W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Home

Making the Web Accessible

Strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help you make the Web more accessible to people with disabilities.

W3C

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops international standards for the Web: HTML, CSS, and many more.

WAI

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility.

You

You can use W3C WAI resources to make your websites, applications, and other digital creations more accessible and usable to everyone.

News

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format 1.0 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format is a W3C Proposed Recommendation. This draft demonstrates implementations of the specification based on example ACT Rules being continuously developed by the ACT Rules Community Group. Background on this work is in the blog post Harmonized Accessibility Testing. Please send comments as soon as feasible, by 24 September 2019.

(2019-07-31)

Translations: 20 New WAI Accessibility Resources

Over 20 new translations of W3C WAI accessibility resources are listed at All WAI Translations. More information is in the 25 July e-mail.

(2019-07-25)

For Review: Personalization Working Drafts

Updated Working Drafts on Personalization are available for review: Personalization Semantics Explainer, Personalization Semantics Content Module, Personalization Help and Support, Personalization Tools. Updates and more information are in the 17 July e-mail. Please send comments by 15 August 2019.

(2019-07-17)

For Review: Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA

An updated draft of Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web is available for review. More information is in the 26 June e-mail. Please send any comments by 26 July 2019.

(2019-06-26)

Call for Implementations: ACT Rules Format 1.0 Candidate W3C Recommendation

Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules Format specifies a common format for accessibility test rules, and how to write test procedures for quality assurance. More information is in the Call for Implementations e-mail. Please submit any comments by 28 May 2019.

(2019-04-16)

Invitation: WAI-Tools Open Meeting in Brussels, Belgium

You are invited to the WAI-Tools Open Meeting on 20 May 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting is intended for developers of web accessibility evaluation tools and methodologies, accessibility monitoring bodies, practitioners, evaluation and quality assurance experts and researchers, and users. Agenda, logistics, and registration information is in the WAI-Tools Meeting May 2019 page. This meeting is free and spaces are limited, so please register soon.

(2019-04-08)

Translations: New Link to WAI Accessibility Resources

Translations are now easier to get to on the W3C WAI website. The “All Translations” link near the top of all WAI web pages goes to: All WAI Translations. More information about translations is in the 28 March e-mail.

(2019-03-28)

See All News Subscribe to WAI News

See what we have for you: Get Resources for…

Web Accessibility Perspectives: Customizable Text

Some users need to be able to change the way text is displayed. Websites and apps need to work when users change size, spacing, font, color, and other text properties.

Customizable Text is essential for people with disabilities and benefits everyone in a variety of situations.

More About Customizable Text See All Perspectives Videos

Feature: Translations

WAI accessibility resources are available in over 20 languages, with more coming. Translations are linked from the top of WAI website pages.

All WAI Translations

Featured Resource: WCAG Quick Ref

How to Meet WCAG (Quick Reference) includes Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 requirements (“success criteria”) and updated Techniques.

How to Meet WCAG (Quick Reference)

Sponsors and Funders

WAI is supported in part by the following organizations. Thank you!

IBM Corporation
European Commission (EC) Horizon 2020 (780057) (WAI-Tools Project)
European Commission (EC) Horizon 2020 (822245) (WAI-Guide Project)
Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program (WAI Expanding Access Project)
US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research, contract HHSP23301500054 (WAI-Core 2015 Project)

WAI welcomes additional sponsors.