ANEC comments

Dear ATAG WG,

 

please find below some comments from ANEC on the "Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0": 

  

Comments from ANEC- please reply to  <mailto:nflor@tee.gr> nflor@tee.gr:

 

Regarding particularly Part B (   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20070423/tech2.html> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20070423/tech2.html), we would say that each Guideline despite referring directly to the author of the content, finally it will beneficial to the end-user who will access the content.  

More specifically:

รพ     The main issue that holds authors from creating accessible content is the high cost because of the extra work that is required in creating and validating accessible content. However, the guidelines of ATAG 2.0 reduce the extra work by providing utilities that organize and speed up the development cycle. Also, the validation time is reduced by the various prompting utilities which inform the author before publishing and ensures that the content fully applies the WCAG .

*      One proposal from our side could be to produce an Open Source validation component which can be easily integrated to some  authoring tools. This will reduce the cost of the development cycle and will give an easy way for authors to validate the content. The idea of the validation component exists in the ATAG 2.0 Guidelines but only  in the form of prompting during the creation of content. 

*      We would like also to stress out also one more positive point. i.e. that is the ATAG Checkpoint B.3.4 (  <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ATAG20-20061207/Overview.html#check-configurable> http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-ATAG20-20061207/Overview.html#check-configurable), which should allow the author to configure the accessible features at the needs of the end user.

 

With best regards- for Nikos and ANEC,

Bruno von Niman

ANEC W3C Representative 

Received on Friday, 25 May 2007 06:19:01 UTC