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14  april     11h03
2026 Breakouts Day recap
François Daoust, Ian Jacobs    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...
03  april     00h00
The W3C TAG Meeting in London, March 2026
Heather Flanagan    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...
31  march     20h18
Advisory Board publishes Position Statement on AI in Standards Work
Amy van der Hiel, AB Liaison    Read more about the AB’s current thinking on using Large Language Models (LLMs) in the standards process.
12  march     11h09
Past, present and future: An update on W3C’s Strategic Objectives on the 37th anniversary of the Web proposal
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs celebrates the importance of the web and calls out key initiatives from W3C’s strategic objectives.
29  january     09h38
2025 World Wide Web Consortium Membership Survey
Emma Fraser, Administrative Associate & Board Enablement Specialist    This post gives a summary of the results of the 2025 World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Membership Survey.
20  january     15h06
Strengthening Community Engagement at TPAC 2025: looking back at the IE inclusion Funds
Sylvia Cadena, W3C Chief Development Officer    Sylvia Cadena, W3C Chief Development Officer, reports on coordinating the TPAC 2025 inclusion fund and W3C Invited Expert fund, aimed to reduce...
14  january     12h38
EPUB and HTML - Survey results and next steps
Wendy Reid, co-Chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group, Susan Neuhaus, co-Chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group    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...
16  december     09h53
TPAC 2025 Breakouts recap
François Daoust, Ian Jacobs    This post gives highlights about the kind of breakout sessions held at TPAC 2025 and the improvements made this time.
12  december     12h46
What happens when you put developers, standards, and sushi in one room
Elena Lape, Founder & CEO of Holopin (W3C Member), elected to the W3C Advisory Board    This post gives a summary of the successful TPAC 2025 Hackathon.
10  december     09h42
W3C seeking community input for TAG appointments
Yves Lafon, W3C Team contact for the TAG, Coralie Mercier, Director of W3C Communications    W3C is seeking community input by January 5 for appointments to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), to complement the TAG election by...
09  december     13h35
AI at TPAC 2025
Roy Ruoxi Ran, Principal Accessibility Specialist; AI, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Distinguished Expert, VR/AR & AI    This post compiles summaries of all the AI related group meetings and breakout sessions that took place during W3C’s annual event TPAC 2025.
04  december     16h22
November 2025 Kobe DevMeetup
Marie-Claire Forgue, W3C Developer relations team, Kensaku Komatsu. Director, NTT Docomo Business    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...
23  october     10h24
W3C Standard ODRL Policy gaining industry adoption
Renato Iannella, co-Chair of the ODRL Community Group, Nicoletta Fornara, co-Chair of the ODRL Community Group, Và­ctor Rodrà­guez-Doncel, co-Chair of the ODRL Community Group    The ODRL Policy Recommendation, finalised in 2018, is gaining global adoption across industries. Adopted by JPEG Trust, IDSA, DSSC, Gaia-X, and EUIPO...
20  october     18h38
Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY: Building your Digital Identity threat
Simone Onofri, W3C Security Lead, Giovanni Corti, Threat Modeling Community Group participant    W3C explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO SERIOUS PLAY can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in digital identity systems....
14  october     10h12
W3C logo refresh: more than a cosmetic change, a small step towards durable and sustainable success
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs positions W3C’s adoption of a new logo and tagline as one step towards W3C achieving key strategic goals by...
27  august     10h29
26 awardees in W3C’s TPAC Inclusion and Invited Expert Support funds
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs reports on the selection of 26 recipients in a funding program related to W3C’s stakeholder strategy and...
31  july     06h59
Vision for W3C to reach durable and sustainable success
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post about the newly published W3C Statement Vision for W3C , W3C CEO Seth Dobbs emphasizes the importance of principle-driven...
29  july     10h27
Vision for W3C: a manifesto for our operations and decision making
Coralie Mercier, W3C Marketing & Communications Director, Max Gendler, W3C AB and chair of the Vision Task Force    Today, W3C is pleased to announce the publication as a W3C Statement of Vision for W3C. W3C Statements provide a stable reference for documents not...
01  july     06h29
W3C Digital Credentials API publication: the next step to privacy-preserving identities on the web
Simone Onofri, W3C Security Lead    W3C recently published specifications will build foundations for new ways to represent identity on the web. Verifiable Credentials 2.0 and the first...
30  june     21h30
Public release of W3C’s 2025-2028 strategic objectives initiatives
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post, W3C President and CEO Seth Dobbs introduces the initiatives for 2025-2028 that will support W3C’s strategic objectives.
17  june     13h47
W3C seeks community input for Board of Directors appointments
Chris Wilson, W3C Board of Directors Development Committee Chair    The W3C Board of Directors has open seats that can be appointed by the Board of Directors itself for two-year terms. W3C is seeking community input...
28  may     08h26
Privacy on the web: creating a more trustworthy web
Seth Dobbs, W3C CEO and President    In this blog post, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs explains why and how privacy on the web as a requirement for humanity is central to W3C’s mission, mentions...
22  may     09h58
New Privacy Principles for a more trustworthy web
Tara Whalen, W3C Privacy Lead    Protecting user privacy is fundamental to creating a web that works for everyone. Last week, W3C published its Statement on Privacy Principles, which...
15  may     08h30
Educational and Cultural Exchange on Digital Accessibility Highlights from Hong Kong
Shawn Henry    Shawn Henry shares her thoughts about a recent trip as part of the Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Program in Hong Kong on Digital...
23  april     15h03
EPUB3.3 Recommendations published, work begins on new features
Susan Neuhaus, co-Chair of the Publishing Maintenance Working Group    The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) has finalized the EPUB 3.3 specification, clarifying language and aligning it with related...