Participate in WAI

Contribute to discussions on all areas of WAI’s work and help answer questions from the public on digital accessibility by subscribing to the WAI Interest Group Discussion List.

Review and comment on WAI documents

Give feedback on W3C’s work to develop accessibility specifications and resources before and after they are published. For details, see the ‘Contribute without joining the group/task force’ sections on each working group and task force page, listed under WAI Working Groups, Task Forces, and Interest Groups.

Draft documents for review are listed on the WAI home page and News page.

To be notified about draft documents for review, see Subscribe to WAI News.

Join a community group

Participate in a community group and collaborate with others to improve digital accessibility — everyone is welcome to join. To find a list of active community groups hosted by W3C that focus on digital accessibility issues, search for ‘accessibility’ on Current Groups — W3C Community and Business Groups.

These are some community groups that are currently seeking contributors:

Details for joining are on the respective community group pages.

Join a working group

Contribute to the development of digital accessibility standards and guidance by joining a working group. To learn about the work of the different groups and how to join them, see:

For information on how WAI ensures broad community input and encourages consensus development, see How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process: Milestones and Opportunities to Contribute.

Join a task force

Support the objectives of the working groups by joining one of their dedicated task forces that focus on specific accessibility projects. To join a task force, you first need to join the working group it’s doing the work for. For lists of the task forces under WAI working groups and how to join them, see the respective working group pages.

Translate WAI documents

Help translate WAI resources and W3C accessibility standards into different languages, or sign up to review a translation — it’s a great way to learn about accessibility topics. For more information, see Translate WAI Resources.

Join our other sponsors from industry, disability, and government organizations and contribute to WAI’s work to make the web more accessible. For more information, see Sponsor WAI.

Promote accessibility

Raise awareness about accessibility by sharing links to:

videos that show the impact of accessibility and the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations — see the Perspectives videos
W3C WAI’s Digital Accessibility Foundations — Free Online Course
guidance on giving presentations and training on digital accessibility to developers, designers, writers and managers — see Teach and Advocate
WAI’s framework to develop your own courses — see the Curricula on Web Accessibility
WAI Resources, which can be filtered by roles

Implement accessibility

If you help to develop online products and services, consider ways to make them as accessible as possible — implement the best practices in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
If you develop authoring tools — any software or service that people use to create or modify web content, including content management systems — implement the best practices in Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG).
If you develop web browsers, media players, assistive technologies, or other user agents — implement the best practices in User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG).

Advocate for accessibility

Encourage:

authoring tools to meet ATAG by:
- directly contacting vendors and requesting increased accessibility support in future versions
- purchasing tools that provide the best support for accessibility — see Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility
web browsers, media players, assistive technologies, and other user agents to meet UAAG
organizations to adopt an accessibility policy that defines their commitment to web accessibility — see Developing Organizational Policies on Web Accessibility
websites to be accessible by Contacting organizations about inaccessible websites.