W3C Web Accessibility Initiative

WAI Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group

WAI AU Teleconference - 29 August 2000

Details

Chair: Jutta Treviranus

Date: Tuesday 29 August 2000

Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm Boston time (1830Z - 2000Z)

Phone number: Tobin Bridge, +1 (617) 252 7000


Agenda

The Latest Draft is the Recommendation dated 3 February, available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203. The latest techniques draft is dated 4 May March, available at http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-ATAG10-TECHS-20000504. The latest draft of the Accessibiltiy Evaluation and Repair Techniques is dated 15 March at http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert-20000315

  1. Review outstanding action items
  2. Other business

Attendance

Regrets


Action Items and Resolutions


Minutes

JT: What about assignments?

HS, MK: Expected them to be put on minutes.

JT: CMN has personal commitments.

WL: Commenting on style issues. Example: using em element with CLASS to make different kinds of EM. Ensure CLASSes are exposed. Lots of WCAG discussion.

MK: Just use XML. Esnure CLASS names are meaningful.

JT: CLASS can be used to denote categorization.

WL: Vast majority of people do not understnad separation of content from presentation. Wrote a little piece to explain.

JT: Do you have an evaluation test?

WL: Yes its in the records. Additional comment: possible to make MyPic in XML without ALT.

JT: Does JR have comment?

JR: Blah, blah

JT: How do people like the approach?

ALL: Yes

JT: Likes the division into Priorities. Might make sense to have different kinds of tools besides markup editor/image editor

MK: Maybe add image map

Action JR: Add image map

WL: Do we have a comprehensive list of authoring tool functionailites.

JT: No, we have some stuff in intro, etc. Fred?

FB: Tool just needs to be able to use CSS for formating. Nest lists properly and not use tables.

WL: What about plain and simple language. If tool has built in FOG index etc. it should have a higher rating.

JT: Then a question to the evaluator should be asked.

Action WL: Do the questions for text.

JT: CMN's form controls. We like P1,P2,P3, Like pass fail, Like approach of rorganizng be elements, like filtering by different types of tools.

JT: More volunteers:

MM: Working on multimedia.

Action MK: Will take lists

Action HS: Save as HTML functionality questions.


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