On the 55th World Standards Day, read W3C's Head of Communications @npub1dqg7...4dnq as she reflects on her history of the Web and relationship with #w3c and shares a recent filmed interview with @npub1fh77...xdwk for W3C Member @npub12wy5...lm9d #WorldStandardsDay
W3C blog: "Accessibility education and outreach: Another milestone in W3C's 30-year history and evolution" by @npub1ef9z...xtup's Shawn Lawton Henry "As W3C celebrates 30 years, we also celebrate the success of the Accessibility Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG), share news of its closure, and look forward to a new chapter in W3C accessibility work."
"Consortium Members elect Board of Directors" We are pleased to announce that W3C Consortium Members have elected the following seven people, listed in alphabetical order, to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors: Koichi Moriyama Chris Needham Florian Rivoal Eric Siow Léonie Watson Chris Wilson Hongru (Judy) Zhu
#introduction Hello! 👋 Meet the W3C Team We are a international public-interest non-profit where since 1994 the Members, staff and public develop open standards and guidelines for an interoperable web to connect and empower humanity. Our focus: security, privacy, web accessibility, internationalization. With your help and our proven standards process based on fairness, openness, royalty-free, we make the Web work, for everyone. image
#AboutW3C Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor @npub1rknc...cdxd 🎊 We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet. (It is also available on YouTube: ) Version with audio description:
We are happy to share that today the Social Web Foundation launched with a mission to help the fediverse to grow healthy, multi-polar, and financially viable. We are looking forward to continuing to support the work that @Evan Prodromou @npub1u44t...3ep6 @npub1g03w...d2qp are planning in the new non-profit foundation for expanding and improving ActivityPub and the fediverse. We are delighted that to the Foundation will be becoming a W3C Member.
On Wednesday 25 September we will host a live stream of the W3C@30 Talks including: An introduction by Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO; Jun Murai, Keio University, on ‘One internet and the web’; Fuqiao Xue, W3C, on ‘The web as a bridge across borders’; François Daoust, W3C, on ‘Web & the art of specification maintenance’; Nick Doty, CD&T, on ‘Supporting human rights in Web standards’; and Léonie Watson, Tetralogical: on ‘W3C and me’
Next week as part of #w3cTPAC in Anaheim, CA we will hold W3C@30 on Wednesday 25 September. The first part of the evening will be a series of short talks (in-person and streaming online to the public). The theme will be: ‘Today is better than yesterday, tomorrow will be better than today.’ You can find information on the talks (more to be updated soon) at:
We are hiring Sylvia Cadena as our inaugural Chief Development Officer. Since becoming a public-interest not-for-profit organization in 2023, a pivotal evolution since our establishment in 1994, we are diversifying funding to be in a better position to succeed in our mission. Sylvia joins us at this decisive time to define our vision for financial security and development. Learn more about Sylvia's background and new role in our press release:
The Federated Identity Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Federated Credential Management API, a Web Platform API that allows users to login to websites with their federated accounts in a privacy preserving manner. image