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Other W3C Activities

This chapter summarizes some other important and interesting activities at W3C.

The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

WAI define guidelines for how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities.

WAI is working for "Web accessibility for all" through technology, guidelines, tools, education, research, and development projects.

The W3C WAI Recommendation

Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)

MathML is an XML-based language for describing mathematical notation.

The goal of MathML is to enable mathematics to be served, received, and processed on the Web, just as HTML has enabled this functionality for text.

The W3C MathML Recommendation

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

SVG is an XML-language for describing 2D-graphics and graphical applications.

SVG graphics do NOT lose any quality if they are zoomed or resized.

If you want to learn more about SVG, please visit W3Schools' SVG Tutorial.

The W3C SVG 1.1 Recommendation

The W3C SVG 1.2 Working Draft

Ink Markup Language (InkML)

InkML is an XML data format for representing digital ink data that is input with an electronic pen or stylus as part of a multimodal system.

The W3C InkML Working Draft

Internationalization

The W3C Internationalization Activity has the goal of proposing and coordinating any techniques, conventions, guidelines and activities within the W3C and together with other organizations that allow and make it easy to use W3C technology worldwide, with different languages, scripts, and cultures.

W3C Internationalization Activity

Voice Browser Activity

W3C Voice Browser Activity is about expanding the Web to allow people to interact via spoken commands and synthetic speech.

Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML)

Speech Synthesis Markup Language

Speech Recognition Grammar Specification

Voice Browser Call Control (CCXML)

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