Introduction
The world wide consortium creates standards for the web, I have researched this site and managed to find information regarding the following questions.
How did the W3C get started?
The world wide web consortium (W3C) was founded in October 1994 by Tim-Berners-Lee after creating the world wide web in 1989, making W3C being created by the original inventor of the world wide web (which began as a project purposely for Nuclear Research (CERN)). W3C's main purpose is to help standardise the web so it is accesssible for all users.
Who can join the W3C? What does it cost to join?
The W3C is open for both individuals and organisations to join (this can include educational, governmental or commercial entities). Any entity may join by accepting the agreement form upon applying for membership, this is also the same route for individuals, accept the fee is much smaller in comparison to a organisation for example. Although the fees are different, depending on the size of the organisation, the fees can vary greatly in difference, such as a small company could pay $1,905 anually, and a larger scale company could pay €68,000.
The W3C home page lists a number of technologies. By accessing this, I have chosen to research information regarding authoring tools and social media. A type of software component that has been designed to help modify web content is a particular authoring tool; an example of this would be web page authoring tools, such as HTML editors etc. Here are a list of examples found about the issues of authring tools.
"Example 1: A developer creates an interface for uploading images to an events page. Although she includes the option to add alternative text descriptions with the images, it's hard to find where to add them and her interface doesn't require or encourage it. As a result, most images on the pages don't have text alternatives, thus making it is impossible for many users with disabilities to get meaning from the photos.
Example 2: A developer is constructing a blogging interface for English/Welsh bilingual users. These are users who speak both English and Welsh, and articles and comments entered in one language are frequently replied to in the other. As a result, many bots and users with disabilities find half of the content unreadable.
Example 3: The owner of a popular blog wants to offer his most insightful, thoughtful comment contributors the opportunity to guest-author for a week around the theme of 'the right to self expression'. Recently, the most sparkling comment repartee is from a user with low vision and a dry wit, and she is duly invited to guest-author. The blog content is highly accessible, so she had always found adding a comment straightforward, increasing the text size and leading, and changing the colours, to suit her preference. The blog's back end authoring environment, however, has not been built with accessibility in mind. After a frustrating couple of hours, she gives up in disgust. A great opportunity is missed."
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