The WAI IPO maintains an Interest Group for general discussion and input across all areas of WAI work. Education and outreach to all sectors of the Web community tie together WAI's work in technology, guidelines, and tools. An Education and Outreach Interest Group, in formation, will guide the development of curriculum, demonstrations, workshops, and related materials to promote awareness of the need for Web accessibility. To help ensure the future accessibility of the Web, the WAI will also monitor research and development of user interfaces. Improving the accessibility of the World Wide Web means, first of all, ensuring that the technologies of the Web support accessibility.
Comprehensive guidelines are essential to implementing accessible design.
These will address browser accessibility, authoring tool accessibility, and content design. Three WAI working groups are addressing this area. A WAI interest group is forming to review existing accessibility evaluation tools and approaches, and coordinate prototyping or development work as needed in the area of accessibility validation and tool prototypes. One of the goals of the WAI is to make many kinds of resources on Web accessibility available.