Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

WAI's new Web site has been carefully designed to make it easier for you to find information on making the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

WAI Web Site Redesign Project lists on-going development to refine the visual design and markup, and transfer content to the new design. (2005-00-00)

Many people know about WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the responsibilities of Web developers in making the Web accessible to people with disabilities. But Web developers alone cannot make the Web accessible.

Web browsers, assistive technologies, and authoring tools also have a vital role in Web accessibility. Essential Components of Web Accessibility describes these roles along with the WAI guidelines.    (2005-00-00)

Tests designed to block software robots from interacting with a Web site also block humans who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, have low vision, or a learning disability such as dyslexia.

The W3C Note Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests examines potential solutions to test that users are human, in a way that is accessible to people with disabilities.    (2005-00-00)

Web content is created by many different types of tools these days: Web log (blog) comment features, Wikis for editing Web pages, content management systems (CMS), email archivers, word processors, and more.

All of these tool are covered by WAI's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), which explain:

• how tools should help Web developers produce accessible Web content,
• how to make tools accessible to people with disabilities.

Does your tool know ATAG?    (2005-00-00)