Have you ever resized your browser and watched the text reflow? Behind that, automatic wrapping is a world of linguistic and technical complexity. What happens when a language has no spaces between words? Fuqiao Xue, W3C Internationalization Activity Lead, gives a summary of the diverse typographic strategies of text wrapping. He explores the main approaches to line breaking and uncover the fascinating edge cases that make for a truly "World Wide" Web.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is now an approved International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard: ISO/IEC 40500:2025. The formal recognition enables more countries to formally adopt the standard. The WCAG 2 standard focuses on making content more accessible to people with disabilities, including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.

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W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 approved as ISO/IEC international standard

WCAG 2.2 is now ISO/IEC 40500:2025. This standard enables more countries to formally adopt WCAG 2.2. ISO/IEC 40500:2025 is free from the ISO websit...