On Tuesday, May 15, 2001, Mike McConnell wrote:
> People will always go for what is easiest and
> most convenient for them, which is why I think it is
> unlikely that you will get either (the majority of)
> students writing HTML or (the majority of) lecturing staff
> accepting it in the near future - everyone is still stuck
> in the Word paradigm.
Experience here supports this view. It isn't just what is actually easiest
for the individual that is favoured. It is also what management thinks is
easiest. For example, we are often told we should teach others to produce
HTML to save us doing it. We have tried and find that, unless someone is
tagging material frequently, they forget and we spend so long putting things
right and trying to teach them to get it right next time that we usually
would have done better to handle it ourselves all along.
I prefer to put effort into getting people to provide web content that is
well-written with an international web audience in mind, paying attention to
usability, with correct grammar, spelling and punctuation, and accompanied
by good illustrations with suitable captions and/or 'alt' text.
If we can get them to provide that, in Word if that's what they feel
comfortable using, tagging is easy. It's re-writing and editing that is
currently eating into our time.
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Sheila Thomas [log in to unmask]
Web Manager at TWI
http://www.twi.co.uk
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