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Re: Office 365 for authoring accessible documents

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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Nov 4, 2015 11:02AM

On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 18:15:04 +0100, Olaf Drümmer < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

>> On 04.11.2015, at 16:13, Moore,Michael (Accessibility) (HHSC)
>> < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>> [...] I recommend publishing the content as HTML. There are a large
>> number of free text and html editors available […]
>
> I'd be interested to learn about HTML editors that are usable and tend
> to produce accessible HTML.
>
> I have tried
> - SeaMonkey: horrible user experience
> - TypeMetal on Mac: much better user experience than SeaMonkey, but
> still a pain to use for all the documents I deal with.
> - Dreamweaver and similar tools: from my POV not intended/suitable for
> everyday documents 9rather tools for designers, website creators etc.)
>
> What else should I look at? Who is writing their memos, product infos,
> white papers, in HTML, rather than Word, and can recommend a tool that
> one could use like one uses Word?

Me. I use BlueGriffon, which is generally pretty good for editing and
gives me good control over the HTML it creates which is generally
semantically clean and lovely (except if I paste stuff, then it gives me a
rich Mac paste with a monstruous pile of span-style, but that's a Mac
"feature" I believe).

I don't think it has been updated for a while and wonder if it is still in
development.

cheers

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