> I think you're being very unrealistic to expect staff and
> students to start producing HTML via any editor, be it Word
> or Dreamweaver. We have enough difficulty getting
> even appointed departmental web co-ordinators here to use
> any editor other than Word or Netscape Composer. As for
> writing standards-compliant/disability friendly code,
> forget it!
well, aol won't forget, the olympic committee won't forget, the
american government certainly hasn't forgotten...
there is a very problematic conflict between the increasing demand
for accessibility as is becoming obvious in increased court cases
and legislation to that respect and the increasing number of people
who create material for the web who don't know any html and use
wysiwygs to do that. wysiwygs can not and will not for a while
provide accessibility.
i see both side, creating webpages is fun and home users can
definately benefit from these programs, but we're talking university
websites here, aren't we? and if you're teaching it in a university
course, why not do it properly from the beginning. just give them a
few lessons of html before letting them onto dreamweaver. please?!
iris
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