Web Authoring

Web authoring is the creation and editing of webpage content and structure, historically by writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and increasingly through graphical WYSIWYG tools (Figma, Wix, Squarespace, WordPress block editors, Google Sites). Authoring tools are themselves subject to accessibility requirements — W3C's Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) specify that authoring tools must both be usable by people with disabilities and support the production of accessible content. In practice, most mainstream authoring tools fall short on the first requirement: layout editing is visual-only, drag interactions are hard to reach with a keyboard, and live previews are not announced to screen readers. This leaves blind authors dependent on code-level workflows or sighted collaborators.