Re: proposed definition of an authoring tool

I second that...and thanks to Reed for doing such a great job as host.

Cheers,
Jan


Reed Shaffner wrote:
> I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who was able to attend by phone or in person.  I think we made some great progress and some incredibly hard choices.
> 
> A huge thanks to Jan and Jeanne.  Jan for diligently driving the meetings and Jeanne for being so helpful in setting everything up and getting ramped up so quickly.
> 
> Thanks also to everyone on the phone who called in at such ridiculous hours.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jutta Treviranus
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:11 PM
> To: Jeanne Spellman; AUWG; jan.richards@utoronto.ca
> Subject: proposed definition of an authoring tool
> 
> 
> I multi-tasked and made an attempt at the definition of an authoring tool:
> 
> "ATAG 2.0 defines an authoring tool as any tool, components of a tool
> or collection of software components that an author can interact with
> to create, modify or construct Web content to be used by other
> people. ATAG applies to the authoring choices the authoring tool
> presents to the author and the authoring choices under the control of
> the authoring tool.
> 
> This includes creating, modifying or choosing:
> Templates,
> Stylesheets
> Controls
> Scripts or applets
> Text
> Non-Text elements"
> 
> 
> Jutta
> 
> 

-- 
Jan Richards, M.Sc.
User Interface Design Specialist
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
Faculty of Information (i-school)
University of Toronto

   Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca
   Web:   http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
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Received on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:45:02 UTC