World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - early 1998

• HTML 4.0 - accessibility is essential

• Page Author Guidelines

• Industry co-operation (e,g, Sun Microsystems’ Java Accessibility Project)

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Narrated: “The World Wide Web Consortium helps to develop guidelines and recommendations on the creation of web pages by web authors and developers. Hypertext Markup Language (or HTML) is the standard language of web pages. Key in the HTML 4.0 recommendation is the inclusion of descriptors for graphical elements of a web page.”