Re: Fw: Proposal: Authoring tools

Hi Yvette,

I like your thinking. I've just made a couple of minor edits. I have 
tried to edit in the loophole closing text from the bottom of your message.:

Authoring tools

A large part of web content is created using authoring tools. These 
tools often determine how the web content is implemented, either by 
making authoring decisions directly or by limiting the choices available 
to the author. As a result, authoring tools will play an important role 
in facilitating conformance of web content to the Web Content 
Accessibility Guidelines. At the same time, we recommend that all 
authors become familiar with the Guidelines because this will help in 
creating accessible content and coverage of the Guidelines may vary 
between tools.

Developers of authoring tools can help to make their tools more aware of
the Web Accessibility Guidelines by following the #Authoring Tool 
Accessibility Guidelines#.

We encourage users and purchasers of authoring tools to consider the 
conformance to the #Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines# when 
selecting tools.

---
Cheers,
Jan


Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG wrote:

> I like Yvette's idea.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Yvette P. Hoitink" <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
> To: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 11:50 PM
> Subject: Proposal: Authoring tools
> 
> 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I took an action item to propose a simpler formulation for a new section
> about authoring tools. See
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2004JulSep/0389.html for
> the
> original suggestion by the ATAG working group.
> 
> <proposal 1>
> Authoring tools
> 
> A large part of web content is created using authoring tools. These
> tools
> often determine how the web content is implemented, by making authoring
> decisions directly or by presenting choices to the author. We understand
> that the level of accessibility of the web content produced by authoring
> tools will depend on the support of the accessibility guidelines by
> these
> tools, even though we recommend that all authors become familiar with
> the
> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
> 
> Developers of authoring tools can help to make their tools more aware of
> the
> Web Accessibility Guidelines by following the #Authoring Tool
> Accessibility
> Guidelines#. We encourage users and purchasers of authoring tools to
> consider the conformance to the #Authoring Tool Accessibility
> Guidelines#
> when selecting tools.
> </proposal 1>
> 
> The texts between ## would be links to the ATAG.
> 
> Basically, I re-wrote some sentences to make them shorter and easier to
> understand, in some cases using active voice instead of passive. I have
> tried not to change the meaning or intentions of the original text.
> 
> I used "the way the web content is implemented" instead of "nature of
> the
> web content" because I think AT do NOT affect the nature of the content
> (e.g. a genealogical website versus a gallery website) but only the
> implementation of the content.
> 
> I deleted the part about the implementation techniques for ATAG being
> available, because I think that would be confusing to many of our
> audience
> and I think AT developers (a secondary audience of our guidelines) will
> have
> no problems finding the information by following the ATAG link.
> 
> A problem I see both with the original proposal and in mine is that it
> sounds like we're saying "we recommend that you become familiar with
> WCAG
> but we understand it if your content doesn't comply if you use a
> non-ATAG
> AT". That sounds like a large loophole/excuse for people. Perhaps we
> should
> instead say something like
> 
> "We understand that the level of accessibility of the web content
> produced
> by authoring tools will depend on the support of the accessibility
> guidelines by these tools. We recommend that all authors become familiar
> with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines because this will help in
> creating accessible content and some of the guidelines may not be
> covered by
> the authoring tool."
> 
> Yvette Hoitink
> Heritas, Enschede, the Netherlands
> E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
> WWW: http://www.heritas.nl
> 
> 
> 
> 

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User Interface Design Specialist
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