Round-up of accessible content from WYSIWYG editors
Peter Krantz over at “Standards Schmandards” has given a range of WYSIWYG editors an annual work-out and posted his results.
It’s nice to see that a couple of the WYSIWYG developer teams (for TinyMCE and WYMeditor) have responded in the comments, and are taking the issues on board. Hopefully pressure can continue to be applied so that in future we don’t have to battle with the rich text editors to produce accessible content.
Note that he’s not testing it against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1 (WCAG 1), nor looking at whether the editor itself is accessible. Essentially he’s trying the sort of content that we (as web developers) would would want our clients entering into their assorted content systems. So anything that relates to look and feel (colours, text alignment, etc.) would all be provided by the stylesheets rather than the WYSIWYG editor - and many gremlins lie down that path.
