strategies, guidelines, and resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities
Past announcements are listed in WAI Events and WAI Press Releases, and @@.
The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
-- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) advances Web accessibility by providing an international forum for collaboration. WAI guidelines are widely regarded as the international standards for Web accessibility. WAI also develops resources to help implement Web accessibility, and help people just getting started.
WAI welcomes participation from individuals and organizations around the world. Participation opportunities range from reviewing, implementing, and promoting guidelines, to participating in an interest group or working group.
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Highlights area (that changes frequently) (example items: blurb on newly finished documents such as standards harmonization, WAI presentations such as at CSUN, WAI BPEs such as Madrid, XYZ government adopted WCAG & link to Policies, technique addressing hot issue). These would not just be titles, but actually a little nugget of information.
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Maybe make flexible so that there can be one, two, or three highlighted items. Can see wanting to have one for a whole month or more 'cause of timeliness, and then another one that changes more often to show change...
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WAI is supported in part by: the U.S. Department of Education's National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, European Commission's Information Society Technologies Programme, Canada's Assistive Devices Industry Office, Fundación ONCE, Microsoft Corporation, IBM, SAP, Verizon Foundation, and Wells Fargo.
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