> I'd advocate teaching first year students to write in HTML (and
> soon XML) and never expose them to Word.
i agree. HTML is fun and very gratifying to learn. and unfortunately
if you want clean, accessible pages you need to hand-code them
yourself. no wysiwyg editor will ever write perfectly valid code.
Homesite or BBEdit are, however, excellent tools, saving time
without taking away control - but you need to know your stuff.
i know, all the companies (ms, macromedia) have been shouting
recently "our editor writes accessible code", but it's not true. i just
recently cleaned up some dreamweaver 4 code and i was appalled
by it's inconsistencies and bad code.
if you really must use or teach the use of wysiwygs, use
dreamweaver, it's still better than others. we should, however,
keep in mind that for universities accessibility should be priority
(and probably soon law). if you've never run your website through a
screenreader or tested it in a text-only browser, you really should.
iris
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