Thread Subject: Re: "Content" in our subcommittee

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Mon, Nov 06 2006 3:56 PM

>Let me propose that we consider the following requirements for industry of
content-producing software tools:

> 1. The tool itself should be accessible to operate. (This would apply to
all software, not just content-producing software).

This is really needed. it will make companies regard authoring tools
accessibility guidelines (ATAG) more seriously.



>2. The content produced by the tool should be able to support all the
relevant features for accessible content.



>And the following requirement should apply to the federal entity producing
the content:

> 3. The content should contain all the relevant features for accessible
content.

How can this be part of the S508 standards. it is upto the user how the tool
is used and cannot be part of procurement precondition.



Sailesh Panchang
Senior Accessibility Engineer
Deque Systems Inc. (www.deque.com)
11130 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite #140,
Reston VA 20191
Phone: 703-225-0380 (ext 105)
E-mail: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =



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