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Publications 32
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W3C Newsletter - September 2026
W3C President and Interim CEO Dominique Hazaël-Massieux shares timely and notable highlights and information selected from the busy and prolific work last month at W3C.
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Recap of the web & AI international standards seminar: generative UI and WebSkill
Hosted by the W3C Shenzhen Representative Office as part of the 2026 CCF Standards Technical Conference, this seminar brought together industry experts to discuss emerging technologies and standard...
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Crafting WCAG 3 for more accessible user experiences
In this post, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director Shawn Lawton Henry covers some of the stakes and challenges in developing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3 that is under active ...
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2026 Climate Weeks: W3C and Web Sustainability
W3C’s Sustainable Web Interest Group shares updates about Web Sustainability Guidelines and Impact Ratings in time for Climate Week, with changes demonstrating impacts on People, Planet, and Prospe...
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W3C IRC bots now open source
Two of W3C's IRC bots, RRSAgent and Zakim, are now open source. These bots help facilitate meetings coordinated on IRC, helping with chat logs, meeting minutes, agenda tracking and speaker queues.
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W3C, threat modeling, and the CRA: a report from GDC 2026
At GDC 2026, W3C Security Interest Group member Giovanni Corti shared how threat modeling was integrated into the revision of ETSI EN 304 617, the draft harmonized standard for browser cybersecurit...
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W3C launches first pilot of program to support Open Source projects
In this blog post, Ian Jacobs, Strategy Team, introduces the first pilot of a program allowing Open Source projects to mature within an ecosystem seeking to build a coherent open platform through p...
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A compilation of W3C in Japan's 30th anniversary events
2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of W3C in Japan. As part of these commemorative activities, W3C Japan held an event for W3C members in May, an exhibition for the general public...
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Making digital identity work across the web: GDC 2026
W3C Team and Members will present at Global Digital Collaboration Conference (GDC 26) which will bring together governments, standards organizations, open-source communities, the private sector, an...
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WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
The anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) is a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.
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Simplified task force enrollment and participant management
This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team that puts task force participation management directly in the hands of participants and chairs.
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Threat modeling age-based content restrictions: what we learned at EIC 2026
At the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC 2026) in Berlin, we explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in age-base...
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CSS animations, human rights, and big accessibility at the AB Web Meetup
On 2 July 2026 , the W3C Advisory Board organised a meetup around the web and web standards. It featured three talks and had time to mingle.
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Improvements to how W3C Members manage employee participation in groups
This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team to how W3C member representatives use the W3C website to nominate, change, and remove the people who participate...
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International Women in Engineering Day spotlight: Carine Bournez, W3C
In this blog post we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day by interviewing Carine Bournez, W3C Principal and Team Contact who specializes in WebRTC, Web Performance, SVG and Data Shapes.
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Human rights and ICT standardization: What is W3C doing about this?
At the Brussels seminar on Human Rights and ICT Standardization, W3C contributed to the discussion on how human-rights principles can enter technical work while design choices are still open. The p...
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W3C Japan Member Meeting and W3C in Japan 30th Anniversary Ceremony
On 14 May 2026 W3C held its Japan Member Meeting with presentations reflected the latest developments and offered valuable insights into future W3C activities. Following that, it hosted the “W3C in...
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W3C recognized on the 2026 Forbes Accessibility 200 list
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is honored to be included in the Forbes Accessibility 200 list for 2026 in recognition of the impact that our Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has had on the w...
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Age-restrictions on the web and user privacy and safety
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs shares his thoughts about age-restrictions and user privacy on the web — a topic that was at the heart of the October W3C/IAB workshop on Age-Based Restriction...
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2026 Breakouts Day recap
Breakouts Day 2026 was the third edition of W3C’s fully remote community driven information sharing event. In this post we summarize key aspects of the event.
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The W3C TAG Meeting in London, March 2026
Earlier this month, the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) gathered in London for a multi-day face-to-face meeting. While the TAG meets regularly online, these in-person sessions remain an impo...
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Advisory Board publishes Position Statement on AI in Standards Work
Read more about the AB's current thinking on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in the standards process.
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Past, present and future: An update on W3C’s Strategic Objectives on the 37th anniversary of the Web proposal
In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs celebrates the importance of the web and calls out key initiatives from W3C’s strategic objectives.
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2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
This post gives a summary of the results of the 2025 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Membership Survey.
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Strengthening Community Engagement at TPAC 2025: looking back at the IE & inclusion Funds
Sylvia Cadena, W3C Chief Development Officer, reports on coordinating the TPAC 2025 inclusion fund and W3C Invited Expert fund, aimed to reduce barriers for participants who are contributing to W3C...
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EPUB and HTML - Survey results and next steps
Mid-2025, the Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) ran a survey in the publishing community to ask: should we allow HTML in EPUB? The survey results and their discussions were invaluable in ...
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TPAC 2025 Breakouts recap
This post gives highlights about the kind of breakout sessions held at TPAC 2025 and the improvements made this time.
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What happens when you put developers, standards, and sushi in one room
This post gives a summary of the successful TPAC 2025 Hackathon.
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W3C seeking community input for TAG appointments
W3C is seeking community input by January 5 for appointments to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), to complement the TAG election by actively seeking candidate appointees in order to suppo...
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AI at TPAC 2025
This post compiles summaries of all the AI related group meetings and breakout sessions that took place during W3C's annual event TPAC 2025.
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November 2025 Kobe DevMeetup
Summary of the developer meetup held on November 9, 2025, in Kobe, Japan, and co-organized by W3C and NTT Docomo Business, along the annual TPAC 2025 event where the global web community met to coo...
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W3C Standard ODRL Policy gaining industry adoption
The ODRL Policy Recommendation, finalised in 2018, is gaining global adoption across industries. Adopted by JPEG Trust, IDSA, DSSC, Gaia-X, and EUIPO, ODRL enables machine-readable rights, usage, a...
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