The usage of a PC for a man with disabilities is a very hard thing to do. But it is even harder to use the Web, as people with disabilities sometimes require non-standard devices or browsers, that ease the access to the web-sites from PCs and mobile devices as well.
The Web Accessibility Initiative are a group created by the World Wide Web Consortium in order to create recommendations, that include strategies, guidelines and resources, in order to ease the use of the Web accessible for everyone, especially for the people with disabilities.
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are a group formed by the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) that develop strategies, guidelines, and resources to help make the Web accessible to everybody, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities. It has links into the other domains of the W3C and is sponsored by Government agencies and Corporate companies. It is hosted from the W3C bases in US, Europe and Asia.
What is covered in this site?
There are 3 main authoring guides created by the WAI for website accessibility. There are the Web Content
In a sense, nobody is in charge of the web. The web is an open standard, with no restrictions on who can post content, or what that content should be about. The web belongs to everybody, and so it belongs to nobody. The openness and decentralization of the web is one of its greatest strengths. But it wouldn't work at all without some sort of standard way of encoding the information. That's where the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) comes in.
The W3C is an international, vendor-neutral group that determines the protocols and standards for the web. They
WAI develops...
* guidelines widely regarded as the international standards for Web accessibility
* support materials to help understand and implement Web accessibility
* resources, through international collaboration
WAI welcomes...
* participation from around the world
* volunteers to review, implement, and promote guidelines
* dedicated participants in interest groups or working groups
[@@ The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI™) is one of four domains of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C®). W3C was created in 1994 to develop common protocols that promote the evolution of the World Wide Web and ensure its interoperability. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specifications are two of the most familiar outcomes of W3C's work. W3C has more than five hundred member organizations worldwide. Its domains are Architecture, User Interface, Technology and Society, and WAI, which works across the other three
When the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative recently put one of their technical recommendations, a new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines or WCAG 2.0, in Last Call Working Draft status with a deadline of only a few weeks, it caused outrage in the web community. First there was Joe Clark’s article To Hell with WCAG 2.0, soon followed by various other initiatives, and suddenly, the deadline for public review was extended from May 31 to June 22. But don’t consider it a victory, for while we may have more time, there is still no
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