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Web Accessibility Policy

Acorn Networks has been addressing the needs and requirements of people with disabilities by following the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) project, which contributes to promoting and developing guidelines and recommendations for web access for all.

The WAI forms part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which receives funding from a number of sources, notably from Europe, the United States, and Japan. In parallel, in June 2000, the eEurope Action Plan 2002 was adopted by the Feira European Council.

Acorn Networks conforms to Level Double-A of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, including all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints defined in the Guidelines. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. Conformance to these Guidelines will help make the Web more accessible to users with disabilities and will benefit all users. You may click the link for WAI compliance validation.

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World Wide Web Consotium (W3C)

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. By promoting interoperability and encouraging an open forum for discussion, W3C commits to leading the technical evolution of the Web. In just ten years, W3C has developed more than eighty technical specifications for the Web's infrastructure. However, the Web is still young and there is still a lot of work to do, especially as computers, telecommunications, and multimedia technologies converge. To meet the growing expectations of users and the increasing power of machines, W3C is already laying the foundations for the next generation of the Web. W3C's technologies will help make the Web a robust, scalable, and adaptive infrastructure for a world of information. To understand how W3C pursues this mission, it is useful to understand the Consortium's goals and driving principles.

W3C's long term goals for the Web are:

  1. Universal Access: To make the Web accessible to all by promoting technologies that take into account the vast differences in culture, languages, education, ability, material resources, access devices, and physical limitations of users on all continents;
  2. Semantic Web: To develop a software environment that permits each user to make the best use of the resources available on the Web;
  3. Web of Trust: To guide the Web's development with careful consideration for the novel legal, commercial, and social issues raised by this technology.