- From: Tim Boland <frederick.boland@nist.gov>
- Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:55:22 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-au@w3.org
Does WCAG define "accessible authoring practice" - the relevant sentence following seems to imply that it does? WCAG defines "accessibility-supported". Also, what exactly constitutes a "representative sample"? Thanks and best wishes, Tim Boland NIST At 11:15 AM 10/1/2008 -0400, you wrote: >PROPOSED wording: > >Relationship to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) > >ATAG 2.0 is intended to be used in conjunction with WCAG 2.0 or similar >Web content accessibility guidance (e.g., WCAG 1.0, regulations that >include WCAG 2.0, etc.). > >The relationship is as follows: >- The normative requirements of ATAG 2.0 have been formulated to apply to >many different types of authoring tools that in turn may produce a range >of Web content technologies. >- ATAG 2.0 points to WCAG in order to define the concept of "accessible >authoring practices", which ATAG 2.0 requires authoring tools to support >in various ways. >- The normative requirements of WCAG are themselves not >technology-specific. However, specific informative guidance for satisfying >the success criteria for particular Web content technologies are provided >in separate documents. >- ATAG 2.0 Conformance Claimants are responsible for ensuring that >whenever ATAG 2.0 requires that some outputted content (e.g., >automatically-generated content) must meet WCAG, that a representative >sample of such content does indeed meet WCAG's conformance requirements. > > >PREVIOUS wording: >http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2008/WD-ATAG20-20080929/WD-ATAG20-20080929.html#intro-rel-wcag > >-- >Jan Richards, M.Sc. >User Interface Design Lead >Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) >Faculty of Information (i-school) >University of Toronto > > Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca > Web: http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca > Phone: 416-946-7060 > Fax: 416-971-2896 > > >
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