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W3C Public Working Draft of ATAG 2.0

This is the W3C Working Draft of 19 April 2011. This draft integrates changes made as a result of comments received on the 8 July 2010 Last Call Public Working Draft. The Authoring Tool Working Group (AUWG) has refined the Guidelines with the contribution of public commenters. A summary of the more substantive changes follows:

  1. A more specific requirement that the editing view of the authoring tool also render the alternatives to time-based media (A.2.1.2 Alternatives for Rendered Time-Based Media);
  2. An enhanced requirement to make rendered text properties available to assistive technologies (A.2.2.2 Access to Rendered Text Properties); and
  3. A new level-AAA requirement to allow navigation by programmatic relationships as in a programming IDE (A.3.4.2 Navigate by Programmatic Relationships)
  4. A modified approach to automatic generation of web content (B.1.1.1; B.1.1.2) and content transformations (B.1.2.1; B.1.2.2; and B.1.2.3) that is more nuanced and in some cases enables accessibility checking to be employed.
  5. A re-organization of the success criteria that places the success criteria related to checking and repair into their guideline ("Authors must be supported in improving the accessibility of existing content").
  6. There have been clarifications to the definitions of "authoring tool" and "authors" to clarify when a web application should be treated as an authoring tool.

The Working Group seeks feedback on the following points for this draft:

  1. Does the definition of authoring tool clearly delinate which tools are the subject of these guidelines?
  2. Is it clear where the where the guidelines apply to integrated or stand-alone accessibility checker?
  3. If you have a disability or represent a disability community, does ATAG Part A address your needs or the needs of your group?

Comments on this working draft are due on or before 20 May 2011. Comments on the draft should be sent to public-atag2-comments@w3.org (Public Archive).

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) intends to publish ATAG 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. Until that time Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 1.0 [ATAG10] is the stable, referenceable version. This Working Draft does not supersede ATAG 1.0.

Status of This Document

W3C Public Draft of Implementing ATAG 2.0

This is the W3C Working Draft of 19 April 2011. This draft integrates changes made as a result of comments received on the 8 July 2011 Last Call Public Working Draft.

The Working Group seeks feedback on the following points for this draft:

  • Is the overall document a useful resource for implementers to apply ATAG 2.0 to your product?
  • Are the sections describing the intent of each success criteria clear?
  • Do you have any suggestions for examples that should be added, modified or removed?

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) intends to publish "Implementing ATAG 2.0" as a W3C Note. The Working Group will continue to update this document periodically in response to queries raised by implementers of the Guidelines, for example, to cover new technologies. Suggestions for additional examples or related resources are welcome.

Comments on the draft are welcome at public-atag2-comments@w3.org (Public Archive). Comments on this working draft are due on or before 20 May 2011.

Announcements

W3C

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0, Implementing ATAG 2.0 - Working Drafts Published

19 April 2011

The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the companion document Implementing ATAG 2.0 which have been improved as a result of the public comments received on the Last Call Working Draft. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. The ATAG documents also describe how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Comments are welcome through 20 May 2011. Please see the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft for further details. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

WAI Highlights

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0: Working Draft Published

If you are a person with a disability who writes on the web (blogs, content management systems, HTML editors, websites that let users add content, and more), or if you are a developer of these authoring tools or accessibility specialist, take a good look at the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft and the companion Implementing ATAG 2.0. We have refined both documents based on based on the public comments we received on the Last Call Working Draft, and we your feedback to help finalize the wording and start preparations for implementing of the ATAG 2.0 guidelines. See:

Please send any comments on this Working Draft by 20 May 2011. Thanks!    (2011-04-19)

WAI IG

Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The W3C WAI invites you to review the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 published 19 April 2011 at:
http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/
http://www.w3.org/TR/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20/

If you develop web authoring tools (content management systems, HTML editors, blog software, websites that let users add content, etc[1]), are a person with a disability using authoring tools to publish web content, or an accessibility specialist; now is the time to take a good look at ATAG 2.0. This Working Draft is refined with the contributions of over 250 comments on the Last Call Working Draft. We encourage you to review these documents and submit your comments.

Authoring tool develops are invited to prepare to implement ATAG 2.0, with the caution that the guidelines and their associated materials may still change. In the coming months, we'll be asking for tools that meet ATAG 2.0. Will your tool be an example? Please contact the working group if you are considering becoming an ATAG 2.0 implementer.

Recent updates: For a highlights of changes since the last draft and specific questions for feedback, see the Status section: http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG20/#status

Comments: Please submit comments on any issues that you think could present a barrier to future adoption and implementation of ATAG 2.0 to the publicly-archived list:
public-atag2-comments@w3.org
by *20 May 2011*

Background: ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use the tools. ATAG is introduced in the ATAG Overview at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php

ATAG is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed by WAI, which are listed in WAI Guidelines and Techniques at:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

ATAG is developed by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG), http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your comments.

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid cross-postings where possible.

[1] Examples of authoring tools: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php#for

Regards, ~Shawn Henry, WAI Outreach
Jutta Treviranus, AUWG Chair
Jeanne Spellman, AUWG W3C Staff Contact

----- Shawn Lawton Henry
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
e-mail: shawn@w3.org
phone: +1.617.395.7664
about: http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/

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