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W3C10 Scene

W3C Staff and Members Celebrating W3C10 in Boston

Thank you, W3C funders

W3C is deeply grateful to the organizations listed below for their current financial support. These grants, external contracts, and other funding outside Member dues support a variety of work at W3C, including Member-approved Activities (including Working Groups), W3C public communications, and W3C internal operations. They also help connect W3C to important communities and developments in emerging technologies and research.

W3C is the leading standards body for Web technology thanks to the support it receives from funders, W3C Members, the W3C Fellows Program, and contributions through Sponsorship and Donations.

W3C follows best practices relating to external funding at W3C that ensure transparency on the nature of activities funded outside of Member fees.

Details about current funding sources

These are details about current W3C funding sources outside Member dues.

We thank the individuals who have worked diligently to secure this funding for W3C.

Funding name Funding source(s) Managed by Secured by Work supported Starts Ends
WAI Sponsors WAI Sponsorship Shawn Lawton Henry Judy Brewer WAI Sep 1997 open
WAI-Core (WAI-HSS) HHS/NIDILRR Shawn Lawton Henry Judy Brewer Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group, Accessible Rich Internet Applications Working Group, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, Education and Outreach Working Group Oct 2015 Sep 2025
ISA Programme European Commission Rigo Wenning Phil Archer Development of vocabularies and profiles for greater interoperability in the public sector. Feb 2016 ongoing
WAI-CooP European Commission Kevin White Shadi Abou-Zahra Education and Outreach Working Group, Research and Questions Task Force (RQTF), Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT), Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Jan 2021 Dec 2023
Internationalization Initiative Apple, Alibaba, Keio/APL, Monotype, The Paciello Group Ralph Swick
Internationalization July 2018 ongoing
WAI-Guide European Commission Kevin White Shadi Abou-Zahra WAI-Guide: EOWG, AGWG, APA Jan 2019 Dec 2022
WAI-Core (Ford 2020) Ford Foundation Shawn Lawton Henry Judy Brewer WAI Jan 2020 Dec 2023
WAI-Core (Ford 2022) Ford Foundation Shawn Lawton Henry Judy Brewer WAI Jul 2022 Jun 2024

Join as a Funder

If your organization wishes to join this list of funders, please contact the W3C Communications Team at [email protected].

If you are participating in an EU Project, please see our documentation on participation in W3C by EU-funded projects.

Details about previous funding sources

These are details about previous W3C funding sources outside Member dues.

Funding name Funding source(s) Managed by Secured by Work supported Starts Ends
Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: Current State and Roadmap Beihang Uiversity
Chunming Hu Mobile Web Jun 2017 Aug 2019
WAI Expanding Access Ford Foundation, Technology and Society Program Judy Brewer Judy Brewer WAI expanding access, EOWG Aug 2018 March 2020
WAI-Tools Project European Commission Shadi Abou-Zahra Shadi Abou-Zahra Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT), Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, Education and Outreach Working Group Nov 2017 Jan 2021
Grant for the Web
 Grant for the Web (Coil, Mozilla, Creative Commons)
Jeff Jaffe
 Jeff Jaffe
 Privacy, Security, Internationalization, Accessibility, Device Independence, Web Architecture
 Dec 2020
 Nov 2021