Thread Subject: Re: 7-C Prompts (in authoring tools)

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Wed, Mar 19 2008 1:55 PM

> 7-C - PROMPTS
> An authoring tool must provide a mode which prompts authors to create
> accessible content in formats authored by those tools, for
> accessibility problems that the tool can correct. Tools may provide
> prompts for other problems as well.

So I'm left wondering what is sufficient here for a tool that allows one
to edit HTML. Many issues can be prompted for (even if not positively
identified as an issue) if the user can edit the source code directly.

For HTML, is it sufficient to prompt in an HTML tool for:
Form labels
Table headings
Image equivalents
Frame titles

These are the things that Dreamweaver prompts for, and I believe it is
prompting for as much as any tool, if not more. Is this enough? If not,
is there no tool that does sufficient prompting? What is enough? I'm
getting concerned that the language is trending toward subjectivity.

> Note 1: It is neither expected nor possible that prompts be available
> for every type of accessible content.

Yeah, I saw this, but my comment and concern stands.

AWK

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