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"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

WAI

Strategies

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) brings together people and organizations from around the world to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities. WAI is part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards body that develops the open standards that provide the foundation of the Web.

Guidelines

WAI guidelines are international standards used for designing, developing, and procuring:

Websites, web applications
Browsers, browser extensions,
media players, assistive technologies
Authoring tools, evaluation tools

Resources

WAI resources cover a wide range of issues for project managers, policy makers, people with disabilities, educators, and more. For example:

Web accessibility basics
Business case
Making your website accessible
Web accessibility and older people,
web accessibility and mobile web
Web accessibility policies
Evaluating web accessibility
Presentations and tutorials

Working Together

WAI welcomes your help making the Web more accessible. You can participate in WAI work by promoting accessibility guidelines, by volunteering to review drafts, by joining a Working Group, or other ways of working together with WAI.

For all of this information on web accessibility and how you can participate, start at the WAI home: