Introduction to the Online
Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative

Introduction

The Online Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative HTML slide show introduces the broad area of Web accessibility, as well as the World Wide Web Consortium, the Web Accessibility Initiative, a number of participation options, and action steps to consider. This slide set has been an effective descriptive tool in a variety of settings.

The slide set may help answer the following Web accessibility questions:

What is Web accessibility and why is it important?
Is Web accessibility just for people with disabilities or just for people with low end technology?
Does Web accessibility require that I have graphic-free Web pages?
What resources are available to help make Web sites and Web applications accessible?
What is the World Wide Web Consortium doing to address Web accessibility?
Where can I learn more?

Accessing the Slide Set Content

To assist a variety of users, we have provided several ways to access the slide set content. Please use the following links to access the slide set:

Table of Contents
Slide show (24 HTML pages)
Slide show (all slide content in one HTML page
For more information on the WAI site, follow the links in the presentation

How to Use the Online Slides

The following navigation information is available on each slide.

To back up, use the left-arrow button ("Back to..." link).
To go to the next page, use the right-arrow button ("Go to..." link).
To go to the Table of Contents, use the lined button ("Table of Contents" link).
To change the font size and font/background colors, use the "change style" button, or your browser settings.

Referencing and Using the Slide Set for Presentations

This slide set can be downloded and modified to meet presentation needs.The information in this slide show may be used or adapted for different organizations, according to the copyright and document use policies of W3C.

This document should be referenced as:

Online Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative, J. Brewer et al., ed., World Wide Web Consortium (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), June 2004. http://www.w3.org/Talks/WAI-Intro/overview.html

The Slide Making Tool

The slide set was created with the W3C Slidemaker Tool, which can be downloaded and
used for creating slide set presentations. It is one of many useful items available through the W3C Open Source Software page.

Editor and Comments

The Online Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative Slide Show was created by Judy Brewer and Participants of the Education and Outreach Working Group. Comments are welcome at wai-eo-editors@w3.org.

Document Information

Editor: Charmane Corcoran. Last updated $July 13, 2004$ by $WAI$

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Introduction to the Online Overview of the Web Accessibility Initiative