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The Web Payments Working Group today published a Candidate Recommendation for Secure Payment Confirmation (SPC), a standardization milestone for a new browser capability that helps to streamline user authentication and enhance payment security during Web checkout. SPC enables merchants, banks, payment service providers, card networks, and others to lower the friction of strong customer authentication (SCA), and produce cryptographic evidence of user consent, both important aspects of regulatory…

The Internationalization Working Group has published a first Draft Note of N Ko Layout Requirements. This document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in a koiné register of Manding called Kángb , using the N Ko script when they are used by Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, Digital Publications, and Unicode.

The W3C Membership approved the 2023 W3C Process Document, which takes effect today. Notable changes include: Adjustments to remove the Process dependency on the Founding Director Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and to rebalance those responsibilities onto other parts of W3C. Most notably, rather than the Director, the W3C Council, which combines the W3C Advisory Board (AB), W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG), and CEO, will now hear and resolve formal objections. Over the past couple years, we have be…

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 as a W3C Recommendation. Accessibility of web content requires semantic information about widgets, structures, and behaviors, in order to allow assistive technologies to convey appropriate information to persons with disabilities. This specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improv…

The RDF Star Working Group has published the last two First Public Working Drafts of its Recommendation track deliverables: RDF 1.2 Semantics: This document describes a precise semantics for the RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax [RDF12-CONCEPTS] and RDF 1.2 Schema [RDF12-SCHEMA]. It defines a number of distinct entailment regimes and corresponding patterns of entailment. It is part of a suite of documents which comprise the full specification of RDF 1.2. SPARQL 1.2 Entailment Regimes: There …