016/
Techniques Working Draft: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-UAAG10-TECHS-20021016/
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of XML 1.1 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 14 February 2003. The specification addresses Unicode, control character, and line ending issues.
XML 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-xml11-20021015/
XML homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
The Web Services Architecture Working Group has updated Web Services Architecture Requirements. Software applications can communicate using Web services to present dynamic context-driven information to the user. The draft contains the reference architecture and the constraints used to determine implementation conformance. Comments are welcome.
Web Services ... Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20021011
Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20021011
The Voice Browser Working Group has published the second public Working Draft of Voice Browser Call Control: CCXML Version 1.0. CCXML, the Call Control eXtensible Markup Language, provides telephony call control support for VoiceXML and other dialog systems. Comments are welcome.
Call Control: CCXML V 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-ccxml-20021011/
Voice Browser homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the W3C Finnish Office (in Finnish) based at the Digital Media Institute of the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland.
W3C Finnish Office: http://www.w3c.tut.fi/
Digital Media Institute: http://www.tut.fi/dmi/
Tampere University of Technology: http://www.tut.fi/public/
W3C Offices: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/
The DOM Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Validation Specification. The Document Object Model (DOM) allows programs and scripts to update the content and style of documents dynamically. This module of DOM3 ensures that documents remain or become valid. Comments are welcome through 27 November.
DOM Level 3 Validation Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Val-20021008/
DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
Responding to implementer feedback and test suite results, the DOM Working Group has released an updated Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 16 October. The sixth component of DOM Level 2, DOM2 HTML is a set of interfaces used to manipulate the structure and contents of HTML and XHTML documents.
DOM Level 2 HMTL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/CR-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20021007/
DOM Level 2: http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR
DOM Activity: http://www.w3.org/DOM/Activity
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) received the Roland Wagner Award at the International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) on 17 July 2002 in Linz, Austria. The award was given by the Austrian Computer Society, in recognition of WAI's international contributions to making Web technologies accessible to the broadest possible audience.
http://www.icchp.at/award.html
http://www.icchp.at
http://www.w3.org/News/2002#item104
Comments are invited on the most recent working draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG 2.0 applies to a wider range of Web technologies than WCAG 1.0, and is intended to be understandable to a more varied audience. Please note that WCAG 1.0 will remain stable and referenceable for the foreseeable future. Questions on which the Working Group particularly invites comment for this draft include ease of comprehension, priority structure, and suitability for eventual migration from WCAG 1.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2002JulSep/0885.html
The Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) recently published a new draft of the XML Accessibility Guidelines (XAG). These guidelines explain how to make new XML applications (such as XHTML or SVG) better support accessibility. The PFWG maintains a series of documents about XAG's development, including information on where to send comments.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xag
http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/XML/about
New W3C Members include Australian organisation, Vision Australia Foundation. The Foundation aims to reduce the impact of vision impairment, ageing and disability on individuals. Other new W3C members are listed below.
ISOGEN International: http://www.isogen.com/index.htm
Nanyang Polytechnic: http://www.nyp.edu.sg/
National Association of Convenience Stores: http://www.nacsonline.com/NACS/
V-Enable, Inc: http://www.v-enable.com/
Vision Australia Foundation: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/
The program for OZeWAI2002 is now available and sponsorships are increasing - including some significant software that will be given away to participants.
OZeWAI2002: http://www.ozewai.org/2002/
Program: http://www.ozewai.org/2002/program.html
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