The Consortium

a13i is built to outgrow its founder. The goal is a vendor-neutral body where developers, companies, researchers, and disabled advocates maintain a shared evidence base for AI and accessible interfaces.

What membership means, what the Technical Steering Committee owns, and how name stewardship transfers as the project matures is specified in the repository’s GOVERNANCE.md. The short version:

• Organizations join by contributing experiments, replication work, engineering time, or funding, and by committing publicly to the manifesto.
• The consortium complements existing bodies. W3C WAI is the standards venue, Teach Access is the skills venue, AIxDisability is the community literacy venue. a13i is the developer-facing evidence and practice venue, and it feeds the others rather than competing with them.
• Disabled leadership is a structural goal, not a diversity statement. Contributions about disabled people’s experience must cite or involve disabled people, and consortium governance is expected to include disabled members before it includes a second vendor.

To start contributing today, see CONTRIBUTING.md.