Editors Draft: $Date: 2012/02/08 00:55:28 $ [analysis
& changelog]
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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
[tweak of Marilyn's. Q: Do we need/want to write out &/or explain W3C? Q:Does this have some of the negatives of marketing-speak that some reacted negatively to last year? Note: some people will be bothered the standards don't directly improve lives - can say "that help improve" but that wateres it down a bit.]
W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is the global leader in developing web accessibility standards that improve the lives of people everywhere, including people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities.
[another idea. A primary goal of the brochure is to bring people together under WAI. see analysis]
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) brings together people and organizations from around the world to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities, including people with auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities. WAI is the global leader in developing guidelines and resources as part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards body that continues to develop the Open Web Platform.
[previous "f" draft version]
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.
WAI guidelines are international standards used for designing, developing, and procuring:
WAI resources for web project managers, policy makers, people with disabilities, educators, designers, and developers cover a wide range of topics such as:
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:
www.w3.org/WAI/