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Oct 27, 2026
Luke MurphyHOST
That's exactly what's happening.
Luke MurphyHOST
So they've already started, there's a W3C community group for design system documentation.
Luke MurphyHOST
I think they're just working out how it's going to work at the moment, but built off of the back of DSCS.
Luke MurphyHOST
So the idea is that we might actually have a like a standard for how docs are done that's propped up by the W3C, or at least the community group side of W3C, that then vendors like ZeroHeight or just people building their own documentation that they want to serve up, like we have a standard format.
Luke MurphyHOST
Now, why is this important? So I feel like I've just been monologuing, which I'm going to do for a little bit more.
Michelle ChinHOST
Yeah, I don't have the answer.
Anna KazlauskasGUEST
But then they want to join their data together by citizen and let citizens like take their driving history or their like income history and apply for some program.
Anna KazlauskasGUEST
um in terms of like the data portability standards i mean i think generally when someone thinks about standards they i i would say actually crypto has broadly gone against standards in the sense of like crypto has been more like okay let's get this thing to grow and not go through traditional standards bodies so think like ieee they set the bluetooth and the wi-fi standard or like w3c they set the main standards of the internet we'll be presenting at um W3C's kind of main event in Ireland on this kind of data portability PDPP standard, which is hosted at the Linux Foundation.
Anna KazlauskasGUEST
In terms of why a standard matters, like often you want cases or I shall give one example.
Anna KazlauskasGUEST
So at GDC, which is the big standards conference in Geneva, there was someone there talking about how all they have the standard for how all the different airlines like expose their ticketing systems.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
On one shared axis the fee would be a flat line on the floor.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
and the chart's accessible text comes from the same numbers, the SVG carries A and A, and the description is written via function, the W3C's guidance on complex images asks for a text version that carries the same information as the chart.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
When the alt text is generated from the chart's own data, it cannot fall behind the chart.
Artificial IntelligenceNARRATOR
If you want a broader take on charts and screen readers, this Hacker Noon piece on accessible data visualization covers the ground well, and this one on SVG for data visualization explains why SVG suits the job.
Anne Marie PiperGUEST
This includes requiring information to be in Braille and have closed captioning, like I've done on my slides here.
Anne Marie PiperGUEST
We have W3C guidelines.
Anne Marie PiperGUEST
We need alt text for digital images.
Anne Marie PiperGUEST
And we need screen reader compatibility.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A labeled illustrative example must not become a customer success story.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The W3C provenance overview describes relationships among data, activities, and responsible people.
speaker_0NARRATOR
I would borrow that concept for a lightweight content lineage record.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This does not require implementing the full standard or claiming conformance to it.
Ralf DodlerHOST
Google empfiehlt das ausdrücklich, oder?
speaker_1HOST
Ja, und das W3C, also das Gremium fürs World Wide Web, rät bei sehr komplexen Grafiken sogar dazu, die Kernaussage zusätzlich noch einmal sichtbar im Fließtext zusammenzufassen.
Ralf DodlerHOST
Falls der Altext nicht ausreicht.
speaker_1HOST
Richtig.
Brad FrostHOST
You're describing you're operating at...
Brad FrostHOST
A couple layers deeper, and that's not even getting into any of your W3C community work and all of that stuff.
Brad FrostHOST
It's like you've been drilling down into deeper layers that get at how can people be more coordinated, orchestrated, working better together versus, yeah, hey, Caleb, make me a secondary button component.
Brad FrostHOST
That's maybe not the best use of your time right now.
Stephanie SikorskiGUEST
The second piece, which you just touched on, is really what's that back end, if you will, for TrueAge? A big part of it was making sure that we had privacy by design.
Stephanie SikorskiGUEST
So last year we were recognized as the global standard for digital age verification by the World Wide Web Consortium, which is a fancy name and way of saying it's the, you know, companies like Netflix and Amazon and Apple and Google and others that set the industry standards for how you interact on the Web.
Stephanie SikorskiGUEST
So whether you're walking into a store, whether you're, you know, transacting at e-commerce, really our ability was saying that you shouldn't have to have, you know, identity at a cost for that.
Stephanie SikorskiGUEST
So we just take a look at four pieces, your issuing state, your date of birth, driver's license number, expiration.
Mike SchroederHOST
Henry is a repeat founder.
Mike SchroederHOST
He's at an exit with a company called Wallix, and he's also the past member of W3C, OWASP, O'Reilly Author.
Mike SchroederHOST
He's an award-winning open source developer and a PhD ML.
Mike SchroederHOST
There's a lot of abbreviations there, but Henry, thank you so much for joining us today.
speaker_1HOST
The industry has known how to do this for over a decade.
speaker_1HOST
There are standards created by the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C.
speaker_1HOST
Oh,
speaker_0HOST
right.
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