[odf-discuss] W3C working draft -- Implementation Techniques forAuthoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

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Comments sought by May 25, 2007.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-ATAG20-TECHS-20070423/g>.

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 ATAG 2.0 checkpoint.

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1. Applicable to Code-Level authoring functions Code-level Authoring
Functions: Authors have full control over all aspects of the resulting
Web content that have bearing on the final outcome. This covers, but
is not limited to plain text editing, as this category also covers the
manipulation of symbolic representations that are sufficiently
fine-grained to allow the author the same freedom of control as plain
text editing (e.g., graphical tag placeholders). Examples: text
editors, text editors enhanced with graphical tags, some wikis, etc.

2. Applicable to 'what you see is what you get' authoring functions
WYSIWYG ("What-you-see-is-what-you-get") Authoring Functions: Authors
have control over entities that closely resemble the final appearance
and behavior of the resulting Web content. Examples: rendered document
editors, bitmap graphics editors, etc.

3. Applicable to Object-Oriented authoring functions Object Oriented
Authoring Functions: Authors have control over functional abstractions
of the low level aspects of the resulting Web content. Examples:
timelines, waveforms, vector-based graphic editors, objects which
represent web implementations for graphical widgets (e.g., menu
widgets) etc.

4. Applicable to Indirect authoring functions Indirect Authoring
Functions: Authors have control over only high-level parameters
related to the automated production of the resulting Web content. This
may include interfaces that assist the author to create and organize
Web content without the author having control over the markup,
structure, or programming implementation. Examples: content management
systems, site building wizards, site management tools, courseware,
blogging tools, content aggregators, conversion tools, model-based
authoring tools, etc.

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