WAI Resources

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Introduction to Web Accessibility: Briefly introduces Web accessibility and links to additional resources.
Essential Components of Web Accessibility: Shows how Web accessibility depends on several components of Web development and interaction working together and shows the relationship between the WAI guidelines: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).
Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites: Lists the 10 quick tips, includes an order form for the business-card-sized reference card, and lists translations.

The guidelines overview pages listed below introduce WAI accessibility guidelines and their related documents, such as:

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview: Addresses the information in a Web site, including text, images, forms, sounds, and such.
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview: Addresses software that creates Web sites.
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) Overview: Addresses Web browsers and media players, and relates to assistive technologies.

Policy Resources: Links to lists of international policies and a resource for developing organization policies.
Implementation Plan for Web Accessibility: Outlines considerations for planning a process for implementing accessibility. Links to Selecting and Using Authoring Tools
for Web Accessibility.
Developing Web Accessibility Training and Presentations: Resources to help develop Web accessibility training and presentations.
Technical Papers: Links to WAI technical papers, including W3C Notes and proceedings from research and development events

Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility: Describes methods for conducting preliminary reviews and conformance evaluations of Web sites.
Evaluation, Repair, and Transformation Tools for Web Content Accessibility: Descriptions and links to over 30 different kinds of tools that can help with evaluation, retrofitting, and transformation of Web content.
Template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports: Presents a format for communicating Web accessibility evaluation results.
Review Teams for Evaluating Web Site Accessibility: Describes composition, training, and operation of teams of reviewers evaluating accessibility of Web sites.

Related information for evaluation tool developers:

Techniques for Accessibility Evaluation and Repair: For evaluation tool developers, explains techniques for tools to evalute to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Authoring Tools Working Group (AUWG): AUWG develops guidelines, techniques, and supporting resources for Web "authoring tools" - which are software that creates Web sites.
Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG): EOWG develops awareness and training materials and education resources on Web accessibility solutions .
Evaluation and Repair Tools Working Group (ERT WG): ERT WG develops techniques and tools for evaluating accessibility of Web sites, and for retrofitting Web sites to be more accessible.
Protocols & Formats Working Group (PFWG): PFWG reviews all W3C technologies for accessibility.
Research and Development Interest Group (RDIG): RDIG facilitates discussion and discovery of the accessibility aspects of research and development of future Web technologies.
User Agent Working Group (UAWG): UAWG develops guidelines, techniques, and supporting resources for Web "user agents" - which includes Web browsers and media players.
WAI Interest Group (WAI IG): WAI IG is a public group with a mailing list for general discussion on Web accessibility.
Web Content Working Group (WCAG WG): WCAG WG develops guidelines, techniques, and supporting resources for Web "content" - which is the information in a Web site, including text, images, forms, sounds, and such.
W3C Member-only access groups: WAI Coordination Group (member only) coordinates among WAI working groups and WAI interest groups.

WAI works with organizations around the world to develop guidelines and resources to help make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.

Mission and Organization: Introduces the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) mission and organizational structure.
WAI Online Overview: Introduces Web accessibility and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) in HTML slides.
Participating in WAI: Describes participation opportunities ranging from volunteering to implement, promote, and review guidelines, to occasional participation in an interest group, to dedicated participation in a working group.
Sponsoring WAI: Lists current sponsors and provides the contact for information on becoming a WAI sponsor.
Translating WAI Documents: Provides information on the W3C translation policy, how to coordinate with W3C and WAI when translating documents, priorities for translations of WAI documents, and links to existing translations.
Contacting WAI: Lists contact information for press; technical, implementation, and other support questions; WAI Working Group contacts; postal mail address; and links to directions to the offices.
WAI Press Releases and Document Release Notices: Lists WAI press releases and announcements previously on the WAI home page.
WAI Events: Lists previous WAI face-to-face meetings and other events previously on the WAI home page.
More About WAI pages...: Links to the latest WAI Activity Statement, historical information, and other pages about WAI, such as the original WAI briefing package.