In the case of the World Wide Web, authoring means posting stuff to a medium that has shaken the world. Enterprise embraces it so as not to be left out of its promise of vast gain.
Creators flock to it in order to fling their missives of emotion and thought to one another.
Everyone, everything connected is our cherished dream. In an effort to assure that nobody gets left out the Web Access Initiative has published a set of guidelines that attempt to insure that people with less than the latest fancy equipment, less than the usual technical or physical abilities, less than what the big dogs eat, can still take part in this marvel. The purpose of the Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines is to help the developers of these tools make their products usable by anyone and that what they put on the Web is accessible to everyone. An accessible document is also defined by conforming to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Although the guidelines are almost opaque to someone not versed in the alphabet soup of languages, protocols, and other arcana, to their intended audience they are fairly straightforward, though subject to endless nit-picking discussions.