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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: Nov 5, 2015 4:03PM

On Wed, 04 Nov 2015 19:02:39 +0100, Chaals McCathie Nevile
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.

And of course because I haven't looked for a couple of weeks (being busy
with other stuff) I missed a big upgrade.

Yes, it is still in development.

cheers


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