- From: Jan Richards <jan.richards@utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:56:32 -0500
- To: WAI-AUWG List <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
Currently we say "the author(s)" in our normative guidelines, but it causes lots of grammatical challenges and I think it makes the document harder to parse. This change was originally done to emphasize that multiple people might be involved in a workflow in different ways. I think we can simply and better meet the multi-author role goal by the following: (1) we change "the author(s)" to "authors" in the success criteria (2) We add an applicability note to Part B to make it clear that not every author in a tool's workflow needs to have every ability prescribed in Part B, as long as someone does along the way. #6. Multiple author roles: Some authoring tools include multiple author roles, each with different views and content editing permissions (e.g., a content management system may separate the roles of designers, content authors, and quality assurers). In these cases, the Part B success criteria apply to the authoring tool as a whole, not to the view provided to any particular author role. (3) We can smooth out the definition of "authors" as well: authors People who use an authoring tool to create or modify web content for use by other people. This may include content authors, designers, programmers, publishers, testers, etc. working either alone or collaboratively (see also Part B Applicability Note #6). A person only qualifies as an author of some given content if (1) the authoring tool supports the relevant web content technology used to implement that content and (2) the person has author permission for that content. Cheers, Jan -- (Mr) Jan Richards, M.Sc. jan.richards@utoronto.ca | 416-946-7060 Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC) Faculty of Information | University of Toronto
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