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Digital Publishing Accessibility API Mappings (DPub-AAM) has been published as a Candidate Recommendation by Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group and is now undergoing implementation finalization and testing. DPub-AAM describes how roles in the Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 should be exposed to accessibility APIs. Implementation of this specification makes it possible for assistive technologies to provide enhanced navigation among landmarks unique to digitally-published documents, and to identify document-specific features which should be presented to the user, such as crossing a page boundary. These mappings will also be used in part for verifying implementation success of Digital Publishing WAI-ARIA Module 1.0 which is already a Candidate Recommendation. The draft implementation report shows the progress of testing. Please send implementation information or comments by 7 July 2017. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Personalization Semantics 1.0. Personalization involves tailoring aspects of the user experience to meet the needs and prefences of the user. The introduction of standardized semantics allows web applications to customize the exposure of that content to one that is familiar to individuals based on their needs and preferences. This specification was initially developed in a task force to provide technology features needed to meet needs of users with cognitive or learning disabilities, but is intended to support a wide variety of personalization use cases. Please comment by filing GitHub issues in the personalization semantics repository or, if this is not feasible, by email to public-aria@w3.org, by 30 June 2017. Read about the Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

The Spatial Data on the Web Working Group invites implementations of Time Ontology in OWL Candidate Recommendation. The ontology provides a vocabulary for expressing facts about topological (ordering) relations among instants and intervals, together with information about durations, and about temporal position including date-time information. Time positions and durations may be expressed using either the conventional (Gregorian) calendar and clock, or using another temporal reference system such as Unix-time, geologic time, or different calendars.

The Second Screen Working Group has published a revised Candidate Recommendation of the Presentation API. That specification defines an API to enable Web content to access presentation displays and use them for presenting Web content.

Since publication as Candidate Recommendation in July 2016, the Working Group updated algorithms in the specification to fix issues identified through testing and implementation feedback. The actual interfaces did not change. The API was also restricted to secure contexts. A complete list of changes is available.

The Web Platform Working Group invites implementation of UI Events KeyboardEvent code and key Values:

• UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values: This document provides an overview of the various keyboard layouts and specifies the KeyboardEvent.code values that should be used for each of the keys. Unlike the key values described in UIEvents-key, the code values are based only on the key’s physical location on the keyboard and do not vary based on the user’s current locale. This specification was formerly titled DOM Level 3 KeyboardEvent code Values.
• UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values: This document specifies the set of valid key attribute values that must be used in the KeyboardEvent.key attribute to encode the key’s meaning. The key value for a particular key will differ based on the user’s current locale setting.

The Social Web Working Group has published a W3C Recommendation of Micropub. Micropub is a client-to-server protocol used to create, update and delete social networking content. Web and native apps can use Micropub to post notes, photos, events, and many others to servers that support the protocol. Users can choose to create content in a variety of client posting interfaces, while maintaining control of where the data is stored.

Prior to being adopted by the W3C Social Web Working Group for standardization, Micropub already had over a dozen independent implementations in the IndieWeb community. There are now over a dozen independent client and server implementations across a wide variety of languages and platforms.

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Logical Properties and Values Level 1. This module introduces logical properties and values that provide the author with the ability to control layout through logical, rather than physical, direction and dimension mappings. The module defines logical properties and values for the features defined in CSS21. These properties are writing-mode relative equivalents of their corresponding physical properties.