The
Authoring
Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0:
- were developed by the Authoring
Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG)
- became a W3C Recommendation 3 February 2000;
- address software used to build Web sites, including:
- WYSIWYG editors;
- conversion tools (word processors, presentation
software);
- tools that dynamically generate Web pages from
databases;
- image editors, site management tools;
- address issues including:
- creation of valid content;
- strategies for prompting, alerting, help, validation;
- accessibility of the user interface
The AUWG is currently working on an
advanced version, ATAG
2.0.