Working Groups

Accessibility Guidelines Working Group

The mission of the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG) is to develop specifications to make content on the Web accessible for people with disabilities and to participate in the development and maintenance of implementation support materials for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group

The mission of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group (APA WG, formerly part of the Protocols and Formats Working Group) is to ensure W3C specifications provide support for accessibility to people with disabilities. The group advances this mission through review of W3C specifications, development of technical support materials, collaboration with other Working Groups, and coordination of harmonized accessibility strategies within W3C.

Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group

The mission of the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group is to enhance the accessibility of web content through the development of supplemental attributes, including roles, states, and other properties, that can be applied to native host language elements and exposed via platform accessibility APIs.

Audio Working Group

The mission of the Audio Working Group is to add advanced sound and music synthesis capabilities to the Open Web Platform.

Ecosystem

Media & Entertainment

Browser Testing and Tools Working Group

The mission of the Browser Testing and Tools Working Group is to produce technologies for use in testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of Web applications running in Web browsers.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group

The mission of the group is to develop and maintain CSS.

Data Shapes Working Group

The mission of the Data Shapes Working Group is to update data shapes standards in line with the versions of core Semantic Web standards that cater for RDF-star and to extend the applications of data shapes with new packaging and use specifications.

Ecosystem

Data and knowledge

Dataset Exchange Working Group

The mission of the Dataset Exchange WG is to: 1. Maintain and revise the Data Catalog Vocabulary, DCAT, taking into account feature requests from the DCAT user community. 2. Define and publish guidance on the specification and use of application profiles when requesting and serving data on the Web.

Ecosystem

Data and knowledge

Decentralized Identifier Working Group

The mission of the Decentralized Identifier Working Group is two-fold. First, it will maintain the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) specification and related Working Group Notes. Second, it will seek consensus around the best way to achieve effective interoperability through common requirements, algorithms, architectural options, and various considerations for the DID resolution and DID URL dereferencing processes.

• Minutes of past meetings
• Past resolutions

Information about the previous DID Working Group is still available on its old homepage.

Ecosystem

Data and knowledge

Devices and Sensors Working Group

The mission of the Devices and Sensors Working Group (DAS WG) is to create secure and privacy-preserving client-side APIs that enable the development of web applications that interact with device capabilities.

Distributed Tracing Working Group

The mission of the Distributed Tracing is to define standards for interoperability between tracing tools.

Federated Identity Working Group

The mission of the Federated Identity Working Group is to develop specifications to allow a website to request a federated identity credential or assertion with the purpose of authenticating a user and/or requesting a set of claims in a compatible way to OIDC or SAML.

GPU for the Web Working Group

The mission of the GPU for the Web Working Group is to provide an interface between the Web Platform and modern 3D graphics and computation capabilities present on native system platforms.

Ecosystem

Media & Entertainment

HTML Working Group

The mission of the HTML Working Group is to give input to and bring the WHATWG HTML and DOM Review Drafts to W3C Recommendations.

Immersive Web Working Group

The mission of the Immersive Web Working Group is to help bring high-performance Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) (collectively known as XR) to the open Web via APIs to interact with XR devices and sensors in browsers.

Ecosystems

Media & Entertainment

Network & Communications

Internationalization Working Group

The mission of the Internationalization Working Group is to enable universal access to the World Wide Web by proposing and coordinating the adoption by the W3C of techniques, conventions, technologies, and designs that enable and enhance the use of W3C technology and the Web worldwide, with and between various different languages, scripts, regions, and cultures.

JSON-LD Working Group

The mission of the JSON-LD Working Group is to maintain the family of JSON-LD 1.1 Recommendations and related Working Group Notes.

Ecosystem

Data and knowledge

Linked Web Storage Working Group

The mission of the Linked Web Storage Working Group is to enable the development of web applications where data storage, entity authentication, access control, and application provider are all loosely coupled, as opposed to the web of today where these are typically all tightly coupled and changing one requires changing all, sometimes at the price of all past data. This will be achieved by identifying a set of relevant use-cases, and standardizing a protocol between applications, on the one hand, and identity and storage servers, on the other hand.

Ecosystem

Data and knowledge

Math Working Group

The mission of the Math Working Group is to promote the inclusion of mathematics on the Web so that it is a first class citizen of the web that displays well, is accessible, and is searchable.

Media Working Group

The mission of the Media Working Group is to develop and improve client-side media processing and playback features on the Web.

Ecosystems

Media & Entertainment

Network & Communications