Ever heard of W3C? What is W3C?

 Introduction

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international public-interest non-profit organization where members, full-time staff and public work together to develop web standards. W3C is founded in 1994 by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and is being led by him as well. 

w3c stakeholders composition

Benefits

• Development of several standards and guideline that enables creations of billions of websites and Web is made accessible to more people and secured.
• W3C standards can be used by anyone free of charge.
• Ensures web can be used by people with disabilities and web communication is based on many of the world's languages and writing system 
• Improves web security through developed authentication methods that can resolve weak passwords and reduce phishing attacks.

Standards

W3C is responsible for many core technologies of Web including;

• HTML
• CSS
• XML
• SVG
• WCAG
• Web APIs

W3C is a membership-based organization that includes major tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, universities, government bodies and non-profits.

W3C standard development process

The W3C makes web standards in a fair and open way, meaning that anyone can give valuable input and decisions are made by the consensus, not just the big companies. A special board improves the process, while experts check technical quality. This process ensures that the web is kept free, reliable and accessible to everyone regardless of their name and status.

International Participation

• Language: Mainly English but W3C welcomes members worldwide
• Global collaboration: Partners with national and international organizations to ensure global participation.
• Chapters program: Promotes adoption of standards and brings in new stakeholders.
• Translations: Official and volunteers translators make it available in many languages.
• Talks and outreach: Experts give talks worldwide in multiple languages.
• Internationalization: Ensures that the web works for people across cultures, scripts and languages.

Recognition

• Known for fairness, quality and efficiency.
• Ranked by Boston Globe as MIT's greatest achievement.
• NASA uses W3C standards in space mission
• Won 3 Emmy Awards ( 2016, 2019, 2022)

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