Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group

Issues for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat"

This document provides a guide to issues which are yet to be resolved, as well as those which have already been resolved, by the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG). It will be maintained through the life of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat" document, and updated regularly as new issues are raised or resolved. It will draw issues and resolution from meetings of the Working Group or from the email list w3c-wai-au@w3.org.

Unresolved Issues

1. Minimum requirement for Checkpoint 1.2
2. Names for subsections of checkpoint text
3. Deciding when a W3C Recommendation is appropriate and available
4. Do we need a minimum requirement for ensuring generated markup is valid
5. Which WCAG checkpoints are required for ensuring alternative equivalents are provided
6. Which WCAG checkpoints are required for helping the suthor seperate structure and presentation
7. Minimum requirement for ensuring the tool complies with software accessibility standards and conventions
8. Fix minimum requirement for changing presentation in editing view independent of publishing presentation
9. Minimum requirement for navigation in the editing view

Resolved Issues

Issues raised before last call:

1. Definition of prompt

Unresolved Issues

Issues raised before last call:

1. Minimum Requirement for preserving accessibility information during transformation and conversions

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

2. Names for subsections of checkpoint text

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

3. Deciding when a W3C Recommendation is appropriate and available

• Raised: Heather Swayne (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

4. Do we need a minimum requirement for ensuring generated markup is valid

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

5. Which WCAG checkpoints are required for ensuring alternative equivalents are provided

• Raised: Charles McCathieNevile (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

6. Which WCAG checkpoints are required for helping the suthor seperate structure and presentation

• Raised: Charles McCathieNevile (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

7. Minimum requirement for ensuring the tool complies with software accessibility standards and conventions

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

8. Fix minimum requirement for changing presentation in editing view independent of publishing presentation

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

9.Minimum requirement for navigation in the editing view

• Raised: Face to Face meeting, Amsterdam, June 2001 (Noted in 2 december 2001 draft)

Resolved Issues:

1. Definition of prompt

• Raised: Heather Swayne
• Resolved: Editorial mistake. Use definition from errata. Resolution incorporated in 12 July 2001 draft.

Last updated 21 January, 2002 by Jan Richards (jan.richards@utoronto.ca)