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The Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group has released a Working Draft of the Evaluation and Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema. EARL is a flexible format used to exchange, combine and compare test results including bug reports, test suite evaluations and conformance claims. The test subjects might be web sites, authoring tools, user agents or other entities. The group welcomes feedback from web developers and researchers.

© W3C: Charles McCathieNevile, Shadi Abou-Zahra

The W3C releases xml:id Version 1.0 as a Recommendation. The specification defines an attribute name, xml:id, that can always be treated as an identifier and hence can always be recognized, without fetching external resources, and without relying on an internal subset. The Recommendation is the latest deliverable of the XML Core Working Group, part of the W3C XML Activity.

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Written for W3C Working Group Chairs and Team Contacts, the document records group experiences and provides techniques, tools, and templates. Focused on testability and test topics, it is designed to facilitate and accelerate the work of W3C Working Groups.

© W3C: Lofton Henderson

The Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices. This document outlines deliverables such as guidelines for content delivery and display on mobile and small-screen devices, sets out requirements for the "mobileOK" trustmark, and identifies the goal of one Web.

© W3C: Phil Archer, Ed Mitukiewicz

The Quality Assurance Working Group has published Variability in Specifications as a Working Group Note. A companion to the QA Specification Guidelines W3C Recommendation, the note contains advanced specification design considerations and conformance-related techniques. It describes how design of a specification's conformance model affects implementability and interoperability.

© W3C: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Lynne Rosenthal

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource suite describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of Web accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that can be used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant factors for a specific organization.

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The 28th Internationalization & Unicode Conference will be held 7-9 September in Orlando, Florida, USA. Team members Richard Ishida and Felix Sasaki will present several papers at this premier technical conference for software and Web internationalization.

© W3C: Richard Ishida, Felix Sasaki

W3C has written to the US Copyright Office regarding a notice of proposed rulemaking. The notice asks if persons filing electronic-only preregistration forms will experience difficulties if the Office requires them to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. W3C comments to the Copyright Office suggest that requiring a single browser is inappropriate for government services and encourages the Office to pursue standards-based access in accordance with US Federal policy.

© W3C: Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel J. Weitzner

The World Wide Web Consortium today released Specification Guidelines as a W3C Recommendation. Written for editors of W3C technical reports, the guidelines explain how to define and specify conformance. The Quality Assurance (QA) Working Group has completed its work and will close. The QA Interest Group will continue W3C's four-year QA effort through mailing lists and online tools. "QA's products will be integral resources that ensure the work of W3C's Working Groups is of high quality," said Steve Bratt, W3C Chief Operating Officer.

© W3C: Karl Dubost, Lynne Rosenthal, Dominique Hazaël-Massieux, Lofton Henderson

The core specification defines properties that allow uniform addressing of Web services and messages, independent of the underlying transport.

© W3C: Martin Gudgin, Marc Hadley