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The rapid rise of AI and autonomous agents is transforming technology, from network infrastructure to intelligent applications. This session examines foundational efforts within leading global technology standards organizations (IETF, 3GPP, NIST, ETSI) and within the open source community, particularly the Linux Foundation, to establish essential frameworks for responsible, secure, and interoperable AI deployments.
Attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of this evolving standardization landscape, the interplay with open source innovation, and opportunities to enhance and accelerate collaboration across these mostly disjoint communities to integrate AI ethically and securely into global networks.
Many accessibility applications and automated tests rely solely on an abstract representation of the user interface (the so-called "accessibility tree") as their source of truth. By ignoring the process that screen readers take to translate this abstraction into spoken text, developers often build false confidence in accessibility implementations and miss critical user experience issues.
This talk explores how Bocoup's technical innovations (capturing real screen reader output across platforms and operating systems) has enabled essential discussions among screen reader vendors, standards editors, and application developers at the W3C's ARIA-AT Community Group. We'll examine the incentive structures which pit market differentiation against consistency and even correctness. We'll demonstrate how the ARIA-AT project addresses this problem head-on with a test-driven approach to consensus and the ultimate goal of standardization.
Chris is a worker-owner at Bocoup and has nearly 15 years of experience building and creating on the web platform. Chris is also an artist, educator and community organizer and is based in unceded territory of the Tongva people and their neighbors (Los Angeles, California). In the... Read More →
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report late last year : "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies." Amongst other things, this report referenced the W3C Ethical Web Principles, Privacy Principles, and Code of Conduct as key examples of structural changes in the technical standards community in support of human rights. This talk will seek explore the relationship between technical standards and human rights, and focus on what we're doing in W3C to further the goal of supporting human rights.
Dan Appelquist is Open Source Strategist at Samsung Open Source Group. He is a web & mobile industry veteran and long-time participant and leader in open source and open standards. He is co-chair of the W3C Advisory Board and was previously co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture... Read More →
