- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@sidar.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:42:54 +1000
- To: "Ian Anderson" <lists@zstudio.co.uk>
- Cc: "David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
You mean testing publishing tools for their support of authoring accessible content (for example conformance to the 4 year old W3C recommendation "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines"), making the results available, and suggesting that people actually use that information as a buying guide? I don't think anyone has done it. I have done testing of these tools and warn that it is a big job which is much easier to do badly than well. But it would indeed be useful. There's even a W3C working group that looks specifically at this area (and published the above-mentioned Recommendation in 2000). So I suspect that a lot of people have thought of it. I have mentioned many times to organisations who spend more than $100k on software that they should think of mentioning this to their suppliers. I look forward to someone doing the legwork... cheers Chaals On 30 Mar 2004, at 06:46, Ian Anderson wrote: > Has anyone thought of doing the same sort of thing for accessibility > that > the Web Standards Project did for web design? Pressure needs to be > brought > on Microsoft and other key vendors to pay more than lip service to web > accessibility in their publishing tools for business and home users as > well > as web professionals. > -- Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar charles@sidar.org http://www.sidar.org
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