Web standards

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

The W3C's accessibility wing. Maintains WCAG, WAI-ARIA, and the Authoring Practices Guide — the technical reference set most digital-accessibility regulations cite by name.

Short name: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
Scope: Web standards
Homepage: w3.org
Standards governed: 1

Standards governed by W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices Guide Editor's Draft global Accessibility Not a regulation — a pattern library. When you're building a custom widget (combobox, tree, dialog), this is the reference for getting the ARIA semantics and keyboard interactions right.