This document is an appendix to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [ATAG10]. It
provides a list of all checkpoints from the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, organized by
priority, as a checklist for authoring tool developers. Please refer
to Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for introductory information, information about related
documents, a glossary of terms, and further information. This document
is not a substitute for the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
A list version
of the checkpoints is also available.
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endorsed by the Director as a W3C
Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as
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Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The goals of the
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This checklist includes all checkpoints from the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0,
organized by priority, as a checklist for authoring tool developers.
Checkpoint Priorities
Each checkpoint has a priority level. The priority level reflects the
impact of the checkpoint in meeting the goals of this specification. These
goals are:
- That the authoring tool be accessible;
- That the authoring tool produce accessible content by default;
- That the authoring tool encourage the creation of accessible
content.
The priority levels are assigned as follows:
- [Priority 1]
- If the checkpoint is essential to meeting the goals.
- [Priority 2]
- If the checkpoint is important to meeting the goals.
- [Priority 3]
- If the checkpoint is beneficial to meeting the goals.
- [Relative Priority]
Some checkpoints that refer to generating, authoring, or checking
Web content have multiple priorities. The priority depends on the
corresponding priority in the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines
(WCAG) 1.0 [WCAG10].
- It is priority 1 to satisfy the checkpoint for content features
that are a priority 1 requirement in WCAG 1.0.
- It is priority 2 to satisfy the checkpoint for content features
that are a priority 2 requirement in WCAG 1.0.
- It is priority 3 to satisfy the checkpoint for content features
that are a priority 3 requirement in WCAG 1.0.
For example:
- Providing text equivalents for images
and audio is a priority 1 requirement in WCAG 1.0
since without it one or more groups will
find it impossible to access the information. Therefore, it is a
priority 1 requirement for the authoring tool to check for
(4.1) or ask the author for
(3.1) equivalent alternatives for these types
of content.
- Grouping links in navigation bars is a priority 3 in WCAG 1.0. Therefore,
it is only priority 3 for the authoring tool to check for
(4.1) or ask the author for
(3.2) groups of links that are not grouped
in the markup as a navigation mechanism.
When a checkpoint in this document refers to the WCAG 1.0 [WCAG10], only
the WCAG 1.0
checkpoints that refer to content supported or automatically generated
by the authoring tool apply. Some of the applicable WCAG 1.0 checkpoints may
be satisfied automatically (without author participation) while others
require human judgment and support from the tool in the form of prompts
and documentation. Different tools may satisfy the same checkpoint
differently.
The priority level for each checkpoint has been chosen based on the
assumption that the author is a competent, but not necessarily expert, user of
the authoring tool, and that the author has little or no knowledge of
accessibility. For example, the author is not expected to have read all of
the documentation, but is expected to know how to turn to the documentation
for assistance.
Priority 1 checkpoints
Relative Priority checkpoints
Note: These should be assessed by reference to the checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [WCAG10], and may be met at three different levels.
Priority 2 checkpoints
Priority 3 checkpoints
For the latest version of any W3C specification please consult the list of
W3C Technical Reports.
- [ATAG10]
- "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," J.
Treviranus, C. McCathieNevile, I. Jacobs, and J. Richards, eds. The latest version is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10.
- [WCAG10]
- "Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," W. Chisholm, G. Vanderheiden,
and I. Jacobs, eds., 5 May 1999. This Recommendation is
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505. The latest version of
the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/.