About

This project is a fork of the original W3C/WAI Web Accessibility Tutorials which can be found under this address: https://w3.org/WAI/tutorials/

Why was this project forked?

The Web Accessibility Tutorials were developed as part of an EU funded W3C project. Upon publication, the tutorials were widely regarded as a premier and easy to understand resource for accessibility practitioners.

However, without continued funding and care, the tutorials fell into disrepair. As the original editor, this broke my heart. I wanted to link to them but they felt more and more out of touch with how standards and practices changed.

Despite several pull requests by an enthusiastic community and other open issues, the project seemed abandoned through 2021.

This fork exists to provide a point to link to that includes fixes and clarifications. The structure has been kept so far. It should allow merging into the main project, should W3C/WAI want to do that.

Eric Eggert, January 2022

Acknowledgements

• Editor: Eric Eggert, outline & yatil.net

Previously involved people

• Shadi Abou-Zahra
• Shawn Lawton Henry
• Anna Belle Leiserson
• Sharron Rush
• Bim Egan
• W3C Groups
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (WCAG WG)
  • Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG)

These tutorials contain graphics from the following sources:

• Phone designed by Tom Walsh from the Noun Project
• Fax designed by Vasily Ledovsky from the Noun Project
• Farm Fresh Web Icons

The following photos are used:

• Peacock image, by The Photographer [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
• Burtons Creekside by Brian on Flickr

Source of example text:

• Peacock description from Wikipedia article Indian peafowl as accessed on February, 16th 2015.