Overview

This tool helps evaluators report on the accessibility of authoring tools. It guides you through the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) requirements, lets you record your evaluation results for each requirement, and generates a report of the authoring tool's ATAG conformance.

Tips for using this tool:

  • As you use the tool, the Report page lists the success criteria that you have checked and not checked.
  • You can export your report as HTML (web page) and as JSON (structured data).
  • The tool saves information you enter locally in your browser for backup (not on our servers).
  • You can format your evaluation with Markdown , so that you can use lists, links and code examples.

About Authoring Tools and ATAG

Authoring tools are software and services used to create web content, including content management systems (CMS); what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) HTML editors; websites that let users add content, such as blogs and wikis.

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) explains how to make the authoring tools themselves accessible and how to help authors create more accessible web content.

For more information, see the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview

Structure of this Tool

Following the structure of ATAG, this tool takes you through eight Principles . Each principle has a number of Guidelines , which are further divided into Success Criteria . For each, you can select a result and note down any observations. Results include "Not checked", "Passed", "Failed", "Not applicable", and "Cannot tell".

Part A (Principles A.1 to A.4) is related to the editing experience with the authoring tool. It helps ensure that content can be created by people with disabilities.

Part B (Principles B.1 to B.4) is about the output of the authoring tool. It helps ensure that content editors can create accessible content, and are encouraged to do so.

More information on each ATAG Success Criterion is in Implementing ATAG 2.0 . Links in this tool lead you to the relevant sections of the “Implementing” document.

Result Choices

As you go through and evaluate your tool, you will select a "result" for each criterion. Here is the legend of what those selections mean:

Not checked
You did not check this success criterion.
Pass
This success criterion is met.
Failed
This success criterion is not met.
Not applicable
This success criterion relates to a feature the authoring tool does not have, it does not apply.
Cannot tell
It is unclear whether the success criterion is met.