📢Just posted: W3C blog "Crafting WCAG 3 for more accessible user experiences". Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director, covers some of the stakes and challenges in developing W3C Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 3. blog: https://lnkd.in/gr8W4V_q WCAG 3 Intro: https://lnkd.in/g58FdkX
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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W3C WAI: Standards and resources to make tech accessible to people. Accessibility: Essential for some, useful for all.
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Accessibility: Essential for some, useful for all. The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and supporting resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities. In addition to international standards, we provide free online resources to help you understand and implement accessibility. You can use W3C WAI resources to make your websites, apps, and other digital content and technology products more accessible and usable to everyone.
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https://www.w3.org/WAI/
External link for W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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Les traductions françaises agréées des Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus web (WCAG) ont été mises à jour : - WCAG 2.2 : https://lnkd.in/drshC6JD - WCAG 2.1 : https://lnkd.in/eRpb_ewd Ces traductions sont désormais à jour des dernières publications de WCAG. 🌍 Retrouvez d’autres ressources traduites en français : https://lnkd.in/d2tCbJRe Vous souhaitez contribuer aux traductions ? Rendez-vous sur https://lnkd.in/eamFFqHr Merci à toutes les personnes qui participent aux traductions. ___ In English: The French authorized translations of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have been updated to align with the latest publications of WCAG: - Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus web (WCAG) 2.2: https://lnkd.in/drshC6JD - Règles pour l’accessibilité des contenus web (WCAG) 2.1: https://lnkd.in/eRpb_ewd 🌍 You can find W3C WAI resources in other languages from: https://lnkd.in/dN3k_7r Want to help with translations? Please see: https://lnkd.in/eamFFqHr Thanks to all who contribute to translations!
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W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) reposted this
“Attending my first W3C TPAC was transformative” "TPAC showed me the power of collaborative standardization and I left inspired to contribute even more actively to building a safer, more resilient web.” "It was the kind of environment where connections become collaborations, and where showing up in person truly matters.” - quotes from previous TPAC Inclusion and Invited Experts Funds recipients We are grateful to Thinktecture AG, Arm and University of Illinois Chicago for their support for the 2026 TPAC Inclusion and Invited Experts Funds which help create high value relations and collaboration opportunities! We are hoping that other organizations and individuals can join them so we are able to support even more participants. https://lnkd.in/eSRjFEN6 Ways you can support include: - Contact sponsorship@w3.org and confirm your interest to sponsor or ask about other ways you can participate including donating at registration or making introductions. - Use our donations platform and in the comment include your interest to support the Funds https://lnkd.in/g9hxjdhr We appreciate your generous contributions!
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W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) reposted this
We're excited to welcome Léonie Watson as a Keynote Speaker at the 2026 M-Enabling Summit. An internationally recognized accessibility specialist, Co-Founder and Director of TetraLogical, and Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, Léonie has helped shape the future of web accessibility through her leadership, standards work, and advocacy across emerging technologies, including AI, AR/VR, voice interfaces, and the agentic web. Her keynote will explore how accessibility standards can evolve alongside AI-driven experiences, personalization, and next-generation web technologies, helping ensure innovation remains grounded in inclusive design and accessible for everyone. Register to catch the early bird rate and engage with her keynote live in Arlington, Virginia: https://shorturl.at/MFGqE #mEnabling26 #GlobalAccessibility #DigitalAccessibility #InclusiveDesign
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“We appreciate Ford Foundation's continued support to expand the impact of our accessibility work through activities such as processing authorized translations to facilitate standards adoption around the world, in-person meetings to advance fundamental accessibility standards development, and video production for engaging training.” — Shawn Lawton Henry, Director, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
W3C is honored to announce that the Ford Foundation has renewed their support of our work on web accessibility. This continued generous support, will strengthen the next generation of W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) standards and learning resources that will address evolving contexts and powerful new technologies. “W3C brings together global stakeholders to develop, with our Members, standards which meet the requirements for accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security to enable a web that connects and empowers humanity.“ - Léonie Watson, Director and co-founder of W3C Member TetraLogical, an Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion; and Chair of the W3C Board of Directors W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and supporting resources to help make the web accessible to people with a diverse range of cognitive, hearing, movement, sight, and speech ability, thus enabling everyone to participate equally on the web. Read more at: https://lnkd.in/gziBjs3s #WebAccessibility #a11y #GrantSupport #SupportW3C
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The M-Enabling Summit registration opening reminds us of this video online from the Accessibility Standards "a11y Chat" at M-Enabling Summit 2025: 📽️ https://lnkd.in/gK4vMkSH We look forward to seeing many of you at M-Enabling 2026. - Léonie Watson, W3C Chair of the Board, will be giving the keynote. - Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Director, will be leading a W3C WAI Update Town Hall. For more videos on digital accessibility from W3C, see the W3C WAI YouTube channel playlists 📽️ https://lnkd.in/gTK4NVQw There you can find: - Web Accessibility Perspectives - Compilation of 10 Topics/Videos https://lnkd.in/gzagHpa7 - How People with Disabilities Use the Web - User Stories https://lnkd.in/gbQtfeJb - Artificial Intelligence and Accessibility Research Symposium ttps://https://lnkd.in/gNYCQFM6 - and more
Accessibility Standards "a11y Chat" at M-Enabling Summit 2025 — Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C WAI Director
https://www.youtube.com/
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📣 More W3C Accessibility presentations are available online. Just added: W3C WAI 2026 Update Town Hall at AccessU 2026 Knowbility 📽️ https://lnkd.in/grhMxBtr Most popular recent presentation: Leading Inclusive Digital Transformation — Accessibility (8 minutes) 📽️ https://lnkd.in/ggASPcnz To get a presentations list with duration and date: From the Presentations Playlist https://lnkd.in/get7XmQC click anywhere in "⤵️👀 See dates and length ➡️ ... more" to get the playlist Description.
W3C WAI 2026 Update Town Hall
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Did you know that W3C accessibility standards and educational resources are available in more than 30 languages? 🌐 To find resources in your language, see All WAI Translations https://lnkd.in/dN3k_7r For resources in English, browse the site navigation or the annotated lists in WAI Resources https://lnkd.in/dCXhFAX8 For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on 21 May, you can help raise global awareness by sharing these free online resource translations. W3C thanks the many volunteer translators. If you’re interested in translating W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) resources, see Translate WAI Resources https://lnkd.in/eamFFqHr
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For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD), we encourage you to share videos that show how accessibility is essential for people with disabilities and useful for all. W3C's Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos illustrate the impact of accessibility on disabled people and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations. With each of the 10 short videos is a web page that briefly explains: - the issue from users' perspectives - what designers and developers need to do 🎥 Browse the videos and information pages from https://lnkd.in/eh88Bcq They are currently available in English, French, and Indonesian. Today we celebrate the 10-year anniversary of this free online W3C WAI resource. Thank you to everyone who contributed to these videos and educational pages. And thank you to all who continue to share and spread their impact. [ link image: a white guide dog looks intently at a blind man wearing all black and using a mobile phone ]
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We look forward to learning together at this interactive session next Thursday, 14 May. AccessU is a hybrid training conference, so you can participate from anywhere. For this session, you can send Shawn questions and topics of interest ahead of time via email to wai@w3.org with subject starting [AccessU] W3C
Knowbility is thrilled to share that Shawn Lawton Henry, the powerhouse behind W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative, will be joining us at AccessU 2026! Shawn has dedicated her career to ensuring digital technology works for everyone. Her leadership at WAI has shaped the standards that make the web more inclusive for millions of people with disabilities. Don't miss AccessU's W3C WAI 2025 Update Town Hall on Thursday, May 14th at 1pm CT. This isn't just a presentation - it's your opportunity to engage directly with one of accessibility's most influential voices. Come ready with your questions and ideas to help shape the future of web accessibility standards. Register for AccessU 2026: https://lnkd.in/gQacehN2
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