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

Hi Jeanne,

This is the text approved on the call yesterday (please make the change 
before publishing):


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 the WCAG 2.0 success criteria in order to define 
the ATAG 2.0 concept of "accessible authoring practices", which 
authoring tools are required 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 Claims are supported by WCAG-conforming examples 
of Web content produced by the authoring tool (e.g., samples of 
automatically-generated content).

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And we agreed to update the following glossary definition:

Web content accessibility problem:
An aspect of Web content that violates a WCAG 2.0 success criteria. Each 
WCAG 2.0 success criteria has an associated Level.


Cheers,
Jan










Jan Richards wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> Good points....
> 
> NEW 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 ATAG 2.0 concept of 
> "accessible authoring practices", which authoring tools are required 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 Claims are supported by WCAG conformance claims 
> for examples of Web content produced by the authoring tool (e.g., 
> samples of automatically-generated content)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
> Tim Boland wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>   Web:   http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
>>>   Phone: 416-946-7060
>>>   Fax:   416-971-2896
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> 

-- 
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
   Web:   http://jan.atrc.utoronto.ca
   Phone: 416-946-7060
   Fax:   416-971-2896

Received on Tuesday, 7 October 2008 13:53:42 UTC