Other W3C Events

This section outlines some other important and interesting W3C activities.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

WAI defines guidelines on how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.

WAI works to achieve the goal of 'Web accessibility for all' through technology, guidelines, tools, education, research, and development projects.

W3C WAI Recommended Standard

Mathematical Markup Language - Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)

MathML is an XML standard for describing mathematical symbols.

The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be provided, received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML can enable text to be functional.

W3C MathML Recommended Standard

Scalable Vector Graphics - Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

SVG is a language used to describe two-dimensional graphics in XML.

SVG runs three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes, images, and text.

The feature settings include transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects, template objects, and extensibility.

W3C SVG 1.1 Recommended Standard

W3C SVG 1.2 Working Draft

Ink Markup Language - Ink Markup Language (InkML)

InkML is an XML data format for expressing digital ink data, which is input through an electronic pen or input pen as part of a multi-pathway system.

W3C InkML Working Draft

Internationalization - Internationalization

The goal of W3C Internationalization Activities is to propose and adjust any technology, agreements, guidelines, and activities within W3C and with other organizations to make W3C technology more easily used globally across different languages, scripts, and cultural contexts.

W3C Internationalization Activities

Voice Browser Activity

The work of W3C's Voice Browser Activity is to enable people to interact with the Web through spoken instructions and speech synthesis, thereby expanding the scope of Web (use).

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML)

Voice Synthesis Markup Language (VoiceXML)

Voice Recognition Grammar Specification

Voice Browser Call Control (CCXML)

W3C References

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