Re: Authoring tool content distortion

This would be a specific violation of ATAG chackpoint 1.2 Ensure that the
tool preserves all accessibility information during authoring,
transformations, and conversions. [PriorityÊ1]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203/atag10.html#check-leave-access-content

I realise this isn't proof against it, but Tool developers should be aware of
this anyway. It is a major concern in marketing terms too - most Tools now
have been designed to provide clean round-trip of source.

For a tool that doesn't support EARL the assertions may no longer be relevant
- this is why we wanted to have a way of saying that assertions are about a
particular version of a document (via a checksum or something).

Charles

On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Harvey Bingham wrote:


  I am concerned that an authoring tool may alter a document that was
  prepared using a different authoring tool. This alteration may include
  only what it understands, and extend content to what it feels
  is needed. In this process any accessibility assertions may disappear.

  Regards/Harvey Bingham


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