Call for Review: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Working Draft
The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) published a Working Draft of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 yesterday.
The following is taken from the email sent to the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Interest Group:
ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use the tools. An overview of ATAG is available for those who are new to the guidelines.
In this update, Part A, which addresses authoring tool user interface accessibility, is refocused. Part B is restructured to replace the concept of “Web Content Accessibility Benchmark” with a more straightforward relationship with WCAG 2.0. The Working Group welcomes feedback on these changes.
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages you to review the updated ATAG 2.0 documents and submit comments on any issues that you think could present a barrier to future adoption and implementation of ATAG 2.0. Please send comments by 6th January 2009 to the comment list, which is publicly archived.
