- accessible authoring practice
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
"Accessible authoring practices" improve the accessibility of Web content. Both authors and tools engage in accessible authoring practices. For example, authors write clearly, structure their content, and provide navigation aids. Tools automatically generate valid markup and assist authors in providing and managing appropriate equivalent alternatives.
- aggregated authored units
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
- author
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From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source
An author is a person who writes documents and associated style sheets. An authoring tool generates documents and associated style sheets.
- author
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From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source
The creator of a
VoiceXML document.
- author styles
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From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source
Authors styles are style property values that come from content (e.g., style sheets within a document, that are associated with a document, or that are generated by a server).
- authored unit
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
Some set of material created as a single entity by an author.
Examples include a collection of markup, a style sheet, and a media
resource
, such as an image or audio clip.
- authoring
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From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source
A term for the process of writing a document. "Authoring" seems
to have come into use in order to emphasise that document
production involved more than just writing.
- authoring tool
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From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source
An "authoring tool" is any software that is used to produce content for publishing on the Web. Authoring tools include: Editing tools specifically designed to produce Web content (e.g., WYSIWYG HTML and XML editors);Tools that offer the option of saving material in a Web format (e.g., word processors or desktop publishing packages);Tools that transform documents into Web formats (e.g., filters to transform desktop publishing formats to HTML);Tools that produce multimedia, especially where it is intended for use on the Web (e.g., video production and editing suites, SMIL authoring packages);Tools for site management or site publication, including tools that automatically generate Web sites dynamically from a database, on-the-fly conversion and Web site publishing tools;Tools for management of layout (e.g., CSS formatting tools).
- authoring tool
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From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source
HTML editors, document conversion tools, tools that generate Web content from databases are all authoring tools. Refer to the "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines" ([WAI-AUTOOLS]) for information about developing accessible tools.
- authorization
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From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
The process of
determining, by evaluating applicable access
control information, whether a subject is
allowed to have the
specified types of access to a particular
resource. Usually,
authorization is in the context of authentication. Once a
subject is authenticated, it may be authorized to perform
different types of access. [STG]
- flexible authoring
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
- multiple authoring
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
Multiple authoring represents one end of a spectrum of
authoring styles that include
single
authoring and
flexible
authoring. It represents a theoretical extreme that is rarely
achieved in practice. Though it offers authors complete control over
the user experience on each device, the associated development and
maintenance costs are usually considered prohibitive.
- single authoring
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From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source
Single authoring represents one end of a spectrum of
authoring styles that include
multiple authoring and
flexible authoring. It represents a
theoretical extreme that is rarely achieved in practice. Though,
theoretically, it offers the minimum development cost, limitations in
practical adaptation systems mean that compromises are necessary in the
final user experiences. These compromises are often considered
unacceptable.