Checklist of Checkpoints for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

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Abstract

This document is an appendix to the W3C "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" (W3C Working Draft 25 June 2004). It provides a list of all checkpoints from the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, organized by priority, as a checklist for authoring tools developers, authoring tools users and evalutators. Please refer to the Guidelines document for introductory information, information about related documents, a glossary of terms, and more.

This list may be used to review an authoring tool for accessibility. For each checkpoint, indicate whether the checkpoint has been satisfied, has not been satisfied, or is not applicable.

A list version of the checkpoints is also available.

This document has been produced as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative. The goal of the WAI Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group is discussed in the Working Group charter.

Checkpoint priority levels

Every checkpoint in ATAG 2.0 has been assigned a priority levels to indicate the importance of the checkpoint in satisfying the guidelines and a set of success criteria that an authoring tool must meet before it is considered to have met the checkpoint. The priority of a checkpoint determines whether it must be met by a tool in order for that tool to achieve a particular ATAG 2.0 conformance level. The priority levels are:

[Priority 1]

• For Guideline 1 checkpoints: If the authoring tool does not satisfy this checkpoint, one or more groups of authors with disabilities will find it impossible to author for the Web.
• For Guideline 2, 3, 4 checkpoints: The checkpoint is essential for authors using the authoring tool to create Web content that conforms to WCAG.

[Priority 2]

• For Guideline 1 checkpoints: If the authoring tool does not satisfy this checkpoint, one or more groups of authors with disabilities will find it difficult to author for the Web.
• For Guideline 2, 3, 4 checkpoints: The checkpoint is important for authors using the authoring tool to create Web content that conforms to WCAG.

[Priority 3]

• For Guideline 1 checkpoints: If the authoring tool does not satisfy this checkpoint, one or more groups of authors with disabilities will find it inefficient to author for the Web.
• For Guideline 2, 3, 4 checkpoints: The checkpoint is beneficial for authors using the authoring tool to create Web content that conforms to WCAG.

[Relative Priority Checkpoints (3 types):]

The importance of these checkpoints depends on the requirements of external documents. For each type of relative priority checkpoint, there are three levels of conformance, each with different applicable requirements (as listed).

• Web Content Checkpoints Relative to WCAG: These checkpoints can be met to one of three levels:
  • Level 1:
    • WCAG 1.0: The Web content conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "A". (i.e. all Priority 1 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The Web content conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level "A". (i.e. all level 1 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
  • Level 2:
    • WCAG 1.0: The Web content conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "Double-A". (i.e. all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The Web content conforms to "WCAG 2.0 Level AA". (i.e. all level 1 and 2 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
  • Level 3:
    • WCAG 1.0: The Web content conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "Triple-A". (i.e. all Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The Web content conforms to "WCAG 2.0 Level AAA". (i.e. all level 1, 2, and 3 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
• Authoring Interface Checkpoints Relative to WCAG: These checkpoints can be met to one of three levels:
  • Level 1:
    • WCAG 1.0: The authoring interface conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "A". (i.e. all Priority 1 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The authoring interface conforms to "WCAG 2.0 Level A". (i.e. all level 1 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
  • Level 2:
    • WCAG 1.0: The authoring interface conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "Double-A". (i.e. all Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The authoring interface conforms to "WCAG 2.0 Level AA". (i.e. all level 1 and 2 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
  • Level 3:
    • WCAG 1.0: The authoring interface conforms to WCAG 1.0 Level "Triple-A". (i.e. all Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 checkpoints are satisfied)
    • WCAG 2.0: The authoring interface conforms to "WCAG 2.0 Level AAA". (i.e. all level 1, 2, and 3 success criteria for all guidelines have been met)
• Authoring Interface Checkpoints Relative to ISO-TS-16071: These checkpoints can be met to one of three levels designated as "application" in part 7.2 of ISO TS 16071:2003:
  • Level 1:
    • The authoring interface meets guidelines designated as "core" in Part 7.2 of ISO TS 16071:2003.
  • Level 2:
    • The authoring interface meets guidelines designated as "core" and "primary" in Part 7.2 of ISO TS 16071:2003.
  • Level 3:
    • The authoring interface meets guidelines designated as "core", "primary", and "secondary" in Part 7.2 of ISO TS 16071:2003.

Note: The choice of priority level for each checkpoint is based on the assumption that the author is a competent, but not necessarily expert, user of the authoring tool, and that the author has little or no knowledge of accessibility. For example, the author is not expected to have read all of the documentation, but is expected to know how to turn to the documentation for assistance.

Priority 1 checkpoints

Priority 2 checkpoints

Priority 3 checkpoints

WCAG Relative Priority checkpoints

ISO16071 Relative Priority checkpoints