Help Develop Accessibility Standards

The University of Illinois is a member of the W3C, consider joining one of these two working groups.

• ARIA Authoring Practices Task Force:
  • Creating guidance.
  • Reviewing guidance.
  • Creating examples.
  • Testing examples.
  • Great way to learn how to use ARIA markup to create accessible content!
• ARIA Assistive Technology Community Group:
  • Testing ARIA examples with assistive technologies to identify usage of HTML and ARIA semantics by screen readers.
  • Provide feedback to screen readers on use of ARIA markup.
  • Help developers understand how ARIA markup changes the experience of people using screen readers.
  • Excellent way to learn how screen readers work!