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This document provides non-normative information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the checkpoints of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [ATAG20]. It includes suggested techniques, sample strategies in deployed tools, and references to other accessibility resources (such as platform-specific software accessibility guidelines) that provide additional information on how a tool may satisfy each checkpoint.
This document is part of a series of accessibility documents published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C.
This version of Implementation Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 is a draft of an informative (non-normative) appendix to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. The Working Group intends to publish a final version of this document as a W3C Note. Note that this draft does not represent consensus within the WAI Authoring Tools (AUWG) Working Group, nor within W3C. This document is likely to change and should not be cited as anything other than "work in progress". The Working Group expects to update this document in response to queries raised by implementers of the Guidelines, for example to cover new technologies. Suggestions for additional techniques are welcome.
This document represents an attempt to make it clearer
how to use the techniques for different types of tools. It begins the process
of publishing the techniques as a multi-part hypertext document. It also updates
the Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [ATAG10-TECHS]
for compatibility with ATAG 2.0.
This document has been produced by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The goals of the Working Group are discussed in the AUWG charter. A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents including Working Drafts and Notes can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/. The AUWG is part of the WAI Technical Activity.
The working group maintains an ATAG 2.0 Issues List and a list of patent disclosures.@@need to update these@@
Please send comments about this document to the public mailing list: w3c-wai-au@w3.org (public archives). Please note that this document may contain typographical errors. It was published as soon as possible since review of the content itself is important, although noting typographical errors is also helpful.
For information about the current activities of the working group, please refer to the AUWG home page. This page includes an explanation of the inter-relation of each document as well as minutes and previous drafts.
For further information about Working Group decisions,
please consult the minutes
of AUWG Meetings.
This document has been produced by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working
Group (AUWG)
as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative
(WAI). The goals of the
Working Group are discussed in the AUWG charter.
Please send comments about this document to the public
mailing list: w3c-wai-au@w3.org (public archives). Please
note that this document may contain typographical errors. It was published as
soon as possible since review of the content itself is important, although noting
typographical errors is also helpful.
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical
documents including Working Drafts and Notes can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
This document has been divided into a multi-part hypertext document to keep
individual pages to a manageable size. There are publishing conventions used
to identify various features and parts of the document. Some of these will be
used to provide multiple views of the techniques - for example implementation
techniques for a particular kind of tool, or references for particular techniques.
Other conventions are used to ensure that this document is compatible with
ATAG version 1.0 or will be compatible with ATAG wombat with a minimum of difficulty
or change.
For illustrative purposes, the techniques document includes examples of authoring interfaces that demonstrate the implementation of one or more particular techniques. While the examples have been chosen to be as informative as possible, many of them are specific to certain types of authoring tool functions (see "Section 1.1 Definition of Authoring Tool" for descriptions of the different categories of authoring tool functions). In order to assist developers in determining the relevance of the examples to the different categories, each example is marked with one or more of the following category icons:
Note: Authoring tools may fall into one or more of the categories. For example, an HTML authoring tool that has both a text editor and a "browser" view will fall under two categories, Code-Level Authoring Functions and WYSIWYG Authoring Functions.
The techniques are applicable to all kinds of authoring
tools, including those that are insertable components of other authoring tools.
If an authoring tool for designing on-line courses (courseware) has a prefabricated
chat facility that the instructor can drag on to their page, this component
must comply with all the techniques for accessible authoring interface (guideline
1) and accessible Web content output (guidelines 2-4).
Contents | Guideline 1 | Guideline 2 | Guideline 3 | Guideline 4 | References