Sponsoring WAI
About sponsoring WAI
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and supporting resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
W3C greatly appreciates the support WAI receives from stakeholders committed to making the Web accessible. Contributions such as grants, sponsorship, and support for fellows enable WAI to bring together a unique collaboration of industry, government, research, and people with disabilities in a cooperative effort to improve the accessibility of the Web for disabled people.
If you are interested sponsoring WAI by becoming an Accessibility Champion, please explore the W3C Sponsorships Program benefits and contact sponsorship@w3.org.
For information about providing grants and other opportunities to support WAI, please contact giving@w3.org.
Current sponsors and funders
- Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program
- US National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
Past supporters
The organizations below provided financial support prior to W3C establishing as a 501(c)3 public-interest non-profit organization.
Past grants and contracts
- European Commission DE WAI-DE Project; Accompanying Measure IST WAI-DA Project
- European Commission Horizon 2020 — WAI-Guide Project, WAI-CooP Project, WAI-Tools Project, Easy Reading Project
- European Commission Information Society Technologies Programme — WAI-DEV Project, WAI-ACT Project, WAI-AGE Project, WAI-TIES Project
- Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program
- US Access Board, US Department of Interior
- US National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), US Department of Health and Human Services (previously US Department of Education) — contract HHSP23301500054, EDOSE10C0067
- US National Science Foundation
Past Platinum sponsors
- Elisa Communications
Past Gold sponsors
- IBM Corporation
- Microsoft Corporation
- SAP
Past Silver sponsors
- Adobe Systems
- Assistive Devices Industry Office, Industry Canada, Government of Canada
- Bocoup
- CA
- Deque Systems
- ETS
- Fundación ONCE
- Hewlett Packard Development Company
- HP Enterprise
- Lotus Development Corporation
- SAP
- Verizon Foundation
- Wells Fargo
Past contributors
- Austrian Computer Society, Roland Wagner Award
- Facebook donated virtual reality headsets to support the work of the Immersive Captions W3C Community Group
- Massachusetts Association for the Blind
- NewDoctor.com
- Ta-meteo.fr
- WinWriters
- Individuals who purchased t-shirts through Bonfire, organized by Carie Fisher
Past Fellows
W3C WAI thanks organizations that have supported W3C Fellows in WAI:
- Elisa Communications
- Knowbility, Inc
- Research Institute of Telecommunication Transmission (RITT)
Others
- Netlify provides previews of the WAI website