Australian W3C Office
Australian W3C Office Happy New Year and welcome to the January '04 newsletter from the Australian W3C Office. In this edition we include information on regional events, EMMA, CSS3, XSL and Internationalization.
# Web and Online Accessibilty Workshop
The full-day workshop is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers. Vision Australia Foundation will hold the Workshop in Brisbane on the 25th February.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/webaccessibility/workshops/0402-brisbane.html
Buckingham Palace recently announced that Queen Elizabeth II will make Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE). UK Honours are available to all who give service in the United Kingdom. Mr. Berners-Lee, a British citizen, is being knighted in recognition of his services to the global development of the Internet through the invention of the World Wide Web.
Queen Elizabeth II: http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page412.asp
Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/
UK Honours: http://www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/ceremonial/index.htm
The XML Query Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX). Designed to be read with the XQuery language and its formal semantics, the document proposes that XQueryX will be an optional conformance level. The Working Group invites comments.
XML Syntax for Xquery 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xqueryx-20031219/
XQuery: http://www.w3.org/XML/Query#specs
XML Homepage: http://www.w3.org/XML/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0 to Proposed Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 18 February 2004. Speech grammars allow voice-based application authors to create rules describing what users are expected to say after listening to each application prompt.
Speech Recognition Grammar Spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/PR-speech-grammar-20031218/
Voice Browser Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Voice/
W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language Version 1.0 to Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 18 February 2004. With this XML-based language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch, and rate.
Speech Synthesis Markup Language: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-speech-synthesis-20031218/
The CSS Working Group has released two Last Call Working Drafts, parts of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. Comments are welcome through 31 January 2004. The CSS3 Paged Media Module adds pagination, page margins, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes, and cross-references with page numbers. The CSS Print Profile works with XHTML-Print for printing to low-cost devices.
CSS3 Paged Media Module: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-page-20031218/
CSS Print Profile: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css-print-20031218/
XHTML-Print: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-print/
CSS Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
The Multimodal Interaction Working Group has released the second public Working Draft of EMMA. Comments are welcome. The Extensible MultiModal Annotation language (EMMA) is a data exchange format for interaction management systems. EMMA represents user input. Speech and handwriting recognizers, natural language engines, media interpreters, and multimodal integration components generate EMMA markup.
EMMA: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-emma-20031218/
Multimodal Interaction homepage: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-emma-20031218/
The XSL Working Group has released the first public Working Drafts of the Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 and its Requirements. Version 1.1 updates the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers. Comments are invited.
XSL Version 1.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xsl11-20031217/
Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xsl11-req-20031217/
XSL 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/
The Web Services Internationalization Task Force of the Internationalization Working Group has published the first public Working Draft of Requirements for the Internationalization of Web Services. The document lists requirements for achieving worldwide usability for Web services. The group expects to republish the draft as a Working Group Note.
Requirements: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ws-i18n-req-20031217/
Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/
An archive of media articles on W3C is available at the W3C in the Press website.
W3C in the Press: http://www.w3.org/Press/Articles-2004.html
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