- From: Robert Neff <rcn@fenix2.dol-esa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:48:28 -0400
- To: "'Al Gilman'" <asgilman@access.digex.net>
- Cc: "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "editoria@gcn.com" <editoria@gcn.com>
Oops, should have said NetObjects Fusion, uh-oh.... -----Original Message----- From: Al Gilman [SMTP:asgilman@access.digex.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 1998 9:08 AM To: Robert Neff Cc: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org; editoria@gcn.com Subject: Re: Article to follow up on what Robert Neff said: > ... HotMetal Pro is a relational database and does not permit > you to touch the code. You have to exit and edit the code then > re-import. What model of HoTMetaL Pro did you use? In my limited experience using HoTMetaL Pro 4, I have been able to migrate between source, fully formatted, and a "tags on" view while I have the document open for editing. The "tags on" view iconifies markup but indicates where it is in the document, similar to displaying hard line breaks and spaces on the edit screen. I wind up using all three views before I am done with an edit. There was a report on this list that the new editor from Macromedia is also round-trip-safe. By that I mean if you use it to edit an HTML document, it only changes what you changed. There is evidence that if the site is generated by scripts written by someone who is aware of accessibility issues, one can get a pretty good site. Examples are Kent State and the Christian Science Monitor. There is looser, less structured plan which seems like it might work. This is for the access-savvy webmaster to prepare page templates and the content experts to create pages by editing the templates with a round-trip-safe authoring tool. The webmaster would still probably need to check and fix the pages, but this job would be doable as opposed to dealing with HTML that was never meant to be touched by anything but the originating tool. Does anybody here have experience with this sort of a site template approach? Al
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