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From: Sesock, Kevin A
Date: Feb 22, 2006 3:20PM

And, of course, when it comes to how we do this in the future, I'm
certainly open to ideas. Your structured HTML first method is
interesting. Just not sure if we can have the people who develop the
newsletter (who granted, are not technical) learn a completely new
method.

I should also mention that I'm trying to cut back on caffeine.
Therefore, wherever I mentioned "Frontpage", I meant "MS Publisher".
Both of those give me the shudders, and I think my subconscious simply
lumped them into the mental filing cabinet of "things that suck."

But the other problem I listed, of course, is what to do now. I've got
an MS Publisher file that I need to get converted. I can use their
built-in exporter to html, but the code is so dirty I can't do anything
with it. HTML Tidy even chokes on the output, and it's just causing me
nothing but a molehill-cum-mountain of headaches to turn this into
accessible, clean HTML.

Kevin A. Sesock, A+, Net+, CNA, MCSA
Assistive Technology Specialist
Student Disability Services
Division of Student Affairs
Oklahoma State University

http://access.it.okstate.edu

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