Support WAI Financially

About supporting 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 digital technology 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 digital accessibility for disabled people.

• Donate — To donate and “become a friend of W3C”, see W3C Donations Program.

• Sponsor — For information on sponsoring WAI by becoming an Accessibility Champion, please explore the W3C Sponsorships Program benefits and contact sponsorship@w3.org.

• Grant — For information on providing grants and other opportunities to support WAI, please contact giving@w3.org.

Participate — To learn how you can contribute to W3C accessibility work by reviewing drafts and other ways to get involved, see Participating in WAI.

Current sponsors and funders

• Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program
• US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Community Living (ACL), National Institute for Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)

Past supporters

The organizations below provided financial support for W3C WAI work before W3C established 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
  • Horizon 2020 — WAI-Guide Project, WAI-CooP Project, WAI-Tools Project, Easy Reading Project
  • Information Society Technologies Programme — WAI-DEV Project, WAI-ACT Project, WAI-AGE Project, WAI-TIES Project
• Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program
• United States government
  • 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 sponsors

• Adobe Systems
• Assistive Devices Industry Office, Industry Canada, Government of Canada
• Bocoup
• CA
• Deque Systems
• Elisa Communications
• ETS
• Fundación ONCE
• Hewlett Packard Development Company, HP Enterprise
• IBM Corporation
• Lotus Development Corporation
• Microsoft Corporation
• SAP
• Verizon Foundation
• Wells Fargo

Past Fellows

W3C WAI thanks organizations that have supported W3C Fellows in WAI:

• Elisa Communications
• Knowbility, Inc
• Research Institute of Telecommunication Transmission (RITT)

Others

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