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Guidelines for Accessible Web Authoring become a Recommendation

As a collaborative medium, the Web demands that people be able to create content -- not just read it -- regardless of disability. The newest W3C Recommendation, "Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0," explains to authoring tool developers how to design accessible tools that produce accessible Web content. "The Web, and the world, thrive on information which is accessible to all," says W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee. "Tools built using these guidelines will make this much easier." (Press Release, Testimonials, Fact Sheet).

Related materials:

• Checklist for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
• Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Recommendation.
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Candidate Recommendation.

Other news:

• 27 February - 2 March: Meet W3C at XTech 2000 in San Jose, California (USA). Talk with XML Working Group participants at the schema and query town hall meetings.
• 24 February - 1 March: Meet W3C at CeBit in Hannover, Germany. You will find people of W3C at the W3C Office stand hosted by GMD, in Halle 16, Stand D 59.
• First Public Working Draft of XML Query Requirements is available.
• XHTML 1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation. Read the Press Release and Testimonials. Validate your HTML and XHTML with the W3C HTML and XHTML Validator.

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