See Me Please is now an official member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) — the international standards body that decides how the web actually works: the HTML that structures every page, the CSS that styles it, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) that every accessibility audit on the planet, including ours, is measured against. If you've ever wondered who decided this is how the web should work, the answer is largely: this organisation, and the several hundred browser vendors, tech companies, and advocates who sit on its working groups.
We're now one of them.
What membership actually changes
Up until now, our job was to help organisations meet and exceed W3C standards. Good work, but it was still downstream of decisions made in a room we weren't in.
Membership puts us in the room. W3C members can contribute to, comment on, and vote on the specifications that every website and platform gets built against — the accessibility, privacy, and identity standards that'll define what "compliant" even means in five years. It also puts us alongside the people who build the browsers everyone reads this on, the major platforms our customers already run on, and the accessibility advocates who've been doing this work for decades.
The part that matters most to us
The best insight into whether something is accessible comes from someone who lives the barrier, not someone who audits it from a checklist. So we're committing to fill our contributing membership with testers who have lived experience of disability — the same people who sit in our testing panels today will help shape what a global web standard requires tomorrow.
The best standards are shaped by the people they're meant to serve.
What's next
We're not going to pretend this is done — it's a start. Over the coming months we'll share which working groups we're joining, what that means for our roadmap, and why it matters to organisations that are moving past box-ticking compliance into products that are genuinely usable. That's the deeper version of this story, and we'll tell it properly once there's more to point to.
For now: See Me Please helps organisations build accessible digital products, and we now have a direct role in shaping what "accessible" means for the entire web.
FAQ
Is See Me Please a member of the W3C?
Yes. See Me Please is an official member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards body that maintains HTML, CSS, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
What does W3C membership let See Me Please do?
As a W3C member, See Me Please can contribute to, comment on, and vote on the specifications that websites and platforms are built against, including future accessibility, privacy, and identity standards.
Will testers with lived experience of disability be part of See Me Please's W3C work?
Yes. See Me Please is committing to fill its contributing membership with testers who have lived experience of disability, so the people shaping global web standards are the same people affected by them.
What is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the international standards organisation that develops and maintains the core specifications the web runs on, including HTML, CSS, and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
