• The Publishing Maintenance Working Group has published three specifications today around EPUB Annotations 1.0, which is a specification that will define how to create, manage, ex
• The CSS Working Group published today a First Public Working Draft of Selectors Level 5 . • Selectors are patterns that match against elements in a tree, and as such form one of
• Following the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)’s election results , the W3C Team has chosen and the Advisory Board and Technical Architecture Group have ratified the follow
• The Privacy Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts) .
• Following the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)’s election results , the W3C Team has chosen and the Advisory Board and Technical Architecture Group have ratified the follow
• The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group published Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 as a W3C Recommendation. • ACT Rules Format defines a format for wri
• W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures WG releases first draft of Group Note on Cognitive Accessibility Research Modules. • Modules analyze web tech for cognitive accessibility
• The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled W3C Accessibility Guidelines Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0 . • WCAG-EM desc
• The Security Interest Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Cryptography usage in Web Standards . • This document serves as a clear, practical, and standards
• The Internationalization Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Text-to-Speech Rendering of Electronic Documents Containing Ruby: User Requirements .
• W3C Workshop on Smart Voice Agents scheduled 25‑27 Feb 2026, virtual via Zoom. • Agenda released; aims to identify stakeholders and align web standards with voice agent needs. •
• WebNN API now a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot, ready for implementation. • Focused on low-level neural network inference with hardware acceleration support. • Updated spec in
• W3C Security Interest Group releases first drafts of two Group Notes. • Threat Modeling Guide explains when, why, and how to model threats during spec development. • Guide encour
• The Web Authentication Working Group has published Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. • This spec
• The Data Shapes Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of SHACL 1.2 Node Expressions . • This document describes Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) Node Express
• Today, the W3C Team proposed advancing the Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.1 to W3C Recommendation. • Published by the Accessibility Guidelines Working Gro
• The Timed Text Working Group has published IMSC Text Profile 1.3 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. • IMSC 1.3 defines a text-only profile of [ ttml2 ] intended for subt
• The Timed Text Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Dubbing and Audio description Profiles of TTML2 . • This specification def
• The CSS Working Group invites implementations of an updated Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of CSS Color Adjustment Module Level 1 . • This module introduces a model and contro
• The RDF & SPARQL Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled RDF 1.2 Interoperability . • The goal of this specification is to provide guidance and good pr
• As 2025 is drawing to an end we want to express our gratitude to our Members, staff, and community for the immense work accomplished this year towards making the web work - for e