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The Devices and Sensors Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Compute Pressure Level 1. This specification provides a way for websites to react to changes in the CPU pressure of the target device, such that websites can trade off resources for an improved user experience. The Level 1 version of the specification supports CPU pressure source type. The specification is extensible with additional pressure source types such as GPU, power and memory in a possible future version of this specification.

The Devices and Sensors Working Group and Web Applications Working Group have jointly published a First Public Working Draft of Contact Picker API. This specification defines an API to give one-off access to a user’s contact information while keeping the user in control over which contacts are shared. This new Contact Picker API supersedes the previous attempts to standardize a contacts API at the W3C.

The Web Applications Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of Web Share API. This specification defines an API for sharing text, links and other content to an arbitrary destination of the user’s choice. The available share targets are not specified here; they are provided by the user agent. They could, for example, be apps, websites or contacts.

Comments are welcome through 12 January 2023.

Today EMVCo, the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) updated How EMVCo, FIDO, and W3C Technologies Relate, which describes the core capabilities provided by some of the organizations’ specifications, what problems can be solved by combining them, and potential changes to improve how they work together. The focus of this revision is how EMV® 3-D Secure, FIDO authentication, and W3C’s Secure Payment Confirmation can be used in tandem to improve privacy, security, and usability in strong authentication flows.

The Verifiable Credentials Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of JSON Web Signature 2020. This specification describes a JSON Web Signature Suite created in 2020 for the Verifiable Credentials Data Integrity Proof specification. The Signature Suite utilizes Detached JWS signatures to provide support for a subset of the digital signature algorithms registered with IANA.

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force published new ACT Rules and implementations. ACT Rules help evaluation tools and methodologies produced accurate, consistent results. They help you test accessibility standards more reliably. Learn more About ACT Rules. We encourage evaluation tools and methodologies to implement the individual ACT Rules and to share your implementation report on the W3C website. Learn about submitting an implementation of ACT Rules.

The W3C Advisory Committee has nominated eleven individuals, and is invited today to vote until 14 January 2023 in the special election for the W3C Advisory Board to fill four vacated seats as of January 2023.

Created in March 1998, the Advisory Board provides ongoing guidance to the W3C Team on issues of strategy, management, legal matters, process, and conflict resolution. The Advisory Board also serves the W3C Members by tracking issues raised between Advisory Committee meetings, soliciting Member comments on such issues, and proposing actions to resolve these issues. The Advisory Board manages the evolution of the Process Document. The Advisory Board hears a Submission Appeal when a Member Submission is rejected for reasons unrelated to Web architecture. For several years, the AB has conducted its work in a public wiki.

The elected Members of the Advisory Board participate as individual contributors and not representatives of their organizations. Advisory Board participants use their best judgment to find the best solutions for the Web, not just for any particular network, technology, vendor, or user.