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Showing 1017 reports across 281 families, filtered by Draft Standards, Candidate Standards, Standards, Draft Notes, Notes

DID

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0

Candidate Standard

Tags: Privacy, Security

Editors: Drummond Reed, Manu Sporny, Markus Sabadello, Dave Longley, Christopher Allen

DID Specification Registries

Note

Tags: Privacy, Security

Use Cases and Requirements for Decentralized Identifiers

Note

Tags: Privacy, Security

Presentation Characteristics

WebGPU

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Dzmitry Malyshau, Kai Ninomiya, Justin Fan

WebGPU Shading Language

Draft Standard

Tags: Graphics

Editors: David Neto, Myles Maxfield

Internationalization Glossary

Draft Standard

Tags: i18n

Editors: Richard Ishida

Geolocation API

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Marcos Caceres

EPUB Accessibility - EU Accessibility Act Mapping

Note

Tags: Accessibility

The Plain CBOR Representation v1.0

Note

CSS Fonts Module Level 5

Draft Standard

Tags: CSS

Editors: Myles Maxfield, Chris Lilley

Web Neural Network API

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Ningxin Hu, Chai Chaoweeraprasit

MiniApp Lifecycle

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Qing An, Haoyang Xu

Audio EQ Cookbook

Note

Tags: Media, Web API

Web of Things (WoT): Use Cases and Requirements

Note

Tags: WoT

Specification for Spoken Presentation in HTML

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Irfan Ali, Markku Hakkinen, Paul Grenier, Ruoxi Ran

WebRTC

Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Extension for WebRTC

Draft Standard

Tags: Media

Editors: Bernard Aboba, Peter Thatcher

Identifiers for WebRTC's Statistics API

Candidate Standard

Tags: Media, Web API

Editors: Harald Alvestrand, Varun Singh, Henrik Boström

WebRTC Priority Control API

Candidate Standard

Tags: Media, Web API

Editors: Harald Alvestrand

WebRTC Next Version Use Cases

Draft Standard

Tags: Media

Editors: Bernard Aboba

WebRTC 1.0: Real-Time Communication Between Browsers

Standard

Tags: Media, Web API

Editors: Cullen Jennings, Henrik Boström, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey

Identity for WebRTC 1.0

Candidate Standard

Editors: Cullen Jennings, Martin Thomson

Gamepad

Gamepad

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Steve Agoston, James Hollyer, Matthew Reynolds, Brandon Jones, Scott Graham, Theodore Mielczarek

TBD

Pointer Events

Draft Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Patrick Lauke, Navid Zolghadr, Matt Brubeck, Rick Byers

WebCodecs Codec Registry

Draft Standard

Tags: Media

Editors: Chris Cunningham, Paul Adenot, Bernard Aboba

CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 5

Draft Standard

Tags: CSS

Editors: Elika Etemad, Miriam Suzanne, Tab Atkins Jr.

Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities

Note

Tags: Accessibility

Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials - Level 3

Draft Standard

Tags: Security

Editors: Jeff Hodges, J.C. Jones, Michael Jones, Akshay Kumar, Emil Lundberg

Pointer Events

Standard

Tags: Web API

Editors: Matt Brubeck, Rick Byers, Patrick Lauke, Navid Zolghadr

Confinement with Origin Web Labels

Draft Standard

Tags: Security

Editors: Deian Stefan

Audio Processing API

Draft Standard

Tags: Media, Web API

Editors: Robert O'Callahan, Chris Rogers

Points of Interest Core

Draft Standard

Editors: Matt Womer

Device Posture

Device Posture API

Draft Standard

Tags: Media, Web API

Editors: Diego Gonzalez-Zuniga, Kenneth Christiansen

WAI-ARIA

ARIA in HTML

Candidate Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Steve Faulkner, Scott O'Hara, Patrick Lauke

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2

Candidate Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joanmarie Diggs, James Nurthen, Michael Cooper

HTML Accessibility API Mappings 1.0

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility, HTML

Editors: Steve Faulkner, Alexander Surkov, Scott O'Hara, Bogdan Brinza, Jason Kiss, Cynthia Shelly

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.2

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Matthew King, JaEun Jemma Ku, James Nurthen, Zoë Bijl, Michael Cooper, Joseph Scheuhammer, Lisa Pappas, Richard Schwerdtfeger

Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.2

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joanmarie Diggs, Michael Cooper, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Joseph Scheuhammer, Andi Snow-Weaver, Aaron Leventhal, Melanie Richards, James Craig, Alexander Surkov

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices 1.1

Note

Tags: Accessibility

Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.2

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Bryan Garaventa, Joanmarie Diggs, Michael Cooper

Accessible Name and Description Computation 1.1

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joanmarie Diggs, Bryan Garaventa, Michael Cooper

Graphics Accessibility API Mappings

Standard

Tags: Accessibility, Graphics

Editors: Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Joanmarie Diggs, Michael Cooper

WAI-ARIA Graphics Module

Standard

Tags: Accessibility, Graphics

Editors: Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Joanmarie Diggs, Michael Cooper

Using ARIA

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility, HTML

Editors: Steve Faulkner, David MacDonald

SVG Accessibility API Mappings

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility, Graphics

Editors: Amelia Bellamy-Royds, Ian Pouncey

Core Accessibility API Mappings 1.1

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joanmarie Diggs, Joseph Scheuhammer, Richard Schwerdtfeger, Michael Cooper, Andi Snow-Weaver, Aaron Leventhal

Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Matt Garrish, Tzviya Siegman, Markus Gylling, Shane McCarron

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joanmarie Diggs, Shane McCarron, Michael Cooper, Richard Schwerdtfeger, James Craig

1 translation (日本語) for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.1

Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Richard Schwerdtfeger, Joanmarie Diggs

WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Joseph Scheuhammer, Michael Cooper

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: James Craig, Michael Cooper

2 translations (日本語, Magyar) for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.0

Role Attribute 1.0

Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Shane McCarron

1 translation (한국어) for Role Attribute 1.0

Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap)

Draft Standard

Tags: Accessibility

Editors: Richard Schwerdtfeger