This document is for the benefit of captioners and interpreters to help them understand W3C jargon. See also the Korean W3C word list, the Japanese W3C word list, and the Chinese W3C word list.
Advisory Board / AB
Advisory Committee / AC
API (acronym)
"ask card" (should be quoted)
Beihang (pronounced "bay' hahng")
blog
Business Group
Candidate Recommendation
CFO (acronym)
CMS (acronym)
Code of Conduct / CEPC
Community Group / CG
CORS (acronym, pronounced "cores"; not spelled out)
COVID
CR Draft (pronounced "C R draft")
CSS (acronym)
Director (most often should be capitalized)
DOM (acronym, pronounced; not spelled out)
ECMA (pronounced "ehk muh")
Editor's Draft
ERCIM (pronounced "ur sim")
GitHub
HTML (acronym)
HTTP (acronym)
i18n (spoken as "eye eighteen en")
ID
IDPF (acronym)
IPR (acronym)
irc (an acronym with each letter pronounced; need not be capitalized)
ISO (acronym; often pronounced as "eye so")
Keio (pronounced "kay oh")
Knowledge Graph
MathML (pronounced "math M L")
MiniApp / MiniApps
MIT (acronym)
Patent Policy
Positive Work Environment Community Group
Privacy Community Group
Process 2020 ("process" by itself need not be capitalized; it depends on the context)
Process Community Group
PSIG (will be pronounced "pee sig")
Recommendation (nearly always should be capitalized in singular and plural forms)
REC (pronounced like "wreck")
repo (abbreviation)
RFP (acronym)
scheme (usually in combination; e.g. "URI scheme")
Steering Committee
SVG (acronym)
TAG (acronym; pronounced "tag")
TPAC (pronounced "tea pack")
/TR (pronounced "slash T R" or just "T R")
URL (acronym)
URI (acronum)
W3C
WAI (acronym; pronounced "way")
WBS (acronym)
WCAG (acronym; pronounced "wuh cahg" or "we cahg")
Web Payments
WebRTC
WHATWG (pronounced "what wee gee" or "what W G")
WICG (pronounced "why C G")
Working Draft
Working Group / WG
Alibaba
Avneesh
Coralie
Dom
Elika
Fantasai
Florian
Fuqiao (will be mispronounced like "foo chow")
Jay Kishigami
Jeff Jaffe (pronounced "jah fee")
Jory
Judy Zhu (will be mispronounced in various ways; "zoo" will be close)
Jun Murai (occasionally formally "Murai-sensei")
Léonie
Naomi
Peter Linss
Philippe / PLH (will often be referred-to by his initials)
Shadi (pronounced "shah dee")
Studio 24
Thuy-Lieu (will be mispronounced like "tie loo")
TimBL (pronounced "Timbull")
Tzviya (will be mispronounced in various ways; "s vee ya" will be close)
Xueyuan (will be mispronounced like "shay wan")
Zoom
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