Consortium Members elect Board of Directors

World Wide Web Consortium Members have elected seven individuals to the World Wide Web Consortium, Inc. Board of Directors

Posted on: 28 September 2026 | 7:47 am

W3C Workshop Report: The Future of ODRL

W3C is pleased to announce the report from the W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL, held in July 2026 in London, UK, and online.

Posted on: 24 September 2026 | 6:13 am

First Public Working Draft: Bitstring Status List v1.1

This specification describes a privacy-preserving, space-efficient, and high-performance mechanism for publishing status information such as suspension or revocation of Verifiable Credentials through use of bitstrings.

Posted on: 24 September 2026 | 3:28 am

Group Note Draft: Verifiable Credentials Data Model Threat Model v2.1

This document describes a threat model for the Verifiable Credentials Data Model specification.

Posted on: 24 September 2026 | 3:12 am

Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.2 and 2.1 in French updated

W3C has published the updated Authorized French Translations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 and 2.1.

Posted on: 22 September 2026 | 3:40 am

First Public Working Draft: SHACL 1.2 Inference Rules

This document defines the Inference Rules support of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL).

Posted on: 17 September 2026 | 4:39 am

First Public Working Draft: Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 4

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.

Posted on: 15 September 2026 | 1:07 am

W3C opens 2026 community survey

W3C opens an 8-minute survey until 30 September and seeks community-wide input to get to know our community better, investigate needs, and understand how we can improve.

Posted on: 4 September 2026 | 5:29 am

Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 is now a W3C Recommendation

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.

Posted on: 25 August 2026 | 1:44 am

Patent Advisory Group recommends continuing work on Open Screen Application Protocol

W3C launches a Patent Advisory Group (PAG) to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing terms.

Posted on: 24 August 2026 | 8:19 am

First Public Working Draft: The Profiles Vocabulary

The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources.

Posted on: 20 August 2026 | 12:44 am

Group Note Draft: Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) Impact Ratings

This document describes the impact ratings provided alongside Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG).

Posted on: 18 August 2026 | 2:59 am

Updated W3C Recommendation: ARIA in HTML

This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on [HTML] elements.

Posted on: 11 August 2026 | 10:19 am

W3C invites implementations of Decentralized Identifier Resolution (DID Resolution) v1

This document describes the process of obtaining a DID document and accompanying metadata for a specific DID.

Posted on: 6 August 2026 | 4:16 am

Group Note: Further Aligning W3C's Program of Technical Work with Human Rights

In this document, the Advisory Board lists examples of how human rights and technical standards setting map to each other, points to existing W3C work in this area, and provides concrete proposals to further the alignment between the W3C’s technical work and human rights.

Posted on: 4 August 2026 | 4:16 am

W3C Invites Implementations of WebTransport

This document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow data to be sent and received between a browser and server.

Posted on: 30 July 2026 | 3:25 am

Group Note Draft: Verifiable Credentials Overview v1.1

The family of W3C Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials, described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.

Posted on: 30 July 2026 | 3:20 am

Group Note Draft: EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer

The EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.

Posted on: 30 July 2026 | 3:17 am

Group Note: WCAG Evaluation Methodology (WCAG-EM) 2.0

This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.

Posted on: 23 July 2026 | 8:08 am

W3C Invites Implementations of EPUB 3.4, EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 and EPUB Accessibility 1.2

EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content — including HTML, CSS, SVG, and other resources — for distribution in a single-file container.

Posted on: 21 July 2026 | 4:26 am

Proposed Advancement of Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials Level 3 to W3C Recommendation

This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.

Posted on: 20 July 2026 | 10:16 am

First Public Working Draft: Character Model for the World Wide Web: String Matching

This document builds upon Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals to provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability.

Posted on: 16 July 2026 | 4:29 am

First Public Working Draft: Strings on the Web: Language and Direction Metadata

This document describes the best practices for identifying the language and direction for strings used on the Web.

Posted on: 16 July 2026 | 4:25 am

First Public Working Draft: CSS Linked Parameters Module Level 1

This spec introduces a way to pass CSS values into linked resources, such as SVG images, so that they can be used as CSS custom environment variables in the destination resource.

Posted on: 14 July 2026 | 2:01 am

Group Note Draft: Linked Web Storage Vocabulary

This document describes the Linked Web Storage Vocabulary, i.e., the RDF Schema vocabulary used by the Linked Web Storage Protocol.

Posted on: 14 July 2026 | 1:57 am