Call for Review: ATAG 2.0 Working Draft updated

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group invites you to comment on the updated Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 Working Draft published 29 October 2009 at:
     http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/

The draft integrates revisions in response to the comments of the 21 May draft as well as a substantially revised document, Implementing ATAG 2.0 that replaces Techniques for ATAG 2.0. In this draft, the Working Group made the following substantial changes:
* Revised how authoring tools should support authors in making choices that improve accessibility.
* Revised the former Techniques document to better serve developers, and changed the title to: Implementing ATAG 2.0.

Specific changes and questions for feedback are listed in the Status section:
     http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#status

ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use the tools. ATAG is introduced in the ATAG Overview at:
     http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php
ATAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed by WAI, which are listed in WAI Guidelines and Techniques at:
     http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

WAI encourages you to review the update ATAG 2.0 documents and submit comments on any issues that you think could present a barrier to future adoption and implementation of ATAG 2.0. Please send comments to the publicly-archived list:
     public-atag2-comments@w3.org
     by 30 November 2009

For more information, see:
* How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process
* Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG)
  http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

Regards,
~Shawn Henry and Judy Brewer, W3C WAI
On behalf of: Jutta Treviranus, Chair of AUWG, and Director of the Assistive Technology Research Center, University of Toronto
Jeanne Spellman, W3C Staff Contact for AUWG


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Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

Received on Friday, 30 October 2009 00:01:21 UTC