- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:40:22 -0700
- To: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@rnib.org.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 08:15 a.m. 05/18/98 +0100, Pawson, David wrote: >We have started managers and admin people off by giving them >word perfect version 8, which can be used with the html dtd to produce >good SGML documents. We don't use Word Perfect here. Our secretaries are not going to want to learn another word processor, and our tech support staff are not going to want to have to support another program, merely so that we can produce "good HTML" rather than "workable HTML." While I understand the difference between "HTML that we can see and looks fine to us" and "valid, accessible HTML", it's pretty hard to sell the concept to non-technical folks who can look at a web page and say, "that works on my Netscape -- what's wrong with it?" It's doubly harder if I have to convince them to change away from a word processor that works, for dubious reasons such as "this doesn't pass validation." -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@hwg.org> Vice President, Marketing and Outreach, HTML Writers Guild http://www.hwg.org Education & Outreach working group member, Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/
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