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From: Greg Kraus
Date: May 8, 2007 5:20PM

On May 7, 2007, at 10:29 PM, marvin hunkin wrote:
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> any accessible products on the market for the website developer or
> programmer?


Marvin,

I've used HelpLogic from Electric Butterfly for HTML help pages.

http://www.ebutterfly.com/helplogic/index.php

First you create HTML pages in something like Dreamweaver. You can add
all of the accessibility information you want in the HTML because
HelpLogic simply copies the page as is into the help system. You can
also create links between pages and they will work just fine in the
final help files produced. The software simply helps you create the
Table of Contents.

On the downside, it does create the final output in frames. Also, the
TOC is just a bunch of items in a table as opposed to an ordered list.

If you want to see an example, the help files for our site were built
with it.

http://www.lecshare.com/help/

The software is actually for much more than just HTML help. It helps
create OS X and Windows help files too.

It does come in Mac and Windows versions.

Hope this helps.

Greg

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Greg Kraus
President
LecShare, Inc.
Cary, NC
919.300.7512 (voice)
919.882.1275 (fax)
http://www.lecshare.com