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# Making the web work

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

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## Working with stakeholders of the web

A range of organizations join the World Wide Web Consortium as Members to work with us to drive the direction of core web technologies and exchange ideas with industry and research leaders. We rotate randomly a few of our Member organizations' logos underneath.

The Web Consortium and its members, with help from the public and the web community, focus on a range of business ecosystems that the web transforms, including E-commerce, Media & Entertainment, Publishing and several other areas.

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## W3C 30th anniversary

1 October 2024 was W3C's 30th anniversary. We celebrated at our annual TPAC our three decades, advances in the web, the impact of our standards on the world, imagined a bright future, and enjoyed ourselves at an authentic evening of talks and a gala.

TPAC, our major annual event, gathers our community for thought-provoking discussions and coordinated work to advance the invaluable work of our Groups, and resolve challenging technical and social issues that the web faces.

TPAC brings together W3C Members and technical groups, the Board of Directors, the Advisory Board, and the Technical Architecture Group.

W3C@30 video & mementos

## Web standards

Web standards are the building blocks of a consistent digitally connected world. They are implemented in browsers, blogs, search engines, and other software that power our experience on the web.

W3C is an international community where Members, full-time staff, and the public work together to develop web standards.

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## Get involved

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## Latest news

Latest entries from across our News, Press Releases or Blog.

- ### Authorized Translation of Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 in Simplified Chinese

W3C has published the Authorized Translation in Simplified Chinese of the Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0, 可验证凭证数据模型 v2.0.

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- ### Updated Candidate Recommendation: Pointer Events Level 3

The features in this specification extend or modify those found in Pointer Events, a W3C Recommendation that describes events and related interfaces for handling hardware-agnostic pointer input from devices including a mouse, pen, or touchscreen. For compatibility with existing mouse-based content, this specification also describes a mapping to fire Mouse Events for other pointer device types.

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- ### Group Note Draft: Self-Review Questionnaire: Societal Impact

This document sets out questions for specification authors, reviewers, and implementors of new web platform technologies to answer as part of a critical assessment of the impact of their work.

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- ### First Public Working Draft: Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description 2.0

This document describes a formal information model and a common representation for a Web of Things (WoT) Thing Description (TD), Version 2.0.

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