Examples of active W3C areas

A few examples of areas where W3C is investing effort. Some areas have existed for a longer time, others are more recent.

• HTML: XHTML, XFORMS, XML Events, ...
• Voice Browser: VoiceXML, speech synthesis markup, speech recognition grammars, ...
• WAI: accessibility guidelines, ...
• XML: XQuery, XPath, XSLT, ...
• Web Services: architecture, protocol (SOAP), service models (WSDL), ...
• Semantic Web: RDF, ontology languages, ...

Important to note that strong emphasis is put on requirements elicitation and specification.