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RE: Site Accessibility Tipsheet - your suggestions?

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From: John Foliot - WATS.ca
Date: Feb 17, 2006 12:50PM

Austin, Darrel wrote:
> ** We're an MS shop so much of our content is coming from Word files.
> Many of these word files are not semantic, either, using option 2
> mentioned above for formatting. As such, they're not terribly
> accessible to begin with, but it's a start for us at least getting
> them into two file formats.

Not sure if you are aware of Tidy, but it can do wonders to strip
Microsoft Goo from Word Docs exported to HTML:
http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

JF
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John Foliot <EMAIL REMOVED>
Web Accessibility Specialist
WATS.ca - Web Accessibility Testing and Services
http://www.wats.ca
Phone: 1-613-482-7053