The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group published the First Public Working Draft of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.3. This @wai specification provides an ontology of roles, states, and properties that define accessible user interface elements and can be used to improve the accessibility and interoperability of web content and applications. Please submit any comments by 21 February 2024.
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/first-public-working-draft-accessible-rich-internet-applications-wai-aria-1-3/

W3C in the news: "The fediverse, explained" at The Verge

"But all of this stuff only works if there is a standard, and I’d bet $10 that ActivityPub is going to be that standard. It’s the one that’s overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, it’s the one with the most momentum"
https://www.theverge.com/24063290/fediverse-explained-activitypub-social-media-open-protocol

"The web is unversioned" a finding by the @tag

The TAG is a special working group within the W3C, chartered with stewardship of the Web architecture.

This finding sets out why associating a particular set of technologies with a version number for the web goes against the principle that there is one web.

The TAG notes: "Versioning should be constrained to individual features, and not applied to the web platform as a whole." Read more at:
https://w3ctag.github.io/the-web-is-not-versioned/

Did you know that our oldest Web standard dates back from October 1994? It was the specification of Portable Network Graphics (PNG) https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-png-961001

W3C re-convened a PNG working group in 2021 to work on PNG Third Edition and plan a Fourth Edition aimed to standardize new features such as animation extension, or adding support for HDR imagery. https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/png/

You can query our Standards base https://www.w3.org/standards/stats/ #aboutW3C