Principle B1: Fully automatic processes produce accessible content

Guideline B1.1: Ensure that automatically-specified content is accessible

B1.1.1 Content Auto-Generation After Authoring Sessions (WCAG)

The authoring tool does not automatically generate web content after the end of an authoring session, or, authors can specify that the content be accessible web content (WCAG).

B1.1.2 Content Auto-Generation During Authoring Sessions (WCAG)

If the authoring tool provides the functionality for automatically generating web content during an authoring session, then at least one of the following is true:

Accessible

The content is accessible web content (WCAG) without author input; or

Prompting

During the automatic generation process, authors are prompted for any required accessibility information (WCAG); or

Automatic Checking

After the automatic generation process, accessibility checking is automatically performed; or

Checking Suggested

After the automatic generation process, the authoring tool prompts authors to perform accessibility checking.

Guideline B1.2: Ensure that accessibility information is preserved

B1.2.1 Restructuring and Recoding Transformations (WCAG)

If the authoring tool provides restructuring transformations or re-coding transformations, and if equivalent mechanisms exist in the web content technology of the output, then at least one of the following is true:

Preserve

Accessibility information (WCAG) is preserved in the output; or

Warning

Authors have the default option to be warned that accessibility information (WCAG) may be lost (e.g. when saving a vector graphic into a raster image format); or

Automatic Checking

After the transformation, accessibility checking is automatically performed; or

Checking Suggested

After the transformation, the authoring tool prompts authors to perform accessibility checking.

B1.2.2 Copy-Paste Inside Authoring Tool (WCAG)

If the authoring tool supports copy and paste of structured content, then any accessibility information (WCAG) in the copied content is preserved when the authoring tool is both the source and destination of the copy-paste and the source and destination use the same web content technology.

B1.2.3 Optimisations Preserve Accessibility (Level A)

If the authoring tool provides optimising web content transformations, then any accessibility information (WCAG) in the input is preserved in the output.

B1.2.4 Text Alternatives for Non-Text Content are Preserved (Level A)

If the authoring tool provides web content transformations that preserve non-text content in the output, then any text alternatives for that non-text content are also preserved, if equivalent mechanisms exist in the web content technology of the output.