W3C Conference

W3C India chapter was inaugurated on 6th May 2010 as a unit under Department of IT. An international conference was organised from 6-7th May 2010 to mark this occasion. Several distinguished speakers and CEO W3C participated in the event. Different topics on W3C standards ranging from web to Website design standards were discussed by the International and National expert speakers. The issues discussed were as follows:

• The concept of Web for All based on Accessibility feature, Internalisation, Machine translation, Security and Privacy and Multilanguage support was discussed at length by several speakers.
• The scaling up of present Web to Ubiquitous web, which must supports all Data device everywhere was emphasised , the web design must be scalable, and based on open standards.
• The point in discussion was Mobile web (presently seen as future of web computing due to growth of mobile usage and internet through mobile devices). The mobile web best practices must not use tables for design of page to be accessible on mobile, and must not rely on JavaScript. The mobile page must support augmented reality on web. The current mobile web practices do not support Unicode and hence must follow single Unicode standard, support multiplicity of language and must be W3C standard compliant.

Web Design guidelines
a. The WCAG 1.0 guideline was released in 1999 and version 2.0 was released in 2008. The guidelines can be downloaded from web.guidelines.gov.in.

b. Some of the products that support WCAG guidelines are Mobile Speak, Talks, Talkback, and Mobile speak.

c. The website lifecycle can be divided into six cyclic phases. They are: Planning , Content, Design , Development, Management and Maintenance.

d. The website is hosted generally with the objective that it reaches to all, the content is updated, complete and correct and its management is right.

e. The planning phase consists of designing Key policies. Some of them are Copyright policy, Privacy policy, Hyperlink policy, Content policy, Content Review policy, Content Archival policy, Website Security policy, and Website Maintenance policy.

f. The content can be divided into three form primary, secondary and tertiary form. The quality of the content must adhere to authenticity, currency and accuracy parameters.

g. The design phase must consider universal accessibility of the website along with the colour, layout and visual identity features.

h. The development of the website must be based on Interoperability features, and open standard.

i. The contingency plan must be in place to cope up with interruption or failure of the website in the events of natural disaster, terrorist attacks, corruption, and other threats.

j. The website can be certified through website quality certification by STQC, DIT.