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W3C

Implementation Techniques for
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0:

Guideline 2: Enable the production of accessible content.

Working Draft 31 October 2003

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20031031/tier2
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20-TECHS/tier2
ATAG 1.0 Recommendation:
http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10
Editors of this chapter:
Jutta Treviranus - ATRC, University of Toronto
Jan Richards - ATRC, University of Toronto
Matt May - W3C

Generate standard markup:

Support accessible authoring practices:


Generate standard markup:

ATAG Checkpoint 2.1: Ensure that markup which the tool automatically generates is valid for the language the tool is generating. [Priority 2]@@@I think this should be priority 1??@@@

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ATAG Checkpoint 2.2: Give priority to formats that enable the creation of WCAG-conformant content. [Priority 2]

Techniques:
Reference:

Support accessible authoring practices.

ATAG checkpoint 2.3: Ensure that the author can produce accessible content in the markup language(s) supported by the tool. [Priority 1]

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Reference:

ATAG checkpoint 2.4: Ensure that the tool preserves all accessibility information during transformations, and conversions. [Priority 1]

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ATAG Checkpoint 2.5: Ensure that when the tool automatically generates markup it conforms to WCAG. [Relative Priority]

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ATAG Checkpoint 2.6 : Ensure that all pre-authored content for the tool conforms to WCAG. [Relative Priority]

Note: Pre-authored content refers to markup content, images, multimedia, applets, scripts, etc. Including pre-written descriptions for all multimedia files (e.g., clip-art) packaged with the tool will save authors time and effort, cause a significant number of professionally written descriptions to circulate on the Web, provide authors with convenient models to emulate when they write their own descriptions, and show authors the importance of description writing.

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Samples:

ATAG Checkpoint 2.7 : Allow the author to preserve markup not recognized by the tool. [Priority 2]

Note: The author may have included or imported markup that enhances accessibility but is not recognized by the tool.

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