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As 60% of the world is now online, we want and need to reflect the diversity of the whole world as more people continue to access, use and create the web. We believe that more diversity means better representation, which leads to better and more inclusive design. More diversity also brings higher quality results.

We are opening today the W3C TPAC Inclusion Fund & Honorarium Fellowships applications, until 31 July. Both offerings are designed for people from an under-represented group who wouldn’t be able to attend or meaningfully contribute to TPAC without financial support.

We are grateful to this year’s sponsors W3C, Coil, Microsoft, Siteimprove, Igalia and an anonymous donor.

You can read more about these programs on the TPAC 2022 registration page, and you can read our CEO Jeff Jaffe 2022 update on diversity and inclusion at W3C.

The Second Screen Working Group Patent Advisory Group (PAG), launched in August 2021, has published a report recommending that W3C continue work on the Open Screen Protocol. W3C launches a PAG to resolve issues in the event a patent has been disclosed that may be essential, but is not available under the W3C Royalty-Free licensing terms.

The World Wide Web Consortium published the Authorized French Translation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus Web (WCAG) 2.1. The Lead Translation Organization for this Authorized Translation was the Access42.

Translations in other languages are listed in WCAG 2 Translations. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) particularly encourages the development of Authorized Translations of WCAG 2.1 and other technical specifications to facilitate their adoption and implementation internationally. Read about the Policy for W3C Authorized Translations.

The CSS Working Group invites implementations of a Candidate Recommendation Snapshot of CSS Color Module Level 4. This specification describes CSS <color> values, and properties for foreground color and group opacity.

CSS is a language for describing the rendering of structured documents (such as HTML and XML) on screen, on paper, etc.

The Second Screen Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Multi-Screen Window Placement. This document defines a web platform API that allows script to query the device for information about its screens, and place content on specific screens.

The Web Machine Learning Working Group has published a First Draft Note of its Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning. This document identifies ethical issues associated with using Machine Learning on the Web, to help identify what mitigations the Working Group’s normative specifications should take into account. Based on the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, it offers an initial attempt at describing how these principles might apply to Machine Learning in browsers.