About "WAT-C"

The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium [WAT-C] provides a collection of free tools to assist both developers and designers in the development and testing of accessible web content. The consortium itself is a collaboration of the world's leading accessibility practitioners, founded by AIS (Australia), Infoaxia (Japan), Wrong HTML (Japan), The Paciello Group (USA), and Juicy Studio (UK).

Our goals are to develop new tools, improve current tools and expand the range of browsers, operating systems and languages in which our tools are available.

Members

The Paciello Group is passionately dedicated to helping government agencies, technology vendors, e-commerce corporations, and educational institutions make their technology equally accessible to all people, including those with disabilities. The company offers professional consulting, technology solutions, and monthly monitoring services to ensure that clients reach all audiences effectively and efficiently while meeting governmental and international standards. For more information, visit the Paciello Group site or Paciello Group blog.

Infoaxia, Inc. is a group of experts on web accessibility and web technology. In Japan, we have web content accessibility guidelines as a national standards(JIS X 8341-3). The company offers professional consulting, heuristic evaluation, user testing, training and technology solutions to help government agencies and major cooperations to make their web content accessible conforming to national and international standards. For more information, visit http://www.infoaxia.com/en/

Juicy Studio is an independent UK website run by Gez lemon that provides material and tools for best practice in web development. The focus of the site is on web standards, accessibility, and usability. For more information, please visit: Juicy Studio.

"Wrong HTML" is a Japanese website that provides reference and tools on web accessibility and standards. The site helps web designers and developers to understand standards and build a standards-based website.

The web accessibility team at vision australia works with customers to help them deliver world best practice in web sites and online services that areaccessible to all.