- W3C: Web normalization shop : HTML, XML, CSS, SVG, etc.
- hosted by MIT/INRIA/Keio
- 400 members, 60 staff
- Tim Berners-Lee director (Web inventor)
- WAI starts at W3C in 1997
- several groups: technical, guidelines, education, tools, research.
- WCAG 1.0 Recommendation in May 1999:
focus on HTML/CSS
- ATAG 1.0 Recommendation in Feb 2000:
- UAAG 1.0 Recommendation soon:
- new XML languages (SMIL, MathML, SVG, etc) in WCAG.
- XML is one level up: language to describe other languages
