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Re: Question about web page "remediation"

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From: Jan Heck
Date: May 17, 2013 1:15PM

This is indeed one of the cases we're dealing with. When you say "batch
repairs," are you talking about applying a "find and replace" function to
multiple pages at a time within a standard web editor, or is there another
program you used?

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far!

Jan

On 5/17/13 12:03 PM, "Iaffaldano, Michelangelo"
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

>Jukka, there is an area where " such processing has a positive impact on
>accessibility". A few years, in one large website migration project we
>found that, for example, whenever the pages had
><SPAN><FONT=3 COLOR=BLUE>Bla bla</FONT><SPAN><BR><BR>
>
>they really meant
><h1>Bla bla</h1>
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>These constructs (i.e. semantics implied in presentational markup) were
>applied with surprising consistency, so that we were able to do some
>batch repairs and strip the rest. The manual cleanup after we ran the
>agent was minimal.
>
>However I do not know if this is the case for Jan's project.
>
>Michelangelo
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