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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.

Through various research programmes, the European Commission has been addressing the needs and requirements of people with disabilities and financing different web accessibility projects for over ten years. One of the projects financially supported by the European Commission is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project, which contributes to promoting and developing guidelines and recommendations for web access for all. The WAI forms part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which receives funding from a number of sources, notably from Europe,