Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG)

Announcements and Meetings

The members of the AUWG meet by teleconference (every other week) and face to face (3-5 times per year). Minutes of all meetings are recorded.

Teleconferences:

• Next Teleconference: 20 June 2005, 4:00-5:00pm Eastern USA Time (GMT -5:00)
• Meetings are on alternate Mondays, 4:00 to 5:00pm, Eastern USA Time (GMT -5:00). To determine what time this is in your region, please consult the world clock meeting planner. Since Daylight Saving Time changeovers occur at different times in different countries, please check the times each week.
• Zakim Bridge (+1 617.761.6200, conference code: AUWG [2894])
• An IRC text chat (server: irc.w3.org, port: 6665, channel: #au) is sometimes used by some members during the teleconferences.

Face to face meetings:

• The next face to face meeting will be held Day Month Year in ??? and will be hosted by ???. (Details, Registration)
• Meeting locations are distributed internationally and are announced at least eight weeks in advance.

Minutes

• Minutes from past teleconferences and face to face meetings.

Current Work

Recent Drafts

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG 2.0) - W3C Working Draft.

• LAST CALL Draft (22 November 2004) [Last call status lasts until 7 January 2005]
• Internal Draft (22 October 2004)
• Issues - Requirements - History of Changes - Draft FAQ.

Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - W3C Working Draft.

• Public Draft (22 Novemebr 2004)
• Internal Draft (22 October 2004)
• Issues

ATAG 2.0 Test Suite - not yet published

• When finished, this document will provide guidance for developers and others to assess the conformance of authoring tools with ATAG.
• A WG Draft of ATAG Evaluation Techniques (22 July 2002) was published earlier, however the approach has since changed (Issues List for ATAG Evaluation Techniques)
• Issues

Past Work Archive:

• Past Work Archive. A listing of past guideline drafts, techniques drafts, and previous working group charters.

Publications

ATAG Version 1.0

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (ATAG 1.0) - W3C Recommendation (3 February 2000)

• Checklist View - Errata/Clarifications - FAQ - Translations
• Implementation Information:
  • Implementations at the Publication of ATAG 1.0. This document was compiled before the publication of ATAG 1.0 to ensure that each checkpoint had been (and therefore could be) implemented.
  • Conformance Evaluations. A list of authoring tools and their conformance evaluations (when available).
  • Conformance Icons for ATAG 1.0. Developers may use these icons to designate products for which they are claiming conformance to ATAG 1.0.

Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - W3C Note (29 October 2002)

• This multi-part note provides developers with implementation techniques that may be useful in meeting the guidelines and checkpoints in ATAG 1.0.

About the AUWG

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Working Group (AUWG) develops guidelines and techniques to assist authoring tool software developers to make tools, and the content that the tools generate, more accessible to people with disabilities. See the AUWG Charter for more details.

For consumer-oriented authoring tool information, please see Selecting and Using Authoring Tools for Web Accessibility (published by the WAI Education and Outreach working group).

Contacts:

• Group chair: Jutta Treviranus
• Staff contact: Matt May
• Editor: Jan Richards

Mailing Lists

Participation:

• How to Participate in the AUWG
• AUWG Participants in Good Standing

Members of this working group typically subscribe to the following mailing lists:

1. AUWG Mailing List (w3c-wai-au@w3.org): For AUWG business

• AUWG Message Archive (1998-present)

• X-Tech Message Archive (2001-present)
• To Subscribe: Send mail to wai-xtech-request@w3.org with the subject: "subscribe".

Last updated $Date: 2005/07/22 16:25:09 $ by Jan Richards (jan.richards@utoronto.ca)