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accessible authoring practice

From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source

"Accessible authoring practices" improve the accessibility of Web content. Both authors and tools engage in accessible authoring practices. For example, authors write clearly, structure their content, and provide navigation aids. Tools automatically generate valid markup and assist authors in providing and managing appropriate equivalent alternatives.
aggregated authored units

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

A set of authored units that have been aggregated in some way.
author

From Glossary of Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 CSS2 Specification (1998-05-12) | Glossary for this source

An author is a person who writes documents and associated style sheets. An authoring tool generates documents and associated style sheets.
author

From Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) Version 2.0 (2004-03-16) | Glossary for this source

The creator of a VoiceXML document.
author styles

From User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2002-12-17) | Glossary for this source

Authors styles are style property values that come from content (e.g., style sheets within a document, that are associated with a document, or that are generated by a server).
authored unit

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

Some set of material created as a single entity by an author. Examples include a collection of markup, a style sheet, and a media resource , such as an image or audio clip.
authoring

From Hypertext Terms (1995-04-15) | Glossary for this source

A term for the process of writing a document. "Authoring" seems to have come into use in order to emphasise that document production involved more than just writing.
authoring tool

From Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (2000-02-03) | Glossary for this source

An "authoring tool" is any software that is used to produce content for publishing on the Web. Authoring tools include: Editing tools specifically designed to produce Web content (e.g., WYSIWYG HTML and XML editors);Tools that offer the option of saving material in a Web format (e.g., word processors or desktop publishing packages);Tools that transform documents into Web formats (e.g., filters to transform desktop publishing formats to HTML);Tools that produce multimedia, especially where it is intended for use on the Web (e.g., video production and editing suites, SMIL authoring packages);Tools for site management or site publication, including tools that automatically generate Web sites dynamically from a database, on-the-fly conversion and Web site publishing tools;Tools for management of layout (e.g., CSS formatting tools).
authoring tool

From Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (1999-05-05) | Glossary for this source

HTML editors, document conversion tools, tools that generate Web content from databases are all authoring tools. Refer to the "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines" ([WAI-AUTOOLS]) for information about developing accessible tools.
authorization

From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source

The process of determining, by evaluating applicable access control information, whether a subject is allowed to have the specified types of access to a particular resource. Usually, authorization is in the context of authentication. Once a subject is authenticated, it may be authorized to perform different types of access. [STG]

flexible authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An authoring style in which an appropriate set of variants of each resource is created for use in the user experience for each delivery context.
Flexible authoring lies within a spectrum of authoring styles bounded at one end by single authoring and at the other by multiple authoring.
multiple authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An authoring style in which a different variant of each resource is created for use in the user experience for each delivery context without adaptation.
Multiple authoring represents one end of a spectrum of authoring styles that include single authoring and flexible authoring. It represents a theoretical extreme that is rarely achieved in practice. Though it offers authors complete control over the user experience on each device, the associated development and maintenance costs are usually considered prohibitive.
single authoring

From Glossary of Terms for Device Independence (2005-01-18) | Glossary for this source

An authoring style in which a single variant of each resource is created and is automatically adapted to produce the user experience for each delivery context. .
Single authoring represents one end of a spectrum of authoring styles that include multiple authoring and flexible authoring. It represents a theoretical extreme that is rarely achieved in practice. Though, theoretically, it offers the minimum development cost, limitations in practical adaptation systems mean that compromises are necessary in the final user experiences. These compromises are often considered unacceptable.

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