World Wide Web Consortium

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) makes technical recommendations to Web site authors, so they can make their Web sites universally accessible. The W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. They are an international industry consortium, jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science (MIT/LCS) in the United States; the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in Europe; and the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus in Japan.

As a collaborative medium, the Internet demands that people be able to create content—not just read it—regardless of disability. The newest W3C Recommendation, "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," explains to authoring tool developers how to design accessible tools that produce accessible Web content. To obtain a copy of these guidelines and learn about numerous related topics, visit the World Wide Web Consortium at: http://www.w3.org. (It's easy to remember!)