re: ATAG requirements on accessible authoring interfaces

As the next step in my action to examine how we might make use of the 
requirements in UAAG 1.0 as a basis for an ATAG requirements on accessible 
authoring interfaces, I have put together a draft wording for a revised 
guideline 1. The guideline has 31 checkpoints(!), including revisions of the 
existing 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5.

See attached: new_guideline_1.html

Almost all of the checkpoints are drawn from UAAG 1.0 and reworded for the 
ATAG context. To see the relationships with UAAG, as well as a rough analysis 
of the coverage of Section 508 and the ISO document see attached: 
uaag_iso_worksheet2.htm

This is still quite preliminary. I haven't provided rationale for all of the 
checkpoints and other wording is open to change. One area of uncertainty is 
around the programmatic acces to content. This is obviously important, but 
will not apply to authoring tools in the same way it does to user agents, 
because tools are free to present the content being authored in ways that are 
very different from how it is to be rendered (and in fact some tools don't 
even produce the actual Web content until the end of authoring).

Hopefully this will provide a good starting point for discussion at the 
upcoming F2F.

Cheers,
Jan

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Jan Richards, User Interface Design Specialist 
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC), University of Toronto 

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