For description of history by Danial Dardailler, see WAI History. The WAI official launch occurred at the Web Conference in Santa Clara in April 1997.

Jason White, Melbourne, attended the first WAI Groups meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Disc contains “Unified Web Site Accessibility Guidelines”, Version 7.1 March 1997, compiled by Trace R and D Centre, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Also “Accessibility” from Canada’s Diversity Management Directorate, HTML 2.0 “Web Page Accessibility Self-Evaluation Test” and links to other resources. HTML 2.0 tutorials are by Catherine Stebbings and Peter Batchelor (Sunrise Research Laboratory) (reference to accessibility only on why CSS will be good (for vision impaired viewers). Alternate text for images is mentioned, to be added to IMG tag, with no explanation of why. Disc reference: CD-SRL2-97.

Overview of Interest Group online discussion (from Liddy Nevile, member of the PICS Working Group of W3C). See link in previous event.

Panelists: Daniel Dardailler (Web Accessibility Initiative, World Wide Web Consortium), Phill Jenkins (Accessibility Program Manager, IBM), Julia Schofield (JSC Ltd., Australia and JSC Ltd., U.K.), Jason White (WAI Technical/User Expert), Lauren Wood (SoftQuad, Inc.) See original website link in previous event.

Information open day at RMIT and CD with accessibility resources promoted. See the archived website, originally presented as a CD-ROM.

Launched by Telstra Research Labs, the project was led by Robert Pedlow with Peter Ostojic and Mat Mirabella as Human Factors Research Specialists. The project looked at issues faced by blind and vision impaired people when using web sites and related technologies.

Drawing participants from around the world, the two day Summit covered a variety of web accessibility issues including: current policy and regulation issues, implementation, current accessibility, and future directions of accessibility and the web. It was held at Caulfield Racecourse. Keynote speakers included: Sue Hoylen, Technical Manager Australian W3C Office; Graeme Innes, Deputy Disability Discrimintion Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission; Tom Worthington, Director, Tomw Communications; John McKenna, Chair - Web Accessibility Taskforce, Internet Industry Association; Karl Dubost, Conformance Manager W3C. See archived content from the Summit CD-ROM.

See notes from the meeting, hosted by Telstra in Melbourne.

Held again at Rydges, Melbourne. Keynotes included: Dean Jackson (CSIRO/W3C), a graphics expert. Charles McCathieNevile (W3C, France), Jason White (Uni Melb), Co-Chair of the W3C WCAG WG. See the archived website for the 2002 conference.

The theme was Accessibility: what can we do with what we've got? Held again at La Trobe University. Keynotes included: Jutta Treviranus, Director, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) University of Toronto, Chair: W3C ATAG Working Group; Dey Alexander, Usability Consultant, Monash University.

The theme was Are we making the best progress possible? and the location was La Trobe University. Keynotes included: Madeleine Rothberg, WGBH/NCAM, USA; Johann de Boer, ANZ Bank; and Andrew Arch, W3C. See the 2006 website.

This year it was back to Melbourne, with the conference located at Melbourne University. The theme was Realising the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities. The conference was coordinated with OZCHI 2009.

The theme was Making digital content more accessible to the community. Keynote speakers: Jason Kiss, Researcher and consultant at Accessible Culture; Silvia Pfeiffer, CEO at Vquence Pty Ltd; Jacqui Begbie, AGIMO, Australian Federal Government. See the 2011 website.

Keynote speakers: Gerardo Capiel, VP Engineering, Benetech; Charles Nevile, Yandex, W3C Advisory Board, schema.org, HTML5 Accessibility Chair. See the 2013 website.

See the 2015 website.