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Authoring Tool Flexibility

Elevator Pitch

Following detailed standards will increase the flexibility an organization has when choosing authoring tools.

Details

Authoring processes that don't follow industry standards often trend toward using specific features of the tools available. As these specific features become more important to the process and the final result, the cost of changing to authoring tools that are not strongly compatible with these features increases.

In such a situation, updates, new versions, feature stagnation, and discontinued development of current tools all can present major obstacles.

By producing code that follows web standards, there can be confidence that alternate authoring tools will have greater compatibility with your existing content.

Who can benefit

• Content Authors - less training will be needed if authoring tools change
• Decision-Makers - have more flexibility in changing solutions if better solutions are found

Case Studies