The goal of this group is to produce the WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines. These guidelines are intended for developers of authoring software wishing to make tools and generate content which is more accessible to people with disabilities.
A new group working draft of Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility, dated 18 September 2000, is now available. This draft is provided for review of the techniques and analysis of where work is needed, and for review of the way it is linked to the techniques for Evaluating Authoring Tool Accessiblity.
The first group working draft of Techniques for Evaluating Authoring Tool Accessibility is now available. At the moment it is very rough, and is only intended as a base for comment on how to proceed with the development of this part of our techniques information. However, comment is welcome as always.
Read the 3 February 2000 Recommendation, Press Release, Testimonials, and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Translations into french and japanese of the Recommendation are now available.
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The working group is also following closely the Accessibility Evaluation and Repair Techniques, a document being developed by the Evaluation and Repair Tools working group that covers the techniques for certain checkpoints of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines.
The working group has been collecting information on authoring tools as part of its work. In some cases members of the group or of the public have performed conformance evaluations of tools. There is also an implementation report produced by the working group to ensure that each checkpoint had been (and therefore could be) implemented.
Meetings are by telephone on Tuesdays, at 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm Boston time (1830Z to 2000Z). The telephone number is +1.617.252.7000. The first meeting of each month is a joint meeting with the Evaluation and Repair Tools group. Face to face meetings are held between 3 and 6 times each year.
The next face to face meeting is planned for the W3C Working Groups Plenary meeting in Boston USA, 26 February - 2 March 2001.
Please send comments on working drafts to w3c-wai-au@w3.org (to subscribe send mail to w3c-wai-au-request@w3.org with Subject: subscribe). Together with this page, the mailing list is the primary means of communication for the group, and record of our activity. Consult the mailing list archives.
The Working Group charter and the W3C Process Document govern participation by all individuals in the Working Group. For further information, please contact Jutta Treviranus or Charles McCathieNevile.
Past work and minutes have been seperated from the rest of this page.
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