Fwd: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation

FYI. (Although there are way not enough authoring tools around:-(

Ivan

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> From: Xueyuan Jia <xueyuan@w3.org>
> Subject: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation
> Date: 24 Sep 2015 16:06:18 CEST
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> 
> It is my pleasure to announce that Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
> (ATAG) 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation:
>  http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/REC-ATAG20-20150924/
> 
> All Members who responded to the Call for Review [1] of the Proposed
> Recommendation supported the publication of this specification as a W3C
> Recommendation, or abstained.
> 
> The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 provides guidelines
> for designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible
> to authors with disabilities (Part A) and designed to enable, support,
> and promote the production of more accessible web content by all authors
> (Part B). See Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php> for an introduction and links to
> ATAG technical and educational material, and the supporting non-normative
> document, Implementing ATAG 2.0
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/>.
> 
> The Working Group requests that any comments be sent to
> <public-atag2-comments@w3.org>, some of which may be addressed in errata
> or future versions of ATAG. The archives for the public comments list are
> publicly available. Future work potentially undertaken by a subsequent
> group may address comments received on this document.
> 
> Please join us in thanking the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
> Working Group [2] for their achievement.
> 
> This announcement follows section 7.1.2 [3] of the W3C Process Document.
> 
> For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
> Judy Brewer, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Domain Lead, and
> Jeanne Spellman, ATAG Working Group Team Contact;
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
> 
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2015JulSep/0022.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/
> [3] http://www.w3.org/2015/Process-20150901/#ACReviewAfter
> 
> 
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