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jettbrains / L W3C Strategic Highlights September 2019 This report was prepared for the September 2019 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (W3C Member link). See the accompanying W3C Fact Sheet — September 2019. For the previous edition, see the April 2019 W3C Strategic Highlights. For future editions of this report, please consult the latest version. A Chinese translation is available. ☰ Contents Introduction Future Web Standards Meeting Industry Needs Web Payments Digital Publishing Media and Entertainment Web & Telecommunications Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) Web & Networks Automotive Web of Things Strengthening the Core of the Web HTML CSS Fonts SVG Audio Performance Web Performance WebAssembly Testing Browser Testing and Tools WebPlatform Tests Web of Data Web for All Security, Privacy, Identity Internationalization (i18n) Web Accessibility Outreach to the world W3C Developer Relations W3C Training Translations W3C Liaisons Introduction This report highlights recent work of enhancement of the existing landscape of the Web platform and innovation for the growth and strength of the Web. 33 working groups and a dozen interest groups enable W3C to pursue its mission through the creation of Web standards, guidelines, and supporting materials. We track the tremendous work done across the Consortium through homogeneous work-spaces in Github which enables better monitoring and management. We are in the middle of a period where we are chartering numerous working groups which demonstrate the rapid degree of change for the Web platform: After 4 years, we are nearly ready to publish a Payment Request API Proposed Recommendation and we need to soon charter follow-on work. In the last year we chartered the Web Payment Security Interest Group. In the last year we chartered the Web Media Working Group with 7 specifications for next generation Media support on the Web. We have Accessibility Guidelines under W3C Member review which includes Silver, a new approach. We have just launched the Decentralized Identifier Working Group which has tremendous potential because Decentralized Identifier (DID) is an identifier that is globally unique, resolveable with high availability, and cryptographically verifiable. We have Privacy IG (PING) under W3C Member review which strengthens our focus on the tradeoff between privacy and function. We have a new CSS charter under W3C Member review which maps the group's work for the next three years. In this period, W3C and the WHATWG have succesfully completed the negotiation of a Memorandum of Understanding rooted in the mutual belief that that having two distinct specifications claiming to be normative is generally harmful for the Web community. The MOU, signed last May, describes how the two organizations are to collaborate on the development of a single authoritative version of the HTML and DOM specifications. W3C subsequently rechartered the HTML Working Group to assist the W3C community in raising issues and proposing solutions for the HTML and DOM specifications, and for the production of W3C Recommendations from WHATWG Review Drafts. As the Web evolves continuously, some groups are looking for ways for specifications to do so as well. So-called "evergreen recommendations" or "living standards" aim to track continuous development (and maintenance) of features, on a feature-by-feature basis, while getting review and patent commitments. We see the maturation and further development of an incredible number of new technologies coming to the Web. Continued progress in many areas demonstrates the vitality of the W3C and the Web community, as the rest of the report illustrates. Future Web Standards W3C has a variety of mechanisms for listening to what the community thinks could become good future Web standards. These include discussions with the Membership, discussions with other standards bodies, the activities of thousands of participants in over 300 community groups, and W3C Workshops. There are lots of good ideas. The W3C strategy team has been identifying promising topics and invites public participation. Future, recent and under consideration Workshops include: Inclusive XR (5-6 November 2019, Seattle, WA, USA) to explore existing and future approaches on making Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences more inclusive, including to people with disabilities; W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation (12-13 September 2019, Palo Alto, CA, USA) W3C Workshop on Web Games (27-28 June 2019, Redmond, WA, USA), view report Second W3C Workshop on the Web of Things (3-5 June 2019, Munich, Germany) W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data; Creating Bridges: RDF, Property Graph and SQL (4-6 March 2019, Berlin, Germany), view report Web & Machine Learning. The Strategy Funnel documents the staff's exploration of potential new work at various phases: Exploration and Investigation, Incubation and Evaluation, and eventually to the chartering of a new standards group. The Funnel view is a GitHub Project where new area are issues represented by “cards” which move through the columns, usually from left to right. Most cards start in Exploration and move towards Chartering, or move out of the funnel. Public input is welcome at any stage but particularly once Incubation has begun. This helps W3C identify work that is sufficiently incubated to warrant standardization, to review the ecosystem around the work and indicate interest in participating in its standardization, and then to draft a charter that reflects an appropriate scope. Ongoing feedback can speed up the overall standardization process. Since the previous highlights document, W3C has chartered a number of groups, and started discussion on many more: Newly Chartered or Rechartered Web Application Security WG (03-Apr) Web Payment Security IG (17-Apr) Patent and Standards IG (24-Apr) Web Applications WG (14-May) Web & Networks IG (16-May) Media WG (23-May) Media and Entertainment IG (06-Jun) HTML WG (06-Jun) Decentralized Identifier WG (05-Sep) Extended Privacy IG (PING) (30-Sep) Verifiable Claims WG (30-Sep) Service Workers WG (31-Dec) Dataset Exchange WG (31-Dec) Web of Things Working Group (31-Dec) Web Audio Working Group (31-Dec) Proposed charters / Advance Notice Accessibility Guidelines WG Privacy IG (PING) RDF Literal Direction WG Timed Text WG CSS WG Web Authentication WG Closed Internationalization Tag Set IG Meeting Industry Needs Web Payments All Web Payments specifications W3C's payments standards enable a streamlined checkout experience, enabling a consistent user experience across the Web with lower front end development costs for merchants. Users can store and reuse information and more quickly and accurately complete online transactions. The Web Payments Working Group has republished Payment Request API as a Candidate Recommendation, aiming to publish a Proposed Recommendation in the Fall 2019, and is discussing use cases and features for Payment Request after publication of the 1.0 Recommendation. Browser vendors have been finalizing implementation of features added in the past year (view the implementation report). As work continues on the Payment Handler API and its implementation (currently in Chrome and Edge Canary), one focus in 2019 is to increase adoption in other browsers. Recently, Mastercard demonstrated the use of Payment Request API to carry out EMVCo's Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) protocol whose payment method definition is being developed with active participation by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. Payment method availability is a key factor in merchant considerations about adopting Payment Request API. The ability to get uniform adoption of a new payment method such as Secure Remote Commerce (SRC) also depends on the availability of the Payment Handler API in browsers, or of proprietary alternatives. Web Monetization, which the Web Payments Working Group will discuss again at its face-to-face meeting in September, can be used to enable micropayments as an alternative revenue stream to advertising. Since the beginning of 2019, Amazon, Brave Software, JCB, Certus Cybersecurity Solutions and Netflix have joined the Web Payments Working Group. In April, W3C launched the Web Payment Security Group to enable W3C, EMVCo, and the FIDO Alliance to collaborate on a vision for Web payment security and interoperability. Participants will define areas of collaboration and identify gaps between existing technical specifications in order to increase compatibility among different technologies, such as: How do SRC, FIDO, and Payment Request relate? The Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) regulations in Europe are scheduled to take effect in September 2019. What is the role of EMVCo, W3C, and FIDO technologies, and what is the current state of readiness for the deadline? How can we improve privacy on the Web at the same time as we meet industry requirements regarding user identity? Digital Publishing All Digital Publishing specifications, Publication milestones The Web is the universal publishing platform. Publishing is increasingly impacted by the Web, and the Web increasingly impacts Publishing. Topic of particular interest to Publishing@W3C include typography and layout, accessibility, usability, portability, distribution, archiving, offline access, print on demand, and reliable cross referencing. And the diverse publishing community represented in the groups consist of the traditional "trade" publishers, ebook reading system manufacturers, but also publishers of audio book, scholarly journals or educational materials, library scientists or browser developers. The Publishing Working Group currently concentrates on Audiobooks which lack a comprehensive standard, thus incurring extra costs and time to publish in this booming market. Active development is ongoing on the future standard: Publication Manifest Audiobook profile for Web Publications Lightweight Packaging Format The BD Comics Manga Community Group, the Synchronized Multimedia for Publications Community Group, the Publishing Community Group and a future group on archival, are companions to the working group where specific work is developed and incubated. The Publishing Community Group is a recently launched incubation channel for Publishing@W3C. The goal of the group is to propose, document, and prototype features broadly related to: publications on the Web reading modes and systems and the user experience of publications The EPUB 3 Community Group has successfully completed the revision of EPUB 3.2. The Publishing Business Group fosters ongoing participation by members of the publishing industry and the overall ecosystem in the development of Web infrastructure to better support the needs of the industry. The Business Group serves as an additional conduit to the Publishing Working Group and several Community Groups for feedback between the publishing ecosystem and W3C. The Publishing BG has played a vital role in fostering and advancing the adoption and continued development of EPUB 3. In particular the BG provided critical support to the update of EPUBCheck to validate EPUB content to the new EPUB 3.2 specification. This resulted in the development, in conjunction with the EPUB3 Community Group, of a new generation of EPUBCheck, i.e., EPUBCheck 4.2 production-ready release. Media and Entertainment All Media specifications The Media and Entertainment vertical tracks media-related topics and features that create immersive experiences for end users. HTML5 brought standard audio and video elements to the Web. Standardization activities since then have aimed at turning the Web into a professional platform fully suitable for the delivery of media content and associated materials, enabling missing features to stream video content on the Web such as adaptive streaming and content protection. Together with Microsoft, Comcast, Netflix and Google, W3C received an Technology & Engineering Emmy Award in April 2019 for standardization of a full TV experience on the Web. Current goals are to: Reinforce core media technologies: Creation of the Media Working Group, to develop media-related specifications incubated in the WICG (e.g. Media Capabilities, Picture-in-picture, Media Session) and maintain maintain/evolve Media Source Extensions (MSE) and Encrypted Media Extensions (EME). Improve support for Media Timed Events: data cues incubation. Enhance color support (HDR, wide gamut), in scope of the CSS WG and in the Color on the Web CG. Reduce fragmentation: Continue annual releases of a common and testable baseline media devices, in scope of the Web Media APIs CG and in collaboration with the CTA WAVE Project. Maintain the Road-map of Media Technologies for the Web which highlights Web technologies that can be used to build media applications and services, as well as known gaps to enable additional use cases. Create the future: Discuss perspectives for Media and Entertainment for the Web. Bring the power of GPUs to the Web (graphics, machine learning, heavy processing), under incubation in the GPU for the Web CG. Transition to a Working Group is under discussion. Determine next steps after the successful W3C Workshop on Web Games of June 2019. View the report. Timed Text The Timed Text Working Group develops and maintains formats used for the representation of text synchronized with other timed media, like audio and video, and notably works on TTML, profiles of TTML, and WebVTT. Recent progress includes: A robust WebVTT implementation report poises the specification for publication as a proposed recommendation. Discussions around re-chartering, notably to add a TTML Profile for Audio Description deliverable to the scope of the group, and clarify that rendering of captions within XR content is also in scope. Immersive Web Hardware that enables Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) applications are now broadly available to consumers, offering an immersive computing platform with both new opportunities and challenges. The ability to interact directly with immersive hardware is critical to ensuring that the web is well equipped to operate as a first-class citizen in this environment. The Immersive Web Working Group has been stabilizing the WebXR Device API while the companion Immersive Web Community Group incubates the next series of features identified as key for the future of the Immersive Web. W3C plans a workshop focused on the needs and benefits at the intersection of VR & Accessibility (Inclusive XR), on 5-6 November 2019 in Seattle, WA, USA, to explore existing and future approaches on making Virtual and Augmented Reality experiences more inclusive. Web & Telecommunications The Web is the Open Platform for Mobile. Telecommunication service providers and network equipment providers have long been critical actors in the deployment of Web technologies. As the Web platform matures, it brings richer and richer capabilities to extend existing services to new users and devices, and propose new and innovative services. Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) All Real-Time Communications specifications WebRTC has reshaped the whole communication landscape by making any connected device a potential communication end-point, bringing audio and video communications anywhere, on any network, vastly expanding the ability of operators to reach their customers. WebRTC serves as the corner-stone of many online communication and collaboration services. The WebRTC Working Group aims to bringing WebRTC 1.0 (and companion specification Media Capture and Streams) to Recommendation by the end of 2019. Intense efforts are focused on testing (supported by a dedicated hackathon at IETF 104) and interoperability. The group is considering pushing features that have not gotten enough traction to separate modules or to a later minor revision of the spec. Beyond WebRTC 1.0, the WebRTC Working Group will focus its efforts on WebRTC NV which the group has started documenting by identifying use cases. Web & Networks Recently launched, in the wake of the May 2018 Web5G workshop, the Web & Networks Interest Group is chaired by representatives from AT&T, China Mobile and Intel, with a goal to explore solutions for web applications to achieve better performance and resource allocation, both on the device and network. The group's first efforts are around use cases, privacy & security requirements and liaisons. Automotive All Automotive specifications To create a rich application ecosystem for vehicles and other devices allowed to connect to the vehicle, the W3C Automotive Working Group is delivering a service specification to expose all common vehicle signals (engine temperature, fuel/charge level, range, tire pressure, speed, etc.) The Vehicle Information Service Specification (VISS), which is a Candidate Recommendation, is seeing more implementations across the industry. It provides the access method to a common data model for all the vehicle signals –presently encapsulating a thousand or so different data elements– and will be growing to accommodate the advances in automotive such as autonomous and driver assist technologies and electrification. The group is already working on a successor to VISS, leveraging the underlying data model and the VIWI submission from Volkswagen, for a more robust means of accessing vehicle signals information and the same paradigm for other automotive needs including location-based services, media, notifications and caching content. The Automotive and Web Platform Business Group acts as an incubator for prospective standards work. One of its task forces is using W3C VISS in performing data sampling and off-boarding the information to the cloud. Access to the wealth of information that W3C's auto signals standard exposes is of interest to regulators, urban planners, insurance companies, auto manufacturers, fleet managers and owners, service providers and others. In addition to components needed for data sampling and edge computing, capturing user and owner consent, information collection methods and handling of data are in scope. The upcoming W3C Workshop on Data Models for Transportation (September 2019) is expected to focus on the need of additional ontologies around transportation space. Web of Things All Web of Things specifications W3C's Web of Things work is designed to bridge disparate technology stacks to allow devices to work together and achieve scale, thus enabling the potential of the Internet of Things by eliminating fragmentation and fostering interoperability. Thing descriptions expressed in JSON-LD cover the behavior, interaction affordances, data schema, security configuration, and protocol bindings. The Web of Things complements existing IoT ecosystems to reduce the cost and risk for suppliers and consumers of applications that create value by combining multiple devices and information services. There are many sectors that will benefit, e.g. smart homes, smart cities, smart industry, smart agriculture, smart healthcare and many more. The Web of Things Working Group is finishing the initial Web of Things standards, with support from the Web of Things Interest Group: Web of Things Architecture Thing Descriptions Strengthening the Core of the Web HTML The HTML Working Group was chartered early June to assist the W3C community in raising issues and proposing solutions for the HTML and DOM specifications, and to produce W3C Recommendations from WHATWG Review Drafts. A few days before, W3C and the WHATWG signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the agreement to collaborate on the development of a single version of the HTML and DOM specifications. Issues and proposed solutions for HTML and DOM done via the newly rechartered HTML Working Group in the WHATWG repositories The HTML Working Group is targetting November 2019 to bring HTML and DOM to Candidate Recommendations. CSS All CSS specifications CSS is a critical part of the Open Web Platform. The CSS Working Group gathers requirements from two large groups of CSS users: the publishing industry and application developers. Within W3C, those groups are exemplified by the Publishing groups and the Web Platform Working Group. The former requires things like better pagination support and advanced font handling, the latter needs intelligent (and fast!) scrolling and animations. What we know as CSS is actually a collection of almost a hundred specifications, referred to as ‘modules’. The current state of CSS is defined by a snapshot, updated once a year. The group also publishes an index defining every term defined by CSS specifications. Fonts All Fonts specifications The Web Fonts Working Group develops specifications that allow the interoperable deployment of downloadable fonts on the Web, with a focus on Progressive Font Enrichment as well as maintenance of WOFF Recommendations. Recent and ongoing work includes: Early API experiments by Adobe and Monotype have demonstrated the feasibility of a font enrichment API, where a server delivers a font with minimal glyph repertoire and the client can query the full repertoire and request additional subsets on-the-fly. In other experiments, the Brotli compression used in WOFF 2 was extended to support shared dictionaries and patch update. Metrics to quantify improvement are a current hot discussion topic. The group will meet at ATypi 2019 in Japan, to gather requirements from the international typography community. The group will first produce a report summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of each prototype solution by Q2 2020. SVG All SVG specifications SVG is an important and widely-used part of the Open Web Platform. The SVG Working Group focuses on aligning the SVG 2.0 specification with browser implementations, having split the specification into a currently-implemented 2.0 and a forward-looking 2.1. Current activity is on stabilization, increased integration with the Open Web Platform, and test coverage analysis. The Working Group was rechartered in March 2019. A new work item concerns native (non-Web-browser) uses of SVG as a non-interactive, vector graphics format. Audio The Web Audio Working Group was extended to finish its work on the Web Audio API, expecting to publish it as a Recommendation by year end. The specification enables synthesizing audio in the browser. Audio operations are performed with audio nodes, which are linked together to form a modular audio routing graph. Multiple sources — with different types of channel layout — are supported. This modular design provides the flexibility to create complex audio functions with dynamic effects. The first version of Web Audio API is now feature complete and is implemented in all modern browsers. Work has started on the next version, and new features are being incubated in the Audio Community Group. Performance Web Performance All Web Performance specifications There are currently 18 specifications in development in the Web Performance Working Group aiming to provide methods to observe and improve aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs. The W3C team is looking at related work incubated in the W3C GPU for the Web (WebGPU) Community Group which is poised to transition to a W3C Working Group. A preliminary draft charter is available. WebAssembly All WebAssembly specifications WebAssembly improves Web performance and power by being a virtual machine and execution environment enabling loaded pages to run native (compiled) code. It is deployed in Firefox, Edge, Safari and Chrome. The specification will soon reach Candidate Recommendation. WebAssembly enables near-native performance, optimized load time, and perhaps most importantly, a compilation target for existing code bases. While it has a small number of native types, much of the performance increase relative to Javascript derives from its use of consistent typing. WebAssembly leverages decades of optimization for compiled languages and the byte code is optimized for compactness and streaming (the web page starts executing while the rest of the code downloads). Network and API access all occurs through accompanying Javascript libraries -- the security model is identical to that of Javascript. Requirements gathering and language development occur in the Community Group while the Working Group manages test development, community review and progression of specifications on the Recommendation Track. Testing Browser testing plays a critical role in the growth of the Web by: Improving the reliability of Web technology definitions; Improving the quality of implementations of these technologies by helping vendors to detect bugs in their products; Improving the data available to Web developers on known bugs and deficiencies of Web technologies by publishing results of these tests. Browser Testing and Tools The Browser Testing and Tools Working Group is developing WebDriver version 2, having published last year the W3C Recommendation of WebDriver. WebDriver acts as a remote control interface that enables introspection and control of user agents, provides a platform- and language-neutral wire protocol as a way for out-of-process programs to remotely instruct the behavior of Web, and emulates the actions of a real person using the browser. WebPlatform Tests The WebPlatform Tests project now provides a mechanism which allows to fully automate tests that previously needed to be run manually: TestDriver. TestDriver enables sending trusted key and mouse events, sending complex series of trusted pointer and key interactions for things like in-content drag-and-drop or pinch zoom, and even file upload. Since 2014 W3C began work on this coordinated open-source effort to build a cross-browser test suite for the Web Platform, which WHATWG, and all major browsers adopted. Web of Data All Data specifications There have been several great success stories around the standardization of data on the web over the past year. Verifiable Claims seems to have significant uptake. It is also significant that the Distributed Identifier WG charter has received numerous favorable reviews, and was just recently launched. JSON-LD has been a major success with the large deployment on Web sites via schema.org. JSON-LD 1.1 completed technical work, about to transition to CR More than 25% of websites today include schema.org data in JSON-LD The Web of Things description is in CR since May, making use of JSON-LD Verifiable Credentials data model is in CR since July, also making use of JSON-LD Continued strong interest in decentralized identifiers Engagement from the TAG with reframing core documents, such as Ethical Web Principles, to include data on the web within their scope Data is increasingly important for all organizations, especially with the rise of IoT and Big Data. W3C has a mature and extensive suite of standards relating to data that were developed over two decades of experience, with plans for further work on making it easier for developers to work with graph data and knowledge graphs. Linked Data is about the use of URIs as names for things, the ability to dereference these URIs to get further information and to include links to other data. There are ever-increasing sources of open Linked Data on the Web, as well as data services that are restricted to the suppliers and consumers of those services. The digital transformation of industry is seeking to exploit advanced digital technologies. This will facilitate businesses to integrate horizontally along the supply and value chains, and vertically from the factory floor to the office floor. W3C is seeking to make it easier to support enterprise-wide data management and governance, reflecting the strategic importance of data to modern businesses. Traditional approaches to data have focused on tabular databases (SQL/RDBMS), Comma Separated Value (CSV) files, and data embedded in PDF documents and spreadsheets. We're now in midst of a major shift to graph data with nodes and labeled directed links between them. Graph data is: Faster than using SQL and associated JOIN operations More favorable to integrating data from heterogeneous sources Better suited to situations where the data model is evolving In the wake of the recent W3C Workshop on Graph Data we are in the process of launching a Graph Standardization Business Group to provide a business perspective with use cases and requirements, to coordinate technical standards work and liaisons with external organizations. Web for All Security, Privacy, Identity All Security specifications, all Privacy specifications Authentication on the Web As the WebAuthn Level 1 W3C Recommendation published last March is seeing wide implementation and adoption of strong cryptographic authentication, work is proceeding on Level 2. The open standard Web API gives native authentication technology built into native platforms, browsers, operating systems (including mobile) and hardware, offering protection against hacking, credential theft, phishing attacks, thus aiming to end the era of passwords as a security construct. You may read more in our March press release. Privacy An increasing number of W3C specifications are benefitting from Privacy and Security review; there are security and privacy aspects to every specification. Early review is essential. Working with the TAG, the Privacy Interest Group has updated the Self-Review Questionnaire: Security and Privacy. Other recent work of the group includes public blogging further to the exploration of anti-patterns in standards and permission prompts. Security The Web Application Security Working Group adopted Feature Policy, aiming to allow developers to selectively enable, disable, or modify the behavior of some of these browser features and APIs within their application; and Fetch Metadata, aiming to provide servers with enough information to make a priori decisions about whether or not to service a request based on the way it was made, and the context in which it will be used. The Web Payment Security Interest Group, launched last April, convenes members from W3C, EMVCo, and the FIDO Alliance to discuss cooperative work to enhance the security and interoperability of Web payments (read more about payments). Internationalization (i18n) All Internationalization specifications, educational articles related to Internationalization, spec developers checklist Only a quarter or so current Web users use English online and that proportion will continue to decrease as the Web reaches more and more communities of limited English proficiency. If the Web is to live up to the "World Wide" portion of its name, and for the Web to truly work for stakeholders all around the world engaging with content in various languages, it must support the needs of worldwide users as they engage with content in the various languages. The growth of epublishing also brings requirements for new features and improved typography on the Web. It is important to ensure the needs of local communities are captured. The W3C Internationalization Initiative was set up to increase in-house resources dedicated to accelerating progress in making the World Wide Web "worldwide" by gathering user requirements, supporting developers, and education & outreach. For an overview of current projects see the i18n radar. W3C's Internationalization efforts progressed on a number of fronts recently: Requirements: New African and European language groups will work on the gap analysis, errata and layout requirements. Gap analysis: Japanese, Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Lao, Khmer, Javanese, and Ethiopic updated in the gap-analysis documents. Layout requirements document: notable progress tracked in the Southeast Asian Task Force while work continues on Chinese layout requirements. Developer support: Spec reviews: the i18n WG continues active review of specifications of the WHATWG and other W3C Working Groups. Short review checklist: easy way to begin a self-review to help spec developers understand what aspects of their spec are likely to need attention for internationalization, and points them to more detailed checklists for the relevant topics. It also helps those reviewing specs for i18n issues. Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata lays out issues and discusses potential solutions for passing information about language and direction with strings in JSON or other data formats. The document was rewritten for clarity, and expanded. The group is collaborating with the JSON-LD and Web Publishing groups to develop a plan for updating RDF, JSON-LD and related specifications to handle metadata for base direction of text (bidi). User-friendly test format: a new format was developed for Internationalization Test Suite tests, which displays helpful information about how the test works. This particularly useful because those tests are pointed to by educational materials and gap-analysis documents. Web Platform Tests: a large number of tests in the i18n test suite have been ported to the WPT repository, including: css-counter-styles, css-ruby, css-syntax, css-test, css-text-decor, css-writing-modes, and css-pseudo. Education & outreach: (for all educational materials, see the HTML & CSS Authoring Techniques) Web Accessibility All Accessibility specifications, WAI resources The Web Accessibility Initiative supports W3C's Web for All mission. Recent achievements include: Education and training: Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA updated to bring our analysis and recommendations up to date with CAPTCHA practice today, concluding two years of extensive work and invaluable input from the public (read more on the W3C Blog Learn why your web content and applications should be accessible. The Education and Outreach Working Group has completed revision and updating of the Business Case for Digital Accessibility. Accessibility guidelines: The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has continued to update WCAG Techniques and Understanding WCAG 2.1; and published a Candidate Recommendation of Accessibility Conformance Testing Rules Format 1.0 to improve inter-rater reliability when evaluating conformance of web content to WCAG An updated charter is being developed to host work on "Silver", the next generation accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.2) There are accessibility aspects to most specifications. Check your work with the FAST checklist. Outreach to the world W3C Developer Relations To foster the excellent feedback loop between Web Standards development and Web developers, and to grow participation from that diverse community, recent W3C Developer Relations activities include: @w3cdevs tracks the enormous amount of work happening across W3C W3C Track during the Web Conference 2019 in San Francisco Tech videos: W3C published the 2019 Web Games Workshop videos The 16 September 2019 Developer Meetup in Fukuoka, Japan, is open to all and will combine a set of technical demos prepared by W3C groups, and a series of talks on a selected set of W3C technologies and projects W3C is involved with Mozilla, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and Bocoup in the organization of ViewSource 2019 in Amsterdam (read more on the W3C Blog) W3C Training In partnership with EdX, W3C's MOOC training program, W3Cx offers a complete "Front-End Web Developer" (FEWD) professional certificate program that consists of a suite of five courses on the foundational languages that power the Web: HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. We count nearly 900K students from all over the world. Translations Many Web users rely on translations of documents developed at W3C whose official language is English. W3C is extremely grateful to the continuous efforts of its community in ensuring our various deliverables in general, and in our specifications in particular, are made available in other languages, for free, ensuring their exposure to a much more diverse set of readers. Last Spring we developed a more robust system, a new listing of translations of W3C specifications and updated the instructions on how to contribute to our translation efforts. W3C Liaisons Liaisons and coordination with numerous organizations and Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) is crucial for W3C to: make sure standards are interoperable coordinate our respective agenda in Internet governance: W3C participates in ICANN, GIPO, IGF, the I* organizations (ICANN, IETF, ISOC, IAB). ensure at the government liaison level that our standards work is officially recognized when important to our membership so that products based on them (often done by our members) are part of procurement orders. W3C has ARO/PAS status with ISO. W3C participates in the EU MSP and Rolling Plan on Standardization ensure the global set of Web and Internet standards form a compatible stack of technologies, at the technical and policy level (patent regime, fragmentation, use in policy making) promote Standards adoption equally by the industry, the public sector, and the public at large Coralie Mercier, Editor, W3C Marketing & Communications $Id: Overview.html,v 1.60 2019/10/15 12:05:52 coralie Exp $ Copyright © 2019 W3C ® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang) Usage policies apply.
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OPTIMUM-LINKUP / Latest Optimum School SystemThis is the latest school management system. Available for all type of schools. will work on Phone, Laptop, Tabs, monitors - any screen size. It is available with 100% source code. The features are listed below: INSTALLATION Upload the downloaded zip file to your server in the public_html directory. Extract the zip file. Create a new database from your server mysql. Create user to the database and link the database to the user. Open the file database.php from the directory yourfolder/application/config/database.php. Fill up this information with your database hostname, database username, database password, database name respectively which you have created in the previous step. Now from server phpmyadmin go to your database. Select import and choose the file install.sql located in yourfolder/database/blank_db.sql (demo_db.sql for demo database) And you are ready to go now to browse the application Default admin credentials Email: admin@admin.com Password: admin ADMIN PANEL Managing User accounts (teacher, student, parent) Managing classes, subjects Managing exam, grades Managing exam marks Managing Loan Information Managing Computer Based Test (CBT) Sending exam marks via sms Managing students attendance Managing accounting, income and expenses Managing school events Managing Teachers Managing Libratrian Managing Accountant Manage Circular Manage Task Managing Parents Managing Alumni Managing Academic Sysllabus Managing Helpful Links Managing Help Desk Managing Front-End Information Managing School Session Attendance Reports Managing Staff ID Cards Records management. Notification board management. Management relationships between different type of users. Online Payment acceptance of FEE. Section Management. Reports generator. SMS Alerts. Managing Hostel Manager Managing library, dormitory, transport Messaging between other users Managing system settings (general, sms, language) Managing Media Subject management. Class management. Student payments management. Student behaviour management. Payments Overview. Subjects and assignments management. Fees management. Student assignment results management. Student search. Overdue students list. Student management. Student-Teacher interaction. And many more … TEACHERS Manage Students homework. Assign homework. Share homework on social networking sites (facebook). Manage classes. Manage Student Report. Generate Remarks on Student Reports. Generate Student Attendence. Subject management. Loan Application Class management. Student behaviour management. Subjects and assignments management. Student assignment results management. Student search. Student management. Student-Teacher interaction. Managing Helpful Links Managing Media Assignments Attendance Provide Daily Quotes Holidays Studennts Study Materials Message Noticeboard Transportations And many more… STUDENT PANEL Get class Routine Attempt Online Exam View Online Exam Result Get Exam Marks Message View Noticeboard Transportatio Receive SMS Get attendance status Get study materials / files from teacher Get payment invoice, Pay Online Communicate with teacher Managing Media accounts View Event Schedule, Notice and Holidays Get Helpful Links View Daily Quotes Contact Help Desks And many more …. PARENT PANEL View Children Marks View Children Class Routine Make payment View Payment Invoice Message Admin Message Teachers View Received Messkages Checkin kids progress. Parent-Teacher interaction. Get alerts from School Administration or Teachers. View events Noticeborad Todays Thought News Helpful Links Help Desk Receive SMS And many more … LIBRARIAN Add books Update books Record Lost Books Generate Reports on Books Subject Management. Loan Application Student Search. Student Management. Student-Librarian Interaction. View Helpful Links View Media Holidays Studennts Study Materials Message Transportations Noticeboard View Notification And many more …. ACCOUNTANTS Create Student Payments Students Payment Expenses Expenses Category Vew all Accountants Loan Application Todays Thought News Holidays Message k Noticeboard And many more …. HOSTEL MANAGER ViewAll Hostel Managers Manage Hostels Loan Application Todays Thought News Holidays Message Noticeboard And many more …. ………………………………………………………………………………………………… ADMIN PANEL DASHBORD ………………………………………………………………………………………………… Total number of students, teachers, librarian, accountants, hostel manager, alumni, parents and attendance of students for that day at a glance, Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events, charts for various percentages of teachers, parents, students attendance, grades, students performances, etc. MANAGING SESSION From navigation go to manage session Add / edit / delete MANAGING ACADEMIC SYLLABUS From navigation go to manage academic syllabus Add / edit / delete MANAGING MEDIA From navigation go to manage media Add / edit / delete MANAGING STUDENTS Admit Students From navigation, go to students > admit students Fill up the necessary information Save student Admit Bulk Students From navigation, go to student > admit bulk student Download the blank Excel file Fill up the information Select class Upload the filled up Excel file Save Student Information From navigation go to student > student information Here you can see the students class wise If a class has sections then you can also browse the students as per class sections Student mark sheets From navigation go to student > student mark sheet Here you can see all the students marks class wise If the class has sections then you can also see them along with class MANAGING TEACHERS From navigation go to teacher Here you can see the list of teachers of your school in a tabular form To add a new teacher, click the top right button named add new teacher and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a teacher information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action editing and deleting MANAGING ACCOUNTANTS From navigation go to accountant Here you can see the list of accountants of your school in a tabular form To add a new accountant, click the top right button named add new accountant and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a teacher information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action editing and deleting MANAGING LIBRARIANS From navigation go to librarian Here you can see the list of librarians of your school in a tabular form To add a new librarian, click the top right button named add new librarian and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a teacher information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action editing and deleting MANAGING HOSTEL MANAGERS From navigation go to hostel manager Here you can see the list of hostel managers of your school in a tabular form To add a new hostel manager, click the top right button named add new hostel manager and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a teacher information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action editing and deleting MANAGING ALUMNI From navigation go to alumni Here you can see the list of alumni of your school in a tabular form To add a new alumni, click the top right button named add new alumni and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a teacher information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action editing and deleting MANAGING PARENTS From navigation go to parents Here you can see the list of parents of the students of your school in a tabular form To add a new parent, click the top right button named add new parent and fill up the information and save For editing or deleting a parent information click the action button assigned to each entry of the table. That will bring two options for editing and deleting. Click on the required action for editing and deleting MANAGING CLASSES From navigation go to > manage sections Add new class section for a class and assign teacher for each of them View the class sections in a tabular form class wise Edit and delete class section information MANAGING CLASS SECTION From navigation go to class > manage sections Add new class section for a class and assign a teacher for each of them View the class sections in a tabular for class wise Edit and deklete class section information MANAGING SUBJECTS From navigation go to subject If you have already added classes then under this you will see a list of the classes added. If you have not created classes, please create class first Here you can see the subjects class wise Add or edit or delete subjects MANAGING CLASS ROUTINE From navigation go to class routine View all the class routines in accordion Add class routine Click on the subject name on routine to edit and delete MANAGING DIALY STUDENT’S ATTENDENCE From navigation go to daily attendance Select the date and class and click manage attendance That will bring up the students name and attendance information in a tabular form To update the attendance status or for taking the attendance for that particular date of that particular class which you have selected earlier, click the button named update attendance Put the status for all at once and click save changes MANAGING EXAMS Exam list From navigation, go to exam > exam list Add an exam for all Edit and delete exam Exam grade From navigation go to exam > exam grades Add exam grades as per the requirements of your institution Edit or delete exam grades Manage exam marks From navigation go to > manage marks Select exam, class and subject and click manage marks for changing or updating marks That will bring up the form for updating the students marks for that particular subject Enter the marks and click update Sending exam marks by SMS From navigation go to exam > send mark by SMS Select exakm and class and receive (students/parent) Click the button named send mark via SMS That will send SMS with the marks for that exam you have selected if a SMS service is already activated MANAGING PAYMENTS From navigation go to payment Add invoice and take manual payment multiple time under the same invoice If a payment is due, then an option will be there for taking the payment in the action button of the table that contains the list of all the invoices with the basic information. Edit or delete invoice LOAN MANAGEMENT From navigation go to loan application See all the applied loans Click on apply loan Fill forms to apply Wait for loan approval COMPUTER BASED TEST (CBT) From navigation, go to Manage CBT Click on Add Exam Set Class, Exam Time, Exam Duration, Subject, Question Count and Session Click on continue to Add Questions Click on List Exams to View Exams Click on View Result to View Exams Scores ACCOUNTING Incomes From navigation, go to accounting > incomes Here you can see all the incomes for your school that means students fee in a tabular form with their payment time and amount EXPENSES From navigation, go to accounting > expenses Add expenses for the school Edit or delete them GENERATING STAFF IDCARD Teacher, librarian, accounant, hostel manager From navigation, go to staff > ID CARD Here you can you will see a button asking you to click generate ID CARD EXPENSE CATEGORY From navigation, go to accounting > expense category Add expense category Edit or delete them MANAGING BOOKS From navigation go to library Add books Edit or delete them MANAGING TRANSPORT From navigation go to transport Add transport information Edit or delete them MANAGING DORMITORY From navigation go to dormitory Add / edit / delete MANAGING ASSIGNMENT From navigation go to assignment Add / edit / delete MANAGING HOLIDAYS From navigation go to holiday Add / edit / delete MANAGING TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought Add / edit / delete MANAGING CIRCULAR From navigation go to circular Add / edit / delete MANAGING SCHOOL CLUBS From navigation go to school club Add / edit / delete MANAGING TASK From navigation go to task manager Add / edit / delete MANAGING HELPFUL LINK From navigation go to Helpful Links Add / edit / delete MANAGING ENQUIRY From navigation go to enquiry Add / edit / delete MANAGING ENQUIRY CATEFORY From navigation go to enquiry category Add / edit / delete MANAGING HELP DESK From navigation go to task Helpdesk Add / edit / delete NOTICEBOARD From navigation go to notice board Add / edit / delete them For sending the notice to all as SMS, yes while creating the notice This will send SMS to all the users about that notice PRIVATE MESSAGING From navigation, go to message Admin can send message to all users For sending message, select user and type the message and click send You can also see all the message sent to you or sent from you SYSTEM SETTINGS From navigation go to settings > general settings You can change basic system settings here and also can select language You can also upload logo from here THEME SETTINGS From navigation go to setting > general settings On the right of the page there is a panel named theme settings You find several skin options for you application Select you desire one to make changes SMS SETTINGS From navigation go to settings > sms settings Here you will find 2 SMS services, one is Clickatell and another is Twilio You have to activate a service first Then put the necessary information for a service Visit https://www.twilio.com/user/acount/settings/international /sms LANGUAGE SETTINGS From navigation go to setting > language settings Change phrase or add new phrase for a particular language Add new language MANAGE BANNER SETTINGS From navigation go to setting > banner settings Add / edit / delete MANAGE FRONT END SETTINGS From navigation go to setting > front end settings Add / edit / delete MANAGE NEWS SETTINGS From navigation go to setting > news settings Add / edit / delete ACCOUNT SETTINGS From navigation go to account Change basic account information Update your password Change profile image ……………………………………………………………………………………………….. TEACHER PANEL DASHBOARD ………………………………………………………………………………………………. Total number of students, parents and attendance of students for that day at a glance Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events. MANAGING STUDENTS Admit students From navigation go to student > admit student Fill up the necessary information Save student Student information From navigation go to student > student information Here you can see the student class wise If a class has sections then you can also browse the students as per class sections Student mark sheets From navigation go to student > student mark sheet Here you can see all the students marks class wise If the class has sections then you can also see them along with class MANAGING DAILY STUDENT’S ATTENDANCE From navigation go to daily attendance Select the date and class and click mange attendance That will bring up the students name and attendance information in a tabular form To update the attendance status or for taking the attendance for that particular date of that particular class which you have selected earlier, click the button named update attendance Put the status for all at once and click save changes MANAGING DAILY STUDENT’S ATTENDANCE From navigation go to daily attendance Select the date and class and click manage attendance That will bring up the students name and attendance information in a tabular form To update the attendance status or for taking the attendance for that particular date of that particular class which you have selected earlier, click the button named update attendance Put the status for all at once and click save changes MANAGING ASSIGNMENT From navigation go to assignment That will bring up the assignemnt page in a tabular form, you can click on add assignment on left corner of the page to add assignment. MANAGING CLASSES From navigation go to > manage sections Add new class section for a class and assign teacher for each of them View the class sections in a tabular form class wise Edit and delete class section information MANAGING CLASS SECTION From navigation go to class > manage sections Add new class section for a class and assign a teacher for each of them View the class sections in a tabular for class wise Edit and deklete class section information MANAGING SUBJECTS From navigation go to subject If you have already added classes then under this you will see a list of the classes added. If you have not created classes, please create class first Here you can see the subjects class wise Add or edit or delete subjects MANAGING CLASS ROUTINE From navigation go to class routine View all the class routines in accordion Add class routine Click on the subject name on routine to edit and delete MANAGING DIALY STUDENT’S ATTENDENCE From navigation go to daily attendance Select the date and class and click manage attendance That will bring up the students name and attendance information in a tabular form To update the attendance status or for taking the attendance for that particular date of that particular class which you have selected earlier, click the button named update attendance Put the status for all at once and click save changes MANAGING EXAMS Manage exam marks From navigation go to > manage marks Select exam, class and subject and click manage marks for changing or updating marks That will bring up the form for updating the students marks for that particular subject Enter the marks and click update MANAGING HELPFUL LINK From navigation go to Helpful Links Add / edit / delete NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. STUDENT PANEL DASHBOARD ……………………………………………………………………………………………………. Total number of students, teachers, parents and attendance of students for that day at a glance, dashboard also holds a calendar for showing event CLASS ROUTINE Form navigation go to class routine View the class routine of the logged in student EXAM MARKS From navigation go to exam > manage marks Select exam and subject See the mark for the selected exam in the selected subject COMPUTER BASED TEST (CBT) From navigation go to online CBT See all the uploaded test for your class Attemtp the uploaded test View your results STUDY MATERIALS From navigation go to study materials See all the uploaded study materials for your class Download the materials ASSIGNMENT From navigation go to assignment See all the uploaded assignments for your class Download the assignment MEDIA From navigation go to media See all the uploaded media for your class Download or watch media NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates HELPFUL LINKS From navigation go to helpful links View all the helpful links HELP DESK From navigation go to help desk Submit or create help desk to the administrator STUDY MATERIALS From navigation go to study material See all the uploaded study material for your class Download the study material PAYMENT / PAY WITH PAYPAL From navigation go to payment See the list of invoices Pay online with paypal for the unpaid invoices COMMUNICATE WITH TEACHERS / ADMIN From navigation go to message Send new message to teachers and admin Get the sent message to you ………………………………………………………………………………………………...... ACCOUNTANT PANEL DASHBOARD ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Total number of students, accountants, parents and attendance of student for that day at a glance. Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events. MANAGING PAYMENTS From navigation go to payment Add invoice and take manual payment multiple time under the same invoice If a payment is due, then an option will be there for taking the payment in the action button of the table that contains the list of all the invoices with the basic information. Edit or delete invoice LOAN MANAGEMENT From navigation go to loan application See all the applied loans Click on apply loan Fill forms to apply Wait for loan approval MESSAGING From navigating go to message Send message to teachers and admin Get the message sent to you NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates HELPFUL LINKS From navigation go to helpful links View all the helpful links HELP DESK From navigation go to help desk Submit or create help desk to the administrator TRANSPORTATION From navigation go to transportation View transportation available ………………………………………………………………………………………………...... LIBRARIAN PANEL DASHBOARD ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Total number of students, librarian, parents and attendance of student for that day at a glance. Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events. MANAGING BOOKS From navigation go to library Add books Edit or delete them LOAN MANAGEMENT From navigation go to loan application See all the applied loans Click on apply loan Fill forms to apply Wait for loan approval MESSAGING From navigating go to message Send message to teachers and admin Get the message sent to you NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates HELPFUL LINKS From navigation go to helpful links View all the helpful links HELP DESK From navigation go to help desk Submit or create help desk to the administrator TRANSPORTATION From navigation go to transportation View transportation available ………………………………………………………………………………………………...... HOSTEL MANAGER PANEL DASHBOARD ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Total number of students, hostel managers, parents and attendance of student for that day at a glance. Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events. MANAGING DORMITORY From navigation go to dormitory Add / edit / delete LOAN MANAGEMENT From navigation go to loan application See all the applied loans Click on apply loan Fill forms to apply Wait for loan approval MESSAGING From navigating go to message Send message to teachers and admin Get the message sent to you NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates HELPFUL LINKS From navigation go to helpful links View all the helpful links HELP DESK From navigation go to help desk Submit or create help desk to the administrator TRANSPORTATION From navigation go to transportation View transportation available ………………………………………………………………………………………………...... PARENT PANEL DASHBOARD ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Total number of students, teachers, parents and attendance of student for that day at a glance. Dashboard also holds a calendar for showing events. CHILDREN MARKS From navigation go to exam marks See the mark of your children individually One parent can have multiple children PAYMENTS From navigation go to exam > payment View the invoices of your children and individually Make payment via paypal online CLASS ROUTINE From navigation go to class routine Get the class routine for each of your child separately MESSAGING From navigating go to message Send message to teachers and admin Get the message sent to you NEWS From navigation go to view news View all the uploaded news TODAY’S THOUGHT From navigation go to today’s thought View all the uploaded today’s thought HOLIDAY DATES From navigation go to holiday View all the holiday with their respectives dates HELPFUL LINKS From navigation go to helpful links View all the helpful links HELP DESK From navigation go to help desk Submit or create help desk to the administrator
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