Thread Subject: Re: Viewpoint Opinion: 7-D Accessible Templates

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From: Michele Budris
Date: Fri, Mar 28 2008 10:40 AM

Thank you for your input. We will be including your comments, but we
will not be include the last paragraph as it is proposing new text.

Michele


On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Judy Brewer wrote:

> Viewpoint Opinion: 7-D Accessible Templates
>
> Reference:
> <http://teitac.org/wiki/EWG:OpenProvisions_March_12#7-D_-
> _Accessible_Templates>
>
> Accessible templates and accessible pre-authored content provided
> with authoring tools can be highly effective in facilitating
> conformance to a variety of electronic content provisions. Authoring
> tool vendors know their tools better than their customers and can
> more efficiently develop sample templates and pre-authored content,
> which can help model how to use the tool's features in ways that
> support accessible content provisions.
>
> A significant concern with the wording of this provision however was
> apparently a potential ambiguity with the scoping of the provision,
> due to the phrasing "...at least one version that meets applicable
> Section 508 provisions," even with the accompanying note that this
> does not require an accessible template for every template that is
> packaged with an authoring tool." In other words, it could be
> interpreted as requiring only one template in all, which would not
> have significant benefit; or conversely it could be interpreted as
> requiring very many accessible templates. Further discussion would be
> needed to arrive at appropriate scoping of the requirement.
>
> Because of time constraints in the final TEITAC meeting, the
> following clarification could not be offered, which was that the
> wording of the provision itself should have repeated "templates or
> set of pre-authored content" instead of just "templates" following
> "at least one..." With the corrected wording, the provision would
> read: "Authoring tools which provide pre-authored content, or
> templates to facilitate production of content, must provide at least
> one template or set of pre-authored content that meets applicable
> Section 508 provisions."
>
> Regards,
>
> - Judy
>
>
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> Director, Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), World Wide Web
> Consortium (W3C)
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