Accessibility Internet Rally

An annual web-development competition run by Knowbility (based in Austin, Texas) in which teams of developers are paired with non-profit clients and judged partly on the accessibility of the websites they build in a short timeframe. AIR uses a structured judging rubric that assigns penalty points for accessibility defects (for example, up to 20 points deducted when informative images lack proper alternative text). The event is significant historically because it is one of the earliest large-scale programmes to combine accessibility education, pro-bono work for charities, and a concrete scoring methodology for evaluating delivered websites.