- From: Ball, Guy D <Guy.Ball@unisys.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:03:55 -0500
- To: Kathleen Anderson <kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us>, Terry Crowley <tcrowley@microsoft.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
I agree about keeping this on the list. I think FrontPage 2000 is used by a great many people, including many who are not web designers by job title. It would be great if we can figure out some of the tricks to have it make it more accessible sites. However, for the record, I'm not sure what it does "wrong." (I've recently converted from writing my own html in notepad to FrontPage, so I'm a newbie with it.) Can anybody enlighten me? Thanks! Guy Ball Senior Technical Writer and Information Engineer Product Information Department Unisys, Mission Viejo, CA -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen Anderson [mailto:kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us] Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:41 AM To: Terry Crowley; 'Kristi R Schueler/NONFS/USDAFS'; w3c-wai-ig@w3.org Subject: Re: Best tools for accessible design? I vote to keep this discussion on the list, as I would like to participate, please. It's a subject near and dear to my heart. FrontPage 2000 used in WYSIWYG-only mode does not produce valid code or pages that are accessible. However, there are workarounds for some issues and for the others, you need to use the "HTML mode' to fix them. I don't know if FrontPage as a tool is accessible, however, there is accessible documentation at: http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/docs/frontpage2000.htm Kathleen Anderson, Webmaster Office of the State Comptroller 55 Elm Street Hartford, Connecticut 06106 voice: 860.702.3355 fax: 860.702.3634 e-mail: kathleen.anderson@po.state.ct.us URL: http://www.osc.state.ct.us/ URL ACCESS: http://www.cmac.state.ct.us/access/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Crowley <tcrowley@microsoft.com> To: 'Kristi R Schueler/NONFS/USDAFS' <kschueler@fs.fed.us>; <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 12:24 PM Subject: RE: Best tools for accessible design? > Note that you can configure FrontPage (FP2000) to control which browsers and > browser technologies are enabled within the user interface. > > By the way, which tags are we "notorious" for? (I *knew* we never should > have put that Insert/Marquee command on the menus...) > > This continued thread is probably off-topic - feel free to reply directly. > > Terry Crowley > FrontPage Development Manager > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kristi R Schueler/NONFS/USDAFS [mailto:kschueler@fs.fed.us] > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 9:16 AM > To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org > Subject: Best tools for accessible design? > > > I am needing to make some decisions on the what software we purchase. > Previously they have been using old versions of FrontPage, but since they > are notorious for using proprietary tags that are not HTML 4.01 compliant, > I have campaigned for a change in web authoring tools. Now, I have to tell > them which to get. Does anyone have any recommendations? Thanks for any > help you can offer! > > Kristi Schueler > USFS - WOD, FC AQM Systems > Web Developer (contractor) > (970)295-5801 (voice) > (970)295-5809 (fax) > >
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