A W3C initiative to ensure that as the Internet grows in usage, websites are designed to accommodate people with disabilities.
An initiative that promotes the web’s accessibility for people with disabilities, including people with visual, hearing, physical, cognitive, and neurological disabilities.
A project of the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), aimed at promoting accessibility to the Web for people of all abilities and disabilities.
Founded in 1997 to promote and achieve Web functionality for people with disabilities. The International Program Office (IPO) of the World Wide Web Consortium is responsible for developing software protocols and technologies, creating guidelines for their use, educating the industry, and coordinating research and development.
started by W3C and its members, it addresses web accessibility issues. It can be found here.
A working group set up by the W3C to create accessibility standards for the web and to improve and promote understanding of accessibility issues.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)'s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people using a wide range of user agent devices, not just standard web browsers. This is especially important for people with physical disabilities which require such devices to access the Web.
