Web Accessibility Initiative
What is the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)?
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 Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG). In this web site we are going to concentrate on the WCAG 1.0
Isn't there a WCAG 2.0?
There is a WCAG 2.0, but it is yet to be fully finalised and as such the support for it is not complete. As soon as the WCAG 2.0 is finalised it will be covered in more detail here.