W3C announces Seth Dobbs as next CEO
Seth Dobbs will commence in his new role as W3C CEO on November 13, 2023.

"I'm honored and thrilled to be joining W3C as CEO," said Seth Dobbs. "In all my time I'm not sure there is any development that has had a more profound and durable impact on our world than the Web.I look forward to joining the W3C community to help steward us into the next chapter.”
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/w3c-announces-seth-dobbs-as-ceo/

Updated W3C Recommendation: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1
WCAG and supporting documents explain how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities.

Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity, and combinations of these
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/updated-w3c-recommendation-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-2-1/

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 is a W3C Recommendation.

WCAG and supporting documents explain how to make content more accessible to people with disabilities. Following these guidelines will also often make Web content more usable to users in general.

Congrats to the WAI Team, WG Editors, Group Members and all who worked to make this possible.

https://www.w3.org/news/2023/web-content-accessibility-guidelines-wcag-2-2-is-a-w3c-recommendation/

The Publishing Maintenance Working Group has just published the Group Note of The EPUB Accessibility exemption property. The exemption property allows EPUB creators to indicate that an EPUB publication that does not meet accessibility conformance requirements has an exemption under the applicable jurisdiction's laws.
https://www.w3.org/news/2023/group-note-the-epub-accessibility-exemption-property/

W3C in the news: A Brief Introduction of ActivityPub: The Future of Social Networks" by Laszlo Fazekas at Hackernoon
"ActivityPub is an open, distributed social network protocol standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium. Its first version was released in 2018, so it is not new. It is used by several social networks, including Mastodon"
https://hackernoon.com/a-brief-introduction-of-activitypub-the-future-of-social-networks

Videos the Secure the Web Forward virtual workshop are now available including:
JS realms are used to bypass and eliminate many existing web apps security tools span A problem with a WIP solution (Gal Weizman)
Open discussion on cookies and JS security (Artur Janc)
Can securing jQuery help secure the Web forward? (Tobie Langel)
Documentation for web security education (Florian Scholz)
Roadmap planning for a JavaScript security framework (Joe Sepi, Ben Sternthal) 2/2
https://www.w3.org/2023/03/secure-the-web-forward/agenda.html