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               <h1 class="title">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Current Status</h1>
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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
     For related introductory information, see: <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility">Accessibility</a>, <a href="http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/authoring">Authoring Tools, Social Media</a>.</p>
      <h2 id="completed">Completed Work</h2>
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         <a href="/TR/tr-technology-stds">W3C Recommendations</a> have
	been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
	W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
	Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation
	Track</a>.</p>
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         <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q75">Group Notes</a> are <em>not</em> standards and do not
	have the same level of W3C endorsement.</p>
      <h3 id="stds">Standards</h3>
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                  <td class="table_datecol">
                     <a href="../history/ATAG10" title="Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 publication history">2000-02-03</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is REC" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-ATAG10-20000203">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0</a>
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                     <p class="rec_support_data">
                        <a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/AU/ATAG-ERRATA">errata</a>
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                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification provides guidelines for Web authoring tool
developers. Its purpose is two-fold: to assist developers in
designing authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and
to assist developers in creating an accessible authoring
interface.</p>
                        <p>Authoring tools can enable, encourage, and assist users
("authors") in the creation of accessible Web content through
prompts, alerts, checking and repair functions, help files and
automated tools. It is just as important that all people be able to
author content as it is for all people to have access to it. The
tools used to create this information must therefore be accessible
themselves. Adoption of these guidelines will contribute to the
proliferation of Web content that can be read by a broader range of
readers and authoring tools that can be used by a broader range of
authors.</p>
                        <p>This document is part of a series of accessibility documents
published by the <abbr>W3C</abbr> Web Accessibility Initiative
(<abbr>WAI</abbr>).</p>
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      <h3 id="notes">Group Notes</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/ATAG10-TECHS" title="Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines&#10;1.0 publication history">2002-10-29</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is NOTE" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-ATAG10-TECHS-20021029/">Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines
1.0</a>
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                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This document provides information to authoring tool developers who wish to satisfy the checkpoints of "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" [ATAG10]. It includes suggested techniques, sample strategies in deployed tools, and references to other accessibility resources (such as platform-specific software accessibility guidelines) that provide additional information on how a tool may satisfy each checkpoint.</p>
                        <p>This document is part of a series of accessibility documents published by
the <abbr>W3C</abbr> Web Accessibility Initiative

(<abbr>WAI</abbr>).</p>
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
      Some of these may become Web Standards through the <a href="/Consortium/Process/tr#rec-advance">W3C Recommendation Track
      process</a>. Others may be published as Group Notes or
      become obsolete specifications.</p>
      <h3 id="wd">Other Working Drafts</h3>
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                     <a href="../history/ATAG20" title="Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 publication history">2011-07-21</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-ATAG20-20110721/">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <div> 
                           <p>This specification provides guidelines for designing Web content authoring
    tools that are more accessible for people with disabilities. An authoring
    tool that conforms to these guidelines will promote accessibility by providing
    an accessible user interface to authors with disabilities as well as enabling,
    supporting, and promoting the production of accessible Web content by all
    authors.</p> 
                        </div>
                        <p>The "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" (<acronym>ATAG</acronym> 2.0)
    is part of a series of accessibility guidelines published by the 
	<acronym>W3C</acronym> Web
    Accessibility Initiative (<acronym>WAI</acronym>).</p>
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                  <td>
                     <a href="../history/IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20" title="Implementing ATAG 2.0 publication history">2011-07-21</a>
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                  <td>
                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-IMPLEMENTING-ATAG20-20110721/">Implementing ATAG 2.0</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>Implementing ATAG 2.0 is an essential guide to understanding and using "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [ATAG20]. Although the normative definitions and requirements for ATAG 2.0 can all be found in the ATAG 2.0 document itself, the concepts and provisions may be new to some people. Implementing ATAG 2.0 provides a non-normative extended commentary on each guideline and each success criterion to help readers better understand the intent and how the guidelines and success criteria work together. It also provides examples that the Working Group has identified for each success criterion.
</p>
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                     <a href="../history/ATAG-wombat" title="Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines &quot;Wombat&quot; publication history">2001-12-21</a>
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                     <h4 class="w3c_status_title">
                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-ATAG-wombat-20011221/">Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines "Wombat"</a>
                     </h4>
                     <div class="expand_description">
                        <p>This specification provides guidelines for Web authoring tool developers.
Its purpose is two-fold: to assist developers in designing authoring tools
that produce accessible Web content and to assist developers in creating an
accessible authoring interface.</p>
                        <p>Authoring tools can enable, encourage, and assist users ("authors") in the
creation of accessible Web content through prompts, alerts, checking and
repair functions, help files and automated tools. It is just as important
that all people be able to author content as it is for all people to have
access to it. The tools used to create this information must therefore be
accessible themselves. Adoption of these guidelines will contribute to the
proliferation of Web content that can be read by a broader range of readers
and authoring tools that can be used by a broader range of authors.</p>
                        <p>This document is part of a series of accessibility documents published by
the <abbr>W3C</abbr> Web Accessibility Initiative (<abbr>WAI</abbr>).</p>
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