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This is a draft list of Authoring tools which are currently in development
which is produced for the work of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group of the W3C. It is a work in progress, and may be inaccurate. It
does not represent any endorsement by the W3C, the Working Group, or any
members.
Please send comments and suggested corrections to Charles McCathieNevile
<charles@w3.org>
This document was last updated $Date: 2000/04/28 14:25:08 $ by $Author:
charles $
There are reviews of conformance to the Authoring Tool Guidelines for some
tools. Note that the guidelines are currently a working draft, and that most
tools listed are in continued development. The reviews should be treated as
informative, not definitive, and they do not represent consensus or
endorsement of the W3C, the working group, or any other organistion.
The working group welcomes further reviews. Each review should include
enough information that it can be reproduced by another reviewer. In
particular, please provide the following information:
- The name and email address of the reviewer
- When the review was done
- Which version / draft of the guidelines was used (the date or the
specific "this version" URI are the best identifiers).
- Which version (version number, platform, supplementary tools) were
reviewed
- A brief explanation of how the tool meets each checkpoint
- A conclusion stating whether the tool conforms to the guidelines draft,
in the opinion of the reviewer.
- Alpha
- Pete Keleher. Source editor. Avaiable for MacOS
- Amaya
- W3C. WYSIWYG editor/browser. Available
for Unix, Windows. Source available. Amaya conformance review
available.
- Anansi
- Silenroc. Source editor.
Available for Windows
- Arachnophilia
- http://www.arachnoid.com/
Available for Windows.
- asWedit
- ASWedit
- Advasoft. Source editor.
Available for Unix. asWedit conformance review
available
- Atrax
- Winware. WYSIWYG
editor/browser
- BBEdit
- BBEdit
Lite
- Bare Bones. Source editor.
Available for MacOS
- Bluefish
- an OpenSource HTML
editor for Unix.
- Coffee Cup
- Coffee Cup. Source editor.
Available for Linux (Unix), Windows
- Composer
- Netscape. WYSIWYG
editor. Available for MacOS, Unix, Windows.
- DreamWeaver
- Macromedia. Source editor.
Available for MacOS and Windows. Conformance
review of version 1.0 (now obsolete) available.
- Dynamite
- Astound. WYSIWYG
editor. Available for Windows
- Editor
- Mozilla. WYSIWYG
editor. Available for MacOS, Unix, Windows. Source available
- Fusion
- NetObjects. WYSIWYG editor. Available for Windows
- FrontPage
- FrontPageExpress
- Microsoft.
WYSIWYG editor. Available for Windows
- GoLive
- Adobe. Available for Windows
- HomePage
- Claris.
WYSIWYG editor. Available for Macintosh
- HomeSite
- Allaire. Source editor.
Available for Windows. A review
of Hometsite's conformance to the Authoring Tool Accessibility
Guidelines Working Draft is available
- HotDog
- Sausage. Source editor.
Available for Windows
- HoTMetaL
- SoftQuad. WYSIWYG
editor. Available for Windows. A conformance review of HoTMetaL 5 is
available
- HTML-kit
- Chami.com. Source editor. Available
for Windows.
- ICHITARO
Ark
- Justsystem (also in English). Wordprocessor that
uses HTML/CSS as its native format. (screenshot)
- JoyHTML (på
svenska)
- Available for Windows
- Mozquito Factory
- Stack Overflow. XHTML editor
available for Java environments
- Namo
- Namo. Available for Windows.
- PageMill
- Adobe. WYSIWYG editor.
Available for Windows
- PageSpinner
- Optima System
a shareware HTML editor available for MacOS
- TopPage
- IBM. Available for Windows
- Webmaker
- WWW.Services.ru Source editor.
Available for Unix with KDE. Source available
- WebSphere
Studio
- IBM
- World Wide Web
Weaver
- Miracle Software. Source
editor. Available for Macintosh
- HTML-kit
- Chami.com. Source editor. Available
for Windows.
- Mozquito Factory
- Stack Overflow. XHTML editor
available for Java environments
- Xeena
- IBM alphaworks. XML
editor available for Java environments.
- XMetaL
- SoftQuad
- Cascade
- Cascade Light
- Available for MacOS
- CSS Mill
- Patrick Corcoran. Visaul tool.
- HexWeb CSS Edit
- Hexmac. Available for MacOS and
as plugin for BareBones' BBEdit.
- Sheet
Stylist
- Available for Windows 95 (an ActiveX control).
- StyleMaker
- Danere.Visual design tool.
- Style Master
- Western Civilisation.Available
for MacOS and Windows.
- StyleOne
- ??
- StyleSheet Maker++
- Coffeecup Software.
- TopStyle 1.5
- Bradbury Software. Provides
information on cross-browser compatibility.
- W3CSS
- En
Vogue is a (non-WYSIWYG) editor running on the Atari ST. It supports
CSS1 & 2.
- Prime Style has become a
shareware product and versions 2.0 is now available.
- mBED's Interactor 1.1 supports
CSS Positioning which, when combined with a scriping language, allows you to
create HTML-based animations.
- Interaction dynamic
site management system includes a comprehensive Macintosh CSS
editor.
- Harlequin has announced support
for CSS in their Webmaker
Frame-to-HTML application.
- Acrobat
- Adobe
- Applixware
- Applix. Available for linux
- CorelDraw 9
- Corel. Available for Windows
- QuarkXpress
- Quark. Available for MacOS,
Windows.
- Office
- Microsoft. Available for
Windows
- Publisher
- Microsoft. Available for
Windows
- WordPerfect
- Corel. Available for Linux (Unix),
Windows
- CorelDRAW
- Corel
- Director
- Macromedia
- Gimp
- Image editor. Available for Linux. Source available.
- Gill
- Image editor. Available for Linux. Source available.
- GRiNS
- Oratrix. SMIL editor and player.
Available for Macintosh, Unix, Windows
- Illustrator
- Adobe. Image editor. Available for
Macintosh, Windows
- Paint Shop Pro
- Image editor. Available for Windows.
- Photoshop
- Adobe. Image editor. Available for
Macintosh, Windows
- Premiere
- Adobe. Audio/video editor.
Available for Macintosh, Windows
- Producer
- Real Networks. Audio/video editor. Available for Macintosh,
Unix,Windows
- Sketch
- SVG editor. Available for Unix. Source available
- SMIL Supertoolz
- Sausage. SMIL source editor.
Available for Windows.
- Sodipodi
- SVG image editor. Available for Unix with Gnome. Source available
The Adaptive Technology Resource Center at the University of Toronoto did a preliminary review of
the accessibility of some courseware tools in early 1999. Although it is
not directly a conformance review, its methodology means that the results are
useful for doing a conformance review (but note that results may be out of
date in some cases).
- Classnet
- ??
- Cold Fusion
- Allaire
- CourseInfo
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- First Class
- Softarc
- HyperWave
- ??
- Lotus Learning Space
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- Notes
Designer
- Lotus
- Topclass
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- Virtual-U
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- Web Course in a Box
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- WebCT
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
- Web Knowledge Forum
- Reviewed for Accessibility by University of Toronto
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- BeyondPress 3.0
- Astrobyte. will convert
QuarkXPress documents into HTML and CSS.
- CSSize
- EDF. Helps convert HTML documents
into HTML+CSS documents.
- HTML Transit
- InfoAccess. Converts Word
documents to HTML. Available for Windows.
- NetPerfect
- Corel
- RTF2HTML
- Converts RTF documents to HTML. Available for MacOS
- Slidemaker
- W3C
- Tidy
- W3C. Cleans HTML code, and converts it to XHTML
- W2CSS
- Lewis Gartenberg. converts MS Word documents into HTML and CSS. Source
Code available.
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