#1 The World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, is committed to
ensuring web accessibility to everyone with disabilities,
worldwide (W3C). The World Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is
part of W3C and involves different stakeholders in the web
accessibility process, including industry, disability
organizations, the government, and web accessibility research
Individuals, schools, organizations and agencies can have their input for designs/revisions to meet WAI standards by interacting with the WAI technical activity groups, e.g. content accessibility guidelines groups, user agent accessibility guidelines groups, and through the WAI international programs office through the education and outreach working group and the research and development group (W3C).
#2 Using Watchfire indicated that the page checked (CNN.com) had defects (webxact). The page had broken links, spelling errors, and incompatibilities with the code of the page and multiple versions of browser software. Watchfire also found pages that did not meet site or corporate content or coding standards. As far as accessibility, Watchfire found Priority 1, 2 and 3 errors, with images conveying important information not conveyed in the text, errors in sizing and positioning, color contrasts, summary of table data etc. in multiple instances. Webxact also found that the page did not meet custom data collection standards and pages that did not contain a privacy statement. It also found pages that did not meet site or corporate privacy content or coding standards. The site is easy to use if you want to check out any site you are using or plan to use for quality, accessibility and privacy issues.
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