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WOFF 1.0: a milestone on W3C’s journey of fonts on the web
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By: Chris Lilley
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.
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.
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-based content restriction systems. Starting from an Issuer-Holder-Verifier model, participants built harms such as exclusion, surveillance, profiling, and correlation, then mapped them back to flows, actors, and assumptions. The exercise showed how compliance choices can become Web architecture.
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 in W3C groups on behalf of their organization.
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 post connects Ethical Web Principles, accessibility, horizontal review, threat and harm modeling, and the practical cost of participation: making assumptions, impacts, and responsibilities visible before they become infrastructure.
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W3C Japan Member Meeting and W3C in Japan 30th Anniversary Ceremony
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By: Naomi Yoshizawa
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 Japan 30th Anniversary Reception” with W3C members and also many alumni who have established shape W3C in Japan over the years.
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 world.
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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 Restrictions on Content, and recent W3C Members conversations.
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