Gridlines » Accessibility http://hatmatrix.com The HAT-Matrix blog Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:18:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 W3C releases ATAG 2.0 working draft http://hatmatrix.com/2008/12/02/w3c-releases-atag-20-working-draft/ http://hatmatrix.com/2008/12/02/w3c-releases-atag-20-working-draft/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:45:40 +0000 CharJT http://hatmatrix.com/?p=65 The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the working draft dated 24 November 2008 of the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG 2.0). Because it is a working draft, it does not succeed ATAG 1.0.

This working draft specifies the guidelines for authoring tools that want to be more accessible and includes several changes to ATAG 1.0. “An authoring tool that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility by providing an accessible user interface to authors with disabilities as well as enabling, supporting, and promoting the production of accessible Web content by all authors.” Their definition of “authoring tool” includes those that are used to edit HTML (such as Dreamweaver or Notepad) and those that are used to publish to HTML (such as Microsoft Word), in addition to the authoring tools listed on HAT-Matrix.com, plus more (such as whiteboards and chat programs).

Comments on this draft are due by 6 January 2009.

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