Re: AUWG Action: Edit "Relationship to WCGA" Section

Does WCAG define "accessible authoring practice" - the relevant sentence 
following seems to imply that it does?   WCAG defines 
"accessibility-supported".  Also, what exactly constitutes a 
"representative sample"?

Thanks and best wishes, Tim Boland NIST

At 11:15 AM 10/1/2008 -0400, you wrote:

>PROPOSED wording:
>
>Relationship to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
>
>ATAG 2.0 is intended to be used in conjunction with WCAG 2.0 or similar 
>Web content accessibility guidance (e.g., WCAG 1.0, regulations that 
>include WCAG 2.0, etc.).
>
>The relationship is as follows:
>- The normative requirements of ATAG 2.0 have been formulated to apply to 
>many different types of authoring tools that in turn may produce a range 
>of Web content technologies.
>- ATAG 2.0 points to WCAG in order to define the concept of "accessible 
>authoring practices", which ATAG 2.0 requires authoring tools to support 
>in various ways.
>- The normative requirements of WCAG are themselves not 
>technology-specific. However, specific informative guidance for satisfying 
>the success criteria for particular Web content technologies are provided 
>in separate documents.
>- ATAG 2.0 Conformance Claimants are responsible for ensuring that 
>whenever ATAG 2.0 requires that some outputted content (e.g., 
>automatically-generated content) must meet WCAG, that a representative 
>sample of such content does indeed meet WCAG's conformance requirements.
>
>
>PREVIOUS wording:
>http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/2008/WD-ATAG20-20080929/WD-ATAG20-20080929.html#intro-rel-wcag
>
>--
>Jan Richards, M.Sc.
>User Interface Design Lead
>Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
>Faculty of Information (i-school)
>University of Toronto
>
>   Email: jan.richards@utoronto.ca
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>
>

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