The Website Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

The Website Accessibility Initiative is a set of standards for both website designers and browser manufacturers to assist the vision impaired with interpreting the content of a website. This entails adding additional "markup" information (only perceptible to those who are vision impaired through the use of a "reader" -- an audio peripheral which dictates the web page content along with additional WAI markup to the vision impaired website visitor) describing all the pictorial and graphic information that a website might contain. The designers of this website have furnished as much of this additional information as possible, provided it would not possibly cause failure in the rendering and display of the web pages in older popular browsers still currently being used but not yet supporting WAI. If you are a vision impaired visitor (or an expert in implementing WAI) and notice a section of this site that is either incorrectly marked up for WAI or missing WAI markup info altogether, we welcome you to contact us so that we may rectify the problem. For more information about the Website Accessibility Initiative, please visit the W3C's site.

A WAI Example:

A picture like the following:
The Big Picture...

has the following additional WAI markup associated with it (which will be dictated to the vision impared visitor provided they have the requisite computer hardware and software):

Two computers connected end-to-end across the Internet with a fat bi-directional arrow, representing computer-to-computer communication; each of the two computers has its own pair of Application and Network "Layer" boxes. The very midpoint of the communication arrow transforms into a red cloud, titled "Network", subtitled "Internet, LAN, WAN". Each of the computers is inside their respective green Application Layer box. Just before the arrow reaches the computer on the left, it goes through a biohazard logo with a bug on it, labeled "Malicious Code, Hacker Exploits". On the screen of the computer on the left is a message, "FILES DELETED!" Just before the arrow reaches the computer on the right, it goes through a magnifying glass labeled "Content Inspection". Further away from each of the computers, the arrow continues to pass through another orange Network Layer box, containing a "Firewall" represented by a brick wall (the arrow is shown going through the brick wall). After the Firewall, furthest away from both computers, the communication arrow crosses the "Network/Internet, LAN, WAN" cloud. There are additional conceptual arrows to show how one computer's Application Layer, in a sense, directly connects to another's Application Layer (this transparent conceptual arrow shows two hands directly passing a folder between the computers, labeled "Application Protocol"). Correspondingly, there are also separate conceptual arrows to show how one computer's Network Layer, in a sense, directly connects to another's Network Layer (this transparent conceptual arrow shows two hands handshaking between the computers, labeled "Session Protocol"). The computer on the left has a bracket covering its "Network Layer" box, labeled "Most companies can only secure the Network Layer...". The computer on the right has a bracket covering both its "Network Layer" and "Application Layer" boxes, labeled "...but SecurityAppraisers has expertise in securing ALL layers".