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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Feb 16, 2007 8:40AM

On 2/16/07, Patrick Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > Christian Heilmann
>
> > I got an older presentation on that, check out the PDF for
> > some inspiration:
> >
> > http://icant.co.uk/articles/writing_for_web.pdf
>
> See, that's what I mean...

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All valid points, however this presentation lead a team of editors to
start writing content that we didn't have to flag up in bug reports as
"accessibility issue" and cut down on the general blabla of the site.
A few generalisms are not dangerous when it comes to talking to people
who have been tasked to write for a media they just don't grasp. It is
a good idea to consider the audience and how much time they are
willing to spend on changing their ways and this is where a few "this
is how it is" make more sense then "oh, we should change ALL the media
that way". When you work in agencies then you are lucky to get content
beyond the posters and leaflets to work from.