he SIDAR www.sidar.org has contributed since 1997 to accessibility to the Internet in the Hispanic world. It has investigated and promoted the application of the guidelines of accessibility and the development of utilities. It has several groups of interest (Tools, Contents and Design), and it has a list of general distribution, which those interested in accessibility can subscribe to. Visit www.sidar.org/orga.htm to find out how the information is organized and how you can participate.

The campaign called An Accessible Internet for ALL launched by the SIDAR, obtained nearly 3000 signatures from all over the world. The statistics of the campaign are in: http://www.sidar.org/firmas/estad.php3 In collaboration with several Spanish institutions, the SIDAR has contributed to the creation of the first utility of evaluation of the accessibility of web pages, in Spanish: the TAW. The TAW (Test of Web Accessibility) has been developed by a team of the Fondo Formación Asturias, and it is available so any person or Webmaster may use it in: http://www.tawdis.net

The "V Jornadas" of the SIDAR took place from October 25th through 27th, 2001 in Mar del Plata (Argentina), facilitating this way a bigger integration in their activities of people from the American continent. The topics tried in the Congress were:
I. Internet in the administration of the entities for the disability community
II. Promotion of the interaction among users
III. Accessible public services
IV. Advances in guidelines and languages for accessibility
V. Formation in accessibility for users and authors
VI. The chronicle of the congress, with connections to the presented papers, is in: http://www.sidar.org/jornadas/vjorna/cronicavjorna.htm

In 2002, we will continue developing projects in collaboration with diverse institutions and we will carry out the tasks programmed by each one of the groups of interest. For example, the translation of Amaya, an accessible editor and browser, developed by the W3C.

The SIDAR is open to the participation of all and all are welcome. To contact us just email sidar@sidar.org or visit www.sidar.org for more information.