Australian W3C Office

Welcome to the July newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on events, Xlink, SCXML, the Mobile Web and Web Accessibility.

1. Events
2. W3C Offices Expand to India
3. Last Call: XLink 1.1
4. Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1
5. Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)
6. W3C Welcomes Founding Sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative
7. Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
8. Working Drafts: Checklists for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
9. About this newsletter

1. Events

# Web Accessibility & Writing for the Web Workshops

The National Information and Library Service (NILS) is running Web and Online Accessibility Workshops in Perth (3 August), Canberra (16 & 17 August) and Brisbane (30 & 31August). These workshops introduce accessibility issues in terms of Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised requirements. A "Writing for the Web" Workshop will be held in Perth, 5 August 2005, this practical workshop focuses on enhancing the usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to communicate effectively with your readers.

URIs:

Perth: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0508-perth.html
Canberra: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0505-canb.html
Brisbane: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/workshops/0508-brisb.html
Writing for the Web: http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/writing_workshops/writing-perth.html

# RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web

The Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, will host the RuleML-2005 International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. The conference is co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2005.

URIs:

Conference: http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/

2. W3C Offices Expand to India

W3C is pleased to announce the opening of the W3C Indian Office in Noida, India, hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). R.K. Verma is Office Manager, and Vijay Gugnani is Deputy Manager. The opening ceremony is planned for 10-11 November. W3C Offices assist with promotion efforts in local languages, broaden W3C's geographical base, and encourage international participation in W3C Activities.

URIs:

W3C Indian Office: http://www.w3cindia.in/
C-DAC: http://www.cdacnoida.in/
W3C Offices: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Offices/

3. Last Call: XLink 1.1

The XML Core Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.1. Comments are welcome through 26 August. The XLink 1.1 language allows elements to be inserted into XML documents in order to create and describe links between resources. It uses XML syntax to create structures that can describe links similar to the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML, as well as more sophisticated links.

URIs:

Xlink 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-xlink11-20050707/
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/

4. Working Draft: Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) 1.1

The P3P Specification Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). P3P simplifies and automates the process of reading Web site privacy policies, promoting trust and confidence in the Web. Version 1.1 has new extension and binding mechanisms based on suggestions from W3C workshops and the privacy community. The draft also includes all errata for P3P 1.0.

URIs:

P3P 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-P3P11-20050701/
Privacy and P3P: http://www.w3.org/P3P/

5. Working Draft: State Chart XML (SCXML)

The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of State Chart XML (SCXML): State Machine Notation for Control Abstraction 1.0. SCXML is an execution environment based on UML Harel State Tables and CCXML. SCXML is a candidate for the control language within VoiceXML 3.0, CCXML 2.0, and the authoring language under development by the Multimodal Interaction Working Group.

URIs:

SCXML: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-scxml-20050705/
UML: http://www.uml.org/#UML1.5
CCXML: http://www.w3.org/TR/ccxml/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/

6. W3C Welcomes Founding Sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative

W3C is pleased to welcome the Founding Sponsors of the Mobile Web Initiative: Afilias, Bango.net, Drutt Corporation, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, Jataayu Software, MobileAware, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Opera Software, TIM Italia, Segala M Test, Sevenval, RuleSpace, V-Enable, Vodafone and Volantis. W3C MWI is a concerted effort to make the Web interoperable and usable for users of mobile devices.

URIs:

MWI: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/
How to Sponsor: http://www.w3.org/2005/MWI/Sponsoring.html

7. Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The Working Group invites comments on the number of conformance levels, how to address validity, and the resolution of previously raised issues. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technology.

URIs:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/
WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

8. Working Drafts: Checklists for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released First Public Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Checklist in both table and linear formats. Serving as an appendix to and quick reference for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, the checklists give all success criteria and their levels, linked to WCAG 2.0 for more information.

URIs:

Table: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist.html
Linear: http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-WCAG20-20050630/checklist-linear.html
WCAG 2.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
WAI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/

9. About this newsletter

Thanks to the W3C UK and Ireland Office for input into this newsletter.

To unsubscribe:

1. send an email to: majordomo@dstc.edu.au
2. in the body of the email type "unsubscribe w3c-news <insert your email address>"
3. send

If you know of others who would like to receive this newsletter please direct them to http://w3c.dstc.edu.au/