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Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation
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This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
Patent Advisory Group recommends continuing work on Open Screen Application Protocol
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W3C launches a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing terms.
First Public Working Draft: The Profiles Vocabulary
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The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.
Group Note Draft: Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) Impact Ratings
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This document describes the impact ratings provided alongside Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).
Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML
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This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on [HTML] elements.
W3C invites implementations of Decentralized Identifier Resolution (DID Resolution) v1
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This document describes the process of obtaining a DID document and accompanying metadata for a specific DID.
Group Note: Further Aligning W3C's Program of Technical Work with Human Rights
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In this document, the Advisory Board lists examples of how human rights and technical standards setting map to each other, points to existing W3C work in this area, and provides concrete proposals to further the alignment between the W3C’s technical work and human rights.
W3C Invites Implementations of WebTransport
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This document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow data to be sent and received between a browser and server.
Group Note Draft: Verifiable Credentials Overview v1.1
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The family of W3C Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials, described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
Group Note Draft: EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer
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The EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.
