- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 20:19:06 -0700
- To: Victor Tsaran <vtsaran@yahoo.com>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 07:24 PM 10/17/1999 , Victor Tsaran wrote: >Yesterday, while in search of an accessible WWW composing tool, >I came across Amaya from the www.w3.org. Wow, I thought to my >self, this must be the most accessible and HTML4.0-valid >browser/editor. I downloaded the executable for Win95 and began >testing. My surprise was, however, that while Amaya was >HTML-correct, it wasn't that accessible at all. Hi, Victor, Charles McCathieNevile has been fighting a (so far, winning) battle to improve the accessibility of this authoring tool for a while now. Part of the problem is that so far, accessibility of authoring tools has still been an uncharted territory -- and thus the work of the Authoring Tools working group to correct these problems. The spec from Authoring Tools still has not been "finalized", but the Amaya team has made some progress toward conformance anyway; once the Authoring Tools document makes it through the recommendation process, I expect that Amaya would soon have full compliance (right, Charles?) as quickly as they are able to do it. (Programming, believe it or not, actually does take some time.) You may want to read up on the Authoring Tools working group and review the latest draft -- which can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS/ (There is a group working draft available too, which is more current, but which is not a "public draft" per se. You can find it at the Authoring Tools homepage.) I will forward your comments to the authoring tools group (if someone hasn't already beaten me to the punch) to make sure your viewpoints are represented in the ongoing discussion there. -- Kynn Bartlett mailto:kynn@hwg.org President, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org/ AWARE Center Director http://aware.hwg.org/
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