Shadi Abou-Zahra
Activity Lead, WAI International Program Office
http://www.w3.org/People/shadi/
shadi@w3.org
- International education and outreach
- Standards coordination and harmonization
- Evaluation and conformance assessment
- Web accessibility and older web users
- Research and development, liaisoning
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
"Leading the Web to its full potential"
- Directed by web-inventor Tim Berners-Lee
- International, vendor-neutral consortium
- Multi-stakeholder, consensus process
- Develops open, royalty-free web standards:
- HTML, CSS, XML, SVG, SMIL, ...
- Operates from MIT, ERCIM, and Keio
W3C Members
Currently about 400 W3C Member organizations:
- Web Industry
- Technology Adopters
- Research Labs
- Universities
- User Organizations
List of current W3C Members
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
WAI develops strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible:
- Accessibility support in W3C technologies
- Guidelines for implementing accessibility
- Methods for evaluating accessibility
- Conducting education and outreach
- Coordinating with Research and Development
Questions?
- Stop me at any time for urgent clarifications
- Further questions at the end of each session
- Overall questions and answers at the end of the day
Any questions now?
