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Re: Word to HTML Conversion

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From: julian.rickards
Date: Aug 10, 2004 7:04AM






BODY {
SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR: #c2c2c2; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN: 5px; SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR: #ececec; SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR: #878787; COLOR: black; SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #020202; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #d4d4d4; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial"; SCROLLBAR-DARKSHADOW-COLOR: #4f4f4f; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: #d4d4d4
}
OL {
MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px
}
UL {
MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px
}
BLOCKQUOTE {
MARGIN-TOP: 5px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 5px
}




There are a number of
tools that will allow you to do that including OpenOffice in which you can open
your Word doc and save it in OO's native file format which is in fact XML.
However, whatever tool you may use, the compliancy with 508 is only as good as
the source document, Word. If you don't use headings or your color combinations
make text "invisible" to the color blind or if your images do not have alternate
text, then you haven't complied with 508. I went through a similar process in
which I had hoped to post XML documents (converted from Word) on our web site
without having to do an accessibility check but when I realized that compliancy
must be in the original source document before conversion to XML, then, for me,
this process of converting to XML did not help me.

<FONT
face='"Arial"'>HTH,

<FONT
face='"Arial"'>Jules
<FONT face=Georgia
color=#0000ff>-----------------------------------------------
Julian Rickards <FONT
face=Georgia color=#0000ff>A/Digitial Publications Distribution
Coordinator Publication Services
Section, Ministry of Northern
Development and Mines, Vox:
705-670-5608 / Fax: 705-670-5960

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