The World Wide Web Consortium, also known as W3C, is an international consortium with over four hundred members including all of the major search engines and many leading global corporation such as HP and Toshiba. It was set up in 1994 to develop international protocols and guidelines relating to the internet, and the setup of websites.

The guidelines set down by the World Wide Web Consortium deal largely with accessibility issues, and aim to ensure that any visitor to any web page can view it with whatever computer equipment they have, without any negative experiences.

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