Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group

Authoring Tool Accessibility Conformance Evaluations

Status of this Document

The ATAG 1.0 conformance evaluations listed in this document have followed an evaluation submission procedure to ensure a basic level of credibility. However, the evaluations should still be treated as informative rather than definitive. They do not represent consensus or endorsement of the W3C, the working group, or any other organization.

Please send comments and suggested corrections to the W3C staff contact for WAI Authoring Tools (Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>).

ATAG 1.0 Conformance Evaluations

The following authoring tools have been evaluated for conformance with the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. To date, only a small number conformance evaluations have been performed, compared to the much larger number of authoring tools covered by ATAG 1.0. A list of authoring tools is available.

• FrontPage by Microsoft.
  • Evaluation of FrontPage (version 2000)
• Dreamweaver product information by Macromedia.
  • Evaluation of Dreamweaver (version 4.0)
• asWedit by Advasoft.
  • Evaluation of asWedit (version 4.0)
• HomeSite product site by Allaire.
  • Evaluation of HomeSite (version 4.0.1)
• HoTMetaL Pro by SoftQuad.
  • Evaluation of HoTMetaL Pro (version 5.0)
• PageBuilder by Yahoo!.
  • Evaluation of PageBuilder (version 2.02)
• Lotus Domino by Lotus Inc.
  • Evaluation of Lotus Domino (version R5)
    

Submitting Evaluations:

The working group welcomes further conformance evaluations. Send completed evaluations to the W3C staff contact for WAI Authoring Tools (Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>).

Each evaluation must provide the following information before it is published by the W3C Authoring Tools working group:

• A brief explanation of how the tool meets each checkpoint. This should be sufficient to allow another reviewer to reproduce the same results
  
• A conclusion stating whether, in the opinion of the reviewer, the tool conforms to the guidelines
• The name and email address of the reviewer
• The date on which the evaluation was completed
• The version or draft of the guidelines that were evaluated against (the date or URI of the guideline document are the best identifiers)
• The name of the authoring tool evaluated
• The version (version number, platform, supplementary tools) of the authoring tool
• The URI for obtaining the authoring tool
• The manufacturer of the authoring tool and contact information provided

Submitted evaluations will be published on page once the following process has been completed:

• Unnecessary promotional, marketing hype, or other statements not directly pertaining to the conformance evaluation will be removed.
• The working group will provide the evaluation to the developer of the authoring tool to allow them to check for factual accuracy.
• The developer has a minimum of four weeks to respond, after which the evaluation will be published.
• Publishing will be delayed once, for an additional four weeks, if the developer demonstrates that progress towards conformance will be forthcoming within that time (e.g. a new patch or version likely to increase conformance will be released during that time).
• The developer may request that its response be posted on this page, along with the evaluation. The reviewer or the working group will have the option to respond to these comments.
• When subsequent evaluations are performed on the same or newer versions of a product, they will be posted ahead of older evaluations.
• The working group may decide to remove an evaluation performed on an older version of a product, once that product version is no longer available from, or supported by, its developer.
• Evaluations will be maintained as long as the Authoring Tools Working Group is charted or the effort is transferred to another working group, i.e. the Education and Outreach Working Group.

This document was last updated $Date: 2000/11/08 08:13:13 $ by $Author: Charles $

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