The International Webmasters Association (IWA), a non-profit professional association for web professionals, provides training courses and

certification Certification is part of testing, inspection and certification and the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system in question meets specific requirements. It is the formal attestatio ...

. IWA reportedly has 100 official chapters representing over 300,000 individual members in 106 countries. IWA's accomplishments include the publishing of the industry's first guidelines for ethical and professional standards, web certification and education programs, specialized employment resources, and technical assistance to individuals and businesses. IWA is the only Web professional association that acts inside

W3C The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in ...

: IWA members participate to the activities of W3C WCAG Working Group, ATAG Working Group,

XHTML Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages which mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated. While HTML, pr ...

Working Group and other Working and Interaction group like Multimodal, education and Outreach.

External links

International Webmasters Association. Official site.
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