W3C guidelines for selecting authoring tools

To help developers choose authoring tools that facilitate the development of accessible websites, the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C, has developed a set of guidelines (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-AUTOOLS/). They suggest that the selected authoring tools need to do the following:

1. Support accessible authoring practices.
2. Generate standard mark-up.
3. Support the creation of accessible content.
4. Provide ways of checking and correcting inaccessible content.
5. Integrate accessibility solutions into the overall 'look and feel'.
6. Promote accessibility in help and documentation.
7. Ensure that the authoring tool is accessible to authors with disabilities.

For more information on each of the W3C guidelines, click on these links which all open in a new window.