Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Welcome to the final newsletter from the Australian W3C Office for 2004. In this edition we include information on regional events, W3C 10th Birthday, WAI, SVG and Multimodal Interaction. The Australian W3C Office would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family and friends a safe and happy holiday season.
1. Regional Events
2. W3C Celebrates Its Tenth Anniversary
3. Character Model for the World Wide Web Is a W3C Proposed
Recommendation
4. Last Call: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
5. Last Call: QA Specification Guidelines
6. Last Call: Dynamic Properties Framework (DPF)
7. Working Draft: SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL)
8. Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
2.0
9. Working Drafts: Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines 2.0
10. About this newsletter
# Australian W3C Day – Brisbane, Tuesday 7th December
Only two working days left to register for this year’s W3C Day.
The W3C Day is designed for IT professionals wanting to learn more about the next step in the evolution of the Web. The event will provide attendees with a complete understanding of the Semantic Web from its technical makeup to its use in real world applications. Speakers include Dr Brian McBride, evangelist and prime mover behind the Semantic Web activity at Hewlett Packard; Mr Don Bradley and Mr Andrew Hodge from the Australian Bureau of Statistics; Dr Dennis Quan from IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre; Dr Mark Burnett from Command and Control Division of the Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO); Professor Dr Guus Schreiber, Professor of Intelligent Information Systems at the Free University Amsterdam and Dr Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices. Dr Herman will close the day with a Question and Answer talk to address any questions not covered in, or triggered by, the preceding talks. The W3C Day immediate precedes DSTC’s annual Evolve Conference on Cross Business Interoperability.
This project is funded under the Commonwealth Government's Innovation Access Program. An initiative of Backing Australia's Ability, the Commonwealth Government's commitment to Innovation
W3C Day: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/w3cday.html
Evolve Conference: http://evolve.dstc.edu.au/
Registration: https://www.dstc.edu.au/evolve/registration.php
AusIndustry: http://www.ausindustry.gov.au/
DSTC and the Australian W3C Office is pleased to present an intensive one day workshop on W3C’s XML activities by the international experts creating XML Recommendations. The workshop immediately precedes a series of W3C Members-only XML Working Group meetings being held in Brisbane in early January. This will be the first time such a large group of XML experts will be in Australia providing local IT professionals with a rare opportunity to hear the latest from these XML leaders.
The XML Workshop will be held at the Queensland Government’s Information Industries Bureau in Brisbane on Friday 14 January 2005. Presenters will cover topics such as XML Schema, XSLT 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XPath.
Registration of $30 is to cover catering costs only.
XML Workshop: http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/eventsOz.html
IIB: http://www.iib.qld.gov.au/
This year, the World Wide Web Consortium celebrates its tenth anniversary—ten years of its mission to lead the Web to its full potential. Yesterday, W3C Members, Team, invited speakers, and international media gathered in Boston, USA to reflect on the progress of the Web, W3C's central role in its growth, and the risks and opportunities facing the Web during W3C's second decade. "This special anniversary brings the opportunity to acknowledge the impact of the Web and the W3C's stewardship role," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "I hope it will also inspire ever more collaboration, creativity, and understanding across the globe." Sign the greeting card and read more about the W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
Greeting card: http://www.w3c.org/2004/09/birthdaycard/
W3C Tenth Anniversary Celebration: http://www.w3.org/2004/09/W3C10.html
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of two parts of the Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0. Fundamentals is a Proposed Recommendation and Resource Identifiers is a Candidate Recommendation. The documents provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers with a common reference for text manipulation and the use of internationalized resource identifiers on the Web. They build on the Universal Character Set defined by Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Comments are welcome through 20 December and 15 January respectively.
Fundamentals: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-charmod-20041122/
Resource Identifiers: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-charmod-resid-20041122/
Internationalisation Homepage: http://www.w3.org/International/
The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and a Working Draft of its companion Implementation Techniques. The guidelines are written to help developers create accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers including those with disabilities. Comments are welcome through 7 January.
Guidelines 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ATAG20-20041122/
Implementation Techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20041122/
Web Accessibility Initiative: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the QA Framework: Specification Guidelines. The document is designed to help W3C editors write better specifications by making a specification easier to interpret without ambiguity, and clearer as to what is required in order to conform. Comments are welcome through 28 January. The QA Handbook is now a Working Group Note. Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the handbook provides techniques, tools, and templates for test suites and specifications, and is designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups.
Guidelines: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-qaframe-spec-20041122/
QA Handbook: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-qa-handbook-20041122/
Quality Assurance Homepage: http://www.w3.org/QA/
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of the Dynamic Properties Framework (DPF). Written for the W3C Multimodal Interaction Framework, the draft describes interfaces for dynamic access to properties that represent device capabilities, device configuration, user preferences and environmental conditions. The previous Working Draft was named "System and Environment Framework." Comments are welcome through 10 January.
DPF: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-DPF-20041122/
Multimodal Interaction Framework: http://www.w3.org/TR/mmi-framework/
Multimodal Interaction: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/
Through joint efforts, the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group and the CSS Working Group have released a second Working Draft of SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL). The sXBL language defines the presentation and interactive behaviour of elements outside the SVG namespace. The XBL task force considers the sXBL specification to be nearly ready for Last Call.
sXBL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-sXBL-20041122/
SVG Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
CSS Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. This draft focuses on guidelines, attempts to apply guidelines to a wider range of technologies, and uses wording that may be understood by a more varied audience. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices.
Guidelines 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20041119/
WAI Homepage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a First Public Working Draft of Client-side Scripting Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and three updated Working Drafts: HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0, CSS Techniques for WCAG 2.0, and General Techniques for WCAG 2.0. The drafts give guidance on using HTML, XHTML, ECMAScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create accessible content. Deprecated examples illustrate techniques that content developers should not use.
Client-side scripting techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-SCRIPT-TECHS-20041119/
HTML techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-HTML-TECHS-20041119/
CSS techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-CSS-TECHS-20041119/
General techniques: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-GENERAL-20041119/
WAI Homepage: http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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