This specification defines the authoring rules (author conformance requirements) for the use of Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) 1.2 and Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.1 attributes on [HTML] elements.
This document describes the process of obtaining a DID document and accompanying metadata for a specific DID.
In this document, the Advisory Board lists examples of how human rights and technical standards setting map to each other, points to existing W3C work in this area, and provides concrete proposals to further the alignment between the W3C’s technical work and human rights.
This document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow data to be sent and received between a browser and server.
The family of W3C Recommendations for Verifiable Credentials, described in this overview document, provides a mechanism to express these sorts of credentials on the Web in a way that is cryptographically secure, privacy respecting, and machine-verifiable.
The EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.
This document describes a methodology with a step-by-step process to evaluate how well digital products conform to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.
EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content — including HTML, CSS, SVG, and other resources — for distribution in a single-file container.
This specification defines an API enabling the creation and use of strong, attested, scoped, public key-based credentials by web applications, for the purpose of strongly authenticating users.
This document builds upon Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals to provide authors of specifications, software developers, and content developers a common reference on string identity matching on the World Wide Web and thereby increase interoperability.
This document describes the best practices for identifying the language and direction for strings used on the Web.
This spec introduces a way to pass CSS values into linked resources, such as SVG images, so that they can be used as CSS custom environment variables in the destination resource.
This document describes the Linked Web Storage Vocabulary, i.e., the RDF Schema vocabulary used by the Linked Web Storage Protocol.
This document provides the reader with a summary of changes to RDF introduced in RDF version 1.2.
SHACL Profiling defines elements of the SHACL Shapes Constraint Language created to allow for profiles of SHACL and profiling with SHACL.
The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.
This document defines how to report suspected security vulnerabilities in W3C standards and specifications (technical reports), so that issues can be triaged, confirmed, and resolved through the appropriate W3C processes.
This specification describes a mechanism for issuers of verifiable credentials to publish indexed lists of compact cryptographic witnesses.
W3C opens applications for travel support for TPAC 2026 to help reduce barriers for participation and increase diversity at TPAC, acknowledging the positive contributions of participants and Invited Experts who have shown commitment through their positive contributions to the work of W3C groups.
This specification describes several Data Integrity Cryptosuites for use when generating a digital signature using Post-Quantum digital signature algorithms.
W3C released today the 2026 diversity report, as part of our commitment and continued focus on diversity and inclusion since 2018.
This specification revises and extends the markup model established by HTML to express ruby.
This workshop aims to share experience of creating content with AI Agents in mind, with ecommerce as a particular focus.
The W3C Board of Directors has appointed Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Interim CEO with immediate effect as the World Wide Web Consortium is undergoing a leadership transition.
The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen.