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January 15, 2004 by Kirk

Zeldman's Section 508 Presentation

As usual, Zeldman is right on target in his Accessibility and Section 508 presentation. He touches on a couple of topics I’d like to expand on at length in future postings.

  1. Dual use design. If done properly you shouldn’t have to create a separate accessible version of your site.
  2. If you’re looking for a business case to justify accessibility, think of Google as a blind user. Accessibility and web standards will also make your site more search engine friendly.

Filed Under: Accessibility, Section 508

January 14, 2004 by Kirk

Exporting Word to xHTML

I’ve spent a fair amount of time recently marveling over Microsoft Word’s complete inability to generate clean xHTML, or even clean HTML for that matter. It is the year 2004 after all — you would think a company with Microsoft’s resources would be able to figure this stuff out.

Microsoft’s latest offering, Word 2003, features the ability to export to numerous formats including XML and two varieties of HTML (filtered and regular). I have to admit that I held out some small hope that ‘filtered’ would produce the sort of clean code we’ve all been waiting for. No luck, the resulting HTML still included embeded ‘mso’ class references on every element. I can understand, and even appreciate, the applications attempt to generate a document specific stylesheet. I’d appreciate it even more if I could turn that ‘feature’ off.
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