Heads up: Last Call for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines

Dear HWG members,

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's working group on Authoring
Tool Accessibility invites you to review the document below and
give your feedback.  The purpose of this document is to serve as
a resource for creators of web authoring tools to make their
tools be accessible and produce accessible web content.  As the
end users of such tools, members of the HTML Writers Guild are
especially suited for evaluating these guidelines.

If you have any questions not covered by the information below,
please feel free to write to me at kynn(at)hwg.org.

--Kynn Bartlett
   HWG Representative on the WAI Authoring Tools Working Group


>Resent-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:13:27 -0400 (EDT)
>Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 21:12:48 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles(at)w3.org>
>To: Judy Brewer <jbrewer(at)w3.org>
>cc: w3c-wai-ig(at)w3.org
>Subject: Re: Heads up: Last Call for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
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>Dear WAI Interest Group Members
>
>The WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines has now gone into "Last
>Call". This is the final opportunity for public comments to be taken into
>account by the working group. The current working draft at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS will remain stable throughout the last call
>period which ends on 4 October. Comments are invited on the document, and
>should be sent to the mailing list w3c-wai-au(at)w3.org All issues raised on or
>before 4 October will be addressed by the working group before the document
>becomes a W3C proposed recommendation.
>
>This is the second of three major sets of guidelines being developed by WAI.
>These guidelines are intended to cover tools which are used to develop
>content for the Web, including HTML and XML editing tools, applications which
>have a Web publishing or "save as HTML/XML" option, multimedia tools used for
>making web graphics, sound, and video, and applications which dynamically
>generate websites from databases.
>
>For further information on the working group, including previous working
>drafts, minutes of group meetings, and history of changes between drafts
>please see the working group page at http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU
>
>Please note that as well as the guidelines themselves teh Working Group has
>produced a techniques document, which describes example strategies and
>further information on how the checkpoints in the guidelines may be met.
>Although this is not in last call (it is not intended for publication as a
>W3C recommendation, but may become an informative Note, and is publicly
>available in working draft form), the group also welcomes comments or
>suggestions. The techniques document is at
>http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS-TECHS
>
>We look forward to your review comments
>
>Charles McCathieNevile (W3C Staff contact) and
>Jutta Treviranus (chair)
>for the Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group
>
>On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Judy Brewer wrote:
>
>   Heads up: Last Call for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
>   
>   The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines will be entering "Last Call"
>   status within the next day. Within W3C, "Last Call" status signifies a
>   final review period before Proposed Recommendation. Assuming no critical
>   issues arise during Last Call, the document then goes to W3C Member
>   organizations for review regarding whether or not it can become a W3C
>   Recommendation. 
>   
>   This will therefore be the last opportunity for public comment on the
>   Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines. I urge you to do a comprehensive
>   review of the document, and to forward your comments to <w3c-wai-au(at)w3.org>
>   as described in the "Last Call" message which will follow shortly from the
>   Authoring Tool Guidelines Working Group. ss
>   
>   Please note the Last Call closing date in their message. The Authoring Tool
>   Guidelines Working Group will not be able to incorporate Last Call comments
>   received after that date.
>   
>   You may forward the Last Call review request to other organizations that
>   have an interest
>   in the Web Accessibility Initiative <http://www.w3.org/WAI>. If you do so,
>   please cc <jbrewer(at)w3.org> on the forwards and include this "heads up"
>   message which gives background about the Last Call process. 
>   
>   Thank you,
>   
>   Judy
>   _________________________________________________________________________
>   Judy Brewer    jbrewer(at)w3.org    +1.617.258.9741    http://www.w3.org/WAI
>   Director,Web Accessibility Initiative(WAI), World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)
>   
>   WAI Interest Group home page: http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG
>   Previous WAI IG Updates: http://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/Overview.html#Updates
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>   
>
>--Charles McCathieNevile            mailto:charles(at)w3.org
>phone: +1 617 258 0992   http://www.w3.org/People/Charles
>W3C Web Accessibility Initiative    http://www.w3.org/WAI
>MIT/LCS  -  545 Technology sq., Cambridge MA, 02139,  USA

-- 
Kynn Bartlett                                    mailto:kynn(at)hwg.org
President, HTML Writers Guild                    http://www.hwg.org/
AWARE Center Director                          http://aware.hwg.org/

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