- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991222
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991218
- Added note pointing out that some tools already meet some
requirements
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991210
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991208
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991202
- Added notes on priority definition
- Added note about sample conformance evalutations being
available
- Editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/PR-WAI-AUTOOLS-19991026
Proposed Recommendation draft (Member review period ends 23 November
1999)
- Editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19991014
Following Face to Face meeting
- New Checkpoint 3.2 (3.1 split into alternative content and structure
checkpoints again)
- Change to checkpoint 2.3
- Reorganisation of checkpoints 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
- Checkpoints 7.3 and 7.4 merged
- Checkpoint 5.2 becomes Priority 2
- Checkpoint 3.3 becomes relative priority
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19991009
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19991008
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990908
Internal drafts
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990903
Last Call draft (until 4 October)
- Minor editorial amendments and corrections
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990901
- Checkpoint 6.3 removed
- Minor rewording of some checkpoints.
- Rewording of introduction and some guideline introductions
- reordering of guidelines
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990825
- New Checkpoint 1.7 - enable searching (Priority 2)
- Rewording of checkpoints 3.1 and 3.4.
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990818
- New Introduction section for Guideline 4
- Rewording of checkpoint 7.3, priority becomes relative.
- New section (conformance of Amaya) added to sample
implementations
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990811
- New Introduction section for Guidelines
- Reordering of checkpoints in guidelines 4 and 6
- New section (Multimedia editor) added to sample implementations
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990805
- Checkpoint 4.2 removed
- Checkpoint 1.3 split into two checkpoints
- Checkpoint 5.1 changed to priority 1 (and 5.1/5.2 swapped
order)
- Wording changes in checkpoints
- Techniques supplemented
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990728
- Checkpoint wording changes
- Techniques supplemented
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990720
- New checkpoint 2.3 "ensure document types enable accessibility"
- Minor wording changes in some checkpoints
- Techniques supplemented
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990713
Public Working Draft
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990709
- Minor wording changes to some checkpoints
- Checkpoint 2.2 expanded in scope to cover all document types
- Checkpoint 1.1 has relative Priority
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990624
- Checkpoint 4.3 removed
- New section 1.2 "How the Guidelines are Organized"
- Definitions further cleaned up
- Minor wording changes to some checkpoints
- Major new technique added to sample implementations
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990621
- Definitions and priorities cleaned up
- Guidelines numbered as single digits
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990617
- Checkpoint 2.1.3 rewritten
- Definitions section of guidelines document revised.
- New techniques added to some checkpoints
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990610
- Checkpoint 2.1.6 made into a technique for 2.1.1
- Checkpointsf 2.1.3 and 2.1.4 merged
- Some new definitions.
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990602
- Checkpoints 2.3.4 and 2.3.5 merged
- Checkpoint 2.3.1 no longer restricted to W3C Recommendations
- Some reordering of checkpoints
- New techniques for guideline 2.1
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990527:
- New Checkpoint in 2.4: "Allow the author to edit all alternative
content" (to see how we like it - may be temporary feature)
- Guideline 2.6 is merged - checkpoints 2.6.1 and 2.6.2 and intro text
into guideline 2.3, checkpoint 2.6.3 into guideline 2.7
- Guideline 2.3 title now does not refer to W3C recommendations, but
checkpoint 2.3.1 does
- Checkpoints with relative priorities are single checkpoints with
variable priority.
- Sample Implementations is now in techniques document only
- New introduction for document replaces old intro for document and
old intro for guidelines section
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990521:
- The techniques are available as an expanded version of the document,
not in the 'base' version of the document
- Section 3 is moved into a single guideline - 2.1 (which changed the
numbering of the rest of the guidelines
- Checkpoints with relative priorities split into multiple checkpoints
with single priority.
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990506
- Guideline 3.4 merged into guideline 2
- Checkpoint 2.7.2 upgraded to priority 1, and swapped in order with
2.7.1
- Slight modification of priority definitions
- New section on scope of the guidelines
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990503
Public Working Draft. As per the previous group working draft
Except it does not incorporate
- New wording for abstract
- Definition of Conformance to these guidelines
- Some techniques that are new in the latest group version.
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990430
- New checkpoint 2.6.5
- New wording for Abstract
- Added definition of Conformance to these Guidelines
- New techniques for many checkpoints
- Modified definition of conformance to other documents
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990421
- New Checkpoints 2.5.1 and 2.5.2 replace old checkpoint 2.5.1
- Wording change for old checkpoint 2.5.2 (now 2.5.3)
- Checkpoint 3.4.2 moved to techniques
- Priorities assigned to all checkpoints
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990413
- Checkpoints 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 moved to techniques
- Conformance to other WAI guidelines defined
- Priorities assigned to checkpoints up to 2.7.2
- New checkpoints for 2.4
- some minor wording changes for 2.1.2 and 2.6.3
- Techniques listed for each checkpoint rather than for each
guideline
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990331
- Grammar clarified for 2.3.5, minor typographical and layout
changes.
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WAI-AUTOOLS-19990326
- Introductions for sections 2 and 3 to summarise as well as refer to
guidelines for accessibility of software and Markup
- New Guideline 3.1 - make tools accessible, with checkpoints use
system conventions and follow User Agent Guidelines where
applicable
- Generalisation of checkpoint 3.3.1 (now 4.3.1)
- Checkpoints for guideline 3.3 - Navigation: allow navigation via the
structure, and allow editing of the structure
- Checkpoint 2.3.4 clarified
- Clarification of definitions, update of references
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990304
Major reordering following face to face meeting.
- Section 3 collapsed into sections 2 and 4
- Merger of guidelines 2.2 and 2.3, 2.4 and 3.5 and 3.7, 3.2 and 3.3
and 3.4
- New Guideline in Accesssibility of Tool section: Navigation
- Most checkpoints rewritten
- Redundant checkpoints removed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990301
Public Working Draft
- Three checkpoints reinstated: 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4
- Order of checkpoints and techniques reversed (checkpoints
first).
- Minor typo corrections ("user agent" to "authoring tool")
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990225
- Added checkpoints to 2.1: Use a published standard DTD, validate
imported markup, use a w3c recommendation where possible, do not use a
DTD which interferes with access.
- Clarified Checkpoint 2.6.1
- Added definitions of Guideline, Checkpoint, Technique. Expanded
definitions of priorities
http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990216
- Subsumed Guideline 4.3 'Provide text representations of Site maps'
into an expanded Guideline 4.2 (currently 'Provide text
representations of element') which explicitly mentions tags
- Merged checkpoints 2.5.8 and 2.5.9 dealing with insertion of default
ALT text.
- Moved checkpoints 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 4.2.2 to
techniques
- Add techniques for accessible site-maps, and alternative
content
- Changed ordering
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990128
Public Working Draft
- Ceated 2.1.1 and 2.2.1;
- Removed 3.1.3
- Changed Guideline 2.6 from 'Ensure that conversion tools produce and
retain accessible markup and content' to 'Never remove existing
accessible structure'
- Changed Guideline 2.3 from 'Identify inaccessible markup' to
'Identify and allow the author to correct inaccessible markup'
- Changed 'Guiding Principles' into prose introductions.
- Removed Priorities from Guidelines
- All checkpoints expressed in imperative voice
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990112
- Moved Section 4 (Promote Accessibliity) up to section 3, named it
'Encourage Authors to create accessible documents'
- Moved Guideline 3.1 'Ensure that users may configure accessibility
mechanisms', 3.2 'Integrate accessibility solutions naturally' from
Old Section 3 (Ensure an accessible authoring environment), 2.6
'Provide comprehensive accessibility help to authors' and 2.3
'Emphasize accessible authoring practice' from section 2 (Ensure
Content Produced by the Tool is Accessible) into new section 3.
- Moved Guideline 2.8 'Offer text representations of site map' into
new section 4 'Ensure the Authoring Tool is Accessible to Users with
Disabilities'
- Merged guidelines 2.5 'Provide mechanisms for authors to add missing
alternative representations for the content of converted documents'
and '2.7 Package multimedia files with pre-written descriptions' into
new guideline 2.5 'Provide mechanism for managing alternative
content'
- New introduction to section 4: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-au/1998OctDec/0111.html
- Removed Guidelines 2.9 'Integrate accessibility solutions into
relevant automated tools and wizards' and 2.10 'Allow the user to
check for and correct accessibility problems automatically'
- http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19990101
- Reordered document into three areas: Generating accessible content;
User Interface; Promoting accessibility
- Removed examples
- Removed several guidelines which were redundant and discursive
- http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-WAI-AUTOOLS-19981112
Initial Public working draft
