- From: Shawn Henry <shawn@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:07:30 -0500
- To: WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Dear WAI Interest Group Participants, W3C WAI invites you to review the updated Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 published 21 July 2011 at: http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/ http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/ ATAG is particularly relevant to you if you use tools to create web content -- tools such as, blogs, wikis, social networking websites, content management systems (CMS), HTML editors, or other such tools[1]. ATAG defines how these tools should help you make your blog posts, websites, etc. accessible -- and how the tools themselves should be accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. To tool developers: We invite authoring tool developers to prepare to implement ATAG 2.0, with the caution that the guidelines might change. In the coming months, we'll be asking for tools that meet ATAG 2.0. Will your tool be an example? If you are considering implementing ATAG 2.0 soon, please e-mail Jeanne@w3.org Recent updates: For a list of significant changes since the last drafts and specific questions for feedback, see the Status sections: http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#status http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/#status Comments: Please submit comments on how ATAG 2.0 can be improved to better meet the needs of people with disabilities to the publicly-archived list: public-atag2-comments@w3.org by *15 September 2011* Background: ATAG defines how authoring tools should help web developers produce web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use the tools. ATAG is introduced in the ATAG Overview at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php ATAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed by WAI, which are listed in WAI Guidelines and Techniques at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html ATAG is developed by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG), http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/ Note about Working Draft status: ATAG 2.0 was published as a Last Call Working Draft on 8 July 2010. The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) decided to return to Working Draft stage to refine the document based on the comments received. The Working Group expects to publish another Last Call Working Draft later this year. Last Call and other development stages are described in: How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process at: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments. Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible. Short URI to this archived e-mail: http://bit.ly/atag2011july [1] Examples of authoring tools: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php#for Regards, Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach Jutta Treviranus, AUWG Chair Jeanne Spellman, AUWG W3C Staff Contact ----- Shawn Lawton Henry W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) e-mail: shawn@w3.org phone: +1.617.395.7664 about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/
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