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Author(s) and publish date Published: 20 August 2026 The Dataset Exchange Working Group has published today a First Public Working Draft of The Profiles Vocabulary. The Profiles Vocabulary is an RDF vocabulary created to allow the machine-readable description of profiles of specifications for information resources. It can be used to describe profile hierarchies wherein profiles of specifications may themselves have profiles indicated.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 18 August 2026 The Sustainable Web Interest Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) Impact Ratings. The Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG ) Impact Measurement resource defines a framework for assessing the impact of WSG guidelines across three categories: people, planet, and prosperity.

The W3C Board of Directors —first seated in September 2022— is the governing body of the World Wide Web Consortium public-interest non-profit organization. The Directors have ultimate authority on W3C's strategic direction, have a legal obligation to ensure that W3C implements its mission to make the web work — for everyone, and have fiduciary responsibility over W3C as a whole.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 11 August 2026 The Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group has published ARIA in HTML as an updated W3C Recommendation. 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.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 6 August 2026 The Decentralized Identifier Working Group has published a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of Decentralized Identifier Resolution (DID Resolution) v1. Decentralized identifier (DID) resolution is the process of obtaining a DID document and accompanying metadata for a specific DID.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 4 August 2026 The W3C Advisory Board (AB) published a Group Note of Further Aligning W3C's Program of Technical Work with Human Rights. There is a clear link between human rights and technical standards setting. In this position paper, the AB lists examples of how the two map, 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.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 July 2026 The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Verifiable Credentials Overview v1.1. Credentials are a part of our daily lives; driver’s licenses are used to assert that we are capable of operating a motor vehicle, university degrees can be used to assert our level of education, government-issued passports enable us to travel between countries, and trade authorities issue certificates containing...

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 July 2026 The Publishing Maintenance Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled EPUB Accessibility 1.2 Explainer, which provides information on how to understand and evaluate the accessible publications conformance requirements of EPUB Accessibility 1.2 against reflowable EPUB publications.

Author(s) and publish date Published: 30 July 2026 The WebTransport Working Group has published WebTransport as a W3C Candidate Recommendation Snapshot. This document defines a set of ECMAScript APIs in WebIDL to allow data to be sent and received between a browser and server, utilizing []. This specification is being developed in conjunction with protocol specifications developed by the IETF WEBTRANS Working Group. Comments are welcome via Github issues by 30 October 2026.

As part of a series to spotlight W3C technologies, their evolution and impact, as well as the people who work on them, W3C would like to take the opportunity of the 27 July of anniversary of the first public release of Web Open Font Format (WOFF) in 2010 to tell the story of a very interesting historical milestone on the decades-long road of W3C’s work on fonts on the web.